EvanTh
15d ago
But on the other hand, individual knowledge can make a difference.
If I sell my neighbor a gun, ordinarily, I'm fine. But if I've heard my neighbor talking about wanting to shoot his ex, and then he goes and does that with the gun I've sold him, I might be in trouble. I'm comfortable with there being some similar point at which parents are responsible not to let their teenager have a gun.
(Do these particular parents meet it? I don't know the facts well enough to confidently say.)
EvanTh
15d ago
Indeed!
This spread dates back to the Civil War, when there were a lot of traitors whom the government would rather not put to death. In the event, most of them weren't even charged, but Congress wanted to have that option available.
EvanTh
27d ago
And they often needed that maid, because modern household appliances didn't exist yet.
EvanTh
29d ago
Seems to me the Kitos War, a rebellion against the occupying Romans, counts as that too.
EvanTh
1mo ago
This works well and we don't have any voting fraud here.
How do you know you don't have any voting fraud?
EvanTh
1mo ago
but republicans have mostly won on the issue.
Not while an election-swinging share of states don't have it.
You could say they've won to the extent they realistically can, but that's different.
EvanTh
1mo ago
And I have a value disagreement with the people like that: No, having one's interests represented in government is not a human right.
And, if it were a human right, it would follow that we urgently need some Congresscritters pumping up astrology, others fighting to recriminalize adultery, others defunding traditional medicine and subsidizing homeopathy and acupuncture, and still others demanding free alcohol for all teenagers. People's interests (as they see them) are very diverse.
EvanTh
1mo ago
Or if they're inside a spoiler block, so you can look at them if you want and ignore them otherwise.
EvanTh
2mo ago
This, especially given the Antonine Plague that struck during Marcus Aurelius's reign. It might've killed a quarter of the Empire, population it never had a chance to gain back afterwards. The Empire couldn't bounce back after Commodus's tyranny because it had just been seriously weakened.
EvanTh
1yr ago
You're right. The important part was that voluntarily stepped down from office. And, given that he historically died before Adam's first (and only) term was finished, I think it was very important that he stepped down when he did rather than wait and die in office.
EvanTh
1yr ago
But making that argument is pretty difficult and involves a set of tools to prove it that were, until recently, unavailable to the homeschooling crowd.
A lot of the tools were there back in 1955, in a bestselling book.
EvanTh
1yr ago
Scott hosted an ACC about circumcision several years ago, where IMO the pro- side came out stronger.
EvanTh
1yr ago
They deprive themselves, their children, and their grandchildren of the benefits of a greater family community, and for what? To preserve their free time so they may pursue degenerate hobbies?
First, there're other ways to have a greater family community: I know a family who lives close to their cousins and has a good community with them, despite their being only two siblings.
Second, do you claim that all hobbies are degenerate? If not, can you substantiate the claim that most parents of <4 children are specifically pursuing degenerate hobbies?
(Third, before we think about having children, perhaps the dating market needs fixing. But yeah, that's another topic, however personal it might feel to me.)
EvanTh
1yr ago
Among other problems, what counts as "the people"? Do "the people" even have a coherent enough viewpoint for someone to be their ideological enemy?
EvanTh
1yr ago
If we can build them cheaply, yes. Perhaps I should look closer, but I haven't been convinced. Land for tunnels isn't as expensive, but whole new costs would show up for excavation and support.
EvanTh
1yr ago
This's a noble dream, but it's the same dream I've heard about from boosters of self-driving cars. What advantage do the tunnels add? They'll help prevent congestion aboveground, but the whole mechanism for making them cheap is making them narrow - so a two-lane road aboveground will be just as useful as a two-lane tunnel underground.
(And that's if the tunnel can be made cheap, which I seriously doubt.)
What evidence do you have this happened, or was even threatened, at Nuremberg?
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