the media and pundits should be held responsible for the consequences of their broadcasted opinions

PJ Diaz

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Just keeping up with the cherrypicker.

But a drunk driver is evil.
A terrorist in a cockpit is also evil.
One is more evil than the other, if you believe John Stuart Mill.
It is not the zero/one concept you are promoting.

Humans like to argue about where the moral divide lies. The disagreement on the boundary between good and evil has spawned thousands of religions, philosophies, denominations, schools, cults. So to be ethically complete, you would need to provide a hermetic and immutable moral compass. (giggle) good luck with that.
I don't consider a drunk driver to be evil, I consider them to have made a terrible mistake. If anyone is evil in that situation, is is the alcohol manufacturer, who knowingly mades and sells poisen to the masses, which invariably cause them to make such terrible mistakes. My grandfather killed my grandmother before I was born in a terrible drunk-driving accident. He ended up drinking himself to death for another 15 years or so. I don't think he was evil, but he did fuck up big time, and suffered the consequences.
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
I don't consider a drunk driver to be evil, I consider them to have made a terrible mistake. If anyone is evil in that situation, is is the alcohol manufacturer, who knowingly mades and sells poisen to the masses, which invariably cause them to make such terrible mistakes. My grandfather killed my grandmother before I was born in a terrible drunk-driving accident. He ended up drinking himself to death for another 15 years or so. I don't think he was evil, but he did fuck up big time, and suffered the consequences.
Jesuitry.
 

Rob Roy

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Do you have children? Do you leave them unattended without rules or consequences to 'self determine'? THAT would be absurd.

Clearly there is an American epidemic of 'violating another persons right to peacefully run their own life' in the form of removing life from them. How does your utopia deal with Uvalde? Sandy Hook? Columbine?

Why would you not want a society that takes care of sick and injured people? That’s awful fucking selfish and childish.

Ahhh yes! The gotcha of if I don’t take YOUR word as the absolute truth I’ve been bamboozled by the system thereby proving your proof of proof. Weak
My children are adults. The government is not my parent and I am not the governments child. You are the best person to run your own life, but not others lives. Do you agree with that as a core principle?

American epidemic? Yes the government of the USA should be disarmed. Totally irresponsible with dangerous weapons. Always going around droning people and starting wars.

Society that doesn't take care of sick and injured people? Are you willing to shoot your neighbor if he doesn't want to fund your ideas? Isn't that selfish? I voluntarily donate my time to worthy causes and don't think forcibly redistributing others time and money can be called charity. I hope you agree with that.

Government schools ? I hesitate to claim victory absent proof, but the purpose of the Prussian School System, which was brought to the USA in the mid 1800s was to instill obedience. I could post a diatribe on that, but I'm too lazy to at the moment. I'm correct, don't make me do a diatribe.

You sound angry, may I suggest you focus on running your own life ?
 

Rob Roy

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how do you operate in society at all? do you live in one room,

That's not an argument.

But since you asked politely, no I do not live in one room. I live under your bed and can hear you masturbating at night. Could you please get new porn? And what's with the VCR? All grainy and stained. Tsk tsk.
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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Except that it's not a solid concept, unless you are a purveyer and supporter of the "lessor of the two evils" paradigm. To me evil is still evil. Lying to the American public and FBI to in effort to smear your opponent and gain votes in not something to be dismissed or taken lightly. It is evil. Trump is also evil. Glad I didn't vote for either of them in 2016, but then again my vote didn't count sice I live in California and we have the Electoral College. Somehow in 2020 it seemed like it mattered more to bolster the popular vote on Biden's behalf, since Hillary cried for years that the election was stolen from her, which we now know was all predicated on her lies that are now being exposed.
to you, getting bitten by a rattle snake is the same as getting bitten by a garden snake...would you rather have a mostly benign liar, who only occasionally lies for his own profit or protection, or a liar who lies so he can gain control of the entire country and then use that control to suppress minorities and force fascist rules upon the rest of the country?
there is always a lessor of two evils, and it is fucking retarded to purposely pick the greater evil, or to even imply that there is no difference between the two. of course there is a difference, do you want a petty thief, or do you want a mussolini wanna be who is going to try to set himself up as a dictator for life? if you say there is no difference, you're stupider than i thought you were...
 
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