I don't see the democrat-controlled congress doing anything about those things.
And conservatives are, nowadays, more theologically based than based in any formal ethic, which is just as bad if not worse. But I was talking about liberals, not conservatives.
Modern liberalism is premised on the exact opposite. Modern liberalism is based in a sort of duty-based ethic whereas it's ethical to force others to do what you think is ethical. Not my position, but there you go.
There should be no reason we are forcing Jewish/Muslim genital mutilation on children. For one, it tortures the infant. It's a very unnecessary and painful procedure, it's strange that you can't torture children with unneeded electrical shocks or other abuse yet you can slice baby genitals and get away with it under the guise of "cosmetics."
So you're perfectly fine with letting some authority decide what your personal worth is? Slaves in the South pre-Civil War were just whining, then, because they didn't have the right to freedom because the government said so and should have just accepted what the Southern authority thought?
Oh, so the UN just gets to up and decide what human rights are, and if the UN decided that people didn't have the right to disagree with them, you'd buy into that? You'd buy into it if the UN said people didn't have the right to even live...?
It's frightening that the "liberal" interpretation of rights is that one's own worth and how they can peacefully live their life is a function of government law or statutes.
Ah, the (permanent) damage done to my self-esteem, the bruises, the black eyes, and the bullying by teachers and administration I got were all to build character. Got it.
Or alternatively, they're both possibilities even in the face of a monopoly. Any government or monopoly could change overnight if only consumers or voters would actually stand up and take responsibility.
Well, since mass consumer action isn't a valid answer to dealing with corporations (amoral agents that respond to money) I can't possibly see how mass voter action is a valid answer to government.
And you flock to your theoretical government ideal of government for the people, by the people. Now THAT'S something to laugh at. A business can be dealt with by mass consumer action. A government can only be dealt with [censored by Department of Homeland Security]
Not like the rest, the others. Everyone around me. I was at odds with my society and knew it early since birth. Unlike them, I did not "Think Different!"--the mantra of the Macs around me, the phrase on all the billboards in the city that served as a reminder to its citizenry. Sameness pervaded the essence of my being and no amount of self-conditioning I did could change that. Eventually, I gave up and isolated myself emotionally from society.
I gaze at the faces going by, the white earphones contrasting their black turtlenecks, connecting their ears to their pockets, their blank faces engrossed in hip Indie rock music and various garage bands. I envied them for their perfection against my flaws and my compulsive nature to expand, to burden my life with troubles instead of remaining, like them, simple and easy to deal with. The grandest of virtues, simplicity... the philosophy by our loyal benefactor Steve Jobs, who descended from the heavens, creating the Earth, the iron, the wind and the rain. Steve Jobs, who defined the parameters of existence, the one who set about the patterns of reality, the constants, the variables. He who made gravity, electromagnetic energy, and shaped atomic structures and brought forth motion. From these things, he crafted the elements, processed them, refined them, and from these things engineered Apple products through the purity of his mind. Each Apple product was individually crafted by his own hands with the programming code used to run each device having being compiled in his brain and uploaded to each device telepathically, breathing life and perfection into each and every unit.
Except, it seems, for me, for I was not among the many. I was a PC. They were Macs. I've always been a cold, stiff person. I got by, disguising myself by keeping my non-Ipod music player safely out of sight, which I use because of my depraved nature demanding more functionality than the simple and easy-to-use Ipods have to offer.. In the safety of my own home, behind locked doors, I ran a Forbidden, a contraband computer from more depraved, earlier days that was not given the love and blessing of being birthed by Steve Jobs. I dual booted, out of the great sin of curiosity-- curiosity, a shameful value of a PC, as curiosity has no place where simplicity matters most--using two of the great unutterable blasphemies-- something called "Windows Vista" and something else called "Linux." Although, as I mentioned before, although my tendency to be a PC and towards conformity has always been inherent to me, I was truly transformed when I found these old things in a hidden cache of computer parts predating The Purging. Perhaps the greatest sin of all, the single evil that, if discovered, would damn me forever, was the fact that my mouse had more than one button.
As I walk among the Macs on the streets, passing the Starbuckses as I went along, I wondered how it all came to this. I glanced at The Holy Marks on the foreheads as the people wandered down the streets, the Bitten Apple tattooed on all our of us at birth, and wondered if, perhaps, there could be something more to life. But again, this was a PC's thought, and not, like everyone elses', a Mac's. We were to hold ourselves to the philosophy of Steve Jobs--so as his products were designed for idiots, so too were we to be idiots. But I was not a Mac--I was not an idiot. I was simply too complicated to be a worthwhile person.
Nature called. I found a nearby public iPoo--squeaky clean and sparkly white, things weren't all bad--and let myself go, expelling the waste that had accumulated inside me. After relieving myself and committing the overly-complicated and thus illegal act of wiping my ass (I did not flush as iPoos, designed to be idiot-proof, did not flush) I left and once again wandered the streets aimlessly, hoping to find some meaning in a world where I simply did not belong, a world where if my true nature was discovered, I would be endlessly persecuted by smug, self-righteous sons of bitches.
The voters are the ones that vote in the politician in the first place. The "blame big business" schtick is just an easy way for voters to excuse their own ignorance and poor voting behavior.
Im sure your anti-government screed is very convincing to young republicans, I mean libertarians, but this all looks like a lot of fearmongering from the eff.
We told you that any government-mandated net neutrality was going to be a lot of fun. But alas, people continue to live with their idyllic, dog-like trust of government, politicians, and bureaucrats, and didn't listen.
Not to mention the whole net neutrality debate was mostly paranoia anyway. The real solution is for local governments to do something about the monopolies they grant telcos, but it's always easier to pray that god (the government) saves the day.
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I don't see the democrat-controlled congress doing anything about those things.
And conservatives are, nowadays, more theologically based than based in any formal ethic, which is just as bad if not worse. But I was talking about liberals, not conservatives.
Just fine, I imagine, considering humans evolved like that.
Laugh all you want, you guys have the pope.
Some of us are also students in psychology or otherwise, who hear it every time anything remotely connected to social psychology is brought up.
Modern liberalism is premised on the exact opposite. Modern liberalism is based in a sort of duty-based ethic whereas it's ethical to force others to do what you think is ethical. Not my position, but there you go.
There should be no reason we are forcing Jewish/Muslim genital mutilation on children. For one, it tortures the infant. It's a very unnecessary and painful procedure, it's strange that you can't torture children with unneeded electrical shocks or other abuse yet you can slice baby genitals and get away with it under the guise of "cosmetics."
So you're perfectly fine with letting some authority decide what your personal worth is? Slaves in the South pre-Civil War were just whining, then, because they didn't have the right to freedom because the government said so and should have just accepted what the Southern authority thought?
You're right, it's *magic*!
Yes, we need a standard, handed down from God, the decider of all truths, to tell us what's what.
Oh, so the UN just gets to up and decide what human rights are, and if the UN decided that people didn't have the right to disagree with them, you'd buy into that? You'd buy into it if the UN said people didn't have the right to even live...?
It's frightening that the "liberal" interpretation of rights is that one's own worth and how they can peacefully live their life is a function of government law or statutes.
Ah, the (permanent) damage done to my self-esteem, the bruises, the black eyes, and the bullying by teachers and administration I got were all to build character. Got it.
Since they don't have rights, let's euthanize the ones we don't like.
I agree, that's why I strongly support homeschooling.
Whom do you expect to regulate the Democrat/Republican monopoly? Again, blame yourself for their existence.
Or alternatively, they're both possibilities even in the face of a monopoly. Any government or monopoly could change overnight if only consumers or voters would actually stand up and take responsibility.
They won't, of course.
Corporations? I don't even believe in any of the legal protections given to corporations.
Well, since mass consumer action isn't a valid answer to dealing with corporations (amoral agents that respond to money) I can't possibly see how mass voter action is a valid answer to government.
And you flock to your theoretical government ideal of government for the people, by the people. Now THAT'S something to laugh at. A business can be dealt with by mass consumer action. A government can only be dealt with [censored by Department of Homeland Security]
I've always been a PC at heart.
Not like the rest, the others. Everyone around me. I was at odds with my society and knew it early since birth. Unlike them, I did not "Think Different!"--the mantra of the Macs around me, the phrase on all the billboards in the city that served as a reminder to its citizenry. Sameness pervaded the essence of my being and no amount of self-conditioning I did could change that. Eventually, I gave up and isolated myself emotionally from society.
I gaze at the faces going by, the white earphones contrasting their black turtlenecks, connecting their ears to their pockets, their blank faces engrossed in hip Indie rock music and various garage bands. I envied them for their perfection against my flaws and my compulsive nature to expand, to burden my life with troubles instead of remaining, like them, simple and easy to deal with. The grandest of virtues, simplicity... the philosophy by our loyal benefactor Steve Jobs, who descended from the heavens, creating the Earth, the iron, the wind and the rain. Steve Jobs, who defined the parameters of existence, the one who set about the patterns of reality, the constants, the variables. He who made gravity, electromagnetic energy, and shaped atomic structures and brought forth motion. From these things, he crafted the elements, processed them, refined them, and from these things engineered Apple products through the purity of his mind. Each Apple product was individually crafted by his own hands with the programming code used to run each device having being compiled in his brain and uploaded to each device telepathically, breathing life and perfection into each and every unit.
Except, it seems, for me, for I was not among the many. I was a PC. They were Macs. I've always been a cold, stiff person. I got by, disguising myself by keeping my non-Ipod music player safely out of sight, which I use because of my depraved nature demanding more functionality than the simple and easy-to-use Ipods have to offer.. In the safety of my own home, behind locked doors, I ran a Forbidden, a contraband computer from more depraved, earlier days that was not given the love and blessing of being birthed by Steve Jobs. I dual booted, out of the great sin of curiosity-- curiosity, a shameful value of a PC, as curiosity has no place where simplicity matters most--using two of the great unutterable blasphemies-- something called "Windows Vista" and something else called "Linux." Although, as I mentioned before, although my tendency to be a PC and towards conformity has always been inherent to me, I was truly transformed when I found these old things in a hidden cache of computer parts predating The Purging. Perhaps the greatest sin of all, the single evil that, if discovered, would damn me forever, was the fact that my mouse had more than one button.
As I walk among the Macs on the streets, passing the Starbuckses as I went along, I wondered how it all came to this. I glanced at The Holy Marks on the foreheads as the people wandered down the streets, the Bitten Apple tattooed on all our of us at birth, and wondered if, perhaps, there could be something more to life. But again, this was a PC's thought, and not, like everyone elses', a Mac's. We were to hold ourselves to the philosophy of Steve Jobs--so as his products were designed for idiots, so too were we to be idiots. But I was not a Mac--I was not an idiot. I was simply too complicated to be a worthwhile person.
Nature called. I found a nearby public iPoo--squeaky clean and sparkly white, things weren't all bad--and let myself go, expelling the waste that had accumulated inside me. After relieving myself and committing the overly-complicated and thus illegal act of wiping my ass (I did not flush as iPoos, designed to be idiot-proof, did not flush) I left and once again wandered the streets aimlessly, hoping to find some meaning in a world where I simply did not belong, a world where if my true nature was discovered, I would be endlessly persecuted by smug, self-righteous sons of bitches.
And if only we vote hard enough, we'll get a benevolent government of the people!
And by "remotely viable" choices you mean democrat or republican. Maybe people shouldn't be voting for "remotely viable" candidates.
The voters are the ones that vote in the politician in the first place. The "blame big business" schtick is just an easy way for voters to excuse their own ignorance and poor voting behavior.
Mmm-hmmm....
We told you that any government-mandated net neutrality was going to be a lot of fun.
But alas, people continue to live with their idyllic, dog-like trust of government, politicians, and bureaucrats, and didn't listen.
Not to mention the whole net neutrality debate was mostly paranoia anyway. The real solution is for local governments to do something about the monopolies they grant telcos, but it's always easier to pray that god (the government) saves the day.