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My high school was surrounded by one way back in 2002, although it wasn't a chain link one. It was made of metal bars, maybe 2 inches in diameter and 15 feet high. There was a large enough inside area on one side to safely get away from the building if there was a fire, though. It was mainly to prevent kids from leaving the campus during the day. Otherwise a lot of kids would just walk off campus to skip. Although, that really wasn't effective anyway. Kids could also easily skip classes behind the bleachers in the gym. There was also a science teacher that had completely checked out and would let kids smoke weed and do hallucinogens in his classroom while he just sat at his desk doing nothing. Any kids could go to his classroom to skip the ones they were supposed to be in.

Nobody is lost. People lead lives that make sense to them. It's not your job or any government's job to impose your beliefs onto others. Because we have different philosophies and beliefs, separation of church and state is a thing.

Some people follow the Nobel Eightfold Path. Some follow the Ten Precepts of Taoism. Some follow the Seven Tenants of the Satanic Temple. Some follow the 52 Hukams of Guru Gobind Singh. No matter how strongly you feel about your beliefs, nothing makes them any more special than the beliefs of other people. They feel just as strongly about theirs. People having different norths as you call it isn't a bad thing. That's called diversity. There's only a problem when people are bigots that don't accept others for who they are and feel the need to "fix" them. Whether it's militant Christianity or militant atheism, we don't need that. Keep it to yourself. Countless societies have flourished without your 10 commandments.

All of it. The entire thing is complete garbage.

You already acknowledge that commandments 1-4 are things with which non-Christians in general strongly disagree.

5 - What if your father was Josef Mengele? The silence of his son is what allowed him to successfully hide in South America. Was that a good thing? Did he deserve any honor?

6 is written by the state of Texas as "Thou shall not kill." Is killing in self defense wrong? If someone broke into your house with assault rifles and the intention of killing your children, would it be wrong to shoot at them to stop them? If a fighter jet was coming to bomb your city with a nuke, but you were able to intercept it with a missile, killing the pilot in the process, would that be wrong?

7 - In the context of the Bible, "adultery" can mean not only cheating, but also any sex outside of marriage. Tons of people do not see anything wrong with consensual sex outside of marriage.

8 - What is considered stealing? Is copying that floppy stealing? If a starving homeless orphan steals a loaf of bread from a billionaire to survive another day, is that wrong? A state may define theft however it wants. Personally, I consider the mere existence of private property as theft.

9 - If it was WW2 and Nazi officials came to your house asking if you had seen any Jews, would it be morally wrong to lie to them if you knew about some hiding in your attic?

10 - Is it wrong for workers to desire the means of production?

Every single one of the 10 commandments throws away the nuance of defining morality through critical thinking. As such, I would argue that it is incredibly immoral to follow any one of them.

Wait, am I reading this correctly? When you say 11299.68, that includes not only the person working, but also their spouse and children??? How much does that cover?

Right now, I'm lucky to have possibly the best healthcare plan in the US through my wife's job. She was able to add me to her plan for $8580 per year, but it fully covers almost everything with no deductible - something basically unheard of in the US. In comparison, the cheapest marketplace plan I could have gotten would have been something like $8400 per year, with an $8500 deductible, and then it only would have covered 25% of expenses after that. Before I got on her plan, it usually cost me $300 to see a doctor for a regular cold. I'm in my 30s, a normal weight, reasonably fit, and don't have any health problems other than occasional acid reflux. Under my previous plan, the pharmacy was going to charge me $980 to get acid reflux medication (40 mg esomeprazole magnesium tablets). So much winning living in the US. 🙄

While there's maybe an 85% chance of that, the other 15% chance really needs to be considered as well. What if it's not rabies and by opening the door, you get to hang out and become best friends forever? Maybe next week, the raccoon will invite you to its den, introduce you to its family, and fix you a nice meal? Maybe some apple-berry-grasshopper salad. Have you ever considered that?

While that's true, every state except for Montana has at-will employment. Despite that, unions often negotiate contract requirements that effectively guarantee job security. But if you live in a right to work state, chances are there isn't even an option to join a union at your job, giving you no means of collective bargaining.

Time is sneaking up on us. It's not even 10 years anymore. It's closer to 20. 💀

In a right to work state, they don't need to give a reason. Any rules against firings are pretty much unenforceable, and the company is considered innocent unless proven guilty.

The difficult thing is people need to organize it outside of work. If management gets wind of that kind of stuff, they can fire and replace any workers they know are participating long before it actually happens.

By all means, people should try. Not saying people shouldn't. The mountain to overcome fascism isn't going to get any smaller as we dive deeper into it. And a strike wouldn't even have to happen in every area or even every state. It just has to happen enough to shut stuff down across the US. I just worry that most things tend to start out small and grow with time. For all of the reasons I stated, this can't start out small. It has to start loud and strong. If it starts out small, it will get crushed in a way that scares people away from trying again.

Apparently this just applies to unions and federal workers, though. At least as it was written in the Taft–Hartley Act of 1947. But yeah, the fact that it's illegal for unions to call for general strikes is indeed fucked up beyond belief. Unions are an essential part of organizing strikes.