What are you objecting to? It is fun to kill bad guys. Why do you think FPS games are so popular?
I don't see it as a non-sequitur. If you find that quote offensive in some way, you presumably approve of the Talibans treatment of women.
>"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.…
> After the US et. al. cut off fuel and oil trade. They don't teach you that part in school. And do you know why we did that? Was that mentioned? Did they talk about Japan's war of conquest in China or the Rape of…
> Don't think the US didn't do everything it could to antagonize the enemy. Japan was repeatedly slapped in the face until it had no choice but to respond to protect its honour. Is that what it's called when we objected…
Does it not matter that we were running those maneuvers largely in response to Japanese aggression in China and the Pacific? Does it matter that the reason we were in tension with Japan was their murder and conquest…
So can you identify no situation in which killing someone is appropriate?
Think Sears is bad, try KMart.
Yes, and?
Well, you're entitled to eat whatever you can afford to eat. If that's meat, it's meat.
>Slavery was more stable: lasted millenia. And slavery required less violence, per capita, to maintain? I don't think so. Innumerable slave revolts. Wars of conquest to capture slaves. Slave raiding. The daily violence…
>the notion of striving for equal individual ownership of goods as a spark to action is nonsense. Well he didn't say that. But you would do well to remember that during the Russian Revolution and subsequent years, those…
I'm not particularly interested in Cuban propaganda, no.
And Venezuela is a paradise on earth!
China was doing really really badly until Mao died and Deng took power and began implementing market reforms, bringing capitalism in.
Where is the success of capitalism? It's in the rapidly falling global extreme poverty rate, soon to be below 10% for the first time in human history. It's in the cell phone networks blanketing Africa and Asia, giving…
There's the old parable >"In the USA, you can stand in front of the White House in Washington, DC, and yell, "Down with Reagan!", and you will not be punished. Equally, you can also stand in Red Square in Moscow and…
This is propaganda, disgustingly incorrect propaganda, so far off base the only conceivable way you could have written it is to be maliciously lying.
So his exiling of over a million cubans is acceptable, then?
That seems, at best, orthogonal to the issue of foreign investment and business.
You seem to be extremely confused. Of course moral lessons can be taught through stories. That a moral lesson is taught through story does not make the moral taught true in any sense. Which makes bringing up the One…
That seems doubtful. The glass of wine or beer is, firstly, more palatable than marijuana, secondly, you can do it indoors without everything smelling like weed, and thirdly, the mild depressant effect of one alcoholic…
Why is a moral lesson in a story a moral lesson? I can invent any moral lesson and put it in a story. That a supposed moral lesson is featured in a work of fiction does not lend credence to it.
Well, sure, but that is a work of fiction.
In town, with the level of traffic seen? Yeah, it's keeping to the posted speed limits. Realistically, I'd be doing 5 to 10 over except in explicit residential zones, when there are cops (limit to 5 over), and when…
What are you objecting to? It is fun to kill bad guys. Why do you think FPS games are so popular?
I don't see it as a non-sequitur. If you find that quote offensive in some way, you presumably approve of the Talibans treatment of women.
>"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.…
> After the US et. al. cut off fuel and oil trade. They don't teach you that part in school. And do you know why we did that? Was that mentioned? Did they talk about Japan's war of conquest in China or the Rape of…
> Don't think the US didn't do everything it could to antagonize the enemy. Japan was repeatedly slapped in the face until it had no choice but to respond to protect its honour. Is that what it's called when we objected…
Does it not matter that we were running those maneuvers largely in response to Japanese aggression in China and the Pacific? Does it matter that the reason we were in tension with Japan was their murder and conquest…
So can you identify no situation in which killing someone is appropriate?
Think Sears is bad, try KMart.
Yes, and?
Well, you're entitled to eat whatever you can afford to eat. If that's meat, it's meat.
>Slavery was more stable: lasted millenia. And slavery required less violence, per capita, to maintain? I don't think so. Innumerable slave revolts. Wars of conquest to capture slaves. Slave raiding. The daily violence…
>the notion of striving for equal individual ownership of goods as a spark to action is nonsense. Well he didn't say that. But you would do well to remember that during the Russian Revolution and subsequent years, those…
I'm not particularly interested in Cuban propaganda, no.
And Venezuela is a paradise on earth!
China was doing really really badly until Mao died and Deng took power and began implementing market reforms, bringing capitalism in.
Where is the success of capitalism? It's in the rapidly falling global extreme poverty rate, soon to be below 10% for the first time in human history. It's in the cell phone networks blanketing Africa and Asia, giving…
There's the old parable >"In the USA, you can stand in front of the White House in Washington, DC, and yell, "Down with Reagan!", and you will not be punished. Equally, you can also stand in Red Square in Moscow and…
This is propaganda, disgustingly incorrect propaganda, so far off base the only conceivable way you could have written it is to be maliciously lying.
So his exiling of over a million cubans is acceptable, then?
That seems, at best, orthogonal to the issue of foreign investment and business.
You seem to be extremely confused. Of course moral lessons can be taught through stories. That a moral lesson is taught through story does not make the moral taught true in any sense. Which makes bringing up the One…
That seems doubtful. The glass of wine or beer is, firstly, more palatable than marijuana, secondly, you can do it indoors without everything smelling like weed, and thirdly, the mild depressant effect of one alcoholic…
Why is a moral lesson in a story a moral lesson? I can invent any moral lesson and put it in a story. That a supposed moral lesson is featured in a work of fiction does not lend credence to it.
Well, sure, but that is a work of fiction.
In town, with the level of traffic seen? Yeah, it's keeping to the posted speed limits. Realistically, I'd be doing 5 to 10 over except in explicit residential zones, when there are cops (limit to 5 over), and when…