manyhands

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by manyhands 9y ago
Rape often causes feelings of dirtiness, worthlessness, etc that other forms of powerlessness usually don't.
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by manyhands 9y ago
His works are incredibly well-written and precise. They are only unconvincing to us because we have incompatible preferences.
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by manyhands 9y ago
My question was entirely rhetorical. I thought it important to clarify that the post was factually correct, and one should not take its font color as an indication otherwise, even though that is usually a sensible assumption regarding downv
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by manyhands 9y ago
Fortunately those two words are synonyms, so readers have not been terribly misled.
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by manyhands 9y ago
Why is this downvoted? It's true.
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by manyhands 9y ago
It is my hope that the power of our words will sort things out. I'm here to argue in the original sense of the word, and while I am ultimately interested in the broad consequences of drug laws in the US, I consider it healthy and produ
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by manyhands 9y ago
When cartels can't sell drugs, they sell organs, arms, and women. We have lawlessness in countries hosting organized crime and a troubled, self-destructive underclass driving demand for their product to blame, not drug laws themselves
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by manyhands 9y ago
It is not my intention to hurt any feelings. I apologize if I have been interpreted as personally hostile. I will take care to avoid any further confusion. Thanks. As a side note, this is my tenth+ (stopped updating this) attempt to post th
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by manyhands 9y ago
The OP chose to talk about bloodshed. We are now characterizing how bloody the 'war on drugs' has been. We are not characterizing how bad it might be in any other sense. This is a focused argument intended to examine something pre
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by manyhands 9y ago
Any holistic examination of the history of conflict in the region should suffice. Even this should suffice: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(1978–pre...
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by manyhands 9y ago
This is a rather lazy analysis. Would you like to consider any more than a single act of terrorism on the other side of your accounting? 'All of the death [or violence] south of the border' is also rather imprecise and self-genero
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by manyhands 9y ago
How many people do you wager bled any amount over the half century in this 'war'? It is my understanding that a lot of people (rightfully) faced criminal penalties, and even that number pales in comparison to the victims of actual
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by manyhands 9y ago
Employees who negotiate higher salaries are subsidized by their meek coworkers.