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  1. Unfettered

    Latest Reports of Past Actions on COVID

    Exactly. If we intentionally and knowingly harm others we are not, to that extent, "civilized." What has been advocated here in other posts is—in ironic fashion—backward. The claim is that we're not civilized if we don't "protect" those in danger. And the solution is to harm others by...
  2. Unfettered

    Latest Reports of Past Actions on COVID

    Make it real: You had COVID-19. You picked up the SARS-COV-2 virus from someone. Did that person assault your rights?
  3. Unfettered

    Latest Reports of Past Actions on COVID

    The wording of that question makes it difficult for me to know what you're asking. Could you re-word it? More detail is needed. In your scenario, am I afforded my natural right to land actually suited to growing food?
  4. Unfettered

    Latest Reports of Past Actions on COVID

    I didn't advocate for Joe's rights to be infringed; why should I be the one presenting the policy? If you think Joe shouldn't be allowed to work, present the case. Otherwise I'll agree with you that, absent a just case to act against him, Joe is free to live and subsist. Well, no, it was not...
  5. Unfettered

    Latest Reports of Past Actions on COVID

    I agree that the COVID-19 (specific) pandemic was real. I agree that people really died. I know people who did. I agree that people really got sick (I did, as well, and every member of my family, including my wife, who was then 8 months pregnant). I agree that people have really suffered...
  6. Unfettered

    Latest Reports of Past Actions on COVID

    "Maybe?" Is that the strength of our case against the free exercise of Joe's rights? And on the question of picking and choosing whose rights are necessary to secure and whose are not... where in the law is that godlike authority granted? And to whom? Because the low hanging fruit best...
  7. Unfettered

    Latest Reports of Past Actions on COVID

    I don't see any sound moral justifications in there, only flimsy political justifications. In order for a human being to be denied a right on moral grounds (ie, the contraction of his rights is justified), there must be a real rights collision, not a hypothetical or imagined rights collision...
  8. Unfettered

    Latest Reports of Past Actions on COVID

    I'm familiar with the argument; heaven knows I've heard it over and over again in the last four years. But it doesn't make moral or logical sense even on paper, to say nothing of in the real world. No one who has championed it has ever been able to provide a just or moral or logical or...
  9. Unfettered

    I can't understand why my dad is miserable ?

    Are your parents together today? Married?
  10. Unfettered

    I can't understand why my dad is miserable ?

    Then the answer to my earlier question about not respecting boundaries in relationships is clearly "yes." Meaning, he does not respect boundaries. Was he abused as a child?
  11. Unfettered

    Why does the United States need a military today?

    When respected and effective local police exist, local militias wouldn't be for day-to-day law enforcement, but for responding to invading threats, including from one's own government. I don't think having local militias would result in the kind of chaos seen in the places you described. The...
  12. Unfettered

    I can't understand why my dad is miserable ?

    Have you asked him to not do that?
  13. Unfettered

    I can't understand why my dad is miserable ?

    In his relationships does he disregard the requests of others to respect personal boundaries? For example, if he refers to you using a disparaging term and you ask him to not use that term when talking to you, does he stop doing it, or does he continue to use the disparaging term?
  14. Unfettered

    I can't understand why my dad is miserable ?

    Is your dad's lifestyle marked by sincere forgiveness of those who do him wrong, whether by accident or intentionally?
  15. Unfettered

    Why does the United States need a military today?

    A Military (ie, standing armies)? Agreed. Local Militias? We should always have those. Agreed. Agreed. This goes too far. An "army" is just a fighting force to repel an aggressor. If the engagements are in the air, an air "force" is needed. On water, a naval "force." Etc. And the...
  16. Unfettered

    Latest Reports of Past Actions on COVID

    A lot of smart people did offer such solutions—and they were shouted down, censored, mocked, fired from their jobs, sued, etc., etc., etc. For what? For saying that everyone mattered, as opposed to just a few. How do you work with such abject ignorance? And when that ignorance is wrapped in...
  17. Unfettered

    Latest Reports of Past Actions on COVID

    You don't have to care about my cries. And you can use any metric you like to dismiss them on any grounds you like. I cannot be injured because you have an opinion about me or my cries. And I'll not find fault with you for having a different opinion. But if you are willing to see your rights...
  18. Unfettered

    Latest Reports of Past Actions on COVID

    Accepted or not, it was a sincere apology. OK. I'll address a general audience then, or others in the thread.
  19. Unfettered

    Latest Reports of Past Actions on COVID

    9-10ths_Penguin, I apologize for resorting to sarcasm in my responses to you. It's juvenile and none of us should do it. I try not to do it. Sometimes I show my weakness, though. I admit that I don't respond well to COVID-related high-horsery. Two-plus years of being lectured and controlled...
  20. Unfettered

    Latest Reports of Past Actions on COVID

    The problem with a double-standard is that it's impossible to live up to it.
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