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Posted on 01-01-07 12:15 AM, in US Politics Thread Link
Originally posted by Ziff
For what its worth the Democrats and the Republicans wold be like coalitions in other states. They're both a bunch of caucuses that sit around and argue amongst themselves. Although under Rove the moderate branch of the Republican party doesn't really hold seats or much sway. Even the "liberal" branches are engulfed within neocon ideology - this includes the Log Cabin Republicans.

Likewise, the Democrats are a broad based group. I mean, Hillary is hardly a "leftist" by any means in many countries. Even within the US bounds. Plus, there is a large contingent of conservative democrats.

US politics, are to say the least, quite interesting. I often have to sit up late at night and engulf myself in Roll Call and the Hill and just get caught up


If it made sense, it wouldn't be much fun at all. Were it to be universally just, we would have nothing to complain about.
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Posted on 01-03-07 03:15 PM, in Converting to Catholicism Link
Originally posted by Vyper
I'm going for the traditional roman-catholic religion. The one originally started by Jesus himself.

I've chosen roman-catholicism of the traditional type because of the fact it is the original Christian religion.

I will be closer to God. I will be able to further repent for my sins and give thanks for the spiritual guidance God and his son, Jesus, have given me. I truly believe I will become a better person through the teachings of Christ.


Might I ask what effected this change in your life? Since I always thought "being closer to God" meant a change in one's lifestyle, doing something for one's fellow human and all. Not changing religions. Although, if through your newfound religion you can achieve your calling better, then best of luck with that.
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Posted on 01-03-07 03:21 PM, in Now that's an interesting game for a young brother and sister to be playing... Link
Originally posted by MathOnNapkins
setz: I laughed at your earlier comments, and then I laughed doubly hard when I looked at your layout (let's play hangman!). So yeah, while tragic it also is kind of funny.

However, if this story is true as it is presented, I don't know how you can hold the parents responsible. Are parents supposed to watch their kids at every goddamn moment of their lives? That's just plain impossible. Though, there's probably a lot more to this story than meets the eye.


Untrue. Parents have the burden of responsibility, not only to watch, but to meld the character of their children. After all, one heavily formed by surrounding forces at such an early age. But at nine, when your kids are hanging each other as a "game," you really haven't taught them much worthwhile.
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Posted on 01-03-07 03:31 PM, in Looks like the Dems are winning Link
Originally posted by MathOnNapkins
Ok, let's just say for a minute that you are right. What about the dehumanizing aspect of not only having to hire people to do the torture, but also trying to get people to watch it. Obviously some people would already go watch it but I don't think much of anyone like that.

People are barbaric. The video online of Saddam being hanged almost has well over four million views. The only thing that such corporal punishment achieves is creating a situation where the violence is considered okay, but only on a "legal" target.
Think about it for a minute. In a system without corporal punishment, it is made clear that whoever is inflicting corporal damage upon another is clearly not lawful, nor is that person just. But when the only differenciating factor is if it's a punishment or just "brutality," the norm is formed: the idea that violence is intrinsically wrong is lost.
If no one can see why "violence is okay" isn't a problem, then there might be another problem.
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Posted on 01-07-07 02:01 PM, in I Fear I May Be Losing my Mind Link
Today, my dad found out I was majoring in Economics. Not Engineering. I got an angry phone call, and didn't get much across. However, that's not my problem. I'll probably talk to him later when I get home, and we'll reach some conclusion.

My problem is that I fear the reasons I myself chose my major. It's not at all that I don't love economics and wouldn't mind doing as a career, but that I wouldn't have done engineering because I almost felt as if I wasn't up to it.

Four years ago, I wouldn't have thought twice about majoring in engineering because I felt good about math and the sort. Four years ago, I think I was probably better at math, for my age. Now, everything seems different. By all standards, most would say I'm doing fine since I have an A in the math class I'm taking now, but I would beg to differ. Be it my own frailties, the result of my situation, or any such events in between, I feel a lot stupider, just an A among others in a (relatively) low course. And by stupid, I mean as compared to what I should have been. I slipped, and fell between the cracks, and became merely average.

I feel the same about my musical talent, that despite my lack of teacher, it is still another one of my failings.

English has just been bizarre. I feel completely alienated. I haven't had a teacher I could really talk to about my writing since tenth grade, and she retired that year. If I get high marks, I have no idea why, or for low marks, there are scarcely ever comments. All I've gathered is that I'm good enough to be ignored, but not good enough to not be ignored. But pretty bad nonetheless, as it would seem.

But in the end, I chose economics because I thought I saw some sort of sanity, some vague semblance of sense. And I can even do it in the morning, as opposed to math. Of course, that sounds utterly ridiculous, and no one would believe that I failed math just because it was early in the morning.
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Posted on 01-07-07 04:14 PM, in The Return of Things In Common Game! Link
I was going to say acronyms for damage per second, velocity, and training. For rates of change.
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Posted on 01-11-07 09:11 PM, in Victimless Crimes Link
Many people often fail to recognize that laws are simply a creation of a value-based system, based off the social norms of a society. The idea that "killing is wrong" is in discord with a number of values: it violates human agency, demeans human wellbeing, and so on. That's why it is illegal, not because of religion.
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Posted on 01-12-07 04:12 AM, in Victimless Crimes Link
Originally posted by Koryo
So would it be OK to kill a person who was born with such serious genetic birth defects that they are not capable of human level thought? Of course not. Abortion has nothing to do with science or brain development. It's only OK to kill babies because you can't see them. Out of sight, out of mind. If the doctors killed the embryo by taking it out of the mother and slicing it open with a scalpel right in front of you, then you would stop supporting abortions.

I don't know about your edit about 14 year olds. I'll go look.

It's completely just to kill something that isn't capable of human thought because a person who cannot think cannot fulfill their function as a human being. And I'm pretty sure it would just be impractical to try to bisect an embryo. But I'm sure you're well versed in the ways of biology, so I'm not one to talk.

As for the "80% people are Christians" contention, it's completely irrelavent, since the US is not a democracy, but a republic. Unless of course, you are trying to say that Christians will only vote for Christians. It's not as simple as a majority rule.

Originally posted by Koryo
Alkis: the distinction between democracy and republic is, in this case, mostly irrelevant.

It's very relavant. Or as Ziff said:

Originally posted by Ziff
I'm not exactly sure if Alkis knows what he is talking about. The last thig that you want is a society that is solely based on the dictatorship of the masses. The whole idea of respresentative democracy and even direct democracy allow for the minority in the political system to have some say and have a decent amount of protection. That is not to say that this protective measure has not been smashed down before. Many Western nations managed to sneak in some really repressive measures.


Originally posted by Koryo
Christians still believe in more traditional social behavior, such as not having sex at 14 years old. So if the issue of the age of consent was put into a national referendum, most Christians would oppose lowering it, regardless of whether they regularly attend church


That's a pretty big, and unfounded, assumption.

And to reiterate, it is my firm belief that social norms, by leaps and bounds, predate established religions. And so...

Originally posted by me
[laws are simply a creation of a value-based system, based off the social norms of a society. The idea that "killing is wrong" is in discord with a number of values: it violates human agency, demeans human wellbeing, and so on. That's why it is illegal, not because of religion


I'm also pretty sure that the society needed to have social norms, existed before any established religions, for sure, Christianity.

"Murder" in the sense that you use it, can be defined as the "unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being."

Originally posted by Koryo
Now, some people think I sound mean in my posts...


I searched for Koryo on Google and found hundreds of instances of meanness.
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Posted on 01-12-07 04:33 AM, in I feel empty. Link
Dullness is underrated these days. Some people are sick and tired of sick and tiredness, but I would disagree.

Originally posted by Valcion
also, atrocious background is atrocious. people hate you because of your internet backgroundz

I never knew that.
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Posted on 01-12-07 04:46 AM, in House passed minimum wage increase (to $7.25) Link
One cannot just use simple economics diagrams to describe such a multi-faceted change as a increase in wages. There are other factors to consider, such as those that Dr_Death16 considers, . The change in minimum wage is likely a response to the decreasing real wage value, not the other way around. And companies don't have to increase the prices necessarily, just find somewhere to reduce costs, by reducing employee benefits or something. I still agree with most of what Ziff says though. Even if this increase causes a decrease in real output--which I don't even think is the case, is it not "worth it" if human wellbeing or social mobility is increased?
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Posted on 01-12-07 05:23 AM, in Victimless Crimes Link
The reason that you cannot equate a republic with a pure democracy is simple. Were there to be a pure democracy, the minority would be at the mercy of the majority. There would not be any national referendum.
Read my post. Then re-read it. Since it's clear that you didn't read anything I said about the impact of values based on social norms. And the last part is a joke. You might want to look that up too.
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Posted on 01-12-07 05:23 AM, in Victimless Crimes Link
I think the problem occurs when people think that something is "wrong," instead of unfair, injust, unequal, or such other values. "Wrong" on the other hand, doesn't say much.

(edited by SamuraiX on 01-11-07 11:29 PM)
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Posted on 01-12-07 07:06 AM, in Now that's an interesting game for a young brother and sister to be playing... Link
I think homo sapiens is the only species that doesn't have the brains to not kill themselves or others so wantonly.
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Posted on 01-12-07 07:10 AM, in Victimless Crimes Link
We live in a republic, which is not a pure democracy. Figure out the difference, Koryo.
And you neglected to address my point, that social norms predate religion, and are the basis of laws. I'll leave the rest to Arwon, since you seem to have a ethos problem, and only address certain people.
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Posted on 01-12-07 07:23 AM, in If you had all the lag in the world, what would you do? Link
Get Acmlm to unclog this series of tubes.
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Posted on 01-12-07 07:27 AM, in Victimless Crimes Link
Yes, social norms account for this predicament, do they not? They need not be actual laws, but in themselves have an effect. There's no law that says black druggies should be prosecuted, but it's a result of the preexisting system, and becomes "normal." Must I go into further explanation?
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Posted on 01-12-07 07:29 AM, in Now that's an interesting game for a young brother and sister to be playing... Link
Originally posted by Koitenshin +∞
Originally posted by SamuraiX
I think homo sapiens is the only species that has the brains to kill themselves or others so freely.


No double negatives remember?

No I do not remember, why not? I'd love to know why.
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Posted on 01-12-07 07:42 AM, in Smoking: Sexy, or no? Link
Do you know what else is sexy? Homocide.
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Posted on 01-12-07 07:49 AM, in Now that's an interesting game for a young brother and sister to be playing... Link
Originally posted by emcee
Originally posted by Valcion
man people are stupid when i was little kids jumped off buildings thinking they were ninja turtles


But, the Ninja Turtles couldn't fly.

They jumped from rooftop to rooftop though.
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Posted on 01-12-07 08:35 AM, in The paradox of the Berkeley-esque college Link
It was a link titled "Find out what's on all those ipods around campus..." on the Berkeley website that sparked my interest in this thread. (Also, it's iPods, not ipods.) That's something I'd expect on some socially-active teen's website, not an accredited university.

It has become a established social norm that universities like Berkeley are the "best of the best" and so on. But from my experiences, the students I know that have got in are mostly showoffs and charletons. Berkeley is one run-down...of a town. It's filled with beggars on the streets, and has a markedly negative social atmosphere. Conveniently, the actual university is sheltered from the harsh reality so close outside. As is the case with some other "university towns." So they're a supposed establishment of "top scholars" who cannot even remedy the situation around them. Might I be so absurd as to suggest that such places are simply overated, or just hype, a place for rich kids? Is it possible that such places just leech off the few who do carry intellect?

I don't want any replies saying that this is just a jab at something I know I can't get into, since that is completely irrelavent. One should look at the words, not the person, or else make an fallacious ad hominem attack.
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