SkookumTree
2yr ago
This doesn't even seem that good even if you are just trying to maximize the number of dead infidels!
SkookumTree
2yr ago
To some extent but not quite as far as "women can't go outside without male escort"
SkookumTree
2yr ago
How about this one: a patient in a psych ER accuses a resident or attending of rape. Cameras everywhere. They go through the cameras, realize it's bullshit, and nothing happens.
SkookumTree
2yr ago
In the end, it is likely that some arrangement between men and women will be reached.
Agreed. It's going to be different, given:
- Washing machines, broadly defined as readily available labor-saving home appliances that essentially eat electricity and shit household tasks.
- Birth control, broadly defined - the Pill, sure, but also condoms.
- Modern medicine: antibiotics, effective treatment for STIs, perhaps even AIDS treatment and prophylaxis.
A question: could the Sexual Revolution have happened in a world without penicillin? What would have happened to sexual mores and norms had AIDS remained as deadly as it had been in the early 1980s...and if there was no effective or reliable test for it?
SkookumTree
2yr ago
Some things that are legal are still wrong.
Definitely agreed; a pretty central example is adultery. That's usually considered wrong - and yet is legal in most Western countries.
So too, marital rape was legal in 18th-century England; commentators at the time (Blackstone, IIRC) were of the opinion that it was odious and wrong but the justice system of the time couldn't effectively deal with it. Freedom isn't free; justice isn't free, you get the justice you pay for, in blood and treasure.
SkookumTree
2yr ago
In heavily Islamic communities, the view that women invite rape by being outside without a chaperone is often times so predominant that it is integrated into the law as well. Given the high levels of Islamic immigration into western nations, this is far from just an academic concern as well.
True. If they pull that crap over here in America, we'll fight 'em; these are essentially two mutually incompatible views of morality, male nature, and civilization. Besides, we've got all kinds of shit like guns and contraceptives and washing machines that they didn't have in the Middle East a thousand years ago - so that way of life and set of cultural norms is likely deeply maladaptive in a modern, industrialized society. It might have worked OK in its time, but using a camel caravan for hauling instead of an 18-wheeler isn't any good in 'Murrica or for that matter the West.
SkookumTree
2yr ago
There are a lot of legal ways to be an asshole.
SkookumTree
2yr ago
Because rape is rape; the harms of a false accusation aren't over and done with the moment it is made. On one extreme, they could lead to a lengthy prison sentence or even death. On the other, they could result in no damage at all to the falsely accused, and nobody cares at all. This being said, it does seem wise to counsel young men to not get themselves involved in ethically or morally ambiguous or murky sexual situations. At least, not without a very good reason.
*Something like, say, Loving vs. Virginia might qualify; the Southern racists of the day might well have argued that interracial sex and marriage were morally wrong or unethical.
SkookumTree
2yr ago
those Palestinians did get a pretty raw deal, getting booted off of their land effectively permanently mostly due to things that had nothing to do with them
I agree with that. Then, of course - like an awful lot of oppressed people whose way of relating to each other is the paradigm of oppressor and oppressed - they turned around and engaged in savagery. Like, I feel for the Palestinians, but the guys who decided to open a war by attacking a music festival and then parading the corpses around seem to have erred badly. Even leaving morality aside, this looks like it might just be a ploy to goad Israel and perhaps the West into an equally savage response. What is the ultimate purpose of this kind of thing for Hamas? Who benefits? What does "victory" look like? Even if we're being uncharitable and it's "Drive the Israelis out of Israel, kill those that won't leave, and control the territory there", deliberately attacking civilians hardens resolve and makes you look like a bunch of savages to Westerners...the ones with the boatloads of guns and ammo and bombs.
SkookumTree
2yr ago
ISIS, while in the middle of a war of survival in the ME, sent terrorists to Europe to kill civilians. That is completely irrational unless you think you are fighting a global war for God.
Even if you are fighting a global war for God, doesn't that seem like a poor-quality military tactic? It seems like it would just piss off powerful enemies while not achieving any military objectives.
SkookumTree
2yr ago
the founder being a sex pest or coercing people into taking drugs.
This is way more common than basically rolling your own violently-rebellious religion.
As for religion...it binds people together and is valuable; I've even heard that every religion creates a society in its image.
SkookumTree
2yr ago
This looks like a bunch of hippies and psychonauts in Kentucky attempting to use a legal loophole to take psychedelics in an organized, deliberate way. It doesn't look like it now is a cult, but the ingredients for one forming are present.
SkookumTree
2yr ago
You have to be advanced shade of stupid to allow yourself to be hurt from rdx and the likes.
You were synthesizing this stuff yourself, as I understand it, rather than getting your hands on already-made commercial-grade stuff. I'm no explosives expert, but isn't the process of making this stuff at least somewhat dangerous, leaving the user at risk of blowing himself up while trying to make homemade bombs in the woods?
SkookumTree
2yr ago
life expectancy was 75 years so presumably they have some decent healthcare
Fair enough although you get a LOT of mileage out of germ theory, half-decent sanitation, vaccines, and cheap readily available antibiotics. Obstetrics makes a difference too. If you combine that with half-decent nutrition you no shit have most of the gains you get from modern medicine right there. The rest is essentially incremental improvement plus trauma surgery; maybe you could stretch and throw obstetricians in that as well.
SkookumTree
2yr ago
Eh...it wasn't that a couple of shitheads had a sick competition but that the mainstream press reported favorably on it IMO.
SkookumTree
2yr ago
What would be nice is if there was a religion that was more or less born and adapted to a modern, industrial context in which germ theory was a thing and there was essentially no threat of literally starving to death.
SkookumTree
2yr ago
Yeah. Pissing off the Zetas is suicide, if you do it it's best to always have bombs or grenades on you...
SkookumTree
2yr ago
homemade semtex
I hope that your youthful experimentation didn't cost you any body parts!
SkookumTree
2yr ago
Hell, a trillion bucks wouldn't be a bad price to pay. For what it's worth it wouldn't be bad if the US took a bunch of 'em too.
SkookumTree
2yr ago
Give the Jewish people Alaska, or something
Should've been part of Germany, if anything; they were the ones that started the shit that go-round.
SkookumTree
2yr ago
The microroni is just a rifle attachment for a handgun. I suppose you're more accurate with it, but the ballistics of it are still shitty compared to a real rifle.
SkookumTree
2yr ago
Yeah - moving some 98yo geezer who was a piece of shit Nazi during WWII from a nursing home outside of a prison to a nursing home inside of a prison doesn't sound like the best use of the justice system's time and effort. Almost all of the perpetrators are dead.
SkookumTree
2yr ago
Yeah. There's definitely a use case for a shit tier hotel room like this but I wouldn't want to be around a bunch of people that can't even live in an apartment...it seems like it would be safer for me to just camp in the woods or something.
SkookumTree
2yr ago
I mean these things are designed to be able to be cleaned by a guy hosing the place down with a power washer. Shitting all over the place isn't as bad as flooding it or cooking meth in it.
Idk. I can see arguments for clemency if the 40yo nazi in 1955 is quadriplegic or has terminal cancer or needs nursing home level care because he has ALS or something. You are just moving him from a free world nursing home to a prison one.
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