stembolts

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[–] stembolts 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's a quote of an opinion, so in general I ignore them. I'm usually more interested in distilling ideas constructed with some line of reasoning.

But I guess we can look at this one. Find it's essence. Tho it doesn't seem very deep..

"Societies with rule of law are dictatorships. How leaders are selected and the existence of fundamental Constitutional rights is not a factor."

So in short.

Having laws at all is a dictatorship.

Yeah, that is one of the opinions I'd ignore. It's easy to have that opinion inside the walls of a lawed society.

Luckily it is valid to respond to an opinion with an opinion, and mine is that I imagine everyone (except the strongest with the most resources) would abandon that perspective as soon as they lived in a world with no laws.

[–] stembolts 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I had nothing to say to that. I agree with it.

One paragraph discusses action, the other discusses philosophy. I only took issue with your regressive philosophy. I'm open to correcting misunderstandings, elaborate if you feel I continue to miss something.

[–] stembolts 40 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

"No one should stand up for new rights. Don't rock the boat bro."

Your mindset is the road to a dictatorship.

What does the Mafia do? Show up, "Wow you got a lot of valuable things here Be a shame if someone broke them. Best listen to us."

The Mafia leverages potential of damage to existing value to extract cooperation.

I see very little difference here between the Mafia and the plaintiff.

[–] stembolts 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"Because what is legal is always right.
And what is right is always legal."

No?

In a fascist state, your mindset is welcome, "Well they broke the rule, they must pay," but do you never abstract one more level? Is the rule itself breaking something?

Those who downvote you say yes. Nuance is important. The rule has two main affects that I see.

  1. Direct effect (the goal) :Publishers maintain a monopoly on bookselling low value books, the structure of their business preventing any competition.

Okay lets think about #1. Is that good or bad?

  1. Indirect effect : the members of that society now have a restricted access to knowledge.

Okay lets think about #2. Is that good or bad?

Being critical in thought enough to recognize the flaws of the first quote is key.

[–] stembolts 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

And if we are lucky we'll all each reach a point in our lives where most everyone we ever knew is dead and we're there just.. hanging on.

Sometimes I think about the perspective of my 80 year old neighbors. Every day could be their last. I suppose the world would be a better place if everyone of all ages realized how fragile and fleeting this life is.

Every day could be anyone reading this final day. If you didn't read my comment you're safe though.

[–] stembolts 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] stembolts 116 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This drug could potentially ruin your life.

So we will ruin your life to prevent that potentiality.

[–] stembolts 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Please stop posting photos of my family without consent.

[–] stembolts 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Which is also something the president had control to protect prisoners from.

But instead went, "It's gonna go big in cities, kill lots of democrats, let it run loose!"

Then that plan backfired and it went rampant in republican areas as democrats masked up and got vaccinated..

The president at the time made zero effort to do anything other than hide behind a curtain and go, "The virus isn't real! Trust me I tell the truth!", then spent months saying insane things with no evidence to substantiate any of it. Tens of thousands of rural citizens trusted him and died following his advice.

One final note, this was less than a few years after dismantling and defunding Obama's virus response task force which had been assembled so that the US would be prepared for virulant events.

[–] stembolts 1 points 6 months ago

I mean, you have a point but we can't be flawless all of the time.

At the end of the day he's just a person like anyone else. I think that he's genuinely a fan of the show and veganism is not a core public cause of his. Is he vegan? He may be. I'm not sure.

[–] stembolts 21 points 6 months ago (13 children)

I want to point out that your reasoning is irrational which makes your conclusion nonsense.

You didn't root cause or analyze anything, then declared yourself to be right "because".

Here I'll show you, let me use your method to "prove" something.

"The Potato Party has always been in charge in Tombo County, the hungry kids in schools are not the fault of The Potato Party because kids here have been hungry before."

We can "prove" so many things this way!

[–] stembolts 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
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