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They believe all fetuses have a right to life but not all fetuses have a right to due process, presumably.

Have you ever heard that motto in statistics, "all models are wrong; some models are useful"?

"Normal" is like that. There's no such thing, but it can be a useful word.

It's funny how the murders in Columbo and Murder, She Wrote are like always some normal person who committed a clever one-time murder. I never did see Angela Lansbury go after a serial killer who was raping and killing dudes in his apartment or something.

But yeah, our justice system is very much retributive. I remember watching a TED Talk about how juries are unconsciously just seeking emotional satiety for their own outrage over the crime.

Within the scope of the show, though, you can't let someone who's proven themselves capable of murder just go free because they got what they wanted and are no longer planning another murder.

If everything is God's will, free will doesn't exist, and free will being the monotheist's greatest argument for the existence of suffering, means that God wants evil and suffering to exist, meaning God is not benevolent, meaning faith and worship are meaningless and futile efforts.

We're just so loud when the other side crosses the line and so fucking quiet when our side does. Let the in-group get away with anything because the out-group is an existential threat, oooh. We all suck and I hate us. We're just my-side biased partisan hatenuggets and I have no hope for humanity.

Sorry I don't normally post in this forum for a reason.

There's such a disturbing lack of accountability on both sides about this. You have the left trying to deny the emerging Tyler Robinson evidence and the reactions of mockery and almost glee evident in many leftists, and you have the right acting like this exact same tasteless behavior has not also been committed by Trump and his cohort.

Green Eggs and Ham.

It made me really ask the question, "Who am I?" My parents named me Samuel when I was born, but everybody called me Sam. That's who I am. Sam, I am.

This book also made me come to grips with what I really like and what I don't like. I don't like green eggs and ham, for example. It doesn't matter whether the eggs are green, the ham is green, or they're both green. If they're green, I don't like them.

This is deep, bruh. Sam-I-am really didn't respect the dude's boundaries, proud of you for finding yours. fr fr 🫂

Sadly, the most pivotal to my ideological development was probably Night by Elie Wiesel, which my English teacher assigned us in freshman year.

I had been suffering prior to reading this, but mostly surrounded by normal children, I thought of my suffering as singular, personal, and not something the other was afflicted with. This book plunged me into depths I had hitherto not dreamed of, and guiltily, I found it almost cathartic, because it was proof the other did suffer, and it grappled outright with misery, despair, and hopelessness, which I had learned were unspeakable topics in polite society and certainly not something it was seemly for a 15-year-old to talk about as if she were familiar with them. Ideologically it sent me further on a trajectory toward the problem of evil, nihilism, a brush with Nietzschean philosophy, a teenage phase of angry pop atheism and all that Four Horsemen stuff, which would fade with time. What did not fade was a firm belief that there can be no moral justification for the totality of suffering on Earth, which would remain my deepest reason for being an atheist.

Arguably they should, what monster would make the pepperoni-beneath-cheese choice.

"Oh I want my customers' pepperoni to be all limp and soggy underneath the cheese where it can never get nice crispy edges, and I want this to look exactly like a cheese pizza on top so that people who like cheese pizzas get a nasty surprise and people who like pepperoni pizza weep tears of disappointment."

These people should not be making pizza anymore.

No one they will burn like the spawn of Satan they are

Every pizza place that puts pepperoni underneath the cheese should be burned to the ground this is not hyperbole burned to the fucking ground

Imagine if Leaning started playing. You could never tell if he was town or scum. He would give you all fits.

"I 'can see why you would say that, though, 'maybe not.

Some scum would make that play, though 'myself, I wouldn't. Can my role 'do that? I guess, if it does, maybe might have a good 'argument there. Maybe not."

I am not part of the Mafia crowd normally and I played it. It is, unfortunately, really fun.

Fiction with underwater cultures,

I imagine a lot of gadgets and gizmos aplenty. Whosits and whatsits galore, perhaps even some thingamabobs.

Electricity would be a bit tricky underwater so one wonders what gizmos those would be exactly

I simply believe in magical triad of:

Caster

Desired effect

Action by caster which achieves desired effect.

But this doesn't involve any deities

Its just to include everything what can be reasonably included. One doesnt need to include Gods, but what would one gain by not including them?

If I don't believe in any gods, and can't make myself believe in them (trust me I've tried), invoking them becomes an empty and faithless gesture. It feels almost deceitful.

But I do sometimes like ritual and spiritualism (in the modern sense, not the 1800's crystal-ball-dead-relative sense) because, I don't know, I find it soothing and emotionally regulating, and in a weird way it makes me feel like I'm making friends with the universe, instead of just observing the indifferent machinations of it.

"He didn't say that and if he did he didn't mean it and if he did it's not illegal and if it is everyone's doing it and if they're not she did something way worse."

These Skyrim political debates always make me wish Elder Scrolls games were a bit more dialogue intensive. You can never really comment on the civil war in the game with the nuance of Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines or Knights of the Old Republic 2 or anything.

I like it, although it looks like he's giving you a bit of side-eye :p

I've enjoyed the 5 worthless comments you've contributed to this thread, please keep them coming.

Would anyone believe it if I said I am playing grayparrot's part in this theater?

Nah, very different argument styles.

When I see fiction with underwater cultures I often think about what technology or art would flourish there.

There's a Danish band called Aquasonic who adapt their instruments to play underwater. But it's tricky and takes a lot of fine tuning. Here's a video of what goes into it.

Debby is Shila. You can tell from the amount of copypasta and the weird responses and the all over the place arguments.

He really proposed to a liberal?

My read was like:

All Ulfric cares about is himself and his nationalism. That's why he doesn't give a shit about the Dunmer's plight in Windhelm; that's why he doesn't let Argonians into the city; that's why he killed a young man who couldn't use the Thu'um, had considerably less training, and looked up to him; and that's why he butchered civilians in the purge of the Reachmen from Markarth so he could secure Talos worship.

He's myopic. He only sees his kinsmen and Talos worship. He doesn't see at all that if Skyrim breaks away, it helps the Dominion, and once the Dominion take over completely, no one will be free except the High Elves. What's his game plan for if the rebellion succeeds? Skyrim fights the Dominion by itself? Insta-loss. Skyrim allies with other nations to take on the Dominion? Stormcloak nationalism doesn't lend itself well to such alliances, and the only other nations who might join, like Hammerfell, are in no position to give any aid.

He's serving up the Aldmeri a win on a silver platter and he doesn't care because his cause has a nice ring to it.

Buuut I'd never looked at him through a broken-man lens before. Would he be so blind or Captain Ahabby if he'd never been captured by the Thalmor during the Great War? Interesting perspective.

I usually play as an elf and become a Stormcloak. I'm One of the Good Ones™. I like to imagine the other soldiers' confusion when the High Elf Vampire Lord Necromancer screams SKYRIM FOR THE NORDS and then raises their fallen comrades to shamble into battle once more.

Lol that does sound awesome.

Stormcloak Altmer seems like a goated combo. If I was gonna do a Stormcloak playthrough I'd probably roll High Elf. Though I'd still hate having to fuck Jarl Balgruuf over. I liked him.

High Elf vampires just seem extra creepycool.

Was just wondering the same. He was one of the most active users.

This is kinda fascinating. If you can make your own spells, where do you believe the power comes from? The spells, the herbs, the ritual, you, the gods?

Good for you man.

Seems like a good plan. Until you come across a particular spell you really want to do but the herbs aren't local for you, I guess. I'm in the dark about what happens then. Are you SOL if the herbs don't grow near you, or can you adapt with the available ingredients and still get the same results? Does it depend on the grimoire or spellbook or spell rules.

Yeah I hate Ulfric. Power hungry blowhard Thalmor plant. Neither him or General Tullius are desirable leaders. Elisif is too inexperienced. Not a lot of good options.

I go Imperial as well though. Ultimately a fractured Empire is what the Thalmor want; it's why they want Ulfric to succeed. It's very clear the Empire did not want to outlaw Talos worship, they just had no other choice.

Hard to choose the Empire when they tried to decapitate you though. That moment when you're not on the list and they're like "oh well, they came in the wagon didn't they?" was enough to make me hard consider Stormcloak.

I didn't see the other door either first playthrough btw