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Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms

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Re: Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms

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Post by malfist »

eudamoniac wrote: post #155
malfist wrote: post #153

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Sorry, I don't think there is value in debating the morality of an unambiguously immoral action. There's no value to give it weight, the whole premise is flawed.

Well I'm glad you/we are more enlightened than the hundred billion previous humans who all had complex moral reasoning facilities but failed spectacularly to use them. I guess Aristotle and Plato and Aquinas were just idiots who couldn't see the unambiguous, objectively correct moral standards that you know of intrinsically. Edit: serves me right for phone posting; I have you muted on the desktop with an extension, s…

Really? Aquinas? A priest sworn to celibacy is supposed to be agreeing with you that adults having sex with 13 year old children is acceptable?

Re: Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms

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Post by general1465 »

tombert wrote: post #107
signatoremo wrote: post #94

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Kids own their parents their very presence. Each person has their own situation so it isn't my place to give specific advice, but each and everyone should pause for a moment on this day, be thankful that they are alive, and consider to do the right thing that they wouldn't regret if they don't do it. Even if you wouldn't call your parents.

No one asked to be born. People are only born because their parents brought them into existence.

Because their parents wanted to have a talking pet. Should have buy a parrot instead.

Re: Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms

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Post by kstrauser »

croon wrote: post #159
kstrauser wrote: post #39

This is the first year when I can’t do that. Please go do it on my behalf, while it’s possible.

Coming up on 20 years here, and what I'll say is it gets easier, but increasingly sad is that the specific memories fade and only the more general memories remain. It pains me that she never got to meet her grand kids, and vice versa.

I’ve been through that with my dad. He’d love knowing his grandkids. They’re funny in exactly the way that he’d find hilarious.

Parents are meant to be immortal, dammit.

Re: Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

codeulike wrote: post #156
pluc wrote: post #136

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Well that just seems like a completely different thing that share a few letters

I'm in the UK and I've never heard of that definition of it (being to do with churches), maybe thats a very ancient definiton

That's how the date is determined, it's the third Sunday of Lent, "mothering sunday". Hence why the date changes every year (as the dates of Lent move because Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Equinox).

Re: Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms

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Post by tombert »

general1465 wrote: post #162
tombert wrote: post #107

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No one asked to be born. People are only born because their parents brought them into existence.

Because their parents wanted to have a talking pet. Should have buy a parrot instead.

I think my parents were good parents. I like them. They were good parents who really wanted to take care of kids, and were active in mine and my sisters' lives.

My wife's dad ran away when she was fifteen (and with two considerably younger siblings), without any attempt to contact them or pay child support. He's a douche, and I do not blame my wife at all for having no desire to take care of him when he's old.

Her mom is very cool, and took care of four kids on a low income while still being active in all their lives. My wife will probably take care of her if she's unable to take care of herself.

People like to act that if you share DNA with people you have to grovel to them. I think that's dumb.

Re: Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms

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Post by eudamoniac »

malfist wrote: post #161
eudamoniac wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well I'm glad you/we are more enlightened than the hundred billion previous humans who all had complex moral reasoning facilities but failed spectacularly to use them. I guess Aristotle and Plato and Aquinas were just idiots who couldn't see the unambiguous, objectively correct moral standards that you know of intrinsically. Edit: serves me right for phone posting; I have you muted on the desktop with an extension, s…

Really? Aquinas? A priest sworn to celibacy is supposed to be agreeing with you that adults having sex with 13 year old children is acceptable?

Yes. https://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/summa.XP_Q58_A5.html

Twelve, actually. This was a completely normal opinion at the time, and also the law. You seem uninterested in engaging in any form of discussion, so that will be all from me.

Re: Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms

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Post by malfist »

eudamoniac wrote: post #167
malfist wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? Aquinas? A priest sworn to celibacy is supposed to be agreeing with you that adults having sex with 13 year old children is acceptable?

Yes. https://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/summa.XP_Q58_A5.html Twelve, actually. This was a completely normal opinion at the time, and also the law. You seem uninterested in engaging in any form of discussion, so that will be all from me.

That says nothing about morality. Only legality.
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