James Riley

:up: Another unwarranted assumption surrounds the words "need" and "want." Our homocentric view, our anthropomorphism, has us thinking they must need ...

Having argued that a bad life is worth living, I wanted to play the devils advocate and argue that a good life is not worth living. This made me ask q...

One of the other limitations I perceive in the line of reasoning is an apparent requirement for guarantees. Does there have to be an absolute guarante...

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Embrace the suck!

I disagree. So the rest of it falls away.

Now you are parsing out animals like fish, and using words like "some". We can't expect a fish to win a tree climbing contest, or a bear to win a free...

P.S. I want to add, I have spent a good deal of time alone, in the wilderness, watching. I have seen things I don't dare to share, especially around a...

I've been working on my pinky extension, just in case. I wonder if animals try to fit in? :grin:

Sex, war, exceeding carrying capacity, all the things animals do, the list goes on. I look around at people and I see animals. No better, but maybe a ...

:up: :clap: I think that goes to half of what I was saying. The other half is looking "the other direction" and investigating what "they" know that we...

Useful to some. :wink:

Thanks. Yeah, my friend had a baby and named him Colter, so . . . I also gave him some baby winter cloths and great big buck knife. LOL!

If our instinct is to invent, which it apparently is, then yes. Again, an objective view would see an animal. As I wrote for friend's new baby: When y...

No, I think there are more than one. Plutocracy is shorter.

Well, some of them are, but I was referring to the plutocracy protecting themselves from the peasants.

Never mind. I sometimes forget that not everyone reads the whole thread(s) on a subject. I tire and don't want to repeat myself.

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It might get to that. But we trained up the best on our nickel, and they've gone over to work in the private sector, providing security from the great...

And I've made the straw/camel back argument but don't expect you to get it. Or the variant issue and how, as you say, we lost the war. Whatever, let's...

I don't think we have or can. At least not from an objective 30k feet.

You can't fix stupid. You have to wait until Nature fixes it. Like Covid.

I saw Fast Food Nation. Does that count? My point is, your pesticide argument is fallacious. I think it was. Like a hundred years ago.

It brings to mind the soldier blaming the hippie for causing the loss in Vietnam. The analogy can be spun out in a different direction, though. This w...

:100: As a little boy back in the 60s, I flew at 30k feet. I remember seeing a distinct, bright-line horizon at the edge of the Earth and space. I rem...

Thanks for being helpful. Enough said. Climate change gets the same treatment as Covid. We can't interfere with Cletus's God-given right to roll coal!...

Whenever I see people distinguishing non-human action as "instinct" I can't wonder what an objective view from 30k feet would say about what we do. We...

No, the thread picked the villains. DOH! The world is full of villains and I've fought quite a few of them. Covid is just the latest and the subject o...

Enough said. P.S. Sorry I used the word "all". I was just thinking of the kids of a guy I know who's sig line was the John Wayne quote: "Life's hard. ...

You can just stop there.

Deal with the criminals. DOH! Did they kill 600,000 + in a year and a half? I'm all for regulating them in any event. But they weren't brought up beca...

All the best, man. :mask:

I'm afraid you may be right. Too bad. I can't imagine all the grief that could have been avoided. They aid and abet a virus. The company you keep . . ...

Like I said: "Or it will last, and you and your virus will win. You will surrender your fellow human beings and make peace with a virus. You and your ...

Thank you darkness. I love to patrol in you.

Sorry, frank. I don't even remember what we were talking about. But the reference to Canada and Mexico reminded me once again of war. See below: It is...

Then you shouldn't have a problem with the perps staying home, whether they want to or not. Good. How about if my vaxxed wife needs a bed and a vent s...

No, I am not. I'm giving you a scenario that is identical to the current situation, only with a worse bug. So 70 to 80% dead because they chose to exe...

Wrong. The burden is upon those who don't vax to not have covid or stay home. Those who vax can go back to the public. It's not a matter of paranoia. ...

If there is a right to health care (some think there is), then they forfeited their right and by doing so and then taking up a bed, they violated the ...

Not true. Innocent people have died because they could not get a bed. (By bed, I mean all the staff and kit that goes with it). These people didn't ha...

Power is usually frugal, starting nice and working up. When it fails to persuade with reason, power just bullies; but not into an epiphany. These peop...

No, I have friends in low places.

I didn't change my mind. I just distinguish between the metaphysical and the political. You know, I don't conflate two different discussions. But yeah...

P.S. I should add that it is much cheaper to purchase two politicians than ten.

Let's all be sure to exalt form over substance. Yeah, that's the ticket. Boy would I love to be able to trace Covid by a preponderance of the evidence...

Are you saying I shouldn't take horse deewormer and shit my pants in the grocery store? Or end up shitting all over the ER?

The two parties have rigged the system, including outright legislation, that makes it difficult for a another camel to get his nose under the tent. I ...

The more I think about it, the left was the side complaining because the right was proposing limited liability for keeping their slaughter houses open...

I don't know whatever came of it, but I thought federal legislation was proposed a long time ago providing a liability shield? There was quite the upr...