Okay, then how do you think of the [current] policy of interviewing and assessing parents before they are allowed to take a child into adoption? Reasonable or not? The policy is reasonable, it would be stupid not to evaluate the home you give a child. The criteria, on the other hand, often leave quite a bit to be desired. |
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Deflation is not bad... it's switching from inflation to deflation (or even just stopping the inflation) that's murder. Like going cold turkey on booze and heroin at the same time.
It's good to get clean, but god damn, does detoxing suck.
Plus the inflation (or booze and heroin) will kill you eventually if you keep taking higher and higher doses just to maintain the current level of happiness. Chasin' the dragon. |
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EDIT: I remove some adjectives and decide it's a better idea that if any couple wants to adopt a child, they have to somehow prove that they can do things right, at least when it's somehow competitive, like more than one couple are looking to adopt a child. Trust me, there is, if anything, an over supply of children needing adoption. Look, the simple fact is that the single most important thing for a child growing up is a loving home environment. Two dads, two moms, four moms and three dads, IDGAF. As long as the child is cared for, loved, and not abused, they will grow up to a well-adjusted adult. And in those environments, probably a lot more tolerant than average, except, perhaps, of bullshit. |
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You cannot really "feel" it, because you don't grow their parts, and there are many things which can only be learned with experience, like the difference between science and engineering. And this is, after all, only the most shallow of things, have you ever wondered why you can't figure out what a woman has been thinking all day?
Fun fact: Gay men's brains are actually structured similar to a woman's. There's reason to believe a gay man might make a much better mother than a straight man in the same situation. And certainly you wouldn't support taking away a single straight man's daughter, simply because he doesn't have a wife? |
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You may ask your wife/mother.  No, I'm honestly curious what things you think only a woman can teach another woman. I am not in a position to answer(I said "maybe") in detail because I am not one. But I doubt all those industries catering their special needs are created for no reason.  Are gay men somehow incapable of reading instructions? FFS, man, I know how to put in a tampon, and that's just 'cuz I got bored one day in the bathroom, and the only reading material available was the tampon box. Incidentally, that's also how I learned about TSS. |
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You may ask your wife/mother. No, I'm honestly curious what things you think only a woman can teach another woman. |
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What does it mean when a society goes from natural deflation to artificial inflation? I'm looking at you, Japan... I'm genuinely worried
I know.... Reading about that almost gives me the image of a drug dealer on the corner, only he's in a suit and the drug he's pushing is inflation. |
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There's a big difference between protecting people from something and recognizing that it is wrong and people who do it should be punished.
For instance, in a libertarian society, people would probably still go armed, even though initiation of force is wrong. Should someone initiate the use of force, they will suffer the consequences, but it's not wise to rely only on those consequences to protect yourself.
Just like it's silly to rely only on the consequences of being caught at fraud to protect you from fraud. Due diligence is the equivalent of carrying a pistol for self-protection.
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What is the bad policy? Government recognition and protection of marriage contracts?
What does the government care of your personal life? For that matter, why should it? And why should Joe from Arkansas even have a say in whether or not two people he's never met can get married? They shouldn't. And they should recognize a legal contract for anyone who wishes to sign into one. An issue that is a bit complicated, is the couple's adoption of a child, the child cannot make a decision for himself/herself. Can any child pick their parents? At the very least, I would think that parents that picked their kids, no matter what (or who) they do in the bedroom, would be better off than the average, especially these days. The problem is, let's say a gay couple adopting a girl, there would be some problems as there are definitely a few things no one but a mother can teach her daughter, so maybe the girl will need a "mother substitute" somehow. Like what? |
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What is the bad policy? Government recognition and protection of marriage contracts?
What does the government care of your personal life? For that matter, why should it? And why should Joe from Arkansas even have a say in whether or not two people he's never met can get married? They shouldn't. And they should recognize a legal contract for anyone who wishes to sign into one. An issue that is a bit complicated, is the couple's adoption of a child, the child cannot make a decision for himself/herself. Can any child pick their parents? At the very least, I would think that parents that picked their kids, no matter what (or who) they do in the bedroom, would be better off than the average, especially these days. |
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All US federal "debt" can be trivially repaid, even the entirety of it right now. The United States has an infinite supply of US dollars. Theoretically. They could, did they want to go the way of Zimbabwe, Wiemar Germany, and so many others, just lean on that "0" key until the "debt" is gone. There's lots of reasons why they don't do that, though. |
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*may or may not be true
Even more interestingly, it can be shown that the above statement is true for any given proposition, except for some paradoxes. For instance: All generalizations are false.* *may or may not be true**Warning: Thinking this through may have undesirable side effects. |
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It's not that I'm a miser that likes papers with heads of dead presidents, I would gladly pay if I knew that the funds were flowing towards education, health care systems, bettering the infrastructure for the future generations or even supporting the weaker demographic, but it's not, all of that money goes to killing people, killing babies, making peoples lives miserable and generally supporting an Orwellian-totalitarian state while waging war across the globe to support the corporations, the greedy military industrial complex selling weapons to both sides through it's freelancers etc.
Do you think Bitcoin will change that? Will it put the governments on a diet?
I certainly hope so. It should help, at least.  |
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Is there a country in the world that *doesn't* throw people in jail for not wanting to pay into a broken system that starts wars?
AFAIK, there isn't. But now we can clearly see what drives the anarchist. Yep. Trying to explain that aspect of anarchy, especially the anarchy that comprises the AnCap mindset, is about twice as difficult as explaining that deflation is not bad, despite our societal conditioning... which is to say, supremely difficult. We have a reflexive negative response to the "feeling" (connotation for you literary fellows) of the words. Deflation is not bad... it's switching from inflation to deflation (or even just stopping the inflation) that's murder. Like going cold turkey on booze and heroin at the same time. It's good to get clean, but god damn, does detoxing suck. |
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Kazaam is a good one
 Seriously? Don't hate on Shaq, he the man LOL Maybe I'll set up a "Vehicles for people who should NOT be acting" marathon some day... Kazaam, Space Jam, Mr. Nanny, Rocky, My Giant.... |
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While most people have heard of Genghis Khan's legendary promiscuity, and the resultant wide spread of his genes, fewer know that most Nordic people are actually all descended from one particularly wide-ranging viking, Rolf the Randy.*
*may or may not be true
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Kazaam is a good one
Seriously? |
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I still think there is a role for government in coordinating activities that are not in any one person's interest and are not profitable enough to attract private enterprise.
In other words, to waste money? |
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Nothing about reptilian overlords from planet X though, that one's probably not true.
Of course not. They're not from planet X. |
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I can't disagree, punk Angelina Jolie ain't bad to watch.
Soundtrack is pretty badass, too. |
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