My analogy wasn’t a very good analogy - when it comes to something like abortion, there might be no perfect or even close analogies - but a rapist certainly doesn’t need rape the way a fetus needs a uterus, is what I’m saying. And that’s merely just part of one angle of the abortion debate.
[ul][li]We aren’t going to do anything about global warming. The Republicans don’t believe in it, and the Democrats would rather use it to get votes than propose any realistic solutions, and the Chinese and Indians aren’t going to adopt niche technologies like solar because they want to develop economically.[/ul][/li][ul][li]Atheists resent their fathers. [/ul][/li][ul][li]There are vanishingly few bisexuals. They are gay people who are kidding themselves. [/ul][/li][ul][li]None of the problems of blacks in the US have anything to do with white racism. [/ul][/li][ul][li]Hillary Clinton would have been a worse President than Trump, and would have done more long-term damage. [/ul][/li][ul][li]Most of the media in the US is biased against conservatives and Republicans, and anyone who denies it is lying or stupid.[/ul][/li][ul][li]The death penalty should be mandatory in all cases of murder, forcible rape, molestation of a child under ten, or upon a second conviction for drunk driving when anyone was injured. [/ul][/li]Regards,
Shodan
Just fucking relax and go to the next intersection/exit and turn around. That’s the polite and considerate thing to do rather than expect your time is more special than the others who have been exiting/turning appropriately.
And flowers? Fuck their shitty, aromatic petals!
Them’s fightin’ words!
My unpopular opinions:
- Schools should teach scientific theories (evolution, gravity, global warming, etc…) but must also teach about what would be needed to falsify/change those theories. Instruction about the scientific method is incomplete if you just present the accepted theory and end the instruction at that point.
- The US Government likes to scapegoat offshore financial services rather than go to the extensive effort to clean up their own mess and enforce their own laws in corporate finance issues.
- Many anti-discrimination laws (public accommodation laws in particular) have the effect of forcing bigots into hiding which is bad for the long term. These laws perpetuate bigots’ sense of perceived persecution and results in them withdrawing into their own little social bubble and perpetuating their vitriol. Better to draw them out into the public and expose them to the public for what they hate. Let the public know who the bigoted idiots of society are and let social pressure have its effect.
- Voter ID is a good idea. But before implementation government must make the concerted years-long effort to provide all eligible voters an ID at no charge. This would probably require a national ID card system.
I believe if you look at these two points, you’ll realize the second contradicts the first.
I believe that the vast majority of marriages in the modern sense are fake or at least not presented honestly. They only exist for the reason they always have - family unification and security. Love is a separate and transient issue. It causes lots of problems when you try to conflate the two.
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[li]Democrats and Republicans are, on average, equal in intelligence, morality, kindness, and honesty. Libertarians are much better than both.[/li][li]It is shameful for anyone over the age of 14 to be really into comic books and movies based on them, or Star Wars, or Harry Potter, or anything else that was created for children.[/li][li]There is no reason for public schools to exist. Most children who go to a public school hate doing so and suffer a great deal. A good system would provide public funding and allow each child to get the education that their parents determine is best for them, whether it be on-site vocational training, online education, in-home tutoring, “unschooling” or something else.[/li][li]Donald Trump is a morally bad person, but is extremely intelligent.[/li][li]The average college professor, lawyer, scientist or engineer is equal in intelligence to the average farmer, truck driver or factory worker. College professors are intelligent in their area of specialty. So are farmers. So are factory workers. But in general, across all areas, the intelligence of various professions is basically the same.[/li][li]Private businesses should be legally allowed to discriminate in deciding who to serve. (But doctors, hospitals, and anyone else in emergency services should not be.)[/li][li]The USA is absolutely the most awesome country that has ever existed. Yes, despite allowing slavery for the first 90 years, and the Vietnam War, and all the rest. Americans have founded more major businesses, given more to charity, made more scientific discoveries, invented more useful inventions, and made more sacrifices for other nations than anyone else has.[/li][/ul]
I have been a rare steak eater my entire life, last week I burned up a nice thick porterhouse by accident. Not really burned it up but cooked it well done. It was delicious. It did require a bit more salt than a rare steak would ask for.
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Damn straight. I don’t enjoy bloody sponges.
What am I missing because a rapist could ask permission thereby not being a rapist if he accepts a no, still being one if he does not. He can make a choice. A fetus, on the other hand doesn’t ask to be conceived and really had no choice in the matter. I fail to see the comparison.
The similarity is that in both cases, a woman’s body is being used for something she does not wish it too. In both cases, force, or threat of force, whether from the rapist or from authorities enforcing a law against ending a pregnancy, is what is preventing a woman from stopping her body from being used in a way for which she does not wish it to be used.
This is my entry: I would be afraid that this would encourage perps to kill their victims, and given the choice I’d rather be alive and scarred than dead.
Take away all the cranky old white male atheists in tech jobs, and there would be about seven members. Maybe eight.
I’m told of something similar that once happened decades ago (have not verified if true): Apparently, it used to be the law in Taiwan that even unintentional vehicular manslaughter got the death penalty. So there was a soldier who once accidentally struck and killed someone with his vehicle, completely unintentionally, but then decided, “Well then, since I’m going to be executed, I might as well go on a killing spree” and did just that, ramming numerous people to death with his vehicle afterwards.
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[li] financial indices like the Dow, NASDAQ, S&P, etc, are (or have become) negative indicators that inform us of how much worse our society is becoming the higher they go[/li][li] economic growth is not the ideal that we have been led to believe, and we need to develop a system that is sustainable, balanced and not given to erratic swings in “prosperity”[/li][li] stuff owns people more than people own stuff, and we would all be a lot better off (probably happier) if we were less focused on acquiring more[/li][li] parents should not have special rights over their children, because they are not they only people their children ever interact with or have an affect on[/li][li] religious training is child abuse[/li][li] the US should replace as many traffic lights as possible with roundabouts[/li][/ul]
Reparations for various forms of mass oppression and discrimination in America are both morally and practically justified (certainly for things like redlining, discrimination in law-enforcement, and sundown towns, that harmed living Americans, and likely for things like slavery with ramifications and ‘aftershocks’ that have harmed living Americans), if not politically feasible.
I’m curious, how would such a plan be implemented? How would it be determined who qualified for reparations (as well as how much)?
Ideas have been discussed in many threads (such as this one), and is a bit of a hijack in this one. If you want to start a new one, I’d certainly contribute. In short, there are a lot of ideas, and IMO it’s reasonable to say “we should consider reparations” without having worked out every single detail ahead of time. I’d say as a start, identify the living Americans who actually personally suffered from redlining or other discriminatory practices, and estimate how much they lost as a result of them. And go from there.