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I think that comes down to whether the whitehouse can provw that Mr. Acosta was barred for disruption to the proceedings. They are not supposed to be able to select reporters arbitrarily.
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Seriously though, don't stick a fork in the toaster.
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@SkepticalOne
That makes some sense. If children are naturally in the custody of their parents then as such there is no absolute human right to bodily autonomy. However, children are not naturally born into the custody of the state, and the state may recognize adults as autonomous.
I have to disagree in calling rights aspirational at all but I acknowledge the desire for a fulfilling society in which rights might be widely recognized. There may not necessarily be any reason to imbue rights with personal meaning.
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@SkepticalOne
The actual issue in America is on the matter of abortion as you might not be aware. The OP is worded facetiously
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@SkepticalOne
Eh, no need to answer. Not drawing connections, I was just curious.
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@SkepticalOne
Why do you think murder should be outlawed the members of government? How does the state justify it's intervention in cases of murder?
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@Wylted
Why does the figure of speech make me sound idiotic to you and what struck you as significant about "tree"?
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You might not have been the brightest bulb on the tree when you are born, but you weren't stupid enough to think a race is inferior in your vacuum. There's always context to non-imbeciles. If someone were fooled they need to ask at some point, why?
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@Wylted
For the purpose of a female basketball team, the people in charge of try outs will probably deem females superior and/or males will be deemed inferior. What qualifier does a male not meet besides femaleness? If the answer is none, there ya go.
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@Wylted
They don't. For the purpose of a sorority, female applicants are deemed superior and/or male applicants are deemed inferior.
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@Wylted
How are you supposed to maintain the national racial lines without racism?
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@Wylted
If a community, in this case a nation, is comprised of white people than non-white people are not part of the nation and that is not racist because it doesn't meet the definitional requirement of belief in superiority/inferiority. That's just logical
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@Wylted
Yeah, there's nothing innately racist in the definition fate confines us to about "separate but equal" in the context that community coincides reliably with the exterior characteristics used to determine race.
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@Wylted
No, I initially had the context of considering white nationalism as a first sentence and crudely deleted it. Maybe it's impossible to prove at face value it's racist but upon reasoning it's most likely going to prove to be part of a racist construct because you have to have a reason to add "white".
I typically don't use "racist" religiously.
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Rights recognized by the United States apply to non-citizens residing in the legal juristiction as well and you may renounce your citizenship if you so choose.
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"I pledge allegiance to the flag, of the United States of America, and to the republic for which is stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all"
The idea that you are not born into subjectship is very important to Americans.
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@Buddamoose
Patriotism doesn't really make sense to me, as it's generally used to express love rather than belief, of one's country. A nation is not necessarily bound to the state.
In America people may take for granted that our state is built regognizing the rights of our nation, developing with respect for the human figure, but that is historically rather unlikely. We pride ourselves in upholding the values necessary for a free country to persist.
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@disgusted
Miscarriage cannot be a crime in the United States under the modern juristiction of constitutional protection. If its legally possible to burn Roe v Wade at the stake, the actual reasons would still be upheld for a more appropriate ruling.
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@Wylted
Why limit yourself to an arbitrary minority of the world's potential for the United States? Why consider 'racial' demographics at all?
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I'm not sure I understand the term ideology in a religious context
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@Goldtop
So, do you believe that humans will not be silly if the powers that be outlawed 'religion'?
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@janesix
I don't know. I have met a vocal atheist before, and I found his subjects of conversation strange and somewhat disconcerting, but he was nice to his family and treated his company fine in my presence. I suppose there are people you might not think to talk to normally who you might see otherwise on the Internet.
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@mustardness
What kind of law (I presume) are you proposing to lock up people like Grayparrot?
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@ethang5
My answer was "Bigots don't use their brains to overcome that primitive tribal instinct - they use their brains to rationalise and justify their hate."Check. People with moral judgements are bigots. Very progressive point of view.
Which aspect of the answer was entertained equivocally with "moral judgement"?
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@ethang5
If someone expresses an idea, and you are obstinate and let your prejudiced views dominate to the point where they couldn't effectively communicate with you, then we can talk about bigotry as there is proof of intolerance since you couldn't honestly consider the idea.
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Two points in this thread, that have been brought up.
OP, repulsion of an act is not bigotry. You'd have to be brainwashed or something to think repulsion is bigotry.
Secondly, there are lots of bad ideas that people need to tolerate. Saying something is a bad idea is not bigotry. It can be honest, and can be done in a loving manner.
Additionally, repulsion to sex with that which you aren't sexually attracted, is not religious/moral conviction
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@RationalMadman
Your flat earthing is wasted on me bud. I'm a lost cause. I suppose you think the astronauts lie to engineers dedicating their life's work to this stuff to keep them alive
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@Mopac
But....If we can't make jokes about Canada, how will they feel relevant?
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@triangle.128k
No, all of it sucks.Democracies, Republics, whatever, all of it sucks.The ideal form of government is a military regime or monarchy.
All candidates should be required to murder their opponent before being allowed into the debates. That way, we know who has a superior position.
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The tax you pay for social security has already been detonated in a foreign country, and there is no gauruntee in the future for your old age.
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@Greyparrot
In truth, humans do have the capacity to think such things into reality, just not through ego. Having the ability to recognize imperative to their self, then to their family, then to their community, then to their nation and then to the relationship of their nation with the world while being respective in the opposite order of priority. No law of man will be the source of such accomplishment.
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@Greyparrot
"The vast majority of shooting sprees occur at gun-free sanctuaries."
Tugs at my heartstrings but I find the idea of gun-free sanctuaries is one of your finest political idiosyncracies. Humans do not have the capacity to think such things into reality. The people in the position to do so would have to control the points of entry and universally increase cost to make it more likely. The reality is that idea is never going to be worth visiting again until technology renders firearms obselete.
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@RationalMadman
No, never tried anything like that and haven't right thought about it much. The farthest a person had been would have been a mission to the moon
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Does anyone know if RM is a troll, super into debate or something? I bet there's lots of reasonable stuff people casually believe in that could technically be debated otherwise by a rhetorical champion.
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You could literally cruise all the way around Antarctica because it's not the edge of the earth. I believe people go there and film penguins. I'm not sure of the international claims to antarctica.
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@SkepticalOne
One might generally refer to that as objective morality.
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And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
11 And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
15 And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
11 And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
15 And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
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There doesn't need to be a specific brand of insanity for a system of social intervention to prove effective at preventing an evil result of disorder.
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In hindsight, its hard for me to argue against Mitt Romney handling matters for his own healthcare initiative at the national level as we navigated through a financial crisis, both practically and politically. He was labeled critically as not being able to relate to common people as I recall.
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@ethang5
Glad we have come to an agreement on this issue as your previous statements undermined what one might initially have assumed to be a pro-life position, and made it look like it's made up by a bunch of windbags.
How are people going wake up?
What is AdHoc?
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@RationalMadman
Jupiter also has a lot of gravity and a heavy atmosphere. There is a gigantic storm on it called the red spot that has been going on for hundreds of years, supposed to be the size of earth right now.
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@Buddamoose
You can listen to Trump, and understand what he is communicating. By not giving a damn unless Mexico pays for it, he took a hot spot for coverage and the political translaters became (truthfully) irrelevant overnight. He is surprisingly consistent and easy to follow
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