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by rayiner 2mo ago
> It is a useful definition, because it allows you to talk about places where the law might be unjust. Unjust according to whom? Wouldn't it be better to just make our premises explicit?
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by rayiner 2mo ago
That’s not a useful definition in a democracy. Who gets to define what’s justified if not the duly elected legislature? I bet if you put the current Texas law on the ballot today you’d get the same answer.
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by rayiner 2mo ago
You’re removing context by referring to a generic “human life” as if we don’t have more information than that.
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by rayiner 2mo ago
> These technicalities are being exploited for the benefit of approximately 10 people Legislative compromises aren’t “technicalities.” The exceptions are as much a part of the laws as any other part. If they didn’t exist the laws wouldn’
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by rayiner 2mo ago
> Boggled my mind as a kid in history class that the Republicans somehow wanted to free slaves in the past but are all in on bombing the crap out of iraq It's Christian universalism in both cases. Your average person in the midwest-
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by rayiner 2mo ago
> They are technicalities, because the intent of the law is clean air. That’s not how laws work, especially the Clean Air Act. “There are no solutions. There are only tradeoffs.” ( https://ozgengungor.medium.com/one-of-tho
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Then I guess America is just a really right wing country and I’m correct that most people were okay with Jack Bauer torturing terrorists for the greater good.
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by rayiner 2mo ago
I’m happy to admit it. But I think that there’s lots of democrats who are fine with it too—folks who agree on how to handle terrorists, but just want more generous social welfare. I don’t think its a real dividing line in the electorate.
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by rayiner 2mo ago
These aren’t “technicalities.” What types of activities the laws apply to is a central aspect of every regulatory regime.
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24 was one of the highest rated shows on television, won 20 Emmy awards and was nominated for 68. People just like torturing and killing terrorists. Not just Americans either—it’s a popular Bollywood trope as well.
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The mob infiltrates the state. You need to be able to disrupt the ability of organized crime to maintain itself. It can be done. The U.S. crushed the Italian mob with RICO prosecutions.
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More than a few—this was Georgia Tech and these are all southern white guys—but not the majority.
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You’re missing something else that happened right before 24 debuted on November 6, 2001.
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I was asking what the other poster meant by “honey you’re telling on yourself.” It seems like some awkward attempt to channel a southern colloquialism but it doesn’t make sense in context.
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by rayiner 2mo ago
When it comes to laws, do you just look at the title of the law, or do you look at the actual statute and regulations to see what the law applies to and what it doesn’t? Does a “vehicle inspection program” meant for commercial trucks apply
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by rayiner 2mo ago
CAA regulations are all based on cost-benefit analysis and also seek to exclude sources that are basically too small to be worth regulating. In this case, the governing regulations have a complex set of criteria before the permitting requir
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by rayiner 2mo ago
Deaths from. atrial disasters are the lowest in history: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/422084/climate-change-nat...
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by rayiner 2mo ago
What does that string of words even mean?
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As a certified “brown person,” white Christians are the most politically correct demographic on the planet.
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It’s not just inventions, but the social structures and civic institutions that enable a society to build something like the Apollo program. Culture doesn’t need to be “discrete” or “homogenous” in order to exist. “Arab culture” also exists
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Those examples are also about immutable characteristics. E.g. There is no reason to prefer lighter skin to darker skin other than irrational prejudice. It’s completely superficial and irrelevant. That superficiality and irrelevance is the v
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by rayiner 2mo ago
> Please elaborate on what defines 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' cultures Building steam engines, rockets, the Internet, etc. > and while you're at it let me know what the heck 'European culture' i
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by rayiner 2mo ago
Again, culture isn’t an immutable characteristic, so the moral framework you’re using doesn’t apply. You should treat culture the same way Silicon Valley startups do. You emulate the successful ones and learn lessons from the unsuccessful o
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by rayiner 2mo ago
Articles about gravity don’t say “gravity should be considered a fundamental force,” as in the article you pointed to above. “Racism” as the word is generally accepted refers to skin color. It has nothing to do with culture. You’re playing
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by rayiner 2mo ago
That term isn’t an accepted thing, as your own article points out. Your idea is also itself racist by treating race and culture as linked. I guess that in your version of Star Trek the Desi characters would be showing up hours late to dinne
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Your article clearly describes that as a concept that as been put forward for debate but hasn’t been generally accepted. And it shouldn’t be accepted. It’s just an attempt to use people’s rightful aversion to prejudice based on skin color t
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> Of course I'm not racist, I have black friends It’s weird that you think my point is about the superficial optics of having immigrants in Trump’s coalition, rather than about the motivations of the immigrant voters themselves. &gt
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Trump is not about “racism.” He won more racial minorities in 2024 than any republican president in modern history. Trump is about Americanism versus third-worldism. Among immigrants themselves—half of whom voted for Trump in 2024–it’s abou
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You treat them like they are people without personal agency. Temporary worker programs are a deal offered on open terms: people can come to work, but they have to leave afterward. The laws are plastered with the word “temporary.” People tak
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The Economist apparently thinks countries are outlined borders populated by fungible Homo Economicus. They assume being in america makes you think and act like an american, when in reality it’s the opposite: https://www.sup.org

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