walruz
3mo ago
No, it should never be a crime to fail to act. Otherwise would be literal slavery,
There exists zero jurisdictions in which it is a crime to not be a police officer. Police officers are not drafted. Being forced to do your job, that you volunteered to do and get paid to do, isn't slavery.
Once you've signed up to do certain jobs, not doing those jobs should certainly be criminal. If you call 911 and the EMTs show up just to watch you die, I'd certainly be in favor of a legal regime that sees them charged with something.
walruz
3mo ago
I wonder how gun control advocates have responded to the fact that police have no obligation to protect anyone, if they have even addressed that at all.
The fact that (American) cops are under no obligation to protect anyone isn't a law of nature.
Just like a gun control advocate can advocate for changing the laws with regards to who can own which gun, he can obviously also advocate for actually forcing the cops to protect people.
You can probably count the actual people who hold the implied opinion "nobody should be allowed to defend themself, and cops shouldn't protect anyone" on the fingers of one hand.
walruz
3mo ago
Well, if you're European, there's zero chance of being invaded by China, while there's a non zero chance of being invaded by the US.
walruz
3mo ago
Before Trump started going off about Greenland, I'd be very surprised if a significant share of those respondents even knew that there was such a place, let alone finding it on a map.
The first game in the US remake of Squid Game could just be "Name three countries".
walruz
3mo ago
At this point the only foods remaining regional are really ones that nobody else wants..
You could have chosen surströmming, or balut, or nattō, or kholodets, but you chose a normal-ass hamburger.
walruz
4mo ago
Nybbler claims that Trump is trolling about invading Denmark (as if "haha he's actually not pissing away every drop of American soft power and dismantling their entire alliance structure for some kind of gain, he's just doing it because he feels like it" was some kind of own). I am saying (implying) that if this was actually the case, we should expect him to have been trolling the last time he talked about starting a war for no tangible reason.
walruz
4mo ago
If police aren't paid enough to sometimes not shoot people, surely the civilians on the other side of the interaction - who are paid even less - are even more justified in shooting?
walruz
4mo ago
What are you on about. Pissing away the last 70+ years of soft power is in no way mainstream republican policy (for all their faults).
(that is to say, Venezuela could well have been GOP capture if it happened in isolation, but repeatedly threatening to invade your allies because you looked at a mercator projection and thought Greenland is actually that big is fairly obviously just Trump being a retard)
walruz
4mo ago
On a geopolitical and moral level though, I have little sympathy for Venezuela, for the same reason I have little sympathy for Ukraine. If you repeatedly antagonize your neighboring superpower, you get what you get.
Somehow I don't think you'd be consistent in your views if China bombed your house because the US antagonized China.
(and Ukraine doesn't neighbour any superpowers)
walruz
4mo ago
Since ICE destroyed the evidence that the lady's car rammmed theirs, and since the body cam footage apparently shows bad enough stuff not to be released, the null hypothesis should probably be that ICE rammmed her, or indeed that nothing even happened.
ICE shot a woman, it is on them to prove that they were in the right doing so, which they haven't done.
walruz
6mo ago
My opinion about banning people for using emojis, especially when they are obviously used as a rhetorical device (as opposed to the entire post being written in zoomer brainrot) is: 🤡.
walruz
7mo ago
Trump doesn't want any airbase in Afghanistan back, though. He threatened Afghanistan with "bad things" if they don't "give (Bagram) back to those who built it".
Now exactly why Trump feels so strongly that Afghanistan should give an air base to the Soviet Union we'll probably never know.
walruz
7mo ago
For this argument to hold water, you'd of course have to prove that the hit was ordered by the unambiguous leader of "The Left", not merely that the hit was performed by someone who subscribed to the left ideology.
Because if "the hit was performed by someone who shared some ideological traits with" is the same thing as "the hit was performed by", then Pearl Harbour was bombed by the Germans.
walruz
8mo ago
By their nature, private businesses shouldbe focused on the long term if you consider a purely theoretical universe populated by homo economicus.
Private companies in the real world, headed by real humans, only rarely tend to be concerned with the long term.
walruz
8mo ago
The twin primes conjecture actually has some applications: https://old.reddit.com/r/BadMtgCombos/comments/1feps3y/deal_infinite_damage_for_4gru_as_long_as_the_twin/
walruz
10mo ago
"Waaah, you modded Johnny but you didn't mod Suzy, obviously you love Suzy more!"
Pretty clear violation of the rule cited by netstack two posts upthread. One week ban.
walruz
10mo ago
Assuming Russia breaks with all previous tradition and manages to fight somewhat competently, sure, but what part is supposed to make nation building in Afghanistan look like a cake walk?
walruz
10mo ago
Not to mention that NATO is inheriting a basket case nation that makes nation building in Afghanistan look like a cake walk.
The odds of Russia folding completely and needing NATO occupation as a result of their invasion of Ukraine seems extremely low.
walruz
10mo ago
This is your brain on deontology. Sometimes it is better if fewer people suffer with less intensity.
Or maybe laws are made by voting among a body of legislators, and are differentiated in regard to the ease with which they are passed.
You'll also note that making it harder to create your own guns is orthogonal to whether guns are allowed in the first place; it is perfectly cromulent to have legal recreational McNukes (for example), but where the government wants to know who happens to own WMDs.
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