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Comment Re:One of those strange rules of war. (Score 1) 180

This is the sort of rational and realistic responses with pertenant historical insight sans the common snide, cynical, partisian, or whack-job comments. It is on-topic, concise, and detailed. It answers a common question that would be raised by the uninformed about the topic at hand.

And it's not upvoted at all. Come on mods, do the hard-work of setting that slider all the way to zero and look for things that deserve mod points.
And you, coward, get a name so this sort of thing is easier to spot.

Comment Re:illogical captain (Score 1) 937

"A good person will do good; a bad person may do good if the carrot (heaven), or stick (hell), is strong enough to deter them from acting bad"

no. A bad person will say that God wants them to do whatever bad they are doing.
It becomes an excuse.

Comment Re:illogical captain (Score 1) 937

Yes, public property should be devoid of all religious symbols.
I don't care if you have a manger and the words Christmas on you property.
To put it in a public space is to force a religion onto all the people.

We have Freedom of religion for a reason.

The military FORCING people to be christian and pray is a BAD thing.
There has been a big push to get more religion(Christianity) into the military.
The Mid-East used to be pretty free and open, then religious group started infecting the government, and withing a decade religion was forced onto all the people, and te countries generally stopped producing anything and became ces pools.

Remember, ISIS is claiming the are religiously oppressed because they can't make other people bent to their religion.

Religion alows the ignorant to think what they do is for God, therefore it's OK.

Comment Re:Time for new terminology (Score 0) 635

Being resistant to change is a good thing.
I mean, if things are working as is, any change could be bad.

Of course change can be good too.

The irony of course is this is not tied to conservative/liberal. It is merely on the issues.

For example, conservatives are resistant to social change. The family has been working for a long time now. What's a world of single mothers, non-married people, children raised in daycares... going to result in? They are resistant to that change and fear that world. They have plenty of studies to back up their fear on the surface.

But for some reason, they don't have as much fear of environmental damage. The data is there, but they still believe we can conquer nature by managing it.
Just think about it. Have they really thought about farming, relocating population, eroding shorelines, increased storms...? Really it is a huge change we've embarked on in the last 150 years of industrialization. Yet, they charge on without question assuming they can always correct that damage if any occurs.

Liberals/Progressives are resistant to environmental change. The environment has been working for a long time now. What's a world of increased C02, changing climate, and others going to result in. They are resistant to that change and fear that world. They have plenty of doomsday studies to back up that fear on the surface.

But for some reason, they don't have as much fear of social damage. The data is there, but they still believe we can conquer society by managing it.
Just think about it. Have they really thought about pensions, taking care of the elderly, slowing growth, raising kids in daycares... in their master social plans? Really it is a huge change we've embarked on in the last 50 years. Yet, they charge on without question assuming they can always correct that damage if any occurs.

Rational thinking people avoid big changes to large scale complex systems (like society or the environment) when they can. They move incrementally as much as possible and see the changes (both good and bad). That's about all you can really say about these huge complex system be it the environment/economy/society.

Heck, maybe C02 rise and we just adapt to it by moving people away from shorelines, moving farmland to areas that used to be colder..
You know... like maybe the family structure is outdated to a large extent, and we as a society adapt to it via more government programs.

Comment Re:illogical captain (Score 1) 937

"As a mystic I have _knowledge_ by definition, aka experience."
false. Completly and utterly false. Are you simple?

"Athiest[sic] telling other people what they can and cannot know is the height of ignorance and arrogance. "
which is why we ask for proof.

"They are literally like the blind man telling those who can see color that they are delusional."
so now you are saying you have special vision no one else has? Hoe convenient.
You are simple.

Comment Re:One of those strange rules of war. (Score 1) 180

They all talk about "serving their country". They join "to serve", or they join because they think they're hot shit and want to get some combat experience so they can feel tough. The second group should be shoved in a locker and tossed off the bridge; the first wouldn't join if they thought 95% of the wars they would get deployed to were unjust, as they'd only see themselves as instruments of murder and not heroes fighting for freedom.

In other words: people who worship glorious, heroic veterans of wars are more likely to become veterans themselves. They see it as some high honor, and jump into a war they know nothing about. If they start thinking war is a horrible thing and not an exercise of glory and valor, they might start thinking if war is necessary--and, deciding that it is, might grasp further to decide if any given war is itself necessary rather than a political sideshow. They may stop worshiping returned veterans and start pitying them.

Comment Re:One of those strange rules of war. (Score 3, Insightful) 180

We want dead bodies and stories about the war and trauma and your buddies dying at the hands of krauts and sand-niggers, not living proof of the pain and suffering of war.

War is a far-away thing: your daddy went off and didn't come back, or he came back with mental problems because he is a pussy. We don't want war sitting in our houses, in our day-to-day lives. We might stop worshiping veterans and start questioning if all the wars we're in are necessary or if we should only take to arms under more scrutiny.

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