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I'll take that as a no, you can't support the claim that the left wants equality of outcome.

I guess Marx wasn’t woke. :sad:

Can YOU somehow support the claim that the left wants equality of outcome?

Perish the thought.

In your scenario the culprit is Islamic fundamentalism.

Can you somehow support the claim that the left wants equality of outcome?

Why is this so easily ignored, Atheist God?

:razz: Well, for a proof is in the pudding kind of example, there's not much division expressed at dharmawheel.net, a Buddhist forum where you are or ...

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I mentioned that "Abused individuals owe no loyalty" meaning that any moral intuition or social norm could be justifiably considered invalid in that s...

I mentioned that "societies owe no loyalty to freeloaders and traitors." How did we arrive at this agreement exactlly?

Well I can only hope your love for family trumps your love for Trump and laissez-faire (fuck the working class) capitalism. Other than that, if I reca...

The fictional character that is synthesis doesn’t require credibility to function. :roll:

So you were lying about the shit? That’s shitty.

The hierarchy is usually something like family > religious or political affiliation > neighborhood > nation, abstract notions aside.

Lost your zen already. :lol:

Silly me. You should have informed me of this from the start.

Then you’re not really talking about individuals but some abstract idea or collection of units, like ‘human beings’. In that case you have a lesser co...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wPqqXXIbi8U

If I were the primary unit of concern, for example, why would I necessarily have concern for all units?

Presumably she was enslaved against her will and in order to provide some value to the enslavers. Your scenario didn’t touch on betrayal.

Oh yeah, and written by people who owned other people.

17 days and not a whit of interest. Perhaps morality is not your thing.

Chill-out wonderer, I’m just bust’n balls. My new favorite pastime.

Trump isn’t completely irrelevant at this point, I suppose. You’re the first to claim insanity that I’ve seen. Good work :up:

Have been binge watching A Handmaid's Tale and in the tale the US is taken over by a group with a "matrix of social relationships underwritten by divi...

He's not God.

Individuals would have dominion over governments and corporations in your dream society? If so, which individuals?

It’s OKAY, NOS.

Restricting what folks can and can’t do isn’t freedom.

So your trauma dates back to childhood. I’m sorry to hear that. The fact that you work so hard at rationalizing practically screams your pain. It’s ok...

“Allowing people to do their thing” by forcing them to “Minimize governments, get rid of corporations, so on and so forth”?

If they were so painless you wouldn’t be so inclined to “dig them right back”. It’s okay to feel hurt, NOS. It’s okay to accept concern for your menta...

Okay, synth, two can play your stupid game. If the left desires equality of outcome and you're against it that means that you desire inequality of out...

I'd feel a better if you took the hyperbole down a notch or two. It's way past tedious. I'm a white guy living a nice but modest life in S Cali too, a...

Then I'm in poor company (with Trump his ilk).

Reviewing his term, when elected the Republican Party had a majority in both chambers of congress and held the executive branch. They lost it all in o...

Me too. Not yet to NOS's satisfaction though. :cry: :razz:

Also we're naturally endowed with the capacity of reason and can override baser instincts and condition ourselves in particular ways.

Interdependence as a rationalization for behavior is rather unusual, probably because it's far too abstract an idea to be popularly adopted. There's n...

Still denying that the wealthy lived well? That your prerogative I suppose. From what I understand wokeness is majorly about equal justice and it seem...

No, the wealthy lived large. Weird that you don't acknowledge that. There is such a thing. It's just that those with an advantage don't want it.

Conditions for the working class were notoriously bad during that period, with long hours, low wages, hazardous and unhealthy conditions. Child labor ...

Funny you were just praising "a time when most Americans knew how to take care of themselves" (an extremely inefficient time compared to now) and now ...

Right, even so, couldn't an inefficient economy provide for basic needs, and perhaps some of the extras we're so accustom to and dependent on? Also, i...

I doubt even old Davy Crockett would’ve turned his nose up at indoor plumbing, a new washer/dryer, or KFC chicken fingers. Why exactly is efficiency s...

I recall you mentioning that you’re a physician. I was talking about things more physically demanding than giving a prostate exam or hitting the gym f...

To be fair, it could well be that young Synth didn’t do anything terribly physically demanding, in which case old Synth could be a champ in comparison...

To clarify, do you mean cultural life experiences or personal experiences not influenced (if that’s possible) by culture.

I think I’ve seen a pastry like that on the British Baking Show or something. Don’t think it’s called an Ivory Tower though, unfortunately for the wit...