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@sadolite
Are electric cars doomed to fail in the future without the govt propping them up with millions if not billions of tax payer dollars every year?
I think that electric motors are simple and cost effective. They can be scaled as small as necessary for an RC car and as large as necessary for a locomotive. They also produce a fair amount of torque for their size, and because torque is consistent from a low RPM they may not require gear shifts from a transmission. The design principles are well suited to the demands of the automobile industry.
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@FLRW
Which vaccines do you think have more problems for certain people?
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@FLRW
What are you taking away from this?
Do you think the vaccine makes people more resistant to circulatory problems, or that the vaccine just happens to have less associated risk than the virus?
Do you think that an explanation could be provided that is correlated, but otherwise not linked to choosing whether or not to obtain vaccination?
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@YouFound_Lxam
... Isn’t that what church is for?
Putting the bigotry aside, I think I share the finding that your first post does not reflect a conversation that relates to government action.
Basically abortion comes down to two sides.Either you think that a mothers' right to her body is more important than the life of an infant.Or you think that an infant is more important to a mothers' right to her body.
I think about politics of abortion in terms of how the enforcement apparatus of a state effects the mother and the doctor, or anyone accused of assisting procurement.
The professionals involved are the most liable to be punished. The mother is not punished in the United States, but her presumed medical provider is quite assuredly going to consider whether their career might be effected, or if they might be charged with a serious crime. For the legality of abortion services to be appropriate the law has to be correctly tailored so that her health is not negatively impacted by any conflict of interest.
The state can inform the patient that abortion is a bad idea I suppose, but what she considers to be in her best interest takes precedent to what the state considers. In other words, such a procedure defaults as a private matter between her and her medical providers. I can relate to regulations on abortion providers. I get that killing isn't a right. I'm not sure if you really intended the implication you seem to be getting at with "trumps the right to her body", denying the risk assessment of carrying a pregnancy to term.
I tend to lean infant for this specific reason.The baby didn't choose to be created. The mother caused the creation of that life. Therefore the babys right to life trumps the mothers right to her body, because she caused that situation to take place. That along with the fact that it is a living human in the mothers body, and it is not biologically part of the mothers body.So:The mother does not have a right to kill a human life that is not part of her body, that she caused to exist.
Well, who is killing the unborn child? The abortion provider is killing them. On the subject of licensed killing, why would it be necessary to implicate the mother?
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Bingo. We can fix some problems through policy, but the problems behind the problems can only be solved with cultural improvements.How many of these shooters were raised poorly, or had some kind of traumatic experience in their past? I suspect it’s almost all of them. Not defending those evil people, but it’s clear that there’s more going on with them than the sheer moral depravity required to shoot up a school.I view mass shootings as a reflection of our cultural decay. Guns are not a new thing in this country. If anything, they were once far more ubiquitous (per capita) than they are now. But mass shootings are a new thing. So what changed? The culture decayed, of course. I think it started with FDR and the progressives, frankly.Most of the mass shooters come from deeply troubled backgrounds. But people with deeply troubled backgrounds aren't new, either. The only thing that's changed is that almost all kids now either do not grow up in two-parent households, or if they do, both parents work.They grow up disconnected from their families and without a place in their communities.They get placed on lists, labeled, categorized, evaluated, diagnosed with behavioural problems, pumped up with prescription drugs.When they go to school, they sit in prison-like "educational institutions" under fluorescent lights and forced to stay inside listening to shitty people (most teachers I think are pretty shitty people) drone on about shit the kids do not see the value of, for the purpose of performing on standardized tests that set the trajectory of their lives.When they come home, they eat processed food with no nutritional value, consume vapid media content (if not woke propaganda), and asynchronously interact with their friends (or bullied by their peers) through screens alone.They do not go to church, belong to institutions outside of those created by the state (e.g., school).They are conditioned from birth to defer to authority.I think if our social fabric was stronger, we'd have less mass shootings.
I wouldn't say I find the subject matter completely enjoyable, but reading your contributions here must come as a breath of fresh air for many people. You recognized a few things that someone who consumes sensationalism for the sole purpose of generating revenue would not. The particular nature of similar suicidal rampages have exhibited contributing factors that were practically nonexistent throughout the past. This is common knowledge among Americans who are properly integrating with their community and getting to know and take care of people, since it is in living memory. We should be asking, what did the effected communities do in the past, that they are not doing with sufficiency today? And we should also be asking, what did the effected communities refrain from doing, that today is done?
I think we should also consider that societal decay may be manifesting itself in different ways. So, there may be multiple solutions on account of distinct problems. But, as you say, there are general ideas people can implement in their life that will improve their community relations. Namely, I would suggest to ask yourself what it is you do that would not lend people to trust one another.
As a singular example I think that sexual immorality is one of the contributing factors to communities that experience widespread mistrust. The divorce rate as we all know is so high that children are growing up with the intuition that it is impossible the 'leaders' of their community are refraining from unconscionable acts. If immorality were to be practically accepted in the church then the claim to refuge is undermined, and the communal center may well be gone within several generations.
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@sadolite
I have a question for you. Did you vote at some point in your life, and do you still vote?
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Hello,
Speaking from the good old US of A. I'm just going to try things out and see how it goes.
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