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Except there's no evidence that America has a shoddy election process. There's been no actual evidence presented and every meaningful claim he's filed...
November 24, 2020 at 14:25
Had to Google all those terms. Either you're fucked up or I'm just old, but prolly both, and by "prolly," I mean probably, as in more likely, just in ...
November 24, 2020 at 14:20
"Brainlet" Hip term.
November 24, 2020 at 13:16
It's hard to get my finger on the pulse. There's a guy at work here who's sure that there was fraud, despite there being no evidence of it. When the R...
November 23, 2020 at 14:17
Prior to the election, Ivanka, who is Jewish, was seen praying by the late Lubavitcher Rebbe's grave. https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/10/26/ivanka-tr...
November 22, 2020 at 03:09
If there is natural law, there is natural duty, which I think I described and which would relate to government insofar as what would a just government...
November 20, 2020 at 21:03
Under a natural law position, the duty would be in protecting that right, whatever it may be, from infringement. If you were a natural rights adherent...
November 20, 2020 at 19:35
As an aside, and I don't know how this figures into this analysis is the Canon Law of the Catholic Church, also an ancient Roman tradition. Very brief...
November 17, 2020 at 15:14
And there's the similarity in American law, where our Declaration states we have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, ...
November 17, 2020 at 14:55
If ancient Roman law held that all men were created equal by virtue of nature (https://www.politicalsciencenotes.com/cicero/political-ideas-of-cicero-...
November 16, 2020 at 21:41
Assuming international law is not an authority on morality and assuming retribution is a valid militaristic response to an unprovoked attacked, do you...
November 16, 2020 at 21:25
But isn't it always a matter of degree of responsibility that the citizens have for their leader's actions as opposed to offering the citizens full ab...
November 16, 2020 at 19:45
There seems to be what I'll call a "combatant's exception," where we allow some degree of excuse (or at least we mitigate our evaluation of the severi...
November 16, 2020 at 15:12
A hero needn't be perfect. I'm not looking for a messiah, just someone to free the innocent who have been damned to torture, abuse, and death. I wasn'...
November 13, 2020 at 16:56
You will always annoy me with your return to this argument, which, at least to my ears, asserts some sort of moral equivalence between the axis and al...
November 13, 2020 at 15:34
I can agree with part of this. There is sometimes confusion contextualizing other people's problems and in some areas there is moral ambiguity. There ...
November 12, 2020 at 16:39
I wish to thank you for your questions. Your probing inquiries allow me to better sort out my ideas so that their implementation will go more smoothly...
November 12, 2020 at 14:02
If we've grown weary of running folks into cages and we're uncomfortable busting heads, and we're not naïve enough to think we can change hearts and m...
November 11, 2020 at 21:18
. In terms of the history of prisons, it's a fairly modern phenomenon, with jails having existed at first only to hold a prisoner until trial and then...
November 11, 2020 at 16:29
The incarceration rate by country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate#United_States The US appears to be at the top...
November 11, 2020 at 16:21
The Trump speech about having the election stolen from him was truly disgusting. It was a reckless attempt to incite his base to interfere with a fair...
November 08, 2020 at 03:24
Tennessee, a Trump state.
November 07, 2020 at 21:00
Violence has been more a characteristic of leftist groups. This is all part of a divisive narrative that vilifies the opposition. Trump declares witho...
November 06, 2020 at 14:08
There've always been delays for one reason or the other. This is just the problem du jour. Bush/Gore was hanging chads.
November 05, 2020 at 22:05
I take great pride in the fact that my home state is holding up a national election with global ramifications so that the crackerjack poll workers can...
November 05, 2020 at 20:21
Oh come on, not a disgrace. It's all over but the shouting. Let him shout.
November 04, 2020 at 21:42
Thank you for the question. So, in baseball, in the World Series (which is a true "world" series, with teams spanning the globe from as far as Atlanta...
November 04, 2020 at 21:12
If Trump wins all the states where he's currently leading (which includes NC, PA, GA, and AK), he finishes out with 268, which is 2 shy of the 270 nee...
November 04, 2020 at 20:59
This is how I find out you're pregnant? I'm gonna be a grandpa?
November 04, 2020 at 16:43
I checked online to see if my absentee ballot had been accepted and in one place it said it had and in another it said it was rejected for lack of sig...
November 04, 2020 at 16:15
Trump leads in every important state. They've not been called yet, so they're still unknown, but Trump is leading by a couple of runs in the 8th as fa...
November 04, 2020 at 05:47
Objectively speaking here, I'd choose to be Trump based upon what the numbers show. If you're Biden right now, you ain't got em where you want em.
November 04, 2020 at 05:31
If Trump wins the popular vote but loses the electoral college, I will declare the result invalid and whine about it the next 4 years.
November 04, 2020 at 02:21
I'd love to weigh in to this decades old debate of whether Bush lied or if he were just profoundly mistaken, but I don't think I can read these 8 page...
November 03, 2020 at 13:59
The extreme polarization in the US leads to a lot of screaming and yelling, but no difference day to day. Maybe the Democrats will increase my taxes 2...
November 02, 2020 at 12:53
Even assuming the US criminal justice system is riddled with racial injustice, nothing you've said leads me to believe an aggressive prosecutor would ...
October 31, 2020 at 12:01
The real issue here, which I think might be being missed, is that the grand jury is meant to be a protection for the accused, protecting that particul...
October 30, 2020 at 19:14
You can't force a prosecutor to prosecute. They are elected officials, so the pressure you can exert upon them can only be political. Not only can you...
October 30, 2020 at 18:06
Weighing in on this as a poster, and not as a mod, I'm curious as to what is the philosophical import of NDEs and what question you're attempting to a...
October 29, 2020 at 12:32
Thanks for posting that. I saw the movie just a week ago or so. When I first saw the movie I was struck by how things haven't changed so much in in th...
October 28, 2020 at 17:38
How is the zeitgeist determined that will dictate which interpretative scheme you use? This sounds like you're getting close to allowing public sentim...
October 27, 2020 at 19:34
You've got to choose some mode, and you ought to be consistent, not jumping from mode to mode as the whim hits you, unless you choose to adhere to the...
October 27, 2020 at 17:55
I visited downtown Atlanta a few days ago to eat lunch with my son at Tech, and traveling from my humble abode outside the perimeter, it's as if I lef...
October 27, 2020 at 17:45
If we can arrive at a suitable definition of unconditional love, then we can then search the world for its existence. If you're saying that it's an im...
October 27, 2020 at 17:09
If you say that unconditional love doesn't exist and you're able to reach an agreement as to how you're defining "unconditional love," then you've not...
October 27, 2020 at 14:55
From Wiki: "The original meaning theory, which is closely related to textualism, is the view that interpretation of a written constitution or law shou...
October 27, 2020 at 13:41
Your consequentialist talk disrupts my temporarily Kantian mind. Kant says the morally correct choice is to watch the boat sink. Call me foolish, but ...
October 27, 2020 at 00:16
To the extent someone is listening, they'll work harder next time for my vote.
October 26, 2020 at 23:31
Some problems have no good solution, like which baby should I throw overboard to keep the ship from sinking? Abstaining is a reasonable choice.
October 26, 2020 at 23:31
I simply told the waiter I wanted neither the chicken shit sandwich nor the dog shit sandwich. I chose not to dine. Some burn cities, some carry signs...
October 26, 2020 at 23:06