Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
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Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
it is their ... opinion that your needs don't matter
It is my opinion that if you ever find yourself telling someone this, you should take a long look in the mirror (assuming that you show up in one).
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
· Edited 2mo ago
I can't imagine tolerating this
I have revised downward my priors for your having had children.
Edit: Missed the part where you mention "My oldest". I have now revised substantially upward.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
if you're looking at it from a "pure safety perspective" you ... should probably just stay home.
I thought an alarmingly large percentage of accidents happen in or near the home....
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
G. K. Chesterton made a similar point a century ago.
If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
Until they figure out how to clone organs, and transgender individuals start getting new reproductive systems installed....
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
I believe this is known as the Violinist Argument.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
Trying to force changes in consumer behavior that don't adequately meet the demands of the consumer doesn't usually work well.
even if they could use the exercise, you can’t expect people to walk 15 blocks just to go out to eat.
This is an example of Squareallworthy's Law of Societal Change.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
train every citizen into a reserve officer.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
I wonder if film will make a comeback. ("I'll believe it when I see the negatives.")
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
Eliminate the minimum wage...eliminate welfare....
I'm going to invoke Chesterton's fence on this one (although there are some possibilities for different fences).
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
told stories of Mohammedans trying to vote for their wives.
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a loooong time.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
The message to ordinary Russians, particularly those in Kursk and adjacent, is that the war can come for them too. It also makes Putin and co. look less secure and in control. It's probably not going to break the camel's back, but if you're in the business of camel-back breaking you take the straws you can get.
It also takes uti possetidis off the table....
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
In IT they call this a 'scream test'.
Unplug stuff, and if you hear screaming, plug it back in.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
I vaguely remember seeing a spaghetti plot that showed a few tracks leading into the Gulf....
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
I certainly do not condone anti-social behaviour in public, nor the ignoring of it by municipal officials. However, the response to it needs to be one that acknowledges all people, including the least of these, as human beings.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
"It’s not a ‘compromise with sin’, per se, just discarding certain people who happen to be a net loss to us."
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
Any crime [committed] by an immigrant, is a crime which wouldn't have happened had the immigrant been prevented from entering the country. Your general dismissal of "counterfactuals" leads to erasure of immigrant crime.
That is only relevant if one already assumes the ethnonationalist world-view; namely the propositions that countries exist for a select group defined by blood, that moral concern is rightfully extended only to that group, and that anyone else being allowed to exist in their territory is a supererogatory courtesy.
As someone with a more pan-humanist world-view, I don't see 'immigrant crime' as a category that carves reality at its joints; and excluding immigrants does not prevent the crimes a few of them would have committed, but merely moves them to another place; lowering the crime rate in England, while increasing it in Rwanda by the same amount, for no change in the total, at the cost of the stifling of opportunity (and infliction of indignity attendant on any form of discrimination) for countless innocent Rwandans, does not, in my view, seem advisable if one considers an umpteenth-generation Englishman and a Rwandan immigrant (or his son) to be equal in terms of moral worth.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
It's an improvement.
Next step, expand it to all flights.
Then, roll back the airports to the status quo ante, getting rid of the 'security' that can't find their own tuchus with both hands, a map, a GPS receiver, and a pack of bloodhounds.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
Aren’t all Jews technically Israeli citizens?
Eligible for Israeli citizenship. That is not the same thing as being an Israeli citizen.
Otherwise, anyone with a quarter-million in the bank would be considered a citizen of St Kitts and Nevis.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
Israel is a U. S. ally; Iran and the Beijing claimant to China are, if not 'enemies' per se, at least hostile nations.
I think that might make a difference in many Unitedstatesians' assessment.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
we had mailboxes being hit frequently
adjudicated at the county level
Isn't vandalising mailboxes a federal offence?
Worked for whom?
I think a lot of women would dispute that it worked for them!
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