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Comment · 6 years ago
gasp

YOU MEAN THE SLAVE OWNER POINTED TO THE CURRENT LAWS TO DEFEND THEIR POSITION!?!??!

Well that worked out well in terms of their history, lmao.

Please, keep telling me how the site guidelines for a random website somehow protect you from the moral judgement of others, I'd love to hear more...

Comment · 6 years ago
omg, you're so right!

The blogger had to be scouted by the agency, which used agency resources, therefore the blogger is totally liable for that risk!!!!!oneoneoneneoneshiftoneshiftoneshiftoneshiftone.

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Imagine a world in which the risk is taken on by yourself and not others... but of course that's totes not possibru...

Comment · 6 years ago
No one is saying that current laws aren't bullshit, they obviously are.

The point is that that if Uber goes away, it won't stop people from paying for rides.

It's a bit like claiming if Hershey's claimed that people would stop eating chocolate if they couldn't abuse their relationship with local governments to get water rights they have no business having.

Noooooooo, people will still like Chocolate, it's just that more "moral" companies will replace them.

If anything, the value of chocolate will go up and that's perfectly acceptable.

Comment · 6 years ago
You pulled those numbers out of your ass...

The truth is that 99% of the population believes that homosexual couples will have less children then heterosexual...

The surprising result for the uneducated? That homosexual couples have any children...

Comment · 6 years ago
I'd like to buy "what is stockholm's syndrome for 500 alex!".

https://www.britannica.com/science/Stockholm-syndrome

The better question. Are you implying this doesn't exist and therefore the woman in question is guilty?

I mean, not that this has anything to do with the overarching point, but.... you're so wrong that you're wrong even when you're wrong.

enter: BUT I'M GOING TO DEFINE FREEWILL SO IT DOESN'T INCLUDE STOCKHOLME SYNDROME...

yeah ok.... That certainly makes you ... biased.

Comment · 6 years ago
How can we know that eggs are tasty unless a 3rd party tells us!

I won't quote the science, I'll simply say that things are knowable outside of a system...

Comment · 6 years ago
I would like for you to define 'free will' in such a way that it cannot, in any way, include slavery. And you must do so by not explicitly defining it as 'not slavery'.

go.

Comment · 6 years ago
It's almost as if defining anything as a "mathematical truth" is definitionally wrong and anyone having done so should be called out as a liar.

Only the person who responded to the person who made such a statement were more polite about it, hence this "discussion".

Comment · 6 years ago
Thank you, I took the same issue you did when reading this.

There are not "truths" in mathematics, it's literally a system of logic with definitions at the bottom (axioms) and then a following of the results based upon the agreed upon logic.

Comment · 6 years ago
I don't know, anything that implied dogs being raped would have been rejected by me, a layperson who grew up with dogs.

Your argument seems to be more about "because some people were duped, it's ok to assume reasonable people were duped" and that doesn't seem right to me.

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