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Pohl
Jan 28, 2005




In the future, please post shit with the sole purpose of antagonizing the person running this site. Thank you.

Rexicon1 posted:

Seeing the word "inherent" and "right" being used 14 different ways in the same paragraph is making me insane. Either we come to a consensus on what these words mean or close the thread. The idea of personhood and inherent value of life are massively complicated things that cannot be answered adequately with a single post.

For example, inherent can mean "derived from some formal entity in the unknowable aether" and it can also mean "a property derived from the logical conclusion of a premise".

He is a sociopath and while the rest of us could hash out what a "right" really is, and what it means to a society and an individual; I doubt he could ever really understand what we were talking about. If you have to derail a thread about gentrification and then start a thread asking if people really deserve to live, you are probably a loving sociopath.

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Pohl
Jan 28, 2005




In the future, please post shit with the sole purpose of antagonizing the person running this site. Thank you.

TwoQuestions posted:

Except the world is a bleak, constant struggle for survival, at least for most people. How does ignoring that make anything any better?

Because we decided that the world sucked and formed this thing we call Society. The answer isn't to look at the bleak nature of a natural world, the answer is to look at our societies and decide how they can be improved. You are digging down. Dig up.

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