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@hey-yo
What is the definition for human being?
I'm unsure; I'll let the scientists answer that one.
What is a reliable source?
I would say .gov, .edu, and .info are reliable. .org and .com are case by case. There is an exception if they cite something unreliable. Like I found this "reliable" cite that was pro life but then I looked at the citations and they were the National Right to Life Committee and Trump; 2 very biased sources.
Wait, isn't that supposed to be the other way around, or are you saying geneticsally the human race is better with diversity?
We are better with genetic diversity, but only nominally so. If everyone had blond hair, it wouldn't be the end of the world. The issue is all the people you would have to kill or sterilize to get to that point. Whereas if you wanted to tell people with HIV that they can't reproduce, that may be bad, but it's very different than telling all dark haired people they aren't allowed to reproduce. Nothing wrong with having black hair, there is something wrong with having HIV.
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@Double_R
So you believe that a zygote is a human being but it's fine for a woman to kill them to prevent more maternal pain? I'm not knocking you if this is the case, but own it.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Compromise on moral issues solves nothing. The human heart cannot tolerate perceived injustice forever. The moral conflict itself must be solved, either by convincing the next generation, the current generation, or just killing people.
There have been times when conflict was solved by compromise (like over Toledo). Michigan and Ohio both wanted it, but Michigan was offered the upper pinensula in exchange for giving up Toledo (which they agreed to).
Having a compromise on the issue helps both sides get more of what they want and prevents civil war (which seems like it might happen).
leave me the fuck alone unless I'm trampling someone else's liberty
But is abortion part of this? Is calling transwomen part of this if you believe they are men based on the dictionary definition for a woman? People disagree on this, so there has to be a compromise. In reality, nothing would happen if the right can't define woman in a way that includes transwomen and cis women and something similar for men.
Collectivism has been given a hundred chances in different variants and each time caused disaster and collapse.Liberty has been tried only a handful of times and in a few limited contexts and each time it has led to an explosion of prosperity, good will, and generosity.
What is collectivist or individualist about a comprimise?
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@ludofl3x
Please explain how you would legislate this.
The definition of a woman and man would change federally.
It sounds a lot, well, it sounds EXACTLY, like limiting people's free speech.
If you disagree with the new definition of a woman that includes cis and trans women, you are free to call Caitlyn Jenner and Blaire White men. That's your freedom of speech. You would just be incorrect by doing so if the definition of a woman changes to include these people.
Just like how a hypothetical person named Bob has the right to be incorrect when he claims that Trump won in 2020. He's wrong, but he's allowed to believe that.
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@SkepticalOne
No deal. You can't trade rights for rights. Rights are not privileges, my man.
If you don't have a counter offer, your too ideologue and too much in the group think of the democrat party.
People want compromises in politics according to pew research, but this is actually what a compromise would look like, so try and come up with a counter offer.
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@the_viper
As an official party policy or are we restricting freedom of speech for individuals? I'm not sure even the left would support that.
As an official party policy. The left argues that transwomen are women because of the science, but the left can't define what a woman is in a way that includes the groups they want and excludes the groups they want. Because of this, the right's definition of a woman is based on chromosomes. If the right comes up with an alternative definition for woman in a way that includes transwomen and cis women and excludes cis and trans men (while doing something similar for the definition of a man), then science can use that definition so the trans debate is settled. But this would only happen if the left agrees to ban abortion nationwide (except to save maternal life).
You are still allowed to call Caitlyn Jenner a man if you want too, but it just wouldn't be official party policy.
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@the_viper
I would make that deal; a $5 a ton carbon tax for banning abortion except to save the mother’s life.
The deal would be calling transwomen women and trans men men (which the trans community really wants) and coming up with a definition to support that.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Did you go to 3rd grade computer class?Or do any research assignments in school?
I did and they said .gov cites were reliable. But part of me thinks your going to claim it s biased if it doesn’t agree with you. Now full disclosure, if a reliable source claims that a zygote is a human being, I will believe it and try to code it into chat GPT.
I don't know it was Hitler's plan. Ask him.
His plan of a perfect Germany was one free of Jews and anyone without blond hair and blue eyes. In other words, if everyone had blond hair and blue eyes, we wouldn’t be better off because of it.
The homeless don't hurt anyone else, therefore they don't need money spent on them.Murderers and rapists do, so we need money to pay for the police officers, law enforcement and court systems, to deal with them, and then money for jails to keep them away from doing that again.
If the government spends a lot of money taking care of teachers, they want teachers.
If the government spends a lot of money on firefighters, they want firefighters.
If the government spends a lot of money on roads, they want roads.
If the government spends a lot of money on murderers and rapists, they want murderers and rapists.
If the government killed all the murderers and rapists, and took the money to build homes for the homeless, our society is in a better place. But our government has the living expenses of murderers and rapists as a higher priority than the homeless. You might as well tell any homeless person who is convinced they will never get a job to murder or rape someone so the state takes care of them the rest of their life.
Murderers and rapists deserve death.
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@Lemming
I don't think the children of rulers, serving in combat, will prevent war.
Why not? Politicians love their children enough to not send them to war.
One can even make arguments against it being hypocritical if they 'didn't send/allow their kids in war,
How so?
But I want to enjoy my 5 or 10 minutes before sleep, in a different manner than crafting arguments, right this moment.
Np; make an argument when your ready.
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@Melcharaz
ISIS is gone. And the US military is the number one terror state. We kill way more civilians than ISIS does. The Iraq war is a failure.
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@Lemming
Yeah, but Putin isn’t going to send HIS kids to fight in Ukraine (but he’s fine with sending OTHER people’s kids). It’s hypocritical.
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@Double_R
I wasn't advancing the bodily autonomy argument, I was using the reality of bodily autonomy to illustrate how someone who values a zygote could still support abortion.
How is that not advancing the bodily autonomy argument?
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@Tejretics
But also, lots of liberals -- and especially people on the left -- don’t want to reduce the rate of abortion. They just want it to be safe, legal, and accessible.
If you don’t believe a zygote is a human being and therefore don’t care about the abortion rate, why take a birth control pill? It produces worse side effects for the female than if she gets pregnant and gets an abortion.
If you REALLY don’t believe a zygote is a human being and your female, what’s stopping you from getting an abortion on a regular basis?
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@Tradesecret
If it's going to be subjective interpretation, then people do as they want - and as they do now. Stay or leave. It's up to them whether they have broken the rules or not.
Not sure about that. For instance, the bible says to go kosher and Jesus never un does it. So should Christains then only eat kosher?
Again. you seem to have shot yourself in your own foot.
How so?
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2 issues that should be considered, abortion and transgenderism.
Me personally, I don't care about either one of these issues; not enough scientific evidence is there for me to believe a zygote is a human being and I'm not trans.
But the left and the right believe something very different.
The left's argument:
"Abortion bans and not calling transwomen women negatively impact women and transgenders."
The right's argument:
"Abortion legalization harms the unborn and transwomen are men pretending to be women because that's science"
When the left claims that all these science groups claim that transwomen are women, the right proceeds to ask, "What is a woman?" of which the left has no decent answer that encompasses transwomen and ciswomen and excludes transmen and cis men. They also don't have a good definition for what a man is. The right has their definition; it's based on chromosomes, but the left won't accept this definition because they believe transwomen are women.
I asked Quora people (who were both pro choice and believed transwomen are women) who they would rather support, a pro lifer that believed transwomen are women or a pro choicer that agreed with Matt Walsh on transgenderism.
To my surprise, the left on Quora cares more about transgenderism than abortion, so they perferred the pro lifer that believes that transwomen are women.
Now if your on the right, you believe that abortion should be banned and that transwomen are men pretending to be women. What issue do they care about more? I would imagine abortion, because from their perspective, 800,000 dead unborn children per year is a bigger issue than whether or not you call the few trans people you know by their preferred pronouns. To confirm this, my conservative brother told me he cares more about abortion than transgenderism.
So here's the deal I would support: The moment the right can define what a woman is in a way that excludes (cis and trans) men and includes cis women and transwomen and the moment the right can define what a man is in a way that excludes (cis and trans) women and includes cis women and transmen, they can enact a right to life amendment in the constitution that outlaws abortion nationwide (you can have an exception for rape and/or mother's life if you want that, you can enact exception for fetal defects if you want, you can leave these rare situations up to the states if you want; the left got their victory with transgenderism, now you get to have your victory with abortion laws written in the constitution so they won't be able to be overturned unless 3/4 of the states vote for that).
From my experience, the left cares more about transgenderism (an issue where the right has their way since the majority of America agrees with the right on this issue) and the right cares more about abortion (an issue where even with Roe gone, a majority of states have abortion legal.)
But then the right has to define women in a way that would get the trans community what they want, which is to be recognized as their perceived gender.
Lets make a deal!
Then once these very polarizing issues are settled, we can focus on something less divisive.
You can propose counteroffers to this idea if you want; but both sides get what they want out of this deal. But I want some sort of deal to be made so we can focus on something less divisive.
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@Double_R
Arguing that a zygote is not a person does not = arguing that a zygote is worthless
Your main argument for abortion being legal is the bodily autonomy argument. This is a seperate argument.
You believe a zygote is a human (I think), so you would want to reduce the abortion rate by alternative means.
But if you don't believe a zygote is a human being, you woudn't then care about the abortion rate.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Therefore, you should not trust Chat GPT for your research and do it yourself.
What cites are reliable?
He believed that as long as the end (which was a thriving civilization) worked, then whatever he did to get their (mass murder of millions of Jews) would be justified.
What would a thriving civilization have to do with millions of dead jews?
Most (not all) homeless people have either made bad financial decisions or bad life decisions, by their own choice.
Victim producing criminals also made bad choices. But we take care of them; give them free food, shelter, clothing, and healthcare. I don't think they should get it, just like the homeless. But ANY of these situations I would respect(not necessarily agree with, but respect):
1) Homeless get taken care of and so do rapists and murderers.
2) Homeless get taken care of and murderers and rapists do not.
3) Neither group gets taken care of.
What I do not respect is:
4) The homeless do not get taken care of and murderers and rapists do.
Our murderers and rapists don't deserve any better treatment than our homeless.
We need to spend money on prison to hold the bad guys in and protect ourselves from them, to keep a civilized society.
Or you could give alternative sentencing (lashings for minor crimes, of which Indonesia does and their crime rate is significantly lower than the US).
I am a virgin
I respect that and I am a virgin.
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@DavidAZ
I was born Catholic, but I don't affiliate with any religion.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Chat GPT is super biased dude. It has already been proven in the code to have bias.
If they were biased, they would claim that virtually no scientists believe a zygote is a human being. If they said 95% of scientists believe a zygote is a human being, then you would be claiming that they are correct and that the liberals are anti science. But when you claim they are biased, that is also anti science.
Chat GPT is reliable and your the biased one.
Like in America, the lower class is equivalent to the upper class in some African countries. This is a good thing, because our lowest class is still advanced.
It depends. I would say the richest person in Nigeria is doing better than the poorest person in America.
This was Hitler's ideology. He believed that as long as the end (which was a thriving civilization) worked, then whatever he did to get their (mass murder of millions of Jews) would be justified.
That's cap; Hitler murdered millions of Jews because he was a bigot and the German people voted for him because they needed a scapegoat for their problems (instead of blaming the west for Germany's problems).
Well, you live in a society, where everyone works together for the good of that group.Deal with it. We all contribute something.
Would you be fine with paying for every homeless person to get a home? This costs about $30 billion. If not, explain why your unwilling to have taxpayers pay $30 billion for the homeless to get homes (when the homeless usually didn't harm anybody to get in their situation) but are fine with society spending about $200 billion a year taking care of prisoners (when they DID do something bad). Taxation if theft!
This has so many contradictions to it, just from reading it, I think you need to re-read it, and then line it back up with you other arguments.
How did I contradict myself at all?
I was telling YOU that if YOU (a male) don't want a pregnancy, you shouldn't have sex.Ok............I agree with that.
So are you a virgin? Because only 3% of the US population waits until marriage to have sex. Granted, virginity is good, but it's rare.
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@ludofl3x
Why do women go on the IUD or birth control, do you think?
So they don't get pregnant. There are times when this fails.
You'll find out.
How so? I've been through puberty and I have never had sex with anybody. I have had wet dreams, but I've felt so awful after them. I never want to have a wet dream again.
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@ludofl3x
Women do not think "What if I get pregnant" when they're horny enough to ask you to give it to them in broad daylight
That doesn't make any sense. Do people think long term?
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@ludofl3x
You can have that just to prevent STI spreading. But in terms of birth control that exclusively prevents pregnancy, if the left doesn't believe a zygote is a human being, why do anything to reduce the rate that zygotes get aborted?
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@ludofl3x
Women literally do get as horny as men.
Why would they? They are the ones who get pregnant.
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@ludofl3x
Can you just tell me?
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@ludofl3x
My dad said that Mom never asked for sex and that dad was always the iniator.
But a man knows, "If this woman gets pregnant, I'm dashing. I don't think she would sue me for child support, and child support is less serious than pregnency".
A woman knows, "If I get pregnant, I'm going to endure 9 months of pain. Either that, or get a painful abortion."
This is why men tend to be hornier than women.
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@ludofl3x
What about anatomically accurate sex education in public schools?
What's that?
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@SkepticalOne
Abortion covers developmental stages beyond zygote, some of which personhood could be argued. Concern for the more mature unborn and women's rights aren't not mutually exclusive.
Do you believe a zygote is a human being? If not, then why would you care what the abortion rate is?
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@FLRW
So if you don't believe a zygote is a human being, do you care what the abortion rate is?
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@ludofl3x
How do "they" want to accomplish this?
Free contraception. The right wants to ban abortions.
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@RationalMadman
Wrap your head around a pragmatic necessary evil and you will understand the Left's position a lot better.
So do you believe a zygote is a human being? Because if so, then it makes sense to want to reduce the abortion rate by methods other than banning abortions. But if you don't believe this, what's the point of reducing the abortion rate?
And there ideologue leftists and pragmatic right wingers, so leftism isn't synonymous with being pragmatic.
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@Double_R
Hypocrisy is not about failing to live up to someone else's defined ethos, it's about living up to the ethos you profess.
I don't think it's hypocrisy, but it's a double standard. Some double standards are justified (you can have consensual sex with your wife, but not with a 10 year old girl). But other double standards make less sense. If you believe in a double standard, justify it.
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@YouFound_Lxam
You stated: "A fetus does have its cells mostly specialized, so they are human."At what specific point does one become a human?
The scientists can't agree according to chat gpt, so I have to be unsure.
If you spend all your money giving to the poor, now your poor, and if the whole world keeps this cycle going, then there will always be poor and wealthy people.
If you give your money to the poor, you get more money from your job and you use it to subsidize the poor (if human life was worth saving no matter what).
If you decided to pull that lever, then you are purposefully involving yourself in a situation where you didn't have any obligation to be involved with in the first place. Also, with this side, you are arguing with most villains in certain genres.
I'm saving more people, so I would kill one person to save 5 equally valuable people.
45% of the population is still less than half.
It's still a huge chunk of the population (that would use the money exclusively for their own selfish purposes, whereas I would use some of it to save more people and keep the rest). I think 90% of the US population would kill one person to save 5.
There should be a place where if you commit a crime, you should be imprisoned. Not all crimes should be punishable by death, they should be punished by imprisonment which is a tactic that has worked for centuries. The living conditions don't have to be good, just enough for the inmates to live long enough to survive prison.
I still don't want my tax dollars paying for it.
All lashing will do is leave a scar on you, not enough to kill or torture you for long. Lashings also will heal.
A lashing is a lot of short term pain that people remember so they are less likely to re offend. Prison makes you unemployable, so you end up committing more crime so you can be in jail with taxpayers taking care of you. But lashings also heal quicker than a prison sentence, so I support replacing prison sentences with lashings for minor crimes.
They put themselves in that situation because of men like you having sex with them. If you don’t want a pregnancy, don’t have sex.My point exactly. If a female doesn't want a pregnancy and they want a 100% guarantee of that, then the only way to do that is to not have sex.
I was telling YOU that if YOU (a male) don't want a pregnancy, you shouldn't have sex. Straight women only have sex because of horny men like you. If you don't want to risk your girlfriend getting an abortion, don't have sex with her. I'm a virgin and it's great; I've never had to worry about STIs or pregnency.
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@YouFound_Lxam
So, if you are looking for reasons to vote for Trump, rather than the candidates that have shown up, than here is a.......couple:
- Trump lowered taxes.
- Cutting Regulations.
- Ending Wars.
- Bringing Troops home.
- Lowering Funding to NATO, the UN, the WHO.
- Opening opportunity programs from poverty-stricken neighborhoods.
- Giving low level, non-violent inmates a second chance.
- Fixing mandatory minimums.
- Starting a worldwide effort to stop persecution of Gays.
- Supporting MS-13.
- Protecting our Borders.
- Crusading against human and child trafficking.
- Bringing back manufacturing facilities.
- Evening out our suspiciously lopsided trade tariffs.
- Getting our soldiers, remains back from North Korea.
- Getting terminal patients, the right to try.
- Record highs in our stock market.
- Getting big pharma to match low prices abroad.
- Reaching Energy Independence.
- Brokering Peace Deals all over the Middle East.
- Record low Unemployment.
- Keeping Gas and Inflation majorly down.
- Donating a salary to different organizations, like the ones fighting opioid addictions every quarter, and doing this for free.
Taxes: My ideal tax code is outlined below:
Why is cutting regulations good? That lead to the Palestine Ohio incident? I think it should be easier to build buildings so they are more affordable for people, but anyone who advocates cutting regulations needs to be specific.
I'm anti war, but Trump didn't end any wars. He continued our presence in the middle east.
NATO funding: Our military was the highest it was under Trump. The ideal military budget is 1% of the GDP.
Starting a worldwide effort to stop persecution of Gays.
Many on the right want to prosecute gay people as well. Trump can denounce the people in his base that are anti gay if he was principled about the issue.
- Supporting MS-13.
- Protecting our Borders.
MS 13 members that sell fetaynyl deserve death; the undocumented caught in the cross hairs should not have their victimless liberties treaded upon. Trump did neither of these things.
- Crusading against human and child trafficking.
Based.
- Bringing back manufacturing facilities.
Biden did this.
- Keeping Gas and Inflation majorly down.
Biden did this too, but inflation should be lower under Biden, then my stocks can do better.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
A scientific question would be: Does a zygote contain a complete and final set of DNA?
It does, but so does a cancer cell, so unless your arguing that cancer cells are human beings, this definition isn't good for what a human being is.
Or Does a zygote use phospholipids in its cell walls?
I'm unsure, but I don't think so.
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@b9_ntt
I'll let you believe that, but insults won't get me to vote against Trump.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Year round schooling has breaks in between; I'd get rid of the brakes every time. I'd want our kids in school for every day; 365 days a year. This would require twice as many teachers, but that's fine. HW is exclusively online so teachers don't have to grade; they just get the kids to learn the material and if kids struggle, then the teachers help them with problems.
I want 8th graders knowing Calculus, and 12th graders knowing Calc 3. Tests should account for a small part of grades; HW for more of it. Then my math major can be easier to learn. I also want to replace K 12 with K 16, where the last 4 years you learn either college stuff or trades, all at your school. I think doing work and learning to be independent of mom and dad should be separate tasks to learn. I stay home for my college experience; I couldn't imagine paying rent AND studying for school at the same time.
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@b9_ntt
You should not vote for Trump because he is a thoroughgoing narcissist.
Fair point, but there probably were other narcissist presidents before that people didn't take an issue with. I think pretty much everyone that ran for public office didn't do so to make the country better; they just did it for themselves.
He claimed that Pence should have violated the Constitution to preserve his presidency against the will of the voters.What else do you need to not vote for him?
Jan 6 was fucked up and done by the far right, but the stock market is doing very bad now under Biden. If Biden was significantly better for the stock market, I'd vote for the guy, but mean tweets is less important to me than the stock market. Either that, or pay off part of the US debt instead of going deeper into debt.
Trump was bad for debt payoff, so if Biden does either of the following, I'd support him:
1) Pay off part of the debt relative to when he entered the oval office
2) Create an economy to where the stock market grows at least 10% a year since he entered the oval office (or at least better than what Trump did)
The stock market is so bad right now, it makes more economic sense to sell cocaine to a homeless man even though you might go to jail for it and lose all your money.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Why do you think that is a scientific question?
Because only scientists can answer it to the extent to where it can translate into law.
What experiment could be done (even in some distant future) that would answer that question?
If you come up with criteria for what counts as a human being, and whatever members of the unborn meet it are classified as human and the rest aren't.
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@Castin
It's not that difficult to follow your interpretation of your religion's rules.
It's pretty hard. Everytime you find out something your doing violates part of your religion, you either have to defend it with a bible verse of your own or stop that activity. If the bible says to kill people who convert people to outside religions:
“Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. “The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him.”(Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
This is from the new testament. Christians need to obey this or leave religion. If the state comes and gives them life in jail for murder, God will reward them with more rewards in heaven. If the state executes them for murder, God will reward the martyrs.
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The left: We don't believe a zygote or embryo is a human being.
Also the left: We support a woman's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion (but we want to reduce the abortion rate of zygotes)
Me: If you believe that zygotes aren't people, why would you care what the abortion rate of zygotes is? If I kill a pig for meat, nobody (except vegeterians and vegans) cares about how many animals get killed for food, because it's viewed by the majority that farm animals aren't human. If you REALLY believe a zygote or even an embryo isn't a human being, why would you want to reduce the rate at which they get killed? They aren't human after all, so it shouldn't matter how often they get killed. Collect stats on it if you want for data's sake, but don't advocate for reducing the death rate of something you think is just a clump of cells.
The right is consistent on this front. They believe a zygote is a human being so they want less of them killed. You can agree or disagree with that, but it's worth respect. The left isn't being consistent. They want to reduce the death rate of zygotes but they don't believe zygotes are human beings, so why aim to reduce the death rate of zygotes?
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@Best.Korea
The man should be punished if he supported the abortion. However, if a woman says that she acted on her own will and that the man opposed to abortion, then there is no point in punishing the man.
Situation 1:
Man: wants abortion because he doesn't want to raise the baby.
Women: Doesn't want abortion.
Your response: Raise the damn kid; if you didn't want kids, you shouldn't have had sex.
The left response: Raise the damn kid; if you didn't want kids, you shouldn't have had sex.
The right response: Raise the damn kid; if you didn't want kids, you shouldn't have had sex.
Situation 2:
Man: Doesn't want abortion
Women: Doesn't want abortion
The left response: Don't abort
The right response: Don't abort
Your response: Don't abort.
Situation 3:
Man: Doesn't want abortion
Woman: Does want abortion
The left response: Abort the pregnancy. Your body your choice; have all the sex you want.
The right: Raise the damn kid; if you didn't want kids, you shouldn't have had sex.
Your response: Raise the damn kid; if you didn't want kids, you shouldn't have had sex. Abort, and you should get killed, but the man wouldn't be killed (if it was reverse, you would just have the man pay child support which is less severe of a punishment.)
Situation 4:
Man: Does want abortion
Woman: Does want abortion
The left response: Abort the pregnancy. Your body your choice; have all the sex you want.
The right: Raise the damn kid; if you didn't want kids, you shouldn't have had sex.
Your response: I want to punish the woman (with death?) and the man (with death?) The reason why this is in question marks is because I don't know.
The punishment for the man in situation 1 should be the same as the woman in situation 3.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
You're missing the point. It is utterly irrelevant if scientists disagree because there is no scientific question involved.
The scientific question is:
Is a zygote a human being?
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@ADreamOfLiberty
I don't think I denied that.
Is a zygote a human being? Scientists disagree, so our laws on abortion should remain agnostic on the issue until at least 90% of scientists can figure out the same claim regarding zygote personhood.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
The tax bill that President Trump signed into law in 2017 dramatically cut taxes for wealthy individuals and corporations.
Define "dramatically". Your making it sound like the government got 50% less revenue from the wealthy. I thought it was only like 6% less revenue. My ideal tax code is outlined in a spreadsheet and no politician is going to get it in action. It's below:
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@Double_R
Whether self professed conservatives live up to the definition is an entirely different question.
Shouldn't conservatives live up to some standard? I don't think the members of either party adhere to any sort of ethos 100% of the time (except for libertarians and westernites). But I digress.
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@Lemming
Strong borders (Not your thing),Pro Life,Pro Gun.
Strong borders is not my thing, but Biden has deported more people than Trump and that pissed me off. I'm very pro gun; agnostic about abortion because scientists can't agree on if a zygote is a human being.
Supporting Russia, instead of Ukraine, 'doesn't seem to be in American interests, from my view,Not that he'll 'necessarily do such.
I'm pro getting involved with Ukraine's war and I think America should treat Ukraine the same way we treat South Korea. The way this can happen is if Ukraine pays for American weapons with Ukrainian tax dollars, not America's.
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@Double_R
Can you please explain how January 6th does not immediately disqualify Trump from your consideration?
Because the stock market (I own about $30,000 worth of stock) grew more under Trump than Biden. The stock market is so bad right now it makes more economic sense to sell cocaine to a homeless man even though you might go to jail for it and forfeit all your assets.
But Jan 6 was fucked up.
I want a president that is going to reduce the debt and grow the stock market at least 10% a year. I don't care their party.
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@PREZ-HILTON
What if you have $60K a year salary, but then only give kids 2 weeks of summer vacation so teachers earn that pay? Discipline our youth. Discipline equals freedom.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Get people who do not want to be there out of there.
The issue with that is people’s interests change. Like when I was in high school, I wanted to work for Crispr. Now I want to be an actuary.
Some students don't learn because they don't want to be there.
This is correct; so don’t punish their teachers with a lower salary because of it.
There is no quantity of funding which cannot be wasted when failure is rewarded by more money and more staff!
The issue with this is if you give a bad performing district less money than a well performing one, it leads to even worse scores, which lead to even less money, which lead to even worse scores, until eventually, anyone that doesn’t live in a really rich part of the country has terrible schools.
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@Tradesecret
Although the sentiment sounds fair, who determines what the rules of the religion are?
Your interpretation of your religion. People have all sorts of ways they interpret the Bible because the Bible contradicts its self. If you’re Christian, you live by your interpretation of the Bible, and if that means going kosher because Jesus never denounced it, you do that. I think Christians should go kosher because their religion tells them too and no Bible verse undid kosher laws.
And who would determine the rules of Atheism? Or any other religion.
Atheism has no rules; do whatever you want as long as your not harming anybody else.
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