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Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
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Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
13d ago
· Edited 11d ago
That depends on whether you those implementing such a system are asking "How much can we afford to guarantee everyone as a minimum?" or "How little can we get away with guaranteeing everyone as a minimum?".
If they are asking the former, and increasing it as society produces more and automation advances, such that people can expect that the minimum 20-30 years from now will be less unpleasant, there might be statistically-significantly more than a snowball's chance in hell of it working.
If they are asking the latter, they will signal that you would let people starve to death if they thought they could get away with it, and it will not end well for them.
For this was the sin of thy sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness were in her and her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. --Ezekiel 16:49
The men of Sodom had abundant creature comforts, with little toil, for themselves; but refused to share those benefits with their neighbours.
The mills of G-d grind slow, but they grind exceeding small.
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Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
14d ago
Why are the Jews trying to burn down and steal Patagonia in Argentina?
I strongly doubt that they are. However, let's suppose, as a thought experiment, that the claims given are correct.
The Jews tried to live in Europe. The people living in Europe did not agree to let them live there.
They tried to move to America. The people there let some of them in, but refused many others, and asserted the right to decide whether to allow them.
They moved to the Levant. The people living there started three wars, lost them, and have waged guerilla warfare ever since, attempting to drive them out. The Western chattering classes have expressed sympathy with the guerillas, calling for them to control 'from the river to the sea' and advocating 'globalising the intifada', thus implying that they do not consent to Jews living anywhere.
Therefore, if there is no location whose chattering-class-recognised population is willing to allow the Jewish people the unconditional right to live there, then the only possibility is for the Jewish people to establish a home for themselves against the wishes of the current inhabitants.
Where exactly would you have that be? Where should the Jewish people have the right to live, even if the people living there don't want them there, given that that condition also potentially applies to anywhere else?
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
18d ago
Some of those protesters may be operating under an 'ingroup good outgroup bad' mindset, but there is an ethically consistent schema fitting both of their beliefs.
The following exchange occurred regarding the recent ... unpleasantness ... in Venezuela:
Anonymous:
Getting mixed messages here about state sovereignty from the “borders shouldn’t exist” crowd
argumate:
Delta Force should be able to go wherever they like in the world as long as they don’t shoot anyone when they get there 😤
The same could be applied to 'ICE out of our neighborhood' protests; "They are welcome to live here, visit here, buy from shops here, apply for jobs here, but not come in and haul away our neighbours who were minding their own business."
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
18d ago
Who would you rather babysit your kid for a week—a randomly selected ICE agent or a randomly selected Somali migrant?
I'd have a lot more recourse if the migrant tried any funny business.... (This reasoning was also given by some women who chose the bear.)
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
18d ago
...this home surveillance...lacks pixels....
Is that...Bigfoot?
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
18d ago
...because the administration doesn't want to play or discard cards in their hand....
Which is exactly what has people so alarmed! They believe that the reason we're not currently rebuilding from World War Five right now is because, for the last eighty years, there has been a rule that military intervention for territorial gain should not be considered as an option.
That's why so many people support Ukraine, why the world came to the defence of Kuwait in 1990, and why anyone besides a few anti-Semites gives a rat's tuchus about the West Bank settlements.
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Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
19d ago
If a country is a home and all citizens are roommates
Which is precisely the point on which the left disagrees! Not everyone believes that a country is analogous to a household!
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
19d ago
If you think one was an innocent martyr and the other got what she deserved, I would really like to hear the arguments for that.
The left's argument, as I understand it, can be summarised/paraphrased as follows:
"1. The belief that humans outside Our Tribe matter, just as much as those within, is Good.
"2. The belief that members of Our Tribe matter more than outsiders, thus weighing one of Us being robbed by an outsider worse than a myriad outsiders being tortured to death, is Evil.
"3. Renee Good, in opposing mass deportations, was advancing the cause of universal benevolence; therefore her actions were Good.
"4. Ashli Babbit, in attempting to forcibly overturn Mr Biden's election on behalf of Mr Trump, was advancing the cause of tribal chauvinism; therefore her actions were Evil.
"5. Actions done in the service of Good ought to receive more latitude than the same actions done in service of Evil."
I am less sure of the right-wing counterpart, but I suspect it would involve switching the alignment labels in 1-4, and possibly renaming the causes they were advancing.
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Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
20d ago
· Edited 20d ago
And in Inuktitut it also has a dual form, Inuuk (one Inuk, two Inuuk, many Inuit); Greenlandic, also known as Kalaallisut, is the only member of the Inuit-Yup'ik-Aleut family not to have the dual form.
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Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
23d ago
The exact same shelf, immediately adjacent to the smut books, were three different editions of the Bible.
I wonder which book they were most often opened to....
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Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
24d ago
It wasn't until years later that I saw that map again and did a double-take at the place names...
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Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
29d ago
the Soviet greengrocer who puts a sign in his window saying "workers of the world unite."
*Czechoslovakian greengrocer
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
29d ago
But ultimately consciousness and subjective experience don't matter.
They're the only thing that matters! In the absence of subjective experience, there is no way to define 'better'!
Outcomes matter.
Because they affect the subjective experience of consciousnesses.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
1mo ago
Every so often, someone rediscovers the original position.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
1mo ago
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
1mo ago
It's not a defect, unless you consider him to be a means to an end rather than an end in himself.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
1mo ago
It can't be that there was a giant [J]ewish academic movement centered around deconstructing biological distinctions between humans.
I'm not sure I'd blame them if there were, given how obvious it had become that the Nations couldn't be trusted with such distinctions.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
1mo ago
Or a more American solution, shoot the more annoying ones.
Should they be drug out into the street first?
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
1mo ago
My headcannnon is that Han is slightly force-sensitive; he technically shot first, but perceived that Greedo was intending to shoot.
Thus, the original version is what it would have looked like to a by-stander; the Special Edition is what it looked like from Han's perspective.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
1mo ago
what's with this ten-year gap in your resume
"I presume you are familiar with the Official Secrets Act?"
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
1mo ago
Better to give a bit of behind the scenes sneak peak instead.
They rewrote the plot to include a sly, crafty mountain?
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
1mo ago
I can still scare one of them by saying the words "rigorous proofs" in a Russian accent.
Or "Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrisation of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifold". (Боже мой!)
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
1mo ago
· Edited 1mo ago
Prussia was on Washington's side in the first one of those; the British allies were Hessian.
Celestial-body-NOS
Social Dominance Orientation is the root of all kinds of evil.
1mo ago
Well, it's not so much Ukraine per se, but rather not encouraging more wars of territorial expansion.
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