James Riley

Sorry, frank, but you need to brush up on your analytic reading skills. We have expressly distinguished between dehumanization and devaluation. I'll w...

It's like getting the sleeping giant up off the couch. It's hard to be ruthless. Until it's not.

The fact you don't say or suggest something proves a point better than argument? Hmmm. I'll have to take that one under advisement. That is so fundame...

Lazy.

To paraphrase one wag: "When Michelle Obama says 'When they go low, we go high' I'm thinking 'How about middle?'"

I'm not asking about me. I'm asking about the prospective Nazi. That just makes my point about gradients and tools. Devaluation may underlie bad (whic...

That's what happens when you are a petulant, obstinate, disrespectful, inconsiderate, selfish child. I taught you long ago, NOS, that no law, regulati...

So were the Allies allied against the Nazis. How is *not* devaluing Nazis going to prevent one from becoming a Nazi?

Article 1, Section 8 and a metric shit-ton of common law and state constitutional and statutory law.

Did you do that only after you worked to falsify any theory, and applied the scientific method to what your doctor said? Just curious.

The interest of the state is to protect the health and welfare of the citizens. Some times that means distance, mask, vax. Those "individuals" who don...

See the tool example. Everything doesn't have to be either/or. There are gradients in life. But the left, in general does not stand up on their hind l...

I agree, but when the people throw their lot in with, and identify with an idea, I see no problem in holding them to it, especially if doing so will f...

:100: Individuals often use dehumanization to harden their hearts and make killing easier. A seasoned soldier, on the other hand, doesn't need to dehu...

They can be, but when they throw their lot in with X, they have branded themselves with a group and with no aid from me.

While that may be true, it is also the basis for the forces required to defeat those ills. A destructive process. It's a tool that can be used for ill...

Thank you spark that keeps this old carcass moving around.

Indeed, it is. Placing blame where it belongs. If they devalue themselves, that's on them. Think ISIS, if that helps. It has also preceded election lo...

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Some groups of people devalue themselves. That can aid in finding their market value.

I just think Trump voters and Republicans. And I remember them, after Trump won, saying "Fuck your feelings" to the left, and their coffee cups with "...

That sounds like a pretty loose definition of "authoritarianism." Any time authority is exercised when it does not have to be, that is an example of a...

Support for life is completely dependent on emotion and not based on rationality. I am an animal, and so are you. You don't have any choice in the mat...

I agree, life starts at conception. So what? The baby's right to life is subordinate to the arbitrary and capricious whims of the mother.

Correct, and? I place the mother's right, carte blanche, over that of any that reside within her.

She sure as hell does, if that other body goes a wandering around inside of her body. It's like a little uninvited trespasser.

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You are using a big word in order to sound intelligent. I am not using sophistry. Look it up. Anyway, the mother has sovereign rights over that which ...

I don't know but the news is full of folks with Covid crying that they wished they'd vaxed. Some die. So there's that. On your question, we'll have to...

No assumption must be made. But even if it is, rights are not absolute. We subordinate them all the time. Wait, what? I thought you were arguing that ...

That is not a sophism. Look it up. No, that is not the one and only issue. The one and only issue is when the right to life vests. That is a legal que...

No they don't. There is a world of difference between life and the right thereto. Her house, her rules. No sophism.

Her house, her rules. Cleared up.

:up: I'm not sure which provides longer protection at this point either. I have heard natural immunity wears off sooner than vax, but I'm not sure. Th...

I will take your input under advisement and render an august decision at my earlies convenience. Or not. :razz:

Those policies are largely the result of the refusal of disrespectful, inconsiderate and selfish people to distance, mask, wash and vax. Had they play...

If true, then I suppose we could offer a choice between vaccination and just injecting with Covid. Those who choose the latter could then quarantine f...

Done. No joy.

Society has chosen. It tried to be nice. But: True. We (society) have decided we want to continue. That is in our interest. We tried to ask nice. Whil...

Thank you to all the essential workers who do what you do, which keeps me in the standard of living to which I have become accustomed. You aren't alwa...

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The body is composed of cells. First you say: Then you say: Which is it? First you say the interest of the individual is the interest of society, then...

I think I like that. I'm not so sure, but since it made me think, there must be something to it. I mean, "clownin' the bulls***"? That's some gold rig...

President Joe Biden to the unvaccinated: "We've been patient, but our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us." Jeff Tiedrich: "...

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Off topic, but please educate this neophyte: Why speak obliquely instead of using the date and building number conventionally used? Am I out of the lo...

I believe in All. Which means everything you just said true. And not. In fact, there is a you right where you are, right now, that is not. How can we ...

The problem is those other people and the stances they hold and the things they do that take for granted that they are entitled to live in a safe worl...

I don't see a problem. And I don't see a map that can't be ignored. In consideration of All, choice can still remain while not running afoul of it. Li...