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1984 is completely different from Civil War. When people evoke 'Civil War', I have to ask Where? People are not wearing identifying uniforms or living in specific areas. I don't know what my neighbors believe and they aren't advertising their beliefs. 1984 is about absolute control (which...

Thank you for clearing something up for me. When I posted a similar topic "I think we can make the positive claim that nothing like 'gods' exist", I took your comments seriously, now I know better.

You are missing out. Cultivate some youtube cooking channels and you will have a lot of fun. I think mypicks are awesome.

So you didn't have a substantive disagreement, just semantics?

In no particular order America's Test Kitchen https://www.youtube.com/@AmericasTestKitchen This is just a solid general purpose cooking show that is part of magazines and TV Aaron and Claire (Korean) https://www.youtube.com/@AaronandClaire I love this couple and how he cooks and she is the...

You cannot be moral if you claim to actually derive your morality from "gods"... and you certainly are not engaged in "objective morality". 1. No one ever has demonstrated that any god has ever existed much less gave any moral codes. At best you have religious, written by humans, that make...

It is a Hitchens thing. ******* Arguing this points with religious believers is like point at something with a dog. They just stand there looking at your finger rather than what you are pointing at.

I am glad to see that I was correct in my assessment The people who claimed to derive their moral codes from religions have (circuitously) admitted that they actually get them from secular sources (law, social contract). The fact that they stubbornly deny this when confronted directly is...

Obedience and moral actions are different. You have to think to have morals, you don't have to think to be obedient. People who claim to derive their morals from religion are either confused about where they actually derive their morals or they are simply obedient and lack a moral foundation...

I completely understand the irony that I might likely disappear by the moral criteria I invented.

I am asking what YOU would do. My examples are irrelevant.

I am not proposing a "monkey's paw" trick scenario... you can define it as narrowly as you want. And this isn't a case of "if everyone did it then it would be terrible".... I am just asking YOU to be 'Thanos'. My preferred group would be "people who are morally unrecoverable and unable to...

All the X people would disappear, would you do it? Possible examples: If you could press a button and all the murders would disappear would you do it? (and would you be one of them) Religious fanatics? Racists? People with their turn signal stuck on.... What is your favorite category...

You gave an 'A' or 'not A' dichotomy and said that it covered most people.... I think it covers all people by definition.

Lets hope there is a little protest so we can get some more MAGA faces on watchlists.

He is paying to stop COLLECTION on the judgment, NOT to make an appeal. People don't have to pay (beyond standard fees) to make an appeal

No, I think the Republicans have given up on Trump. Trump's base, is just the cult and a few craven power worshipers. I am talking about the people on the front-lines helping voters, not the behind-the-scenes people. Plus I am not black so I am safe. And I know how to code-switch around RW...

They won't attack election workers. Election workers are there to help any voter who wants to vote and the OVERWHELMING in-person voters are crazy Republicans. Everyone else votes by mail if possible.

If you don't understand that the whole of the federal government is shaped by the appointees then you don't understand our system of government. Trump is a traitor and criminal. He should be facing capital punishment for being a traitor and not allowed to run for office and do more harm.

Biden could be 100 years old, in a coma, and on a respirator and I would still vote for him over Trump. The vote is for a LOT more than just the president.