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Correct. Bad Motherfuckers do what they want.

I think they make up the rules as they go, though.

They said it was an infected boil.

Yep. Welcome to your own species.

We'll see.

independent of Russia, yes. They'll be in NATO.

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"Around 2,000 people are returning each day to Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, said the head of the city’s regional military administration, O...

Yep

Micro-aggression.

IOW, you don't know.

Really? Why doesn't the palace economy count as socialism?

A free market has no price controls. The oldest version of controlled markets is where priests set prices (in quantities of cacao nuts in South Americ...

One of the ancestors of free markets was an aspect of the Bronze Age palace economy. People brought their wheat and other goods to the palace. Priests...

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"The staff of The Times won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for revealing the hidden casualties in thousands of American military ...

I imagine this invasion has created hatred for Russia that will persist in Ukraine for the next 50 years at least.

Intention would appear to be an abstraction. Group intent definitely is. So you've got gods and money "reducing' to abstractions. Abstractions don't r...

I get what he's saying. Plus judgement of some kind is at the core of any action. On the other hand, amorality is a lens through which we can see the ...

You'd have to define "suffering." Does suffering require a sense of self? If it's just the firing of nociceptors, then earth worms can suffer.

That will also be a quagmire.

Are you arguing that abortion is always wrong?

I think a 24 week infant has about a 7% chance of survival even with high tech care. At 20 weeks, there's really no chance.

He does register a lot of disgust at what appears to him to be life-rejecting behavior and practice, but ultimately he's not offering a prescription f...

True. It's always going to be rare, though.

Third trimester abortion is rare and usually done for medical reasons, either a problem with the mother or the baby.

They also said it about pigs flying. Third trimester is too late. Get over it.

Yea, that's not going to happen. Third trimester is a baby.

:lol: OK. Forge ahead with your stuff there.

It doesn't look like there was any reading of Nietzsche involved in the OP. I have no idea why his name was mentioned.

Why didn't Finland join earlier? They just didn't think there was any need?

Name a Nietzsche scholar who reads it this way.

It's funny that one of your favorite phrases is "bootlicker." :lol:

I'm not trying to avoid the question. I just don't know exactly when a clump of cells actually turns into a person. I know it will, given the right co...

A lot of the land surface of the planet has the potential to become a person, Harry. Your hair used to be some dust stirred up by a brontosaurus.

Sorites paradox https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Color_gradient_illustrating_a_sorites_paradox_with_labels.png/440px-Color_gr...

And this is probably why the debate continues. There's no clear cut way to determine when a fetus becomes a person.

So does it sit well with you that child abuse is considered to be a matter of choice in Montana? It's a non-issue?

Sure. So imagine you live in a state where sexual abuse of children is tolerated, say it's Montana. There's no law against it. Would you say that in M...

Wrong! Richard Dawkins had a time machine and he did it. Because he's an asshole!

Did you answer the question?

. I know abortion isn't like feeding the poor It would be a little odd to have a party to celebrate having your gallbladder removed, but I'm accustome...

If some people think sexual abuse is OK, should they be allowed to do it? My point is that if you believe a certain act is immoral and seek to make it...

This is a passage from the Old Testament. Samuel was a judge and the people asked him for a king. This is his response. "He said, “This is what the ki...

Also your mother named you Gago.

And also, you're cross-eyed. And your nose is shaped like a colon polyp.

I would kind of prefer this to "a woman has a right to choose." If you think abortion is moral, go ahead and say it. Normalize it. Otherwise it's like...

Where did you see this happening? Just curious, because I haven't.

If Ukraine had joined NATO earlier, the invasion wouldn't have happened. Finland and Sweden see this and want to join now. Makes perfect sense.

I think most people are OK with having their taxes go to WIC or their state and local food aid organizations. They don't think of it as unjust.