zeke5123a
10mo ago
Did you read Toilken as a kid? I’ve long taken inspiration from the book which was “do your duty and that which is right even if it seems unlikely to win over evil.”
zeke5123a
10mo ago
But what’s annoying is that these rules shield the guilty; not the innocent who have their rights trampled.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
To me, it is the finality and chance of a mistake. I’d concede the point where someone livestreams it. But I worry in other cases.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
I guess the question is do you need the work to be economically viable? Maybe if prisoners were forced to do non pecuniary very hard work for 12 hours a day prison would be a much worse place to be and prison might be easier to manage (since the inmates would be exhausted).
zeke5123a
10mo ago
The cost of prison v the pecuniary benefits from hard labor is probably a net negative. Maybe though if prisoners had to do really truly hard labor (at pains of extreme punishment) prisons would be easier to manage (since no one would have the energy) AND there would be a larger disincentive to commit crime.
This is why for lower level crimes I support public flogging. I think you get probably more disincentive without the deleterious impact of jail.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
My MIL and SIL honestly believe that a person could commit with their dogs on a spirit level. They sent a picture to the “dog psychic” who texted back basic cold reading techniques. My MIL and SIL feel for it hook, line, and sinker.
My MIL told my mother about it while at a family dinner. My mother became deeply concerned — she was concerned they were speaking with demons!
I was the only one who said it was an obvious fake!
zeke5123a
11mo ago
But there was like one surprise onside kick a year? Doesn’t really change it that much.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
The democrats also just straight up lie a lot. When Harris kept saying “Trump’s Project 2025” that isn’t “technically true but misleading.” That was straight up lying.
I’m not sure it is really fair to say Trump is unique in lying. Where he is probably unique is that when he doesn’t need to lie he exaggerates.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Chuck Todd routinely degraded American politics. Why should I listen to a thing he says unless it starts with “I am a huge part of the problem—I’m sorry.”
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Ha! I do miss the football of the 2000s. I feel like that was one of the best eras. Passing wasn’t so easy. Defense was still permissible. And the athletes were amazing.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
When I told my wife (checking phone in between commercials) she said “you’ve got to be kidding.” It seems less shocking but more “this is sad”
zeke5123a
11mo ago
What a bad way to conduct this online exchange. We weren’t in any way discussing what closing arguments we would make. And that’s the tact you take?
And no that’s not what I’m arguing.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
This is just blatantly strawmanning. The person just wasn’t looking suspicious. The person just wasn’t acting crazy. The person committed a physical attack after engaging in a pretty crazy (ie out of the ordinary) prelude to the physical attack (ie this wasn’t a situation where two guys were squaring off — a guy ran a cross a street to tackle another guy).
If you are worried about slippery slopes suffice to say we can cut the slope pretty earlier. Don’t engage in crazy attacks and self defense then would not be credible.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
The point is that anyone crazy enough to run through traffic and tackle someone onto concrete is someone who while the scuffle is on going is crazy enough to do a whole sort of things. That is shooting someone seconds after that happens is reasonable self defense.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
We’ve investigated ourselves and found out we did everything perfect isn’t really debunking.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
The final paragraph is what feminists claim but revealed preference suggests women actually like men.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
It doesn’t follow that unrealized capital gains is good just because you can’t get your preferred option. But if the point is “it’s hard to remove the step up on death” presumably that’s easier compared to a whole new idea of “let’s tax unrealized gains.” The former is something that most people can grok. The latter is confiscatory.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Yes capital losses can’t offset OI. But by and large we have a system where we look to net income.
If obvious, why would the adversarial system get to a different result?
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