And the sad thing is this isn't about sanctioning the act, it is about denying the knowledge of the act.
We've let far too many people into positions of power that want to "un-eat" that damned apple. They want the Simplification from A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Knowledge itself isn't evil or dangerous. It just is. And shouldn't be censored. (How you act on that knowledge is a different issue.)
You know there isn't a cute cuddly widdle fully formed miniature baby in the womb the moment after conception.
If you think abortion is bad, I'd hate to tell you about the untold numbers of proto-babies that are cruelly disposed of monthly by their heartless mothers. Just thrown out or dumped into the sewers! The horror!
Seriously though, before the fetus would be viable outside of the womb it is essentially a parasite if not a medical condition of the mother. It's about as alive as that bacterial infection you take antibiotics for.
I've known people killed in car accidents. I don't fear cars.
I've known people killed by diseases. I don't fear disease.
I am, however, vigilant. I watch the road for possible hazards. I pay attention to my health.
What do I fear? Not being able to defend myself or others so that some can *feel* "safer".
Mere box cutters killed your family. Obliging the terrorists killed your family. Not taking personal responsibility for one's safety killed your family. Believing that the government is the one responsible for your safety killed your family.
I'd rather have the threat of terrorists attacks AND have the right and capability to rightfully defend myself than have the government tell me it's all better now and that I don't need to defend myself. Guess what, the threat? It's still there and now there's less YOU can do about it.
If you think that the government must strip away rights to protect you from the terrorists, you're the one who has allowed yourself to believe enemy propaganda. If you think the government should engage in activities that contradict the ideals this nation was founded upon, you've allowed yourself to believe the enemy propaganda.
The terrorists cannot destroy us. They can, however, influence us to destroy ourselves.
The "PLANET" will be fine. It will be until the sun expands and consumes it.
Of course, it sounds a lot nobler to be concerned about "THE PLANET!" and not just human life as we know it. That sounds kind of selfish.
We can wipe ourselves off the planet, as well as a good chunk of the surface life. Eradicate all forms of life? Highly unlikely. Destroy the planet itself? Impossible until someone builds a Deathstar.
Those gallant rebels of the 60's and 70's? They're part of the system now. Great examples. Fight the system, lose, become part of the system. Why not just skip to the inevitable?
The forces we're up against isn't just our government. Global and basically sovereign corporations are the true governments. Good luck bringing them under control. It's no longer civilian militia versus government forces, each armed with muskets and the occasional rifle. The other side has such intelligence gathering capability alone that really, they can't be "fought". And like the hydra, you strike one head down and two more will appear in its place.
The two party system and it's manipulation of the populace will always keep corporation approved puppets in power. Professional politicians will always follow the will of the lobbyists. They know this and will not allow the system which keeps them in power to be changed in anyway for the benefit of the people. Term limits and eliminating our first past the post system would be some of the best improvements we could hope for and thus the least likely to be allowed to happen.
But continue on with your misguided crusade. Fight for ecology for the wrong reasons. Fight the system the wrong way. Tilt on Don Quixote, tilt on!
It's one thing when printed media does April Fools content as the date is pretty obvious afterwards.
Now the internet, with all those content aggregators, diggs, duggs, slashdots and other assorted content recyclers you can lose that important bit of date information.
So for as long as that AF content is on the web it is sitting there quite happily spewing out bad information which may no longer have April 1st, XXXX attached to it.
In honor of this, April Fools should be upgraded to a week at least, or better a month or two to give the system time to weed out all of the useless content.
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And the sad thing is this isn't about sanctioning the act, it is about denying the knowledge of the act.
We've let far too many people into positions of power that want to "un-eat" that damned apple. They want the Simplification from A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Knowledge itself isn't evil or dangerous. It just is. And shouldn't be censored. (How you act on that knowledge is a different issue.)
You know there isn't a cute cuddly widdle fully formed miniature baby in the womb the moment after conception.
If you think abortion is bad, I'd hate to tell you about the untold numbers of proto-babies that are cruelly disposed of monthly by their heartless mothers. Just thrown out or dumped into the sewers! The horror!
Seriously though, before the fetus would be viable outside of the womb it is essentially a parasite if not a medical condition of the mother. It's about as alive as that bacterial infection you take antibiotics for.
"Way to ignore history."
If you can't see some major glaring differences between "post war" Iraq and post war Germany and Japan, you've been ignoring a lot of history.
In fact, if you can't see some major glaring differences between "pre-war" Iraq and pre-war Germany and Japan, you're just ignorant of history.
I don't fear terrorists.
I've known people killed in car accidents. I don't fear cars.
I've known people killed by diseases. I don't fear disease.
I am, however, vigilant. I watch the road for possible hazards. I pay attention to my health.
What do I fear? Not being able to defend myself or others so that some can *feel* "safer".
Mere box cutters killed your family. Obliging the terrorists killed your family. Not taking personal responsibility for one's safety killed your family. Believing that the government is the one responsible for your safety killed your family.
I'd rather have the threat of terrorists attacks AND have the right and capability to rightfully defend myself than have the government tell me it's all better now and that I don't need to defend myself. Guess what, the threat? It's still there and now there's less YOU can do about it.
If you think that the government must strip away rights to protect you from the terrorists, you're the one who has allowed yourself to believe enemy propaganda. If you think the government should engage in activities that contradict the ideals this nation was founded upon, you've allowed yourself to believe the enemy propaganda.
The terrorists cannot destroy us. They can, however, influence us to destroy ourselves.
The "PLANET" will be fine. It will be until the sun expands and consumes it.
Of course, it sounds a lot nobler to be concerned about "THE PLANET!" and not just human life as we know it. That sounds kind of selfish.
We can wipe ourselves off the planet, as well as a good chunk of the surface life. Eradicate all forms of life? Highly unlikely. Destroy the planet itself? Impossible until someone builds a Deathstar.
Those gallant rebels of the 60's and 70's? They're part of the system now. Great examples. Fight the system, lose, become part of the system. Why not just skip to the inevitable?
The forces we're up against isn't just our government. Global and basically sovereign corporations are the true governments. Good luck bringing them under control. It's no longer civilian militia versus government forces, each armed with muskets and the occasional rifle. The other side has such intelligence gathering capability alone that really, they can't be "fought". And like the hydra, you strike one head down and two more will appear in its place.
The two party system and it's manipulation of the populace will always keep corporation approved puppets in power. Professional politicians will always follow the will of the lobbyists. They know this and will not allow the system which keeps them in power to be changed in anyway for the benefit of the people. Term limits and eliminating our first past the post system would be some of the best improvements we could hope for and thus the least likely to be allowed to happen.
But continue on with your misguided crusade. Fight for ecology for the wrong reasons. Fight the system the wrong way. Tilt on Don Quixote, tilt on!
It's one thing when printed media does April Fools content as the date is pretty obvious afterwards. Now the internet, with all those content aggregators, diggs, duggs, slashdots and other assorted content recyclers you can lose that important bit of date information. So for as long as that AF content is on the web it is sitting there quite happily spewing out bad information which may no longer have April 1st, XXXX attached to it. In honor of this, April Fools should be upgraded to a week at least, or better a month or two to give the system time to weed out all of the useless content.