Mongrel

"Institutionalized slavery" means there are laws governing it or it's recognized. But slavery varies. Sometimes it's social welfare. Sometimes slaves ...

Now that dude was a bad ass.

I found a recipe for strawdog pie with horse peanut sauce. That's a Mongolian delicacy isn't it?

What is a straw dog?

So the meek aren't blessed. They just inherit dirt as BC said.

Oh that's tricky.

What kind of sheep is Shaun The Sheep? Suffolk?

I think the point being made by your opponents in this thread is that because in any society there are people whose tolerance or intolerance doesn't m...

For all practical purposes, yes. What you think about as you march around with your sign... doesn't really make any difference. At all.

But let's turn aside from the victim for just a second and look at you. You continue to tolerate victimization in your world along with just about eve...

Depends. Intolerance that actually results in a policy shift carries a threat of social breakdown (or as in the case of the Civil Rights Movement enda...

1. Institutions that endure are, by and large, providing acceptable outcomes for citizens. 2. What worked in the past is likely to work in the future....

This was my first post in this thread; The moral responsibility of every person and every generation is to eliminate victimization. Where that isn't p...

About as well as our present system works for inner cities. Yep.

No it wasn't. My impression is that neither you nor un actually read the OP. Slavery worked fine for Georgia. It was a source of strife for the USA ev...

I'd apply myself to addressing that if I thought you were really interested. It would have to be tomorrow, though. If not.. I think we can agree on so...

Emancipation took place two years into the Civil War. That's some heavy duty intolerance.

Irrelevant.

It is reasonable to think that habits and strategies that have worked in the past will work in the future. And it is true that change should not be in...

Obviously slavery has nothing to do with your intentions with the OP nor with the argument you laid out. If slaves are actually helpless then their co...

The argument is basically saying that a government that doesn't undermine the stability of its own society and meets certain basic needs will endure. ...

Oh.

A trade war would lead to a global great depression. Did you really not know that?

His real name is Handcock. I don't know why he put "Hanover."

Oh. Well, 'nuther mystery solved. Carry on.

Godzilla rises from the Pacific and decides he fucking hates Tokyo. Why won't it happen? And btw... if you can't explain why it won't happen, that mea...

Add up to an argument? Dude. Sea levels were rising right before the Younger Dryas. There's a 100% chance that everybody alive now is going to die. Th...

So how did you solve the cloud problem professor? Exactly how much higher is the mean temperature going to get? When exactly will London be flooded? H...

Several people already pointed this out: you didn't just leap to conclusions, you back somersaulted into a handstand onto the annihilation of 99% of t...

You're kind of where I was when I was in my 20s. You're in your 60s? I'm guessing that means you're stuck there.

Yes. This has been happening since the 1980s. The proletariat is either automated or its Indonesian children. Neither is likely to stage a global revo...

It's all about sexual deviancy, dude.

That's correct. Plus we have a ginormous nuclear arsenal and the ability to deliver warheads anywhere anytime with ICBMs, medium range missiles, bombe...

OK.

What would you call that.. anti-Jewish sentiment? I guess you could call it anti-Semitic, but that would include hatred of the Phoenicians.

I just got two Churro fleeces. One is silver-tipped grey and black. Woo Hoo!

Exactly.

Ressentiment. My translation doesn't use that word, but I can see how getting a little jargonny about it is a good idea.

N drops the scenario straight onto the Jews. There's no doubt that the Jews had a unique problem with the concept of justice because their religion te...

It's just photoshop art that I did a long time ago.

:)

Perhaps this would be a contrary answer to N. If there is some underdog morality which has attempted to establish itself via democracy, revenge isn't ...

So I guess you're saying that Nietzsche misunderstands the world. There is no "resentment morality." Mmmm... yes there is. Maybe it doesn't quite have...

Humiliation? Real power is accumulated over generations. So though aristocracy doesn't really exist anymore, rich families do. I don't know if they su...

I agree with that. Some folks just naturally root for the underdog. Those people are more likely to end up being liberal (in my neck of the woods, any...

A person who has a lot of power was probably willing to do a lot of evil things. Maybe not all powerful people are evil, but generally, they're ruthle...

How do you know what a person deserves?

What is justice?

The slave has a very keen sense of justice. N says it's a reactive and requires external stimulus. I wonder if what N is calling slave morality is sel...

It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.