you have no right to deny a business transaction to someone because of their sexual orientation
your understanding of contracts is completely ignorant
if some guy is buying a cake from you, and you deny him the cake because he's gay, you are destroying someone else's rights, you are not exercising your rights
i'm trying to understand where you got this moronic notion, and perhaps you are referring to the propaganda scaremongering that a church would be "forced" to perform a gay wedding, for example. but this is a complete pile of steaming crap because no one ever thought you can force a church to do something against that church's beliefs, the gays will marry at some other church that does allow gay marriage. it is about what the government will respect and not respect. and the government regulates our rights and protects us from violations of our rights in general society. for example: bigots who would deny someone basic rights because of race, or sexual orientation, or religious affiliation
replace "black man" or "muslim man" with any of the bullshit you wrote above, and you can easily see that the "liberty" you say is being exercised is actually in reality denying someone else their rights. denying freedom
liberty NEVER means you can deny someone else their liberty. if you think it does, you don't understand what liberty is
and if you are businessman and you won't serve a black man, or a gay man, or a muslim, you have no earthly reason to be running a business in america. you are unamerican. you should be sued and i would like to see you shut down. because i love liberty and the principles this country was founded on. and if you are going to destroy freedom and you are going to stand against basic rights and liberties you can go swallow a shotgun you bigoted unamerican fuck. you have no fucking reason to be running a business in this great country and standing against our liberties and the principles the founding fathers based our country on
you cannot define denying the liberty of others as your liberty
to do so simply means you are an ignorant malicious unamerican asshole who should not running a business
what's the fucking point of walking around an airport open carry? it's to provoke, not protect. he's not exercising his rights. he IS the threat to our rights: there is no need for this bristling display which can hurt others easily, out of accident or robbery. this is a man with a severe social disorder, not a patriot or proponent of freedom. we need protection from these people, they do not protect us or themselves. they are the threat: deranged, socially retarded, a chip on their shoulder, angry, and heavily armed
i have no problem with some rich asshole buying military equipment to blow up hillsides on his own property. i think he's a loser with an ego problem, but i don't see anything wrong with it legally
but you're redefining the topic
because there are many edge cases where assholes want to mingle in general society heavily armed with completely unnecessary military equipment
and since you are usually dealing with socially retarded losers, these edge cases are frequently transgressed out of ignorance (and sometimes malice). anyone socially aware usually doesn't feel the need or at least knows mingling in normal society while heavily armed is fucking moronic
such losers are mostly harmless, i agree
mostly
but they can be robbed by someone with bad intentions, or they can fuck up accidentally out of incompetence or carelessness. and there is simply no reason to risk all of us because the socially retarded loser wants to strut his unnecessary crap amongst us
or maybe they're not so harmless, especially if they are the kind of loser who is a paranoid, he thinks people are out to get him as a psychotic symptom rather than as a reality. and he hordes military equipment. then you have self-fulfilling prophecy: this mentality is the first logical step to being the actual threat to society. because now people will stare. and this feeds his paranoid mental illness
it's not that people are weak willed scaredy cats of anything involving weapons. people recognize, logically, that hording weapons is the obvious first steps towards a deranged and dangerous person. a person who hordes completely unnecessary military equipment should be checked out by the government. not as a pretense to deny that person's rights, but because that person is making obvious indications that they are a threat to our basic rights, our right to live
but this always gets switched around
there is this hysterical whiny bullshit fantasy of the government coming to get you just because you like blowing shit up. i like blowing shit up. so buy a fucking video game. if you think you have to walk around general society bristling with military equipment you have a gigantic ego problem: something to prove, and you are severely socially retarded: you aren't aware you are scaring others or you don't care you are scaring others. or maybe even you enjoy scaring others: you're a sadistic asshole
i am not using the term "socially retarded" as a baseless insult either. i am saying we are dealing with people who are literally, objectively, socially retarded. to have this need and not know or not care what it means to other people in society around them
they may be completely responsible. still, their lack of basic social awareness raises genuine red flags. because lack of basic social awareness sometimes (not always) comes with other basic psychological failures like responsibility, morality, an understanding of cause and effect and right and wrong. the ability to parse basic social cues and understand what is a genuine threat and what is not. or they have a chip on their shoulder, something to prove, that actually makes them dangerous.
people who need to buy military equipment and fetishize it are socially immature assholes that we can barely tolerate, but they are legal. the problem is there are many edge cases where harmless displays of ego problems becomes an actual threat to the life and liberty of others, and you know it
the kind of malicious ignorant douche who doesn't understand that people do target planes for destruction to make ideological points
but that's ok, as you will also soon be a dead malignant ignorant douche, because an airline that allows anyone to get on without any inspection will be blown out of the sky...or flown into buildings, which i may be sitting in just trying to earn a living, so submit to the fucking inspection you fucking moron
if you do something that impinges on the freedoms of others, you aren't exercising freedom, you are restricting freedom
you are transgressing, oppressing. oh, sure, the criminal or the oppressor can and will whine about "freedom" when caught or asked to pay for how they have damaged others. but when you harm others, what you are doing has nothing to do with freedom at all
i might call blasting music at 3 am my "freedom." but that's just because i am an immature ignorant douchebag, not because i actually respect or understand freedom. if i do that without considering the damage i am causing to the guy sleeping next door, i am not exercising freedom, i am damaging that poor guy's freedom to get a good night's sleep
logically, naturally, all freedoms have this restriction on them: the freedom of others
and the concept of freedom has to include this, or the concept of freedom doesn't exist at all
without the consideration of the freedoms of others, all you are left with is tyranny: the ability to exert my will over your will and get away with it in the power struggle. that's all you are left with if you think "freedom" doesn't care or think about harming others. freedom only exists with responsibility. in fact, the only truly perfectly free society is the one where all members of that society are also truly perfectly responsible. the only reason we need government and laws is because some of us don't know how they harm others, or don't care how they harm others
the biggest threat to your freedom isn't evil authoritarian government come to take your freedoms away just for giggles. it's the morons and malicious shitbags around you who don't respect your freedoms
Your Liberty To Swing Your Fist Ends Just Where My Nose Begins
the amazing lie in national politics nowadays is "religious liberty"
i thought "religious liberty" means you can practice your religion how you want and government can't regulate that
that makes sense. i support that
but mindblowingly we have people telling us they are offended at, for example, gay marriage, so their "religious liberty" has to be preserved by allowing them to oppress others and respect other people's basic rights
how dumbfoundingly ignorant about what liberty and freedom really is!
orwellian even: "my liberty means i have the right to deny you your liberty"
how does someone get their head shoved so far up their ass that this repugnant freedom denying bullshit makes sense to them?
the way "religious liberty" is talked about in politics nowadays completely inverts the concept of liberty
hey, intolerant social conservative assholes: the concept of liberty never, ever meant that you have the right to deny liberty to others. a genuine insult to your liberty is someone denying your rights. it NEVER means that you have the right to deny the rights of others
your freedom ends when your actions hurt the freedoms of others
naturally, logically
ALL freedoms have this logical natural limit: the freedom of others
any government law that codifies that is PRESERVING freedom, and protecting freedom from social conservative assholes who want to hurt the natural freedom and liberty of others. it isn't government denying you your "religious liberty". it is protecting the rest of us from your gross violation of basic liberty
"religious liberty" as currently being referred to by conservative politicians is a crock of (perhaps willfully) ignorant shit, logically incoherent
you need proof that there are idiots and malicious people?
people who whine about "freedom" when really they are asking to be excused for their irresponsibility which harms others?
the drunk driver whining about his "freedom"?
the asshole blasting music at 3 AM whining about his "freedom"?
the shitbag who lets his dog crap on other people's property whining about "freedom"?
you are unaware of losers who whine about "freedom" when they are asked to account for their actions which impinges on other people's freedoms?
really?!
people are always quaking in their boots about evil authoritarian government coming to take away their freedoms just for laughs
the truth is the real threat to your freedom are the irresponsible morons and malicious pieces of shit around you every day. people who just don't know or just don't care about the freedoms of others and how their actions can hurt that
true freedom is "i can do whatever i want, as long as i don't impinge on the freedom of others"
an immature douchebag thinks "i can do whatever i want, who cares who i hurt or what i damage"
you responded to a comment which said 'the shame is that most Americans don't care about a little thing called "social consequences"'
which is absolutely correct and is the only way you arrive at a true mature understanding of what freedom is
the problem, the abuse that hurts actual freedom, is shitbags who go around constantly ranting about freedom, when their conception of freedom has absolutely nothing to do with actual freedom, and are really the rationalizations of immature children who either are
1. maliciously trying to avoid the consequences of their actions, or
2. are so fucking ignorant they don't understand their actions even have consequences
morons and malicious people are the ones who truly damage the respect for freedom, and they are always the ones whining about "freedom" when they are caught or asked to account for or pay for the consequences of their irresponsibility
for those of you thinking its displays in ukraine, and georgia in 2008, make it muscular, remember that it wasn't too long ago those countries were part of the same geopolitical entity. the longer term arc is clear decay
also, i look forward to china, with boundary disputes with pretty much all of its neighbors, and flexing increasingly impressive economic and military muscles, figuring out that sand bars in the south china sea stolen form vietnam and the philippines are not as interesting as winning back expansive and resource rich outer manchuria, actual genuine ancient chinese territory (unlike the sandbars), stolen from china by russia in the 1850s:
russia's economy is a fucking joke. it could have diversified but decided becoming an oligarch petrostate was the way to go. which actually was great until the price of oil collapsed. brittle fragile and shortsighted
russia is run by a mafia thug, and it regularly douses its people with ultranationalist lies and propaganda. making your people stupid and lying to them isn't strength, it makes your society weak
the next maidan square will be in moscow. people can't be lied to constantly with paranoid ignorant crap and not eventually wake up
politically weak, economically weak, socially weak. and soon, 10-20 years, militarily weak. because that's what happens when your economy sucks and your people don't believe you anymore
the next russian implosion will make the russia civil war of a hundred years ago look tame
and it is definitely coming. not in the next 5 years. but in the next 10-20 absolutely. russia is an isolated neoimperial pariah with a weakening economy and one thug with an ego and a chip on his shoulder calling all the shots
a shame
russia could have become a modern democracy
but russian morons would apparently like to worship the cult of personality bullshit of one ex-kgb thug. because that is "strength"
sorry russia. there will be a lot more pain for you like your grandparents and great grandparents. you and your children apparently must suffer again. and you only have yourself to blame for it, for putting all your eggs in one basket: putin the preening goon
germany/ poland: you're getting konigsberg back
finland: get ready to reintegrate karelia
romania you're getting moldova
chechnya you're getting your independence, dagestan too
georgia you're getting abkhasia back, ukraine of course crimea
turkey you should get circassian lands
japan you're finally getting the kuril's back and why not sakhalin
i look forward to the new nation of the novosibirsk republic. tuva, welcome also to the parade of nations
japan/ usa/ canada: you may need to at least occupy kamchatka to keep it from china, on the pretense of civil safety and guarding rogue nukes
10-20 years, russia implodes
mark this post
get ready to carve it up boys, russia is a dead man walking
society provides you certain benefits, and that costs. you are welcome to leave society. but you have no right to live in society and freeload. freeloading is not freedom. i genuinely understand what freedom really is better than you
there are people who actually believe what the guy wrote. even he was trolling, there's morons out there who sincerely believe what he wrote, so it requires a response. because morons who believe these things have an effect on our country, unfortunately
tax those things, like cigarettes. i would have been fine with taxing trans fats. but banning them is ok only because there are suitable replacements
the immature understanding of freedom is "i can do whatever i want, damn the consequences"
the mature understanding of freedom is "i can do whatever i want as long as i don't impinge on the freedom of others"
and if your behavior costs me with higher taxes and healthcare premiums for your care, then i have a say in you doing those things, and sending you a bill to help pay for the inevitable higher costs you are causing to me
you really can do whatever you want in life. but if what you do costs others, you are going to be sent a bill
avoiding that bill shows you to be an ignorant freeloader, not a freedom loving person
and this really has nothing to do with big bad evil authoritarian government come to destroy your freedom just for fun and laughs
it's about the natural limitations on your freedoms: the freedoms of others
So you are down with all this and more because, "...but not at the expense of others.."
absolutely. and you're not? you're ok with doing things that cost others without their consent?
that doesn't make you freedom loving. that makes you a thieving freeloader
i'm going to move in next to you and blast loud music at 3 AM. i'm going to jeopardize your life by racing by you in the highway at 95 mph. i'm going to buy a dog and keep hi unchained and let him get in your yard to crap and dig holes. you're telling me that's ok, because your immature "understanding" of freedom apparently means i can do whatever the fuck i want, who gives a fuck if my choices harm or cost others. right?
but this quaint sneakernet will probably rapidly disappear now
i can't see cuba resisting the obvious benefits of freer internet access any longer. they're paranoid control freaks, but they're not that stupid (i hope)
the political ramifications are obvious too, but cuba's political model died last century
cynics. losers. people beaten down by life and no longer possessing the will to fight for themselves. people who have accepted their own slavehood
but this is not a facet of any particular culture, this is merely the background noise of social and psychological failure in any society
in a society like north korea, you can bet there's a lot of people with this problem. but this is a matter of government structure, not culture
i see this crop up a lot now. "culture" seems to be a new cheat term for people who want to ascribe some bullshit prejudice they have, out of generalized ignorance or lack of social skills, to understand a particular problem
nobody likes to be a victim. this simply does not exist anywhere. if you have a belief that pretends someone somewhere likes being a victim, you fucked up in your "thinking"
the rationalization you are speaking of is by the perpetrators of the corruption
if you can't tell the difference between their thinking, and the thinking of the rest of general society being ripped off, then you have defects in your social skills, your perceptive abilities, and/ or your general intellect
you could behead every drug addict you find, drug addicts will still proliferate. threat of death doesn't impress people who devalue their lives by drowning themselves in highly addictive drugs. healthcare for addicts instead probably makes a much better impact
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you really can't tell the difference between doing something that harms others and something that does not harm others?
you really think i am the same as someone who denies rights because i stand against someone who denies rights?
are you really this fucking stupid or are you just trolling me?
you have no right to deny a business transaction to someone because of their sexual orientation
your understanding of contracts is completely ignorant
if some guy is buying a cake from you, and you deny him the cake because he's gay, you are destroying someone else's rights, you are not exercising your rights
i'm trying to understand where you got this moronic notion, and perhaps you are referring to the propaganda scaremongering that a church would be "forced" to perform a gay wedding, for example. but this is a complete pile of steaming crap because no one ever thought you can force a church to do something against that church's beliefs, the gays will marry at some other church that does allow gay marriage. it is about what the government will respect and not respect. and the government regulates our rights and protects us from violations of our rights in general society. for example: bigots who would deny someone basic rights because of race, or sexual orientation, or religious affiliation
replace "black man" or "muslim man" with any of the bullshit you wrote above, and you can easily see that the "liberty" you say is being exercised is actually in reality denying someone else their rights. denying freedom
liberty NEVER means you can deny someone else their liberty. if you think it does, you don't understand what liberty is
and if you are businessman and you won't serve a black man, or a gay man, or a muslim, you have no earthly reason to be running a business in america. you are unamerican. you should be sued and i would like to see you shut down. because i love liberty and the principles this country was founded on. and if you are going to destroy freedom and you are going to stand against basic rights and liberties you can go swallow a shotgun you bigoted unamerican fuck. you have no fucking reason to be running a business in this great country and standing against our liberties and the principles the founding fathers based our country on
you cannot define denying the liberty of others as your liberty
to do so simply means you are an ignorant malicious unamerican asshole who should not running a business
i quoted some other guy who mentioned "most"
i never said "most"
and "most" has nothing to do with the actual fucking point here
consider this loser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
what's the fucking point of walking around an airport open carry? it's to provoke, not protect. he's not exercising his rights. he IS the threat to our rights: there is no need for this bristling display which can hurt others easily, out of accident or robbery. this is a man with a severe social disorder, not a patriot or proponent of freedom. we need protection from these people, they do not protect us or themselves. they are the threat: deranged, socially retarded, a chip on their shoulder, angry, and heavily armed
i have no problem with some rich asshole buying military equipment to blow up hillsides on his own property. i think he's a loser with an ego problem, but i don't see anything wrong with it legally
but you're redefining the topic
because there are many edge cases where assholes want to mingle in general society heavily armed with completely unnecessary military equipment
and since you are usually dealing with socially retarded losers, these edge cases are frequently transgressed out of ignorance (and sometimes malice). anyone socially aware usually doesn't feel the need or at least knows mingling in normal society while heavily armed is fucking moronic
such losers are mostly harmless, i agree
mostly
but they can be robbed by someone with bad intentions, or they can fuck up accidentally out of incompetence or carelessness. and there is simply no reason to risk all of us because the socially retarded loser wants to strut his unnecessary crap amongst us
or maybe they're not so harmless, especially if they are the kind of loser who is a paranoid, he thinks people are out to get him as a psychotic symptom rather than as a reality. and he hordes military equipment. then you have self-fulfilling prophecy: this mentality is the first logical step to being the actual threat to society. because now people will stare. and this feeds his paranoid mental illness
it's not that people are weak willed scaredy cats of anything involving weapons. people recognize, logically, that hording weapons is the obvious first steps towards a deranged and dangerous person. a person who hordes completely unnecessary military equipment should be checked out by the government. not as a pretense to deny that person's rights, but because that person is making obvious indications that they are a threat to our basic rights, our right to live
but this always gets switched around
there is this hysterical whiny bullshit fantasy of the government coming to get you just because you like blowing shit up. i like blowing shit up. so buy a fucking video game. if you think you have to walk around general society bristling with military equipment you have a gigantic ego problem: something to prove, and you are severely socially retarded: you aren't aware you are scaring others or you don't care you are scaring others. or maybe even you enjoy scaring others: you're a sadistic asshole
i am not using the term "socially retarded" as a baseless insult either. i am saying we are dealing with people who are literally, objectively, socially retarded. to have this need and not know or not care what it means to other people in society around them
they may be completely responsible. still, their lack of basic social awareness raises genuine red flags. because lack of basic social awareness sometimes (not always) comes with other basic psychological failures like responsibility, morality, an understanding of cause and effect and right and wrong. the ability to parse basic social cues and understand what is a genuine threat and what is not. or they have a chip on their shoulder, something to prove, that actually makes them dangerous.
people who need to buy military equipment and fetishize it are socially immature assholes that we can barely tolerate, but they are legal. the problem is there are many edge cases where harmless displays of ego problems becomes an actual threat to the life and liberty of others, and you know it
the kind of malicious ignorant douche who doesn't understand that people do target planes for destruction to make ideological points
but that's ok, as you will also soon be a dead malignant ignorant douche, because an airline that allows anyone to get on without any inspection will be blown out of the sky ...or flown into buildings, which i may be sitting in just trying to earn a living, so submit to the fucking inspection you fucking moron
nope
if you do something that impinges on the freedoms of others, you aren't exercising freedom, you are restricting freedom
you are transgressing, oppressing. oh, sure, the criminal or the oppressor can and will whine about "freedom" when caught or asked to pay for how they have damaged others. but when you harm others, what you are doing has nothing to do with freedom at all
i might call blasting music at 3 am my "freedom." but that's just because i am an immature ignorant douchebag, not because i actually respect or understand freedom. if i do that without considering the damage i am causing to the guy sleeping next door, i am not exercising freedom, i am damaging that poor guy's freedom to get a good night's sleep
logically, naturally, all freedoms have this restriction on them: the freedom of others
and the concept of freedom has to include this, or the concept of freedom doesn't exist at all
without the consideration of the freedoms of others, all you are left with is tyranny: the ability to exert my will over your will and get away with it in the power struggle. that's all you are left with if you think "freedom" doesn't care or think about harming others. freedom only exists with responsibility. in fact, the only truly perfectly free society is the one where all members of that society are also truly perfectly responsible. the only reason we need government and laws is because some of us don't know how they harm others, or don't care how they harm others
the biggest threat to your freedom isn't evil authoritarian government come to take your freedoms away just for giggles. it's the morons and malicious shitbags around you who don't respect your freedoms
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
the amazing lie in national politics nowadays is "religious liberty"
i thought "religious liberty" means you can practice your religion how you want and government can't regulate that
that makes sense. i support that
but mindblowingly we have people telling us they are offended at, for example, gay marriage, so their "religious liberty" has to be preserved by allowing them to oppress others and respect other people's basic rights
how dumbfoundingly ignorant about what liberty and freedom really is!
orwellian even: "my liberty means i have the right to deny you your liberty"
how does someone get their head shoved so far up their ass that this repugnant freedom denying bullshit makes sense to them?
the way "religious liberty" is talked about in politics nowadays completely inverts the concept of liberty
hey, intolerant social conservative assholes: the concept of liberty never, ever meant that you have the right to deny liberty to others. a genuine insult to your liberty is someone denying your rights. it NEVER means that you have the right to deny the rights of others
your freedom ends when your actions hurt the freedoms of others
naturally, logically
ALL freedoms have this logical natural limit: the freedom of others
any government law that codifies that is PRESERVING freedom, and protecting freedom from social conservative assholes who want to hurt the natural freedom and liberty of others. it isn't government denying you your "religious liberty". it is protecting the rest of us from your gross violation of basic liberty
"religious liberty" as currently being referred to by conservative politicians is a crock of (perhaps willfully) ignorant shit, logically incoherent
you need proof that there are idiots and malicious people?
people who whine about "freedom" when really they are asking to be excused for their irresponsibility which harms others?
the drunk driver whining about his "freedom"?
the asshole blasting music at 3 AM whining about his "freedom"?
the shitbag who lets his dog crap on other people's property whining about "freedom"?
you are unaware of losers who whine about "freedom" when they are asked to account for their actions which impinges on other people's freedoms?
really?!
people are always quaking in their boots about evil authoritarian government coming to take away their freedoms just for laughs
the truth is the real threat to your freedom are the irresponsible morons and malicious pieces of shit around you every day. people who just don't know or just don't care about the freedoms of others and how their actions can hurt that
true freedom is "i can do whatever i want, as long as i don't impinge on the freedom of others"
an immature douchebag thinks "i can do whatever i want, who cares who i hurt or what i damage"
you responded to a comment which said 'the shame is that most Americans don't care about a little thing called "social consequences"'
which is absolutely correct and is the only way you arrive at a true mature understanding of what freedom is
the problem, the abuse that hurts actual freedom, is shitbags who go around constantly ranting about freedom, when their conception of freedom has absolutely nothing to do with actual freedom, and are really the rationalizations of immature children who either are
1. maliciously trying to avoid the consequences of their actions, or
2. are so fucking ignorant they don't understand their actions even have consequences
morons and malicious people are the ones who truly damage the respect for freedom, and they are always the ones whining about "freedom" when they are caught or asked to account for or pay for the consequences of their irresponsibility
you think russia nuking anything is going to work out for russia?
i hope they do too
it will accelerate its demise
it will continue to decay
for those of you thinking its displays in ukraine, and georgia in 2008, make it muscular, remember that it wasn't too long ago those countries were part of the same geopolitical entity. the longer term arc is clear decay
also, i look forward to china, with boundary disputes with pretty much all of its neighbors, and flexing increasingly impressive economic and military muscles, figuring out that sand bars in the south china sea stolen form vietnam and the philippines are not as interesting as winning back expansive and resource rich outer manchuria, actual genuine ancient chinese territory (unlike the sandbars), stolen from china by russia in the 1850s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
russia's economy is a fucking joke. it could have diversified but decided becoming an oligarch petrostate was the way to go. which actually was great until the price of oil collapsed. brittle fragile and shortsighted
russia is run by a mafia thug, and it regularly douses its people with ultranationalist lies and propaganda. making your people stupid and lying to them isn't strength, it makes your society weak
the next maidan square will be in moscow. people can't be lied to constantly with paranoid ignorant crap and not eventually wake up
politically weak, economically weak, socially weak. and soon, 10-20 years, militarily weak. because that's what happens when your economy sucks and your people don't believe you anymore
the next russian implosion will make the russia civil war of a hundred years ago look tame
and it is definitely coming. not in the next 5 years. but in the next 10-20 absolutely. russia is an isolated neoimperial pariah with a weakening economy and one thug with an ego and a chip on his shoulder calling all the shots
a shame
russia could have become a modern democracy
but russian morons would apparently like to worship the cult of personality bullshit of one ex-kgb thug. because that is "strength"
sorry russia. there will be a lot more pain for you like your grandparents and great grandparents. you and your children apparently must suffer again. and you only have yourself to blame for it, for putting all your eggs in one basket: putin the preening goon
germany/ poland: you're getting konigsberg back
finland: get ready to reintegrate karelia
romania you're getting moldova
chechnya you're getting your independence, dagestan too
georgia you're getting abkhasia back, ukraine of course crimea
turkey you should get circassian lands
japan you're finally getting the kuril's back and why not sakhalin
i look forward to the new nation of the novosibirsk republic. tuva, welcome also to the parade of nations
japan/ usa/ canada: you may need to at least occupy kamchatka to keep it from china, on the pretense of civil safety and guarding rogue nukes
10-20 years, russia implodes
mark this post
get ready to carve it up boys, russia is a dead man walking
this is a throwaway comment on slashdot, not a doctoral thesis
the point is there are valid risks and invalid risks
that you have trouble drawing the line does not mean the line doesn't exist
lol ;-)
i saw the wall of text and my eyes glazed over
sorry, unread
no one cares dude
you have a right to disagree with anyone you want to on any opinion
but your way of disagreement just pegs you as having a social disorder
live by your words. please
you're changing your story with your new post. not very good trolling. or, if sincere, just dumb
old people problems is a good problem. it means we have a successful society. that's a completely different subject matter
live by your own principles first, then get back to me
there is a baseline of human behavior which is inherently risky and no one will be judged for
drug use and behavior which jeopardizes others falls outside that baseline
sports does not, and is encouraged because it also helps health
society provides you certain benefits, and that costs. you are welcome to leave society. but you have no right to live in society and freeload. freeloading is not freedom. i genuinely understand what freedom really is better than you
there are people who actually believe what the guy wrote. even he was trolling, there's morons out there who sincerely believe what he wrote, so it requires a response. because morons who believe these things have an effect on our country, unfortunately
tax those things, like cigarettes. i would have been fine with taxing trans fats. but banning them is ok only because there are suitable replacements
the immature understanding of freedom is "i can do whatever i want, damn the consequences"
the mature understanding of freedom is "i can do whatever i want as long as i don't impinge on the freedom of others"
and if your behavior costs me with higher taxes and healthcare premiums for your care, then i have a say in you doing those things, and sending you a bill to help pay for the inevitable higher costs you are causing to me
you really can do whatever you want in life. but if what you do costs others, you are going to be sent a bill
avoiding that bill shows you to be an ignorant freeloader, not a freedom loving person
and this really has nothing to do with big bad evil authoritarian government come to destroy your freedom just for fun and laughs
it's about the natural limitations on your freedoms: the freedoms of others
absolutely. and you're not? you're ok with doing things that cost others without their consent?
that doesn't make you freedom loving. that makes you a thieving freeloader
i'm going to move in next to you and blast loud music at 3 AM. i'm going to jeopardize your life by racing by you in the highway at 95 mph. i'm going to buy a dog and keep hi unchained and let him get in your yard to crap and dig holes. you're telling me that's ok, because your immature "understanding" of freedom apparently means i can do whatever the fuck i want, who gives a fuck if my choices harm or cost others. right?
when i posted this:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...
but this quaint sneakernet will probably rapidly disappear now
i can't see cuba resisting the obvious benefits of freer internet access any longer. they're paranoid control freaks, but they're not that stupid (i hope)
the political ramifications are obvious too, but cuba's political model died last century
you are describing a subset of society, any society, who, through personal character defect or social victimization, has learned helpless
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
cynics. losers. people beaten down by life and no longer possessing the will to fight for themselves. people who have accepted their own slavehood
but this is not a facet of any particular culture, this is merely the background noise of social and psychological failure in any society
in a society like north korea, you can bet there's a lot of people with this problem. but this is a matter of government structure, not culture
i see this crop up a lot now. "culture" seems to be a new cheat term for people who want to ascribe some bullshit prejudice they have, out of generalized ignorance or lack of social skills, to understand a particular problem
nobody likes to be a victim. this simply does not exist anywhere. if you have a belief that pretends someone somewhere likes being a victim, you fucked up in your "thinking"
nobody, anywhere, ever, likes being robbed
the rationalization you are speaking of is by the perpetrators of the corruption
if you can't tell the difference between their thinking, and the thinking of the rest of general society being ripped off, then you have defects in your social skills, your perceptive abilities, and/ or your general intellect
laws have to be effective, not cruel
you could behead every drug addict you find, drug addicts will still proliferate. threat of death doesn't impress people who devalue their lives by drowning themselves in highly addictive drugs. healthcare for addicts instead probably makes a much better impact
likewise with corruption