Right here:
"So what? If those plants the newsteam sent in had actual complaints, my guess is that they would have been treated differently, but trying to mess with a person whose career success (read:staying alive) hinges on realizing when he or she was being messed with is, as we found out, a losing proposition.
The racial profiling bit? Again, while it sucks, profiling (both racial and otherwise) is a valid tool for law enforcement, like it or not. … Will I take the word of an anti-cop activist over that of a trained cop? Not on your life."
A bastard isn’t someone whose father is dead, it’s someone whose father wasn’t married to their mother when they were born.
Form your posts in this and the other thread, it would appear that you have neither.
Here you have created a false dichotomy. One can work to fix the problems of the world while also caring about the people in it. Empathy does not replace action, it inspires it.
Yes, they do have that right. But until YOU live in a murderous dictatorship, I don’t think you want to be making judgements about why people aren’t able to escape them.
But not so clever to know that other people on the internet aren’t overweight either, jackass. Whatever weighing a metric ton has to be with anything. Oh yeah, this is the thread in which you prove how immature a 36 year old can be. I forgot.
Jesus Christ, dude(?). Are you gonna tell us all where my birthmark is next? I guess it’s the “mature” Pit tactic to look up people’s personal info in order to make it part of an unrelated argument, and I suppose it might even be an effective one if I gave a shit, but since I don’t, I just think you’re pathetic and mildly stalkerish.
In any case, maturity’s overrated. This ain’t the fuckin’ U.N. or a job interview, so if you find me juvenile for telling you to suck my dick, the only effect that has on me is to encourage me to add that you should not forget to lick my taint while you’re down there, bitch.
And I know not everyone on the internet is fat. I’m talking specifically about you. I’m assuming, of course; but since you’re a)a Doper with b) a giant stick up your ass, I figured it was a safe conclusion to draw.
**buttonjockey ** doesn’t know what “Social Darwinsim” means, or, apparently “bastard”, so I find it entirely likely he’s unclear on the definition of “empathy” as well.
You have *no idea * what it takes.
Sure you do. And we have the right to call you a blithering idiot. And to point out that those people who fought and died were in fact, not you. You piss on their courage and their sacrifice by implying that you, by virtue of simply enjoying the fruits of their labor, are qualified to tell others how to achieve what they achieved.
A suggestion, jockey: you’re viewing social change as happening at a societal level, and viewing obligations, rights, and responsibilities as occurring at this level. That’s a bad idea. Societies are a useful fiction: they represent trends in behaviors among humans. The correct level at which to view obligations, rights, and responsibilities is at the level of the individual.
Organizations, including clubs, companies, nations, and societies, have no rights. They ahve no obligations. The people that make them up each have rights and obligations.
As long as you view it at a social level, you’re not seeing the trees for the forest. And that leads to some repugnant ethical pronouncements.
I appreciate all of the colorful uses of my handle, really, goes a long way to prove a point. :rolleyes:
That said, it seems I’ve much to learn about the intricacies of world politics, and thankfully, I’ve got a place like this, and people who are willing to point me in the right direction.
I’ve been too busy with my life and everything in it the last few years to expand my worldview. I suppose the drive-by information that came from what little reading I DID do, wasn’t enough, so back to the llibrary I go.
Two things FTR though… 1. I DO know what bastard means, just faster fingers than thoughts (like you didn’t know that).
I am an Investigator, yes, and a Firefighter, I manage telecommunications, and i’ve been a patrol officer. I’ve been in public service for 15 years with a spotless record. What my politics might be have ZERO bearing on my job, the execution of my duties and the people that I serve and protect.
Well hello. Bryan is it? Pleased to make your acquaintance. Is vitriolic blathering so early in the morning one of your more charming traits? Can I look forward to more bilious spewing and inanity from you in the future? Is it your trademark? Or are you just bored with the thread, decided to poke me, see what happens?
I recommend the empathy route: try to get into the mind of say, an illiterate Chinese peasant being beaten by a member of the Kuomintang, or a member of the Chinese bourgeousie at the time of the Communist revolution or Cultural Revolution. Recommended reading: Wild Swans by Jung Chang, The Man Who Stayed Behind by Sidney Rittenberg, Red China Blues by Jan Wong or Tibet, Tibet by Patrick French. All are accessible, and helpful to understand that, most of the time, the little people don’t have any control in the matters of regional or geopolitics.
If you’re going to brush up on your reading, buttonjockey308, may I suggest “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies” by Jared Diamond.
I think you’ll find it quite interesting.