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What are you objecting to? It is fun to kill bad guys. Why do you think FPS games are so popular?

I don't see it as a non-sequitur. If you find that quote offensive in some way, you presumably approve of the Talibans treatment of women.

>"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a h…

> After the US et. al. cut off fuel and oil trade. They don't teach you that part in school. And do you know why we did that? Was that mentioned? Did they talk about Japan's war of…

> Don't think the US didn't do everything it could to antagonize the enemy. Japan was repeatedly slapped in the face until it had no choice but to respond to protect its honour. Is…

Does it not matter that we were running those maneuvers largely in response to Japanese aggression in China and the Pacific? Does it matter that the reason we were in tension with …

I don't think so. Benjamin Franklin is probably the prototypical self-made man. And you would never claim that "he did it all himself." He wouldn't have claimed that either. It's c…

Conan, what is best in life? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PQ6335puOc

So can you identify no situation in which killing someone is appropriate?

Think Sears is bad, try KMart.

Yes, and?

Well, you're entitled to eat whatever you can afford to eat. If that's meat, it's meat.

>Slavery was more stable: lasted millenia. And slavery required less violence, per capita, to maintain? I don't think so. Innumerable slave revolts. Wars of conquest to capture sla…

>the notion of striving for equal individual ownership of goods as a spark to action is nonsense. Well he didn't say that. But you would do well to remember that during the Russian…

>If they refuse or tell you how evil buying glasses online is, get a new optometrist. It's truly hilarious how defensive they get over online glasses purchases. I've been using Zen…

I'm not particularly interested in Cuban propaganda, no.

> He believed in freedom and dignity. That's exactly why he never allowed free election, a free press, free speech, free markets, or freedom to leave his island paradise. >He saw t…

And Venezuela is a paradise on earth!

China was doing really really badly until Mao died and Deng took power and began implementing market reforms, bringing capitalism in.

Where is the success of capitalism? It's in the rapidly falling global extreme poverty rate, soon to be below 10% for the first time in human history. It's in the cell phone networ…

There's the old parable >"In the USA, you can stand in front of the White House in Washington, DC, and yell, "Down with Reagan!", and you will not be punished. Equally, you can als…

This is propaganda, disgustingly incorrect propaganda, so far off base the only conceivable way you could have written it is to be maliciously lying.

So his exiling of over a million cubans is acceptable, then?

That seems, at best, orthogonal to the issue of foreign investment and business.

You seem to be extremely confused. Of course moral lessons can be taught through stories. That a moral lesson is taught through story does not make the moral taught true in any sen…