If Mort Divine ruled the world
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arg
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The value of human life
- perpetrators of heinous crimes should be killed.
- everyone else should be left alone and not be actively killed.
- it is ok to let them die of hunger, disease, etc though. we are not obligated to help anyone and doing it with other people’s resources is especially immoral.
- perpetrators of heinous crimes should be killed.
- everyone else should be left alone and not be actively killed.
- it is ok to let them die of hunger, disease, etc though. we are not obligated to help anyone and doing it with other people’s resources is especially immoral.
Einherjar86
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Hahahaha, why do you post this crap?
There are more than two genders because gender is how people choose to perform their sexuality--and that can take any number of forms. Gender is limitless. It's an impractical answer, but that's the situation we have to deal with. There's nothing essential or absolute about it. Gender is an effect of social institutions and that's all we have to work with.
There are, however, only two sexes. A woman who identifies with the masculine gender isn't under some delusion that he has a penis. He simply doesn't feel that the gender he identifies with matches up with the body he occupies. This relentlessness with trying to return gender to its appropriate sexuality is really tiresome.
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Honestly the most ridiculous part of that whole video to me was that shaved-head amorphous blob's concept of what violence is.
Einherjar86
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I didn't watch the whole thing. I laughed out loud when Chowder dropped refs to de Beauvoir and Butler like he's a continental champ. The guy's on-stage performances are so staged I'm starting to think that right-wing political comedy should be its own gender.
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I don't know how anyone can stand Crowder's voice long enough for him to do one complete show, much less make it a career.
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I don't particularly like him either, but for me he's easier to stomach than people like John Oliver, Bill Maher etc even though I agree with them more politically speaking.
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I actually like John Oliver as an entertainer even though he's merely the best-prepped hack. He's at least self-deprecating and silly, unlike Maher and every other smug pop-left asshole. I actually had a dream about him a couple days ago, I was like his paige or something and followed him, from a Home Depot where I had to pick up some supplies for him, to a house he purchased in Manhattan, a totally non-descript California-style McMansion on its own little lot completely surrounded by skyscrapers. He told me about all the hours he toiled to get that far and that if I kept my chin up, I could make it too. It was an overcast day and the power bill hadn't been paid yet, so we just kind of inspected the house, almost completely empty, in an eerie indoor twilight. I think he told me some kind of ghost story about the building, I vaguely remember a living room which was particularly dark and spooky, but the tour ended in his to-be office, which was partially furnished with a kind of 50s reporter decor. Through the one open window I could see the backyard, containing a children's swingset and a trampoline. I hopped around on it with his pet English bulldog. He then asked me to take it for a walk and to pick up some pork roast from the Jewish deli just down the block. I think I woke up before I got there, can't really remember now. It was a pleasant dream all things considered. Had a similar one about Michael Moore a decade ago, only I was his son in that case. Must be some kind of daddy issues thing on my part.
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It's the sacrifice of auditory aesthetics for the gratuitous pleasure of hearing one's personal beliefs recited back to them in a snappy fashion.
It's the same relationship I have with John Oliver... except that Oliver's voice is endlessly endearing.
And honestly, Oliver actually teaches me things sometimes, unlike Maher or Trevor Noah.
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It's the sacrifice of auditory aesthetics for the gratuitous pleasure of hearing one's personal beliefs recited back to them in a snappy fashion.
It's the same relationship I have with John Oliver... except that Oliver's voice is endlessly endearing.
Oliver was a lot better before he contracted Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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rms
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yeah, havent been able to sit through a Last Week Tonight in a bit. His Snowden thing was pretty great.
I do hate that Last Week still attempts to be Daily Show, it seems clear that Oliver can keep people interested just by researching into things worth knowing about.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...iencing-more-pain-too/?utm_term=.562bc6cde176
I think it's interesting that the data points start right after the Nixon Shock. America has been getting hollowed out economically and culturally since the 60s-70s, and no amount of progressive thotting can make the hurt stop.
I think it's interesting that the data points start right after the Nixon Shock. America has been getting hollowed out economically and culturally since the 60s-70s, and no amount of progressive thotting can make the hurt stop.
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I care much less about the statistical outliers in this scenario, and am addressing it from the viewpoint of the right to life itself. Society clearly values its prime movers, but I think that within a society everyone has an equal opportunity to life itself. Otherwise we are no better than animals.
If you were to completely ignore the social aspects of the advancement of civilized society, then yes, you are right. But society has been driven to innovation by people with big aspirations, grand ideas, and yes ideals.
I agree mostly with your first two points, but disagree fundamentally with the third. If a doctor is morally obligated to do everything in his power to save a patient's life, then I think we could extend this logic to a healthcare system that is morally obligated to help anybody within it's scope to the same life-saving obligation. As an EMT I have met many people who are unwilling to seek treatments because they either dont have insurance and/or cannot afford care. This to me is an injustice and there should be attempts to alleviate this issue. As a society we already pool together "other people's resources" to support civilized society, and there is nothing more important to someone than their own health.
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