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Gil Wrote:Why are many of these things are bad per se?
1. Would criminals love to be in other countries where there’s little jail but plenty of corporal punishment instead? Would honest people like to be in other countries where criminals get a slap on the wrist before being let back into society?
2. So? Westerners get to choose their death as opposed to truly poor people (and everyone’s ancestors) who are (were) skinny, sickly and short-lived because of contaminated food and water.
3. So? People aren’t forced to stay in abusive marriages but can find better spouses?
4. Gee. I’m sure abjectly poor people around the world are feeling good about that. Or our ancestors who didn’t have TVs but they did have to work from a very early age instead.
5. Libertarians would quick to point this is good as people in the U.S. are more concerned about exercising their rights in spite of what the government says.
6. Not to say crime is good but then again the U.S. has far more cars per capita that can be stolen. In other words, there’s no car theft in countries where people are too poor to have cars.
7.8.9. How many people don’t report crimes because there’s no one to report to or nothing much will be done except what force the victims can muster? How many women don’t report rape because she will be punished? Besides the total crimes can never be known only reported crimes hence poor countries have way more unreported crimes.
10. It argued whether this is good or bad. But how many here would consider zero police officers the optimal number? Would most people rather have some sort of police force than no police force? How many people could really afford quality private security or can provide it themselves?
11.12.13. Is this because the U.S. can do more for more diseases? Healthcare costs were cheap as chips over a century because amputations and leeches were pretty much it. Truth is the U.S. is the best place to get cancer treated. How many people in poor countries have to just bear what diseases they contract and tough luck if it’s deadly? Remember the good ol’ days when if you needed a body part amputated all you got was some alcohol to drink and something to bite down on?
14. How many people have a gun to their heads forcing them to take on student debt? Maybe some colleges could be sued for false advertising if graduates aren’t getting fancy jobs with their degrees. Then again would people prefer to be in a country where education isn’t a requirement and most people do manual labouring? Most countries like that tend to be the poorer ones.
15.-20. These five, on the other hand, aren’t good . . .
(03-27-2012 12:54 AM)Derchin Wrote: Westerners get to choose their death as opposed to truly poor people (and everyone’s ancestors) who are (were) skinny, sickly and short-lived because of contaminated food and water.
I have tons of ancestors who were healthy and had long lives, and weren't westerners. Your assessment of the non-western world and your generalization of ancestors is largely bullshit.
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Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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(03-27-2012 12:54 AM)Derchin Wrote: Westerners get to choose their death as opposed to truly poor people (and everyone’s ancestors) who are (were) skinny, sickly and short-lived because of contaminated food and water.
I have tons of ancestors who were healthy and had long lives, and weren't westerners. Your assessment of the non-western world and your generalization of ancestors is largely bullshit.
(03-27-2012 12:54 AM)Derchin Wrote: Westerners get to choose their death as opposed to truly poor people (and everyone’s ancestors) who are (were) skinny, sickly and short-lived because of contaminated food and water.
I have tons of ancestors who were healthy and had long lives, and weren't westerners. Your assessment of the non-western world and your generalization of ancestors is largely bullshit.
Please elaborate.
I second Weswammy's question, please tell us.
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Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
#HashTagsAreForIdiots
Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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(03-27-2012 02:37 AM)Levio_Sah Wrote: I have tons of ancestors who were healthy and had long lives, and weren't westerners. Your assessment of the non-western world and your generalization of ancestors is largely bullshit.
Please elaborate.
I second Weswammy's question, please tell us.
I bet they were Tibetan monks from Shangri-La. Those guys live forever.
(03-27-2012 02:37 AM)Levio_Sah Wrote: I have tons of ancestors who were healthy and had long lives, and weren't westerners. Your assessment of the non-western world and your generalization of ancestors is largely bullshit.
Please elaborate.
I second Weswammy's question, please tell us.
I bet they were Tibetan monks from Shangri-La. Those guys live forever.
Yeah, they were able to channel spiritual energy from their hands into pre-packaged boxes of computer-designed tarot cards and get rich by selling them to gullible hipsters and whiny ~~CoUnTeR cUlTuRe~~ fluffy bunny wiccan-pantheist-animists. They then called for the almighty ancient pre-pre-pre-recorded history of the jewz and channeled immortality into their money, which they then boiled into a tea and drink it thus giving them everlasting life.
...or at least, that's what my other wiccan-pantheist-animist friend who got me into this told me.
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Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
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Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
#HashTagsAreForIdiots
Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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