I don't think Bin Laden was killed. The fast disposal of his "body" was suspect and his family was too wealthy.
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I don't think children and teenagers should be (physically) allowed to transition to another gender. They should at the very least be 18, though I believe we should have people wait until brain matured, and a better understanding on consequences is built in.
I am talking about taking drugs, hormones, surgery.
Kids/teenagers/early adults have little to no understanding of definitive actions.
I am all for trans rights, I think transitioning leads to less suicides and happiness. And overall, my stance is if it makes you happy and doesn't harm anyone, go for it.
The same applies to gambling, driving, or anything implies long term effects.
I would also love to see strong support systems put in place to accompany youth as a whole. The world is complex and its increasingly difficult to take it in, and navigate the absolute hurricane that is it.
I am, of course, open to be further educated on the matter. Openness and education is key to progress
No one should feel obligated to be an organ donor. And telling someone they must because they "aren't using their body anymore" is fucked up. If a person has to be coerced, guilted or bullied into giving the "gift of life" they aren't doing so freely. If they have to be manipulated into it then it's not a gift. It's theft. Nevermind the fact that corporations make big bank off the organ and tissue trade by piecemealing out donors and sellings the parts, but no one talks about THAT because lives are being saved.
(I'm not against organ donation. I just don't like that we use manipulation tactics to procure body parts and that there isn't transparency about who is profiting).
Nevermind the fact that corporations make big bank off the organ and tissue trade by piecemealing out donors and sellings the parts, but no one talks about THAT because lives are being saved.
When you donate an organ after death, your family gets nothing. But, the receiver can pay $80,000 -100,000+ just for the organ.
That religion is for gullible people.
There is no moral way to raise a cat.
Either they live inside and live an entire life in a few thousand square feet at best for 16-20 years, or you let them outside to hunt and they kill tons of wildlife and are exposed to becoming roadkill/coyote food etc.
My personal dodge is to adopt old cats that have already been indoctrinated into inside life and who could never be let out anyway.
Heterosexuality is not natural.
Do you mean like, if society wasn't a thing people would be attracted to everyone?
Yes, more or less. It's a spectrum forced or pressed to the extremes, if it wasn't, I think a lot of more people would consider themselves somewhat pansexual.
Though not for me personally, I could definitely see that based on the practices of other societies
UK Rock bands and singers are galaxy away from US Rock bands and singers.
UK rock bands are a galaxy ahead or a galaxy behind?
I have a bunch. I think the biggest one is that some people are naturally dumber than other people and can't be fixed by education. I don't think this broadly applies to any specific ethnic group or anything, but I do think that there is likely a genetic component to intelligence. I also don't think that we should prevent these people from breeding or treat them as inferior, but I also think that sending these people to college is a waste of time and expecting them to do well on college either waters down the college education experience or puts unfair expectations on them. I worry a lot about how these people will fare in an increasingly automated world and the answer is not good at all.
A: America and many other nations will soon need to create economic systems from the ground up. Capitalism and the rules we have to govern it, are just inertia with bandaids being used to keep it from hurling itself over a cliff. Socialism, Autoism (AI), and other ism's we don't know, will start outright replacing what we knew. The process will be chaotic and painful.
B: The death penalty and quicker judgments should be a thing, at least for America. The wheels of justice are too slow - and explicit terrorists like ICE are allowed to roam freely. They should be rounded up and put to the rope. Should the good guys win a 2nd American Civil War, all members of ICE and MAGA should sway in the wind, so that their ideas and character are not passed down to future generations of humanity. The mistaken mercy granted to the Confederates and Nazis, should not be given to the Dogey.
C: Peter Monyleux's best games are Magic Carpet 1 & 2.
D: AI is good, but we will need it to be publicly owned by society, freely available, and open-sourced to ensure that it remains that way. The social problems with AI largely stem from the wealthy exerting their influence over the poor, as they do in all things.
E: The hardware drought for RAM and GPUs will pass, and we will have much better hardware choices for our local gaming and AI.
If you are in favor of violent revolution, you are pro-death penalty. I see too many people that say they're against the death penalty when it's an existing state but then they claim to be Marxist-Leninist. If you're a revolutionary leftist, you have people in mind who you want to give the death penalty.
There was a time when I trusted rule of law. As we have seen from the Epstein Class and ICE, the application of law is very selective.
In any case, there are lots of people that I indeed want to be dead. They harm society, and willfully do so. I don't think prison can reform them, and they don't offer anything of value if allowed to live within a prison's walls. In such circumstances, I see no point in mercy.
Mercy and prison, should be for rehabilitation or while waiting for courts to determine guilt. The prisons should be well appointed, they simply should be a fancy hotel people can't leave while things are properly settled. In situations where we have clear footage, witnesses, and evidence, trials should be expedited.
Say, for example, the masked ICE who murdered Pretti-Good. We can't identify them due to masking, so we should arrest and execute a number of random ICE equal to the amount who participated in the killings. We can't have accurate justice, because ICE deliberately engineered circumstances where we can't tell who needs to be delivered Justice's blade. But we shouldn't prevent ICE from suffering consequences for their evil.
It ain't ideal, and I don't like not being able to know who exactly deserves what...but the alternative is just to allow truly innocent people to die horribly for having done nothing wrong.
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