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Unfortunately, we currently have minority rule.

CourtJester comments on Jun 10, 2022:

Or better yet…. Let’s take the cars away from sober drivers to reduce drunk driving incidents

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 10, 2022:

You are drawing a false equivalency. A car is not a weapon of war. People have a need for transportation. They don't have a need for weapons of war. Go try and sell your false equivalency to the parents of the slain Rob Elementary School kids, whose bodies had to be identified by DNA analysis. I dare you.

Joshua Knobe - What is Intentionality?

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jun 9, 2022:

So our sense of morality can affect or perceptions of intentionality. Interesting. I will try to remember that next time I have jury duty. 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 10, 2022:

@rainmanjr Similar to what Churchill said about democracy: its a terrible form of government, but it's better than anything else out there.

You often get the apologists, asking for disproof of some vague, often deist, god concept.

Matias comments on Jun 10, 2022:

That's the reason why, whenver I've talked to theists in my adult life, the first thing I asked was: What God are we talking about? Pascal made the famous distinction between "the God of philosophers" and "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" (of course he prefered the latter). In many ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 10, 2022:

@Matias Facebook? Yuck. Sounds like you're looking for trouble 😂

Let's be very clear about one thing: if you want to find American supporters of PUTIN's illegal ...

FrayedBear comments on Jun 7, 2022:

An interesting point that the "ketchup coated frisbee" raises. Can genocide be committed against fascists? I don't think so as they are not their own nationality or ethnicity as are Jews, Cambodians or Ruandans. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-11108059

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 10, 2022:

@FrayedBear Well said. Mostly fair points, except thay about covid shots. There isn't evidence they are harmful (outside of the odd rare case of anaphylaxis or a blood clot). But you're kinda preaching to the choir here. I jave always been critical of the USA's policies, foreign and domestic. I cut my teeth on the stupid and misguided Vietnam war. But that is not the issue at hand. The question before us is, does Vladimir Putin have the right to extinguish a nation and annex their land? The answer is NO! You seem to be trying to tell me that two wrongs make a right. They don't.

Joshua Knobe - What is Intentionality?

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jun 9, 2022:

So our sense of morality can affect or perceptions of intentionality. Interesting. I will try to remember that next time I have jury duty. 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 10, 2022:

@rainmanjr It's not that complicated. You just do your civic duty and, as you so eloquently put it, help "maintain the health of society." Is it a perfect system? No. But it's the one we've got.

You often get the apologists, asking for disproof of some vague, often deist, god concept.

Matias comments on Jun 10, 2022:

That's the reason why, whenver I've talked to theists in my adult life, the first thing I asked was: What God are we talking about? Pascal made the famous distinction between "the God of philosophers" and "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" (of course he prefered the latter). In many ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 10, 2022:

What is the usual context when you talk to theists?

You often get the apologists, asking for disproof of some vague, often deist, god concept.

waitingforgodo comments on Jun 10, 2022:

"What sort of an ideology, and moral system, requires to be supported by cheap trickery, and shabby attempts to fool the innocent with fake logic?" Those that rely upon supernatural beings?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 10, 2022:

Trumpism / Putinism (aka fascism).

Not really an overstatement 😳

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 10, 2022:

I do agree with you on this. If the feds don't really punish both the actual rioters on Jan. 6, as well as the pols and leaders, including Trump, for their role in this, the insurrection will be a dress rehearsal for the next time, and we will have a real civil war, with fighting in the streets. ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 10, 2022:

And I am with you right up to where you talk about the military and the cops. They have certainly been infiltrated by white supremacists and fascists, but to the degree of a majority? That is not the sense that I get. Not by a long shot.

Kids, you'll be voting age soon.

Druvius comments on Jun 9, 2022:

The Dems have controlled Congress and the White House a number of times and didn't pass gun control legislation, just two parties playing "good cop, bad cop" while they both sell us out to the Pentagon and corporate America.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 10, 2022:

@TomMcGiverin The ACA is a possible stepping stone towards universal healthcare. It is designed for as much Medicare expansion as anybody wants. Again, if Obama had shot only for Medicare for all, he would have gotten nothing. But he didn't get nothing. He got health insurance for 14 million people who didn't have it before. Before Obama, how many administrations tried to get a healthcare bill passed and struck out? FDR tried to get universal healthcare. No luck. Truman did too. Zippo. Johnson signed Medicare & Medicaid into law in 1965, but it wasn't universal coverage. The Clintons tried to get "managed competition" and got shot down. Obama used all his political capital and got SOMETHING, which is better than NOTHING.

Joshua Knobe - What is Intentionality?

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jun 9, 2022:

So our sense of morality can affect or perceptions of intentionality. Interesting. I will try to remember that next time I have jury duty. 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jun 10, 2022:

@rainmanjr You don't judge the person, you judge their acts, and decide if they were inside or outside of the law.

Can't y'all, Americans, mind your own business and leave each other alone instead of getting in each...

Beachslim7 comments on Jun 9, 2022:

Black people are way more likely to be attacking white people even though they make up less of the population. Its also a fact that the guy who wrote this article is racist against "crazy" white people who may just be sick of getting beat up by upstanding racist black people. If he's sincerely ...