What did you have for lunch today? That was a living, sentient creature. Are you a murderer?
What is the meaning of the relevant commandment? Thou shall not murder:
The Hebrew verb רצח (r-ṣ-ḥ, also transliterated retzach, ratzákh, ratsakh etc.) is the word in the original text that is translated as "murder", but it has a wider range of meanings, generally describing destructive activity, including meanings "to break, to dash to pieces" as well as "to slay, kill, murder".
It means "thou shall not break", "dash to pieces", thou shall not "slay, kill, murder".
Do you think you're meant to use any discernment in that?
Or do you think maybe this requires you to gently swipe the ground in floor of you as you walk, as some Buddhist monks do, to avoid killing an insect?
There are people who take the Bible very literally, and they have Shabbat elevators that run on a schedule all day so they can avoid pressing buttons, which God prohibits on Saturdays. Do you think those people could use some discernment?
Cripes. You've argued with liberals too much.
You can argue, or you can try to improve the way I argue. Choose one.
So, I say that the problem is that people feel like they need to use Facebook (and twitter).
Nothing in the world is a "need", not even life itself. Everything is a desire. A value fulfillment, it could be said.
Why do people use Facebook?
Same reason they do anything: because they want to.
I posit that it's used because people are lazy and their sense of community is gone.
I suggest it's a number of things. One of them is to keep connections that would otherwise be lost because of physical distance. Another is that it's so much easier to find people who are interested in the same things that you are interested in right now if you do not restrict yourself to people who are physically close.
Solve the problem of why people use Facebook and their power diminishes vastly.
But this problem is physical distance. There are other psychological considerations, such as attention and validation seeking, which you point out, but there are legitimate reasons to be on the internet. Otherwise, you're saying you don't have a legitimate reason to be posting here right now.
I hope that makes it a little more clear.
I did not misunderstand you.
By the definition you're using for "life", it should be illegal to kill mold.
Life is not a new thing that's created when a sperm and an egg meet. We are all continuations of existing life which at some point acquires individual egos.
The criteria we use for what is "murder" (not OK) and what is "killing" (OK) do not boil down to "what is sentient" or "what can feel", or even "what has a heartbeat". When we distinguish "murder" and "killing", it boils down to "what has an ego".
An embryo does not have an ego. You're saying the embryo's nonexistent ego must be protected because, if left to grow, it will eventually develop one. If that's the case, then potentially fertile parents must be punished if they don't have as many children as they possibly can, because they could all develop egos.
You had 19 children, but could have possibly had 20? Murder! To the gallows with you!
Your stats sum up to "85% of abortions are chosen by women who are not ready to carry a pregnancy to term."
It's no one's business to force them. It's not your duty to enforce God's law. If you think abortion is a mortal sin, then that's a matter between the woman, her doctor, and God.
I can assure you, she's willing.
Even if everyone uninstalls Facebook, they are still going to use smartphones. You and I are here because we enjoy Reddit-like sites.
You're arguing we wouldn't have this problem if we lived like the Amish. Yeah, sure, but we don't want to live like the Amish. So therefore, the solution is...?
It's to ensure that those who operate the technology actually uphold ethical standards, and do not try to dominate the world.
If we technologically regress, the stage before this was TV, where the cable news was fully compromised and was used to dominate the world. Before that, it was newspapers, and the newspapers were compromised and used to dominate the world.
Technology helps us, if used properly. Trump would not have been elected without Twitter. That's why they locked it down.
All of them do.
Less than 1% of the population are capable of producing that software, so centralization is unavoidable. The masses are going to use someone's software. That someone better be held accountable for some kind of ethics, otherwise we can't use any software.
What happens when the hardware itself is compromised, and 2 corporations in the world make it? If folks like Dorsey and Zucker aren't held accountable, we can't use any information technology.
Are you able to switch to a smart phone that provides 80% of what you expect from a smart phone, and its manufacturer didn't remove Parler? How about just a smart phone that doesn't report your position on a second-by-second basis?
This is hilarious 😁 (If you live far enough from California)
The high court’s ruling came in the case of 66-year-old Kenneth Humphrey of San Francisco, who was jailed for more than eight months because he couldn’t post $350,000 bail on charges of stealing $5 and a bottle of cologne from a neighbor in a senior housing complex in May 2017.
The Association of Deputy District Attorneys in Los Angeles County noted that Humphrey has a long criminal record and so faced a potentially long prison sentence on charges including robbery and residential burglary. He is alleged to have demanded money from a 79-year-old man who uses a walker, then followed the victim into his apartment where he stole the items.
So this case made it all the way to the CA Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court says, "Duh, this guy should be on the loose!"
I gleefully await the results of this amazing experiment 😂😁
That may all be true, but he did also release videos with testimony from his witness.
Solutions are in the works.
They've been for years.
The problem is not as simple as you think. It's on the order of proving P != NP. It's a similar level of difficulty as coming up with a cryptocurrency in the first place. I know qualified people who have attempted and failed.
Solving this problem is not a matter of engineering. It's a matter of breakthrough. A breakthrough may occur tomorrow, or it may happen in 15 years, or someone may prove that it's not possible in 50 years.
Waiting for that breakthrough requires a similar amount of hopium as that the military is going to save us. In fact, I think it's more likely the military will save us.
Removing the power of currency from the international banking cartel is a KEY COMPONENT to our fight for freedom.
You can just hang them up some trees and thereby end the cartel. It's real easy.
That is, if you can convince people that the way currency is issued is a problem, or at least that the people who manage currency issuance are grossly abusing their position.
Really smart people are working on it.
Breakthroughs don't come on a schedule. It doesn't matter how many people are working on it. If it's not ours to have, we won't have it.
Compare Einstein. Look into the origin of his theory of relativity. It came to him in a dream.
A bunch of scientific breakthroughs came to a scientist in a dream. Bohr's model of the atom. Medeleev's periodic table of elements. Kekule's structure of benzene. Ramanujan's equations. Wallace's idea of natural selection. Loewi's frog heart experiment. Kary Mullis's PCR, now famously abused against his will for "diagnostic" testing.
These are ideas which are granted to us. At this time, we have not been granted the breakthrough in cryptocurrency despite decades of work on it, despite people knowing the solution is worth trillions.
Lin had video evidence and a first-hand witness. He expected someone would do something. He didn't expect the system is that thoroughly corrupt.
If crypto is the way, have you identified yet a cryptocurrency that supports a number of transactions per second routinely handled by Visa, MasterCard and AmEx, while retaining security?
Bitcoin (BTC) was intentionally captured and crippled by banker-types so it has a limit of approximately 7 transactions per second.
If every American adult (~ 250 million) wanted to buy some BTC, it would take the BTC network about 14 months to process all the transactions. Then, each person could make one BTC transaction every 14 months.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is not similarly crippled – they increased their block size – so it can handle 1 or 2 orders of magnitude more transactions. This means using BCH, every American could maybe make a transaction every 2 weeks!
So. What other cryptocoin exists that maintains the security guarantees and raises the transaction limit to what an economy requires?
(None. Centralization is several orders of magnitude more efficient than a network based on distrust. The solution to our problems is to FIX OUR POLITICS, not some kind of crypto-escapist cyber-punkery.)
Or they got booted because they weren't part of the current ideological elite.
More likely, someone is willing to report on this now.
They did, but those would be a clear minority if the media promoted the interests of the public, and if government agencies served the integrity of the republic.
Instead, the government agencies want to run the world themselves, with puppets they appoint as congresspeople and presidents, and the media serve their bidding.
The people who voted for Biden are inconsequential, except to the extent that the government can point to them and yell: "See? These people believe we are legitimate! And they are a majority! We'll imprison you for saying otherwise!"
You don't fix this by further decreasing the number of people who voted for Biden. Reducing that number from 30% to 20% makes no difference. They will just make them scream louder. What must be fixed is the monster behind this.
He's a puppet. The names of the dictators behind him are not as widely publicized...
How big of a hole was it digging?
Dude – where the US goes, the world goes. Most people in Europe are ignorant of the US, but those that are "informed" are arguing about the US for the same reason that we are worried about the direction of the federal government more than our local towns.
You can move to a different town, but you can't escape the influence of the US federal government, and that's true globally. That's also why the globalists had to cheat – whoever controls the world's largest military is globally important.
I'm less frustrated by slow thinkers being unaware – that's understandable, they're slow, eventually they will get there. What most frustrates me are smart people who carefully cultivate their blind spots to ensure they don't get marred with any "misinformation". 😐
In school, you can be (a) smarter than the teacher, and be frustrated by the teacher's gaps in knowledge and mistakes; (b) just smart enough to follow the teacher, in which case you are impressed with everything they say; (c) too slow to follow the teacher, in which case you are alienated by the entire experience.
The lies in the media are not best at reaching people under (a) and people under (c). They're best at reaching people under (b) – just smart enough... but not too smart. These are the middle management. They aren't at the top of the world... but they run the bureaucracies.
Feminism has legitimate complaints, just like socialism has legitimate complaints. The problem is that the proposed solution is worse than the complaints.
Quite right – I know very smart people like that. But the only way smart people haven't figured things out by now is a conscious decision to not investigate, which is a choice. It is this choice that I condemn – the choice to support one side without honestly investigating its characteristics, even though the person has the full capacity to investigate.
I can sooner forgive a dumb person who doesn't know better, than a smart person who makes the conscious choice to delude themselves.
Right. Do you want Gab to attract Christians only?
I am a liberal, or what they are supposed to be. It's just that the liberals are fascist :)
they’re always soo against and bothered by any show of Christianity
I'm just as bothered by militant atheism or Islam. Torba usually signs off with "Jesus is King", which is equivalent to "Allahu Akbar". Would you want to join a free speech site where the owner signs off with "God is imaginary!" or "Allahu Akbar"?
Regarding the counting of Covid, though - a peer reviewed study found this:
Direct link to study (PDF).