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by arthwollipot
Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:30 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: morality's half twists
Replies: 27
Views: 128

Re: morality's half twists

Basically, a truly awesome person does good because he loves God and always does the things God wants just to be a good person. A not quite as good person does good because God will reward him. The second sort isn't quite as good as the first, but both will end up in Heaven. It works the same on th...
by arthwollipot
Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:32 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: morality's half twists
Replies: 27
Views: 128

Re: morality's half twists

Fed them to the crocodile god, I believe.
by arthwollipot
Sat Apr 13, 2024 10:01 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Planet America
Replies: 800
Views: 209392

Re: Planet America

Meadmaker wrote: Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:42 pmIt reminds me of something my father once said to me. He was 70 at the time.

"All my life I called myself a socialist. It was only recently that I realized that if socialism could ever work, we wouldn't need socialism."
He wasn't wrong.
by arthwollipot
Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:58 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Planet America
Replies: 800
Views: 209392

Re: Planet America

I'm pretty confident I know what it means, and it is a very bad, evil thing that must be stopped. It's not, it's just profoundly unrealistic and relies on humans choosing to behave in ways that they have never behaved in their history. If humans could suddenly stop being human and become communist ...
by arthwollipot
Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:37 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Planet America
Replies: 800
Views: 209392

Re: Planet America

Hitler, and most of the other conquerors, saw the people they killed as nuissances to be swept away. For Hitler, the deaths of the Poles was insignifican. Those people had something that Hitler wanted. i.e. Poland, "lebensraum"., and the deaths of the Jews were a positive boon. He did tha...
by arthwollipot
Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:42 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Planet America
Replies: 800
Views: 209392

Re: Planet America

If you're of the opinion that motivations don't matter, and the only relevant thing is the thing done in the end, that's fine, I can understand that. But I do think that motivation matters.
by arthwollipot
Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:00 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Planet America
Replies: 800
Views: 209392

Re: Planet America

I doubt that they say, "How can I be more evil today?"... True, objective "evil" doesn't exist outside of D&D. That's why using the word can be problematic. Even if someone does something for their own benefit, they do it because they truly believe that it's the best thing t...
by arthwollipot
Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:10 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Planet America
Replies: 800
Views: 209392

Re: Planet America

President Bush wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2024 4:34 amYou mean like fucking over the commies at the UN?
Yes. I'm sure he was convinced that fucking over the commies was in the best interest of his country at the time.