Comment Re:Next up... (Score 1) 933
Childbirth is child porn!
(wait, what?)
Childbirth is child porn!
(wait, what?)
on the contrary, progressive movements always take 2 steps forward, 1 step back. Our parents are almost universally more liberal than our grandparents.
It's just hard to see because the battleground shifts and we think the war never ends, but the fact that politicians even dare to speak of homosexuals is a huge shift from the 60s.
A true statement, and also a dire warning.
Surely as you should keep clean water and canned food in your basement, a backup supply of condoms will also prevent tragedy.
Stupidity. The cause of and solution to life's problems.
I did not say apathy was a solution.
Sometimes doing nothing is the right choice, sometimes calm and cautious action is the right choice, and sometimes sudden and rash action is the right choice.
What's important however is to evaluate your ideology, and the actions you are taking to promote that purpose, on a daily basis because blind faith leads to atrocities. Even those who believe in peace, freedom, and justice can commit them in the name of their beliefs.
which is why the US is a constitutional republic.
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But their atrocities were based in ideology, which religion is a subset of.
If one believes in a cause, perhaps one can kill for a cause.
Of course, mysticism is popular and easier to use than political beliefs..., but Stalin and Hitler were able to use other beliefs to the same effect. All of it uses a similar mantra: "you need to be afraid of the enemy, assume the worst, and strike first. To do otherwise is to let them win." Ironically the phrase 'Evil needs only for good men to do nothing' is a double edged sword.
The caveat is that for good to succeed all that is required is for evil men to do nothing.
If all causes can be used for evil, then sometimes doing nothing is the moral choice.
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You know, some people are actually poor, and have to make decisions like 'should I eat lunch or pay rent?'
I'd still be playing WoW if I could forego the monthly payment and just pay for the times I actually login. But if I have a busy month it feels dumb to shell out 15 bucks for logging in twice to check auctions.
And it's raspberry!
In some outlying cases, however, the intensive searches only increased the traveler's smiling.
Kinda how 'yankee' or 'redneck' is an insult, unless you are one, in which case it's a badge of pride.
hate and love can coexist, thus, they are not opposites.
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