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I'd say it probably means use the least harmful method available that still gets the job and justice done.


It means the crime must match the punishment, which is another element of it.

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It's the ever-changing amendment.


Not sure what the writers of it thought was cruel or unusual. Most people know consider hanging to be cruel, but not back then. The death penalty was once ruled to be cruel and unusual, but this was repealed shortly after. (Somehow it's cruel when the writers of this amendment would have treated it like nothing.)

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I remember reading an article supporting TW in sports, because I wanted to see what the arguments in favor of doing this were; I knew most of the population was against allowing this in the first place.


The article basically gave two reasons. The first was that banning TW doesn't help women because it bans TW, which it considers women. This seems like circular logic. The second was because "sports was never really fair," i.e. tall and strong people always win. This is so ridiculous.

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"Merry" gained some tabooness during the Victorian Age in England, and I guess this didn't affect America as much.


Dickens popularized the use of "merry" instead of "happy" when talking about Christmas, but then a new age came.


The royal family was known for using polite terms, so "happy" started to become the more dominant version in England.


The Victorian Age was also responsible for making "piss" turn into "pee."

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Yeah, Protestants often present a gnostic view of the body. They just see Jesus as a way to escape the lusts of this world, instead of Jesus helping us get through the times in this world when we may have to resist lust. This is all part of rapture theology. But at the same time, they don't have a concept of celibacy either. They hate lust and like it at the same time.


With regard to the scandals, it's just the devil at work. The devil wants to attack the truth. He wants to profane God's holy place.

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Enough with the pederasty.


We can point to cases this happens anywhere.


It's obviously wrong, but that doesn't make the institutions in which they happen wrong or false.