zeke5123a
10hr ago
Maybe a majority of the men who died were higher quality leading to the now weak France today
zeke5123a
10hr ago
Yet Batman consistently has to put the same bad guy back in the insane asylum. Perhaps Batman is not a role model?
zeke5123a
18hr ago
I would say it’s mostly Russias fault since they were the ones who decided to make this a lot more kinetic. But of course, the low key war that was happening for years before it turning the heat up had problems on both sides.
zeke5123a
2d ago
This suggests Ivy League is primarily selecting on g. They also are strongly selecting for conformity which kills comedy.
zeke5123a
8d ago
No self respecting rw would make work about HP when they could explore middle earth—a true RW IP
zeke5123a
10d ago
Yes but of course the U.S. for better or worse has birthright citizen and Caplan is in the U.S.
zeke5123a
10d ago
While I’m dubious about your claims, notably places like Dubai are not democratic. They also don’t have birthright citizenship to my knowledge.
zeke5123a
10d ago
I like that he is an empty calorie player for the Caps. Makes them less likely to make the playoffs.
zeke5123a
10d ago
I think that’s historically untrue. Sometimes right wing authoritarians governments are necessary and they don’t end up in a spiral where they end up killing a bunch of undesirables.
zeke5123a
11d ago
Pride and prejudice offers a bit of a different view on the matter. Marriage can cleanse the transgression provided its marriage to the other fornicator.
zeke5123a
11d ago
Part of being modest is not doing gang bangs. Stated differently, the boys failed to help her lie that she was modest despite clearly being immodest.
zeke5123a
12d ago
I don’t think the boys turned her into a crazy slut. I think she was a crazy slut. And the boys were fucking cads as well. Both sides suck. But the woman has agency.
zeke5123a
12d ago
Yet the logic isn’t applied by your critics to the initial claim that there will be hundreds of thousands of deaths. Curious how you need evidence to support your claim but they don’t.
zeke5123a
13d ago
The question isn’t whether she is drunk but whether she is incapacitated. Her judgement may have been off but there doesn’t seem to be evidence that (1) she was incapacitated or (2) was giving drugs without her knowledge. That isn’t rape.
Your frame also suggests that the men were knowingly plying her with drugs or booze to get her to do a gang bang of sorts AND that being drunk / high means she could not properly consent. But what if the men offering the woman drinks or drugs were also drunk / high? Why is it that their being drunk / high is insufficient to remove agency from their decision but is sufficient to remove agency from the woman?
zeke5123a
13d ago
I don’t think this suggestion is all that plausible but it is more plausible compared to “don’t send your daughters to college and instead make sure they marry at 20.”
The hope would be that instead of drug fueled depraved sex, there would be more opportunities for men and women to mix in a way that creates long term relationships.
zeke5123a
14d ago
I think the whole thing is a strong argument for bringing back single gender colleges and strictly enforcing curfews etc for women.
zeke5123a
14d ago
The core question we are wrestling with is “what is free speech.”
It seems your view is that free speech is when you cannot be harmed for what you say. But that seems like an impossible standard. For example, if you a lose social standing over speech is that a violation of free speech?
To me, the only coherent internal standard is the American standard whereby the government cannot preclude you from saying certain things and cannot punish you for it.
That does leave risk that of course society could still curtail speech. But I would argue that risk is also present in places where the focus is positive rights. And moreover, it is easier to change society when you cannot be imprisoned for speaking against the cathedral.
In any event, I do agree with you that Euros adopt the latest American leftist approach and then crank it up to 11. I also agree that American free speech (and freedom of association) falls woefully short in practice (I think civil rights laws are terrible).
PS I think you could include within negative rights that someone else cannot kidnap you.
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