I doubt AI is intelligent and/or conscious.
. . .
Recently I read a Wikipedia page,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_fakers_controversy
People often give AI sentience in fiction. . . But the fiction is 'science fiction.
Future 'possibility, theory. Not contemporary.
Or if contemporary, the sentience is an obvious fantasy, not meant as serious claims.
Eh, kids often find other kids attractive I think,
But as people grow up, most people lose their attraction to kids.
Maybe when we are older,
Our preferences change again.
Besides, lot of people, myself included aren't 'perfect, even when young.
Everyone's got flaws,
And not everyone has a six pack.
I wouldn't find a doppelganger of myself particularly attractive. Too average, and could stand to lose some weight, gain some muscle.
But flaws don't stop people from having meaningful and active relationships I'd assume.
Arguably the picture in post #4 is an unattractive style, facial expression, and body care even in a younger individual.
Milfs and Gilfs 'are descriptions some people use for some individuals.
I can't say I can recall ever being licked by anyone.
Doubtful I'd like it all that much without a consensual relationship.
I don't 'hate old people,
At a certain age I don't tend to find them 'as attractive,
Though some older people can be in pretty good shape.
'Generally speaking though, I prefer people near my own age.
Course, someday I'll be older myself,
Might like older people more when that happens.
@The Person Below Me
Are there any YouTube channels you've particularly enjoyed in the past or present, If so why?
I can't say I can recall ever being licked by anyone.
Doubtful I'd like it all that much without a consensual relationship.
I don't 'hate old people,
At a certain age I don't tend to find them 'as attractive,
Though some older people can be in pretty good shape.
'Generally speaking though, I prefer people near my own age.
Course, someday I'll be older myself,
Might like older people more when that happens.
Then I shall say edict, rather than action.
But it would need to be a heck of an outrageous edict to inspire mass assassins.
. . Though it's possible I overestimate America's aversion to tyrants.
Certainly many people currently 'call him a tyrant. . . But they use that word more 'colorfully than as true definition.
Trump is not currently a dictator,
If he unlawfully obtained a third term he would be.
People are bothered currently about the federal governments use of Texas state troops in another state against the wishes of the state governor.
Can't say I think I care for it either.
But I always say I think state rights, loyalty, and identity greatly faded after the American Civil War.
Though arguably there are other influences, such as ease of travel and communication.
'Might be precedent of sorts for Trump,
I'm haven't thought about it deeply and am not highly educated on the subject.
"When integration began on September 4, 1957, the Arkansas National Guard was called in to "preserve the peace". Originally at orders of the governor, they were meant to prevent the black students from entering due to claims that there was "imminent danger of tumult, riot and breach of peace" at the integration. However, President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10730, which federalized the Arkansas National Guard and ordered them to support the integration on September 23 of that year, after which they protected the African American students.[4]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine
I'm not sure Trump has sufficient justification to use the Texas National Guard in Chicago.
Still, in my view, he's not a dictator, yet.
Either one, as the words seem close enough in meaning.
True, but I think some actions are more likely to inspire assassination attempts than other actions.
I doubt he could succeed in legally changing the 22nd amendment,
If he did, I doubt he would win election a third time.
If he tried for a third term without legally changing the 22nd amendment,
I doubt he would succeed in such.
If he managed such, I don't think it would last longer than a month before government removed him for his illegal actions.
If somehow he managed to prevent government and/or the military from removing him, despite his illegal action.
I think it's likely many American citizens would assassinate him within a year.
My mother read the Bible to me and explained her view on bits when I was young,
I only ever went to church a couple of times,
Family would say prayer before eating, but it was only during holidays and some fancy meals.
Boy Scouts I was in for a time used a Latter-day Saints church as a storage spot and frequent location of meetings and activities. It was a large building.
No one ever talked about religion during Boy Scouts though, nor did they attempt to persuade any of us into their views as I recall.
My mother joined a Baptist church when she was younger, though I don't think she thinks a person needs to be baptized to be saved.
I think she views it more as important ritual and expression of faith.
A complain she's told me before, is how over time, she's come to realize my father wasn't all that religious, but gave the 'impression he was. One of those people who are a bit different after you marry them.
My dad does 'know a fair bit of the Bible, but I'm doubtful he is a believer. Hard to tell though.
His actions are inconsistent with Christianity, in some conversations he calls them just stories and expresses doubt of an afterlife.
I don't dig in too deep into religion with my dad.
But my mother and eldest brother's actions have been fairly consistent with Christianity, their charity creeps me out at times. Not that I am 'incapable of altruism, but I don't go out of my way to act on it.
At times when I 'do act on it, or am in some emotional situation of someone else being thankful, and my being reminded of humanity and I experience such myself.
I've found it unpleasant, I feel reminded/oughted towards duty and care for others.
Peace on Earth and Good Will to all.
Not that I have 'bad will, or 'lack 'all good will.
But I am fond of my Ego and enjoyments in life. I dislike feeling sad and overwhelmed by a situation and wanting to pray.
It comes off to me as weakness,
Nor to pray in joy and thankfulness, though I do not view that as 'weakness, just hypocritical and not my intelectual truth.
. . . Though it's likely I am often hypocritical other times in other views (Shrug)
. . .
Even when I believed in God, I had ended up drifting into Selfish views and Nihilism,
What would be the point in believing again, if I am not going to 'act on it?
It would just be painful than not.
As a child, I saw a lot of Christianity in America,
One see's it everywhere, and assumes that's just the way it is.
I was not frequently or deeply indoctrinated, so I never thought much on it, just took Christianity as true as a fact of life.
. . .
Hm, might be some various books I read in life, fiction or otherwise, influenced my views towards Nihilism, hard to say,
I read a 'lot of books.
When one is not immersed or mindful of something, it fades away.
So it became with my believing Christianity to be true.
Heh,
Not that this theory makes Christianity true or untrue,
Just that I think one is more or less likely to believe something, if one is more or less immersed in it.
She's retired,
She worked at a newspaper earlier in life, later worked part time during the summer at a couple state parks in Oregon, later became a full time Park Ranger.
Seemed to have enjoyed her jobs in life, found them fulfilling, generally liked the people she worked with.
Newspaper, got to know the people in the community better.
I think she worked in the local ads section for a time. Might have done more.
State Parks,
She took pride in getting the parks quieter at night,
Rather then people drinking and whooping laughing loudly at midnight or 2 in the morning while other people are trying to sleep in the other campsites.
Enjoyed nature, and being able to see the stars so clear at night.
Physical job, kept her fairly active physically.
Lot involved maintenance.
Social job, helped to know how to talk to unreasonable people, or intoxicated people, not escalate the situation.
Got to know a lot of local and not local people.
Some of them very colorful people.
Often gave a hand in need to people, when they were down on their luck.
Out of money, no place to stay, few possessions.
Helped some people with food or clothes.
. . .
@Person Below Me
What's the most psychologically and/or physically isolated you've ever been?
Seems we disagree on a number of points, ah well.
I find the idea of three websites in one, funny.
Imagine a regular website, basic reCAPTCHA, login,
Then there is the lesser website, where people are banished to,
And the higher website, where more frequent and/or conclusive proofs of not being a bot occur.
Are local internet forums popular?
Should they be?
By that I mean, neighborhood, city, state, country.
But some way to verify people.
Maybe internet could be more ideal in such a way,
Though I still like having an anonymity option.
Never had a Facebook Account.
If there was a registered internet, that required a SIM card and a SIM reader attached to one's computer.
Then have that one account linked to all sites they comment on,
Then internet could sort results by what have local people commented.
But then, I suppose that might be Twitter in a way,
Another site I've never joined.
. . .
One reason I don't use Facebook or Twitter is I 'think you have to sign in, to use either one.
Reciprocity is useful,
Give and you shall receive.
(Generally speaking sometimes)
I suppose some people just want to rant online, or attack, put on a show, amuse themselves.
Seems a bit short sighted at times though,
People and relationships are a renewable resource, so long as you don't poison the well.
I suppose it depends what one wants to get out of a debate, or how one views those one debates with.
Ideally I view the people I talk with and debate with, as friendly acquaintances.
Friendly conversations, friendly debates as games or truth seeking.
I like talking at times, other times I'm looking for what other people know.
And it can be hard to get people to talk to you sometimes, if you're rude or constantly dominate a conversation.
But maybe some people can find an audience anywhere,
Depending on what they are looking for.
. . . Lot of content online, lot of different platforms and alternate profiles.
. . . Course, even before the internet, I'd 'imagine some people were rude in public forums and meeting places.
Alleged intentional fire starter.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/watch-department-of-justice-officials-hold-news-briefing-on-arrest-made-in-palisades-fire-disaster
Maybe an accident, maybe it was intentional but not supposed to be that big.
Maybe intentional and supposed to be that big.
. . . I suppose I often assume less of people, as they leave so much obvious evidence when they commit crimes. That I think if they had intentionally done it, they'd have left less.
Still, fires can cause lots of damage and kill lots of people.
. . .
I wonder what type of law response we ought aim towards in the case of arsonists.
Often too much money to pay off,
Question of intent and future crimes.
I don't find military aesthetic raids ideal, but I don't think they are uncommon in America.
2016
"Under the dark cover of early morning last week, Miami-Dade Police officers suited up in paramilitary garb: green helmets, dark gloves and bulletproof vests that seemingly had an infinite amount of pockets. Those pockets were filled with tactical equipment. The fleet of vehicles included armored Humvees, marked police cars and unassuming white vans that were filled to the brim with members of the Special Response Team."
https://www.southdadenewsleader.com/news/updated-operation-bad-manor-and-the-yellow-tape-gang/article_a42d4cc4-4496-11e6-bb3a-7fc3795b85df.html
"A raid like this one specifically would not have occurred under any other president in our lifetimes."
Double_R #29
I'm not talking old history, I'm talking recent history.
To my view, this type of raid has 'already occurred in my lifetime multiple times.
"coordinated, deliberate, and unapologetic." #47
I think police and such agencies tend to be coordinated and deliberate,
Unfortunately also often (Not always) unapologetic until forced by legal or social pressure.
I think raids are 'often clumsy and physically damaging or uncomfortable.
. . .
Maybe there weren't any warrants for the Chicago apartment, I'm not sure yet.
I think there 'should have been.
I think it will likely end up hurting ICE if they 'didn't have warrants.
"But layered on top of that, this fits perfectly within the profile of everything we have been saying about Trump since the election and before. He is enacting a campaign of retribution against any and everyone he sees as being against him, even and including entire US states and especially blue cities. That is clearly what all of this is about." #47
I don't know 'what Trumps plan and use of the national guard and ICE is, I still find it pretty confusing.
I suppose one can argue the national guard might be at hand to prevent riots quickly.
Maybe Trump thinks all the illegal immigrants are in blue cities and states.
Maybe Trump thinks he can deport all the illegal immigrants.
Maybe Trump is just trying to put on a show, to distract or to drum up support for Republican cause.
I don't know if Trump is planning on or has sent ICE and the national guard to any Red states or cities.
If it has only been Blue cities and states, I am not convinced it is 'revenge. Logically he might target Blue to drum up 'perception (Not truth) that Blue cities and states are lawless and the problem.
If it has only been Blue cities and states, maybe not revenge, maybe Trump just wants to avoid angering his base.
I do not think this is the 'new situation that Second Amendment supporters have been fearing.
As such no knock or quick knock raids have long been a problem.
I do not think it means second amendment supporters should rebel against the government.
This may have been error, if they had no warrant, or if none of those arrested are illegals or criminals.
This is NOT NEW to my view, raids have long been an issue.
Even warrant lacking raids, but whenever raids lack warrants, the law and the people push back. I am not worried.
Trump is a diplomatic ass, I have never denied.
But any para-military groups or declaring secession would not have been successful, would not have managed to garner enough support I think.
"when is a luxury cruise ship not a building?"
Bit arbitrarily maybe,
Maybe based on shape.
Hm, sure is like a horizontal skyscraper. But is still a ship shape.
Houseboats exist, but are a bit slower and raftlike maybe.
Is traditional soldier work the most 'valuable use of an individual during war time?
By that I mean, when I imagine people being drafted to war, I always imagine them as soldiers, often cannon fodder.
Yet some wars are 'partial engagements.
Often drafted individuals 'never see combat maybe, lot of roles in military, vehicle maintenance for example.
. . .
Though I suppose one often imagines the draft as 'emergency.
But was America really in an 'emergency during Vietnam?
Existence really 'threatened?
I don't know 'why we did the draft in Vietnam.
Needed more people I suppose, though I'm not sure it was a good enough reason or conflict to require the draft.
. . .
My earlier thought though,
Couldn't one draft people into some mundane money making function?
Making cars to sell to foreign countries,
Tilling fields.
Why is the draft associated with danger combat?
Wars are also won by money maybe?
Sometimes I really question the value of a lot of news stories,
Small individual events matter 'locally,
'Large group events matter 'nationally,
'Statistics, past data, comparison, explanation, theory,
Is what matters more and more to me.
Not that small individual events, or small group events of a local nature 'can't be reported nationally,
But I think they lose 'meaning, the bigger America gets.
Though I may be mistaken, it appears to me that Double_R is arguing this is new, and worthy of open armed rebellion.
Well, not that Double_R is arguing rebellion, but that 2nd amendment supporters and/or Chicago ought rebel and/or shoot federal agents.
Quite likely I am mistaken.
"Very curious to know what the Trump supporting immigration hardliners have to say about this.
I'm also especially interested in knowing what the 2nd amendment advocates here have to say. For years, despite how objectively dangerous and deadly it is to have a country flooded with guns, these folks insisted it was needed to fight back against government tyranny. So I assume then that you support Chicagoans arming themselves and getting ready to shoot down federal agents?"
Double_R #1
"That's the US government now."
Double_R #22
All of the years I cited in #37, were during democratic leaders I think.
Clinton, Obama, Biden.
I did not call it tyranny.
My point is I think people on the Left misrepresent Trump.
. . . Not that people on the Right don't misrepresent the Left.
I'm just confused, as the Chicago Raid 'seems to 'me as if it is something new and disaster.
I think it's not ideal, and something we should work on.
But I don't think it is new or disaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aotlEpmAFVQ
'Gays Too Precious To Risk In Combat'
“How many soldiers lives, is the life of one gay man worth?"
“Seven.”
Heh,
Just thinking on women and men, comparative uses and values.
Probably varies on situation and what value is being measured.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54
Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism
. . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2wtGJlBzzY
Jim Wants To Hire More Women | Yes Minister | BBC Comedy Greats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_KRk4q3Y44
We Must Promote The Best Man For The Job, Regardless Of Their Sex | Yes Minister | BBC Comedy Greats
While I don't think this recent Chicago raid was 'good,
I don't understand how it is 'new.
I'm not trying to say it isn't important,
But I think I am not understanding what you think makes it new and new concerning.
I think it is concerning, but old concerning.
Though something that we as a nation should still work on.
I've recently been trying to use custom range search for time frame, when using Google.
So many results are of recent events otherwise.
I've also found I can get past some paywalls by using the wayback machine on some web pages.
1995
"NEW BEDFORD -- Dozens of law enforcement officers poured out the back of a moving van and into three South End houses Thursday night as part of a twin-city raid targeting drug-dealing illegal aliens.
At least nine people were taken into custody on immigration or drug charges after New Bedford state and federal agents raided five apartments here and one in Fall River simultaneously shortly after 6 p.m."
https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/1995/10/06/city-raid-targets-drug-dealing/50655613007
1996
"In the past several months the Clinton administration has escalated factory raids by immigration cops, beefed up the border police, and stepped up the deportation of undocumented workers."
https://www.themilitant.com/1996/6016/6016_10.html
1997
"Scores of young Hondurans were smuggled here with promises of earning big money and then forced to sell drugs, the police said on Friday after a raid that netted six pounds of heroin and cocaine.
Three men were arrested on drug charges in the raid. Another 127 Hondurans taken into custody by agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and will be deported.
The Hondurans ''were brought up on the promise that they would be making money, but they had a debt to the crew chief,'' said Lieut. Cliff Madison of the Portland Police Department. ''In a lot of cases, unless they sold a lot narcotics, it would be hard for them to pay off their debt.''
Most of those taken into custody lived in 12 cramped, cockroach-infested apartments, raided by about 60 law-enforcement officers from 11 Federal, state and local agencies."
https://web.archive.org/web/20171229032832/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/28/us/national-news-briefs-indentured-aliens-found-selling-drugs-in-oregon.html
2015
California Apartments Raided in Federal Investigation of Chinese ‘Birth Tourism’
https://web.archive.org/web/20170127075009/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/us/california-homes-raided-in-federal-crackdown-on-chinese-birth-tourism.html
2016
"The charges announced today are the latest in a series brought by federal prosecutors arising out of the DEA’s investigation into a drug distribution ring operating in Vermont under the direction of Michael Villanueva, whose nickname is “Unc.” Between 2014 and 2015, Villanueva and his associates trafficked a significant amount of heroin, crack cocaine, and other drugs in Vermont. For much of this time, Villanueva lived at an apartment in St. Albans, but most of the group’s drug distribution occurred in Winooski, with Villanueva and his co-conspirators operating out of the residences on Malletts Bay Avenue listed in today’s indictments. At a press conference discussing his decision to charge the facilitators federally, Miller pointed to the “cumulative and concentrated impact of drug distribution activity at so many homes along one street in the heart of Winooski.”
https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2016/07/22/eight-people-charged-making-their-homes-available-drug-distribution
2017
"In August 2016, after a similar law enforcement operation targeting drug sales in Cutler Manor, fourteen individuals associated with the Cutler Manor Apartments were indicted federally in the Southern District of Florida for possession with intent to distribute various narcotics, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 841. Each of the defendants pled guilty for their respective participation in the criminal conduct and received sentences ranging from time served to 151 months in prison.
Following the 2016 indictments, law enforcement continued to investigate the sale of narcotics both at the Cutler Manor Apartments and out of single-family houses located nearby, including throughout the Perrine area, in the Southern District of Florida.
According to the criminal complaints, law enforcement purchased various narcotics, including methylone, known as “Molly,” cocaine, and heroin from individuals both within the Cutler Manor Apartments and at nearby residences located in Perrine, including from defendants Williams, Pierce, Randall, and Lovett. During the course of today’s operations, law enforcement recovered both narcotics and firearms."
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/four-individuals-charged-federally-drug-operation-cutler-manor
2022
"Twelve Charged With Operating An Open Drug Market Inside A Bronx Apartment Building And Carrying Firearms"
https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2022/06/27/twelve-charged-operating-open-drug-market-inside-bronx-apartment-building
"Not one of the examples you listed is analogous to this. Every one of them in some way eludes to the raid being a mistake or based on bad intelligence. What happened here, as far as we so far know, was not botched, it was the point."
Double_R #22
They're 'kind of similar.
I don't really care for sudden no knock raids in the middle of the night, mistaken or correct.
Though I suppose this raid might have been in the morning, and maybe not a no knock.
37 arrested in South Shore ICE raid, DHS claims it was targeting Tren De Aragua gang members
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/south-shore-chicago-ice-raid-dhs-tren-de-aragua-gang
City knew of squalid, unsafe conditions at South Shore apartments before immigration raid
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/10/report-city-knew-of-squalid-unsafe-conditions-at-south-shore-apartments-before-immigration-raid.html
I admit I prefer 'way more transparency and proof of actions being valid, which I have yet to seen.
I admit I think having secure borders is more important to me than deporting people already here.
. . . But I've not researched this story much.
Customs and Border Protection, the ATF and the FBI were all involved in the operation, which resulted in the arrests of 37 people, according to the Department of Homeland Security. A statement from the agency noted a preliminary review of the operation found that the 37 people arrested were undocumented and that subjects were “believed to be involved in drug trafficking and distribution, weapons crimes, and immigration violators.”
https://therealdeal.com/chicago/2025/10/03/inside-a-real-estate-fight-that-preceded-south-shore-ice-raid
I think part of the problem is that maybe this is not all that 'new a problem.
It 'does sound like a problem, but I don't think it's a 'new problem that Trump is 'suddenly to blame for.
I don't have good statistics on the problem,
I don't have good perspective with other statistics,
Or how I should interpret the statistics.
It 'has long sounded a problem to me,
I 'am anti immigration in general, not good to have too many people suddenly.
Not good to have illegal people.
. .
I 'am for guns, and partly that we can resist the government. I 'do find it difficult to know when they should be used to uphold freedom.
But I am thinking 'worse situations that no knock warrants.
No knock warrants can still be fought legally and through protest.
I don't see why we 'should ever give up our guns though,
There are worse states of the country that can come about,
And I think our having guns is instrumental in preventing or reversing such.
1972
"An eight‐week investigation by The New York Times—con sisting of interviews with vic tims of the raids, policemen and narcotics agents—has shown that, contrary to pub lished reports and some Gov ernment assertions, the recent illegal drug raids on two Col linsville, Ill., families were not isolated incidents.
In fact, during the last three years, mistaken raids have been made by narcotics agents on all government levels, often acting on uncorroborated tips from informers.
Such incidents have resulted in at least four deaths, includ ing one policeman slain when a terror‐stricken innocent wo man shot through her bedroom door as it burst open. In Cali fornia one innocent father was shot through the head as he sat in a living room cradling his infant son."
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/25/archives/violent-drug-raids-against-the-innocent-found-widespread-viole-at.html
1999
"Mena was shot and killed by SWAT team officers as they entered his home to search for illegal drugs. No drugs were ever found."
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/no-knock-warrant-resulting-denver-mans-death-should-not-have-been-issued-aclu-says
2008
"In July 2006, I wrote the Cato White Paper Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids, a study of 180 botched raids. Since that paper came out, there have been a couple dozen more botched raids. The raids themselves are not rare occurrences. One criminologist says they occur to 40,000 to 50,000 people per year in this country. The vast majority of those are to serve drug warrants, and the vast majority of those are to serve warrants on nonviolent offenders."
https://www.cato.org/policy-report/november/december-2008/should-no-knock-police-raids-be-rare-or-routine
2009
"He's the mayor of a small town called Berwyn Heights in the Maryland suburbs just outside of Washington, D.C. One day last July, after he walked his dogs, a county police SWAT team broke down his door, ransacked his house, tied up him and his mother-in-law and killed his dogs. And then, despite acknowledging that it was a mistake, they've refused to apologize. And now the mayor is trying to work with state legislators to raise awareness of just how SWAT teams operate and how often things like this happen."
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/101027932?ft=nprml&f=101027932
2015
"Cops do 20,000 no-knock raids a year. Civilians often pay the price when they go wrong."
https://www.vox.com/2014/10/29/7083371/swat-no-knock-raids-police-killed-civilians-dangerous-work-drugs
2020
"Fact check: Louisville Police had a 'no-knock' warrant for Breonna Taylor’s apartment"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/30/fact-check-police-had-no-knock-warrant-breonna-taylor-apartment/3235029001
2019
"The lead investigator in the wrong-apartment killing of an innocent man by a former Dallas police officer on trial for murder claimed on Wednesday that the officer did not commit a crime based on the totality of the evidence."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/lead-investigator-wrong-apartment-killing-officer-amber-guyger/story?id=65849617
2022
"818 S.W.A.T. deployments conducted across 11 states between 2010 and 2013, it was found that 62% were for drug searches; of those, 60% employed forced entry.
Police have the legal authority to execute search warrants, even if they aren’t required to announce themselves before entering. The U.S. Supreme Court has even upheld the constitutionality of no-knock warrants in certain circumstances. "
https://alec.org/article/examining-the-risks-of-no-knock-raids/#:~:text=There%20are%20an%20estimated%2020%2C000,in%20the%20U.S.%20each%20year.
2023
"I ‘Stood My Ground’ — but It Was the Police Raiding My House
Diamonds Ford thought she was shooting at an intruder when Florida cops raided her home without knocking. Then she was charged with attempted murder."
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/12/08/police-raid-no-knock-florida
Just glancing at Wikipedia, I see a 'lot of mentions of women in war and combat,
Far more then what I've linked.
Though I 'suppose one can argue some of them came about as last resort desperation, specific circumstances.
. . But again, this is argument I have against can women carry X over X distance.
Killing and various other wartime activities do not necessarily 'require such.
Various men in history, great soldiers, maybe could not pass certain current US military standards, but still could well fulfill their soldiers role.
Sometimes people starved of food, still can soldier, still can fight.
. . . Some women 'stronger than the average man, have good nature and nurture, building their strength.
Dahomey Amazons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey_Amazons
Soldaderas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldaderas
List of female American Civil War soldiers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_American_Civil_War_soldiers
Role of women in the Nicaraguan Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_of_women_in_the_Nicaraguan_Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxOb6unhEd4
WOMEN Soldiers at Russia-Ukraine War Spill Hard Truth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Ukrainian_military
Below couple links are reason I marked post as offensive, rape and torture exists in war.
. . . But even men can be tortured and raped,
America is big on Freedom. . . And even if women did 'not fight in some wars, torture and rape is possibility, same with men.
Women in the Algerian War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Algerian_War
Women in the Haitian Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Haitian_Revolution
. . .
. . .
Course, maybe America 'is in a situation where we don't 'need to risk women,
Maybe women 'are weaker (In some ways, while being 'stronger than men in others) physically, mentally,
Maybe culture both in society and military currently 'still can't acclimate to women in the military.
Women stronger than average man 'is exception, 'hard to normalize maybe.
America once more racist, culture acclimatized to other races in US military, but race is less of a difference than sex maybe.
. . . Then again, race is 'bit vague,
'Race of pygmies, maybe not pass current US military standards.
. . .
But again, I question 'standards to a 'degree,
Of 'course standards are 'good to a degree,
Training and making stronger is good,
Minimum requirements is good,
But it's also 'limiting.
A soldier missing an eye, can still be a great soldier.
Many roles in military not require picking up heavy weight and putting it down.
Not all of military work is all muscle no brain.
Certain limitations to military service 'limits and weakens the military. . .
But then of course topic is women in 'combat, not women in 'military.
Or space aliens conquer us, and reduce our military budget and forces to zero, while being hands off for most everything else.
Which 'could be an answer in a way.
Various nations in history 'have conquered other nations and reduced their militaries to zero before, yet kept them around as vassals of sorts.
Some nations have reduced or no military budget in history.
Maybe get more social services.
Two minutes to miiiiidniiiiight!
Ah wait, missed my chance by a minute, ah well.
Bit after midnight now, here in Oregon as I post this.
I think sometimes think a 'lot of philosophy is overly complex, convaluted, and complicated.
But eh, it's a hobby.
Something to think about, exercise one's brain.
Sometimes useful in perspective and will.
Somehow to my mind suicide still implies 'meaning,
Giving 'up all attempts at life, eating, thinking,
To my mind would be the most true embodiment of nihilism in a human.
. . . Though 'even 'that, to my mind seems something 'chosen.
Humans can't 'really 'escape the question of meaning I 'think.
'Some answer, some personal truth or belief 'must be given.
Suicide 'can have Ego driven reasons I think.
I've not actually 'read much Existential or Nihilism philosophy.
I think I'd lean towards Nihilism and Egoism being contradictions,
Egoism at times perhaps an anger against a (seeming) truth one cannot accept.
I'm not well read on the history of disbarment.
Recent political relevance might be,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-Range_Nuclear_Forces_Treaty
WW1 had a large 'build up of military forces I 'think,
Had all the sides 'not built up their armies, maybe they would have been less willing to enter war.
. . . Public used to being taxed for weapons, Vs 'new taxes for weapons.
Object in motion, Object at rest.
'Trying for less military, maybe can last a while.
Though 'eventually people and situation might change again, and one would need weapons again.
. . .
People do make 'laws for war,
Agree on behaviors, responsibilities, weapons.
Maybe leads to less atrocity,
Less atrocity, maybe less cycle of revenge.
