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A person is a body, and bodies can be conditioned to do many things, including coping with stressful situations. A person conditioned to swimming with...

I have difficulty with it for a few reasons. One, it’s not analogous. Two, creating a child is in no way similar to assembling a gun. Three, creating ...

Simply calling it meaningless is itself meaningless without giving a reason why.

Or someone unaware of a threat. I was just watching a videos of a woman swimming in the ocean, and underneath her swam orcas. She originally thought t...

I’m having difficulty with the analogy here. My position is that there are many reasons why one wouldn’t want to have children, but I do not think it ...

Sure, but no ethical behavior or principle can be held towards potential people by the simple fact that they do not exist, just like a man cannot kill...

If you know he intends to kill with it, yes.

“ you are saving someone from existing”. No, you are not saving anyone from anything. It’s a lie. You have saved exactly zero people. Your imaginary “...

Stress, as a biological phenomenon, starts in the brain. This is a biological fact. No, this does not imply child abuse is ok or that abuse is not rea...

No, I’m questioning the absurdity that you have in mind some person that you’re protecting. No need to twist what I say, especially while accusing som...

Sorry for being dismissive but it is somewhat off-topic. But No, you’re not sparing anyone because there is no one to spare. You’re speaking about pro...

It’s how they signal their bona fides to one another.

I’m almost certain that antinatalist rationalization is merely excuse-making for those too scared to have children. Don’t have children, sure, but don...

For instance, two people can be in the same environment, with one perceiving a threat while the other doesn’t. Only one will experience the stress. If...

I know some hopes are dashed, but Trump tested negative for coronavirus. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/14/politics/trump-press-conference-coronavirus/in...

I’m pretty sure stress is a response to an environment rather than an effect of an environment. It’s more a method of coping than the necessary result...

I may be quibbling here but I think a stressful situation is different than what causes stress. Stress itself begins and ends in biology.

I’m pretty sure the body causes stress, not governments.

“Liberal innovations” such as Keynesian economics and the modern welfare state.

Cases of Coronavirus are rapidly spreading in Africa, which could be the big tragedy of this pandemic given the lack of health services there.

“Socialist institutions” are gulags, breadlines and collective farms. Europe has no such institutions. But then again, stealing liberal innovations an...

As countries enact strict lockdowns and quarantine, the world should keep a watchful eye how they do it. According to the WHO the Chinese efforts were...

I get it, Trump doesn’t speak well. He fumbles his words, contradicts himself, exaggerates and uses “salesman rhetoric”. Is speaking well and using th...

Just doing some poking around and had clear up some misinformation. You even had me convinced for a second there. https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFi...

Lol OK :lol:

My apologies.

Sure. So did he say this? Imply it? What is it? I’ve avoided the news today so I sincerely have no clue what you’re talking about.

Sorry, am I missing something here? If a Democrat preferred Americans died to risking election loss I’d be yelling “lock him up” as they took him to p...

According to him he is quite concerned, probably more so than any leader before him.

Ok, then how do you know he prefers Americans would die rather than lose an election?

I mean if he said he preferred Americans would die because he didn’t want to lose an election then he would lose my support immediately. But somehow I...

Sorry, what was it? You dream of people hurting your wife and child?

I would be disappointed.

My initial thought is that sounds like an untrue claim, but I am willing to be proven otherwise.

I have not once used whitehouse spin, Fox News opinion articles, info wars or anything like that. At worst I’ve offered the other side of the story, w...

Perhaps you can remind me how you dream of castration again.

I’m not sure in which world name-calling and puke emojis and wishing disease on Trump supporters are “valid criticisms”, but I think I’ve shown that t...

When you said the testing problem was a fiasco I figured you were adopting the fake news that it was Trump’s fault. I apologize if I was mistaken. Thi...

Do they teach you to attack the player and not the ball where you’re from? Because this sort of harassment is not very convincing to say the least.

That’s quite false, according to Tony Fauci. The system didn’t allow for mass testing, he said, that we needed to include the private sphere, which th...

Did I say I was for it? Because I cannot see where I did. Perhaps you just made it up.

Just now Trump declared a national emergency in the US. He also mentioned a variety of public-private partnerships to tackle mitigation, which contras...

https://twitter.com/bbcbreaking/status/1238498651615395840?s=21 Guess Trump was right. Godspeed, EU.

Updated: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Denies Reports He Tested Positive For Coronavirus After Trump Meeting

I appreciate the fair analysis of my arguments. It’s a rarity around here, it seems. There is not much I can object to, but a few points which may be ...

Did I say anything wrong there? I think journalism and a free press are deeply important, but the problem is you pretend my criticism of fake news in ...

Did I claim they don’t understand me? Nope. I said you cherry picked, and in your efforts to remain blind to the rest of my argument didn’t realize I ...

As usual you’ve cherry picked, and in your efforts to remain blind to the rest of my argument didn’t realize I was speaking theoretically. As a famous...

As you might expect I see it differently. I try to think of the countless cases of “letting the government do what they’re supposed to do” and come up...

This is the second time you’ve brought up Japanese invasion in a thread about a pandemic.