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In Reply to: RE: Prove it posted by www.records on May 13, 2022 at 08:03:04:
The media is interested in eyeballs on the page so they tailor things to their audience. It was like Fox News presenting an anti-Covid don't be a sheep and get a vaccine story yet everyone working there got vaccinated. Hush-hush.
I don't bother with much video news.
I have a little saying - "If you're too far out on a wing, your plane will go in circles." The far-right is home to Hitler-loving nuts. The far left is in this crazy overly woke world that is in a sort of safe-space only world.
I have a different view of abortion because I took a wonderful Philosophy class on contemporary moral problems - and we had to write an essay on a topic - I chose abortion from a Pro-Choice position.
The professor made everyone in the class - reverse their positions - so the Christians taking the class who wanted to write a Pro-Life paper were forced to write their paper on Pro-Choice while I had to write my paper from a Pro-Life position.
The best way to THINK is to advocate for the opposition - lawyers do this and so do political operatives preparing for debates.
What is also great about Philosophy is it teaches people to make arguments from non-religious platforms so you had to argue Pro-Life without any arguments from religion or bibles etc. This also works for capital punishment.
Generally, universities are Liberal and thus against the death penalty - but the professor wanted a debate and I elected to take the pro-death penalty stance. Had I known I would be the ONLY person in the class to take this side - it was somewhat daunting.
But one can argue some semantics - hypotheticals like defence of others. So you see a man with an axe and he is about to hack a kid to death - at least from your vantage point - you have a clear shot - shoot him in the head or he looks to be about to kill the kid. You shoot.
You have decided to kill this man - even though up until that point this man has not actually engaged in any crime at all. You THINK he is going to kill the kid - maybe you were wrong - but "technically" you killed this man who has committed no crime. You acted to kill.
If we take it up one minute later and said man killed the kid and we arrest the man and decide we want to kill him as punishment - then we are actually killing a man who has committed and is guilty of a heinous crime.
It's not that I can necessarily "win" this argument but it's about wrestling with the ideas and then justifying the latter. Also, taking the matter from an overpopulated worldview that there are too many people - a lot of people die all the time in Construction Accidents, drownings etc - so feeding and spending resources on heinous killers maybe topic of the day news stories but is a waste of resources.
Sure I don't want innocent people getting the chair - And frankly, I get all the arguments why state capital punishment is wrong - there are many arguments least of all that it's not a deterrent - drug kingpins live daily with the fear of death - the death penalty is hardly a fear that puts him over the top to stop him from being a drug kingpin.
But - hey - why keep them locked up for decades? Make a trade - just like in Baseball- we'll send to Somalia a heinous killer and $1million and we get back a family of farmers who works hard and would love to come to North America (Canada or the USA) and be model citizens. Somalia gets a slave labourer and money to take this slime ball. We get to do right by some folks who just happened to be born on the wrong side of a border.
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