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@YouFound_Lxam
But with what we know, morality is objective.
If we regard anything that is sure and disregard everything that is unsure. Sadly, we can't do that.
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@Best.Korea
Oh, so you are essentially disregarding the possibility of non-human civilization by equating interpersonal with objective. In your domain, you are not wrong; in actuality of everything, your claim says nothing.
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Music could be used to spread propaganda, and those bad ones. I mean, all those war songs written in 1930s and 1940s Germany that got the young lads equipped with guns fighting for what they didn't know was an ill cause.
But what is "evil"? Certainly the average Nazi soldier doesn't know they are the bad guys. First define evil, then let's talk about how music can do that.
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@Math_Enthusiast
Behold My Magic Cactus. It knows all and tells only truth.But how do we know that Terry is telling the truth here? Well, according to the Magic Cactus:Terry will never lie, as He has My power, which is pure and incapable of deception.
How do we know that the cactus's power could be transmitted to Terry? We don't. And if one of them is lying, this means both of them could be telling lies as they "could".
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@Kaitlyn
Which worsens reality. I mean, what would you do if everyone throws shades at you because you just look like a cancelled celebrity? You defend yourself. Stereotypes stem from reality but that doesn't mean it should remain in reality. We should reduce their effect on society if anything.
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Depends on what kind of grades. I am serious, one of the kids in my grade is flunking appropriate-level Chemistry and Biology but has a Gold in UKChO, BBO and participates in HOSA. The reason? AP Chem and Bio requires a tremendous amount of English comprehension and writing skills and that guy is not good at writing. In other words, he gets the point but is unable to convey them on a test sheet of paper that earns him points in a consistent fashion.
Another kid participated in AIME and is learning university level mathematics but not using English textbooks, because again he is not good at English as he is at Mathematics. For this reason he sometimes lose big points in some subjects not because he miscalculated the value of something, but merely that he didn't know what the value is for because he didn't understand the question in the assigned time. The lack of some skills really truncate the latent perspective for others and we can't just say one is equally stupid as another when one kid has 2/3 required set of abilities and is just missing the last step to glory and the other one is not trying.
Good that my times in DArt has served me well when it comes to writing. At least I don't have to be labeled "not smart" when I am trying to be smart.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Interpersonal and objective are two things. Even if it knowingly applies to every single person, we don't know if other societies exist or not.
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@Kaitlyn
Yes, and because asian and white americans are "smarter" than hispanic and african americans, the stereotypes solidify and makes the problem harder to tackle.
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@Best.Korea
Exactly. We have voiced it but they won't listen. It is basically an appeal to authority fallacy except the authority can yell back at you when you say it is that even though it would make the problem worse.
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Being a billionaire who exploits a general portion of the population should not be seen as success. I believe Black people should look towards Malcolm X or even Nelson Mandela for role models, they truly cared about the people, not their own pockets.
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@Best.Korea
Population is always good. Unless of course, you hate life. Do you hate life? Is life good or bad?
Have you ever been to China, India or Bangladesh? No? You know what, just tell me how to immigrate to Mars or something, because if we are stuck on earth, we are sure as hell overpopulating.
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@Best.Korea
Or are children becoming too expensive and undesirable there too?
Well, yes. Thanks to those bullshitters subsidizing only 2nd and 3rd children, raising house prices and lowering salaries, that is what happens.
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So suppose I have a parasite on my body that is killing me but not so much so I am still barely alive, I shouldn't get chemotherapy. ?
You are discussing cases where population is good. It isn't necessarily.
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@Kaitlyn
Something laughable that China has done is that they attempt to subsidize second and 3rd children but not the first child. As an only child this is hilarious.
Though this is just a proposal from one of the party members. Some are like that(One of them even proposed fully legal prostitution, found out he was associated with a prostitution ring, I believe) Hopefully they disappear soon. But seriously, having this wide range of assorted opinions in one party really does the opposite of what others may think it does: Unlike that they control what we think, we don't know what to think anymore regarding certain topics because we don't know what is or isn't by a fake expert(until we realize who said it later), or if any expert on an issue qualifies as a non-nutjob at all. We just don't know.
Let me list another few laughably ridiculous opinions held by fake experts in China:
- That the current generation(Millenials) don't want to work because house prices are too cheap(In reality, the prices are soaring and there are more houses than able to support everyone that exists here, although homelessness is still an ongoing issue possibly due to bastards like these)
- That the current generation don't want to work because the salaries are too high, and college graduates should pay to work in general(WHAT?)
- That singleness and childlessness after a certain age should be fined(WHAT?)
- That the average Chinese adult should have at least 500,000 Yuan(WHAT?)
- That the average Chinese adult should be able to rent out their cars and houses(Completely false)
The existence of whatever these are, along with consumerism and all that, disconnects family values with modern society to the point one questions if one could hold a family at all.
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@Best.Korea
In China, Japan and Korea, life has been on average so stressful that they don't want to bring more life because they would suffer in the same path they did. That is why the population growth decreased.
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Stereotypical feedback. Asians and white people seem smarter because they "were", they get hired in a larger extent, improving their average compared to hispanics and black people.
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Barney pretty much shaped how I roll on this site. As someone that doesn't have a Ph.D in anything, I consider such frameworks powerful.
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@Best.Korea
So if its not okay, what can I do to be less white?
Bathe yourself in ink or black paint or coal. Dunno how unhealthy but you will definitely be less white.
Or just tan in the sun I guess. That way you will achieve a hue not much dissimilar to Donald J. "the orange" Trump.
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"It's okay to be white."53% agree, 26% disagree, 21% not sure"Black people can be racist, too"76% of agree, 27% disagree, 8% not sure.
OK, How about asking them "Is this really how you feel about this topic?". Most people don't see what is wrong with the statement "A doctor a day keeps an apple away" until the second time looking at it, why would you think otherwise in a topic that is widely stereotypical in a stereotypical group of people?
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Brother D Thomas is really becoming more like Big Brother from 1984. Except that he is religious and he can't at all control what we think. If he could, I am not sure which one would be the larger disaster.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Yeah, like if they could prepare for furnaces:
- That they don't make anymore and have possibly even lost the plans for them;
- That they no longer need until the present moment;
- That have been a part of something that is widely regarded as unethical and immoral
- That are mostly if not all in broken condition;
- That are probably destroyed by allies;
- And if not, have since been covered in mosses, ashes, stained metallic rust, etc.;
- IN SUCH A SHORT TIME.
If you could, tag me.
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@TheUnderdog
Who cares, but they agree with whatever they believe that they label as conservatism, if and only if they label themselves as conservative. What is conservatism is not important.
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@TheUnderdog
Nothing, but if you ask any conservative, they would say that conservatism is good. That is exactly how it works even if it is the same as nothing working.
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NAQT, short for National Academic Quiz Tournaments. I enjoyed it very much, and definitely more than my teammates from my high school, because I just answered everything in their place. It was challenging in general and I just find myself a strong player when it comes to something like this as years of DArt training has made my English-processing speed extremely rapid compared to everyone else I know(and possibly a good portion of Americans)..
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@TheUnderdog
Why does there have to be one?
Oh, I have one, it is that "Conservatism is good". Doesn't matter what conservatism is. If they think it isn't good, they aren't conservative because they would not be.
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If you are still hanging around the site... Could you unblock me? I don't even remember what I did that got me blocked.
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@Sir.Lancelot
It is like the case where one of the beads fell into your nose. You try to poke it in hopes of getting it out but instead it just gets in your bronchioles.
Well, what am I suggesting? Just un-poke it. Code implementation is much more reversible than gravity.
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@TheUnderdog
Yes. What would you think joining a party means? At least you have to be registered as one. Just because someone is a weeaboo does not mean they are automatically granted a Japanese nationality. Just because someone is in support of an oil company does not automatically ensure a position.
You can quit the party and switch, even to the communist party. I believe that is what Trump did back in the 2000s, he used to be a democrat.
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It has been so freaking long since I have won a debate when it is rated that we simply don't know what it is like to win one and have points augmented anymore.
That is a bad thing when there is a leaderboard.
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Ironic, and sad, at the same time.
What a site we live in.
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@Dr.Franklin
Ah yes, a whole category for sports-related topics and you put it in the politics category.
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Jeez. We know you aren't representing our site. I appreciate your favor for leaving the spot for someone else when you don't want to take it.
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@Best.Korea
Yes. The forgiveness is offered. It is not mandatory to accept it.Yes. This evil world doesnt deserve forgiveness by their own logical standards.God sends gifts to the evil people in an attempt to correct them and make them better. God wants for people to be good or at least make them better than they are.
Why would God do something like this?
How about we just screw it and say this world is created by ancient aliens. That is more believable than an intangible arbitrary glow of nothingness and everythingness somehow providing us moral and spiritual support.
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Pay for your own sins?
One kind of punishment is that you have to read designated words from a book that is about 2000 years old every single day(everyday before sleep, every time you eat dinner, and everytime someone breaks their ankle! Absurd, right?) and go to a classic looking pointy building as a mandatory session every sunday, etc. and read those things together with strangers and listen to some bloke talk for hours to you about why everything included in the ~2000yro book is right and why everything isn't in it is wrong.
That is how a lot of people pay for it. Admittedly eventually some of them adjust to this mode of life and pass it to their children along with their *slightly* reactionary ideals passed to them by their parents.
Sure, this post is so falsely stereotypical that it probably angers Christians. My belief is that if you aren't passionate, don't believe in Jesus and just remain the secular happy little guy you were at the beginning of life before you were being taught that there is a God.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Boycotting beer just seems absurd lmao.. My dad say so that budlight taste like dry sawdust(sic), that would be a more valid reason, but then there is no need for boycotting, they would just be left on the shelves of the stores people go to. Nothing else.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Boycotting beer just seems absurd lmao.. My dad say so that budlight taste like dry sawdust(sic), that would be a more valid reason, but then there is no need for boycotting, they would just be left on the shelves of the stores people go to. Nothing else.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Don't tell me your defending human sacrifice.
I am. Most cases it is unnecessary, but when the population is so large the world can not only not functionally hold them but physically cannot hold them, that is when we should sacrifice some so that some lives, as opposed to everyone crowds to eventual death.
And you aren't wrong, A scenario where human sacrifice is good is undesirable for this world basically(I can't think of counterexamples for the present), and we can prevent those cases from happening.
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@Best.Korea
And that is why we don't use it as a device to reduce overpopulation regardless of how effective it might be.
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- Abortion is human sacrifice
- Human sacrifice is (mostly) bad
- Abortion is thus bad
Is that the line of logic you guys use?
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@Best.Korea
Imagine believing in overpopulation.
Better than not let too many people enter the world than let them enter the world and have them feel like shit because that is what happens if there is too many people. One issue in China. There are too many college graduates where you have to fight for the life to get into a college, where there are too many applications that even blue collar workers only accept bachelors and even masters and those without a 4-year college degree can’t even get a job unless you have family relations at the construction campground.
But oh sure, just cram people in because life is good and killing fetuses are wrong for arbitrary reasons!
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@Best.Korea
Well, in India and Bangladesh.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
The more one sneezes infront of others, the more blessed they are.
Because getting the flu is really a blessing from nature, I mean, you can take off school and play video games the day!
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@Deb-8-a-bull
A priest of at least 3 years has the ability to turn waters into holy water.
I would guess authorization. Conservation of mass in all changes and conservation of elements in chemical changes ensures that water doesn’t just arbitrarily turn into something else. The only way for that if it is like stamping on a bill so it becomes a law and it has more recognition, etc.
Or is it?
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Abortion is an effective way to reduce overpopulation. I am fine with people not using it as so, but it just is.
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@Best.Korea
Yes. The water won’t get undrinkable, so it is your issue.
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@Skipper_Sr
Yes, if the “power of friendship” can be quantized.
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@Sir.Lancelot
You are becoming a finer debater, so try to stick to debates and don't get too deep with the political narratives in the forums, almost nothing good comes out of it.
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@PREZ-HILTON
I talked with the mods about the policy before sharing it with the rest of the site. Everyone understands that we need to allow some room for exchanges to get heated. If Roosevelt calls you an idiot to start with and you respond in kind it's probably not a big deal, though you shouldn't stoop to his level.It's okay to be passionate about what you debate in the forums and for you to let the emotional guard down a bit and be aggressive in conversation. It isn't the best way to persuade or to allow yourself to be persuaded but we are only human.
Agreed.
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@TWS1405_2
It is common for those emotively driven vs those possessing actual emotional and intellectual intelligence. I will not name names of the latter, but the names of the former are patently obvious.
You aren't emotively driven? What about the time you threw a textual tantrum over someone just speaking sentences mildly disproving one of the things you have said?
I’m willing to scale back my reactions to childish members.
That isn't what you are doing? You respond to me not understanding something that you can clearly clarify on with "That is common sense" and when I try to restate your opinion, you respond with "Strawman fallacy" without even attempting to correct me in where I am being incorrect exactly. I don't think you are in fact trying to acquire anything from conversations, though you are a nifty hand at taking away patience.
Every attack you have stated can be used on you. I don't have the time to organize every single of your posts here but you can if you ask me to give examples, I will.
If people are wrong, clarify where they are incorrect instead of throwing tantrums such as "WHY ARE YOU ON DART". You are contributing nothing to most topics if all you do is that.
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