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Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
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Celestial-body-NOS
Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
1d ago
· Edited 2hr ago
I'm wondering, I suppose, whether there's a way we can employ shame in a truly good way as a society? Can we somehow shame people without turning into monsters ourselves...?
Public shaming is a very dangerous weapon, and, if its use is normalised, can easily change targets to things that aren't anyone else's business (e. g. hair length in the 1960s).
Therefore, if it is employed at all, it should be reserved for situations of exceptional moral gravity, of a degree far beyond that attained by any of Aella's lifestyle choices; her father's parenting practises, or the making of excuses for them, would rise to that level.
(Also, the Third (Protestant)/Second (Catholic) Commandment, while commonly interpreted as an injunction against shouting 'G-dd-mn it!' when Mr Hammer meets Mr Thumb, might more accurately be rendered as 'Thou shalt not carry the name of the Lord thy God in vain', i. e., do not claim divine endorsement for your personal prejudices/power-complexes/&c. Thus, calling one's sadistic child-rearing programme 'God's Way' could be argued to be far more blasphemous than the output of Andres Serrano or Chris Ofili that drew so much controversy from Concerned Citizens.)
Celestial-body-NOS
Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
1d ago
· Edited 1d ago
Inter-ethnic conflict that expresses itself in “cruelty as deterrent” is as historically common as the summer rain.
A lot of things are historically common, but we still condemn them as bad; inter alia, chattel slavery, spousal and child abuse, and many types of war crimes.
This is very “rootless cosmopolitan” coded.
Fair cop; I'm the kind of person who, as Scott Alexander described, sees a headline 'Victory for Man United' and feels inspired until I look at the article and realise it's just some sportsball thing.
Celestial-body-NOS
Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
1d ago
they don’t think any nation is really worth defending on its own terms
Correct. Individual human beings are worth defending as an end in themselves; all organisations, from the nation to the East Cupcake Middle School Parent-Teacher Association, have value as a means to an end. (cf. Immanuel Kant).
Celestial-body-NOS
Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
2d ago
A country capable of such measures is not worth defending.
Celestial-body-NOS
Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
4d ago
the argument that roads are paid for with fuel taxes and vehicle registration fees
This probably won't be a popular sentiment here, but I believe that we ought to move more in the direction of funding roads out of general revenue.
Celestial-body-NOS
Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
8d ago
Progressives can post just as easily as they used to, they just don't want to do it when non-progressives have the right to respond.
In other words, they were accustomed to privilege, and now equality feels like oppression?
Celestial-body-NOS
Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
11d ago
Yes, forbidding people from giving food to the poor certainly ought to be a crime. (Chabad, October 2012; Tablet, November 2019)
Celestial-body-NOS
Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
13d ago
After they wipe out the malarial mosquitos, ticks should be the next target.
Celestial-body-NOS
Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
19d ago
'If you won't marry anyone but a virgin, then you'd better leave a few of them around!'
Celestial-body-NOS
Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
19d ago
· Edited 19d ago
I don't have an issue with the government paying SpaceX to launch government satellites.
The Blue Tribe has similar antipathy for Mr Musk as the Red Tribe has for Harvard. I was making the point that the monies that they get from the government are both of the form 'Government gives money to rich person/organisation in exchange for services rendered', and thus they are both analogous to @Soul_Stuff giving money to Walmart in exchange for groceries.
(As for my general Views on SpaceX, while I have a few notes on Mr Musk's politics, I suspect that the people calling for his head are not being entirely honest about their motives, and are more driven by resentment not that he is wealthy per se so much as his having the temerity to not be subject to the high-school-cafeteria-style pecking order. I could be wrong.
Futhermore, even if one accepts the aspersions cast against Mr Musk's character, ending the eight-year, ten-month, nine-day period in which America Could Not Into Space has to count for something.)
Celestial-body-NOS
Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
21d ago
· Edited 19d ago
Same thing applies to the Blue-Tribe hue and cry over the government paying Elongated Muskrat to put their satellites in orbit....
(edit: the government's satellites; NASA, USGS, NRO, &c. &c.). Sorry if that wasn't clear.
Celestial-body-NOS
Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
21d ago
Would hamas accept a two state solution on these borders?
I think so, yes
I wish I shared your optimism....
Celestial-body-NOS
Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
21d ago
What conditions did they refuse to accept?
Celestial-body-NOS
Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
21d ago
before his own people hung him from a bridge
Hanged him from a bridge. He's not a bloody tapestry!
Celestial-body-NOS
Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
23d ago
My white, Evangelical, smoking and drinking are sins circle faired very well.
I think this part should be hyphenated, as otherwise it becomes a garden-path sentence.
Celestial-body-NOS
Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
27d ago
self-checkout machine
efficient, human-free experience
What kind of machines do they have where you live?
Celestial-body-NOS
Why should Man not rebel against Nature, when Nature herself is in rebellion against Justice?
29d ago
If He had died by very slow decay, would that have counted as a sufficient sacrifice by God Incarnate?
2: Stop signs are periods, not commas.
3: Where do you live where they have letters in the speed limits? All the ones I've seen are made out of numbers!
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