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Why do you even need this question answered? Do you find it difficult?
ALL LIVES MATTER! It's basically what my political views are based on; humanism.
That's why I support the principle that everyone has a right to a decent quality of life.
Can you tell me now how you support the principle that all lives matter?
But where the wall starts crumbling is when you want to take away from the achievers and give to the non achievers to level the playing field for the decent quality of life.
You have never explained what the motivation would be for the achievers to continue to achieve when they reap nothing more than what is necessary to survive from their efforts and those that do nothing are in a equal place in life.
If you achieve more, you should reap more. humanism does not account for rewards for success, just survival of all
to ANYTHING. If people don't have rights, they don't matter.
Of course humanism accounts for rewards for success.
It says people have a right to basic standards, to provide a fair shake in life.
That's not just good for those people, but for humanity as a whole.
The desire for MORE than basic standards provides the rewards.
Actually your preferred system eliminates the motivation to achieve, because it provides so much power and wealth to some people, that they never have to achieve anything anymore, because their power and wealth makes them infallible, no matter how stupid and evil they have become. That hurts society tremendously.
And if a baby is found in the forest, where is it written it has a "right" to anything? It has basic NEEDS like food and water,to survive, but even the bare needs have to be paid for somehow,has to be administered by someone, that cost MONEY, no matter how much you hate money, it takes it to do ANYTHING>
Do you understand what a RIGHT is? It's NOT something you have to work for.
Yes that baby has rights! Read your DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!
It has the right to be free by our constitution . 2 different things.
Bill of rights says the baby can pursue happiness and have free speech and etc. But there is nothing that says the baby has a RIGHT to food and water. We just provide it to preserve life and prevent hunger.
Of course a baby will die if it's not provided by someone else to maintain it's life.
BUT, it has a RIGHT to someone else to maintain it's life. We have built a civilization that is capable of providing everyone with what's necessary to survive, humanity has decided that humans have those rights, and we have created laws to defend those right.
The US adopted the UDHR too. Did you ever bother to read it?
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"Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person."
How clear do you want it?
Why do you deny those facts? Do you think that is in your best interest?
Did someone tell you you don't have these basic rights? Why would they?
Maybe they consider you worthless, unless you make yourself worthwhile to them.
That's the last people you should support, if you have any self-respect.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights."
Do you think it just means the right to be free?
What is freedom to you? Is it freedom, if you don't have a right to survive?
And why keep talking about babies? Because they are powerless?
That doesn't matter. A strong, able and intelligent adult has the same rights.
So basically what you just stated in that first line is humans are slaves to the young, a right to someone to care for it? God forbid letting the parents take care of it right?
dark scary group of elites, in your mind. Nice ethics!
Are you kidding? Slaves to the young, because we ALL have human rights?
You think pregnant woman are slaves to their fertilized cell, zygote or fetus.
I think the woman has human rights, because she is a sentient human being
with a future, just like a baby. So, we consider everyone's human rights and
make the optimal decision. The whole benefit of a civilization is cooperation,
to assure human rights. If the parents cannot take care of a baby, civilization
has the responsibility to facilitate it's human rights.
You are contradicting yourself again:
"humans are slaves to the young, a right to someone to care for it?"
"God forbid letting the parents take care of it right?"
That means parents are slaves to their young. Unless you think they have a right to just let it starve. They don't, because that would put them in prison.
You're making my arguments for me.
You're saying a baby's life doesn't matter, as long as it has parents.
If it has no right to live, according to you, why does it's life matter?
There is no consistency to any of your ideas. My idea is simple and consistent; the more sentient a being is, the more priority it's right to life has. A bug has low sentience, so we can kill it if it's a nuisance. Still, all bugs on this earth as a whole, do have a right to live, by my opinion. That's a higher right to life, than I grant a pathogen virus or bacterium. A chicken has a bit higher sentience, so we can kill it for food, but we cannot torture it to death wantonly. There are laws against that.
A dog is considered even more sentient, so we don't allow killing it for food.
If a dog had the same sentience as a healthy adult human being, it would have the same rights. It's all very consistent; A basic principle, supported by reason, leading to conclusions.
Your view on the other hand, eliminates the rights of a woman, in favor of the 'rights' of a fertilized cell. But, somehow, when that fertilized cell has developed into a baby, it has no rights anymore, according to you. I find your explanations
for that completely lacking. What's your basic principle for it?
A fly hardly has any sentience, so we can kill it, if it's a nuisance.
That's literally what I said, and you're trying to find some got-you in it?
In any case, I usually try to catch flies alive. Not because I don't want to hurt them, but because insects are an important part of the ecosystem and insects are already declining. The higher the life-form, the more I care about it's life.
I asked you for your basic principles, for why (all) lives matter.
Do even you have any basic principles for ethics at all?
YOU know, those folks that support abortion, mercy killings, assisted suicides and such,
"No lives matter"
Starting tomorrow morning all Democrats and liberals are to report to the Grand Canyon for jump off. Surrender all assets to the nearest government office and walk to the Grand canyon at once.
I am willing to bet, within a week 200,000 plus idiots will jump to escape Trump, the rest will say "wait a minute, my life matters!" then they will confess that All lives matter .Because when it comes to theirs, it matters to them. It is just that YOUR life does not matter to them.
I don't care about some mugger getting shot when he raises a gun.
I care when they get shot while the cop isn't in any danger.
And there are too many of those cases.
Either your cops are fucking cowards, or they are bloodthirsty monsters,
and it's not some bad apples, it's a pattern of behavior.
I will say,alot of the cops that claim they felt they were in danger,probably were NOT and just took the safe route and shot anyway.
People that apply for a cop job should know by now in 2025 with all the media coverage that the job is unsafe and if they are chicken shits they should go apply at the local post office.
They are trained to be bullies and to escalate, to intimidate.
They are not trained to protect and serve, they are being trained to prioritize
their own lives over anyone else's, at all cost. They are trained to be cowards.
I think this is a reason for why there are so many people in prison in the US.
If you teach people to FEAR the police and the law, it should always be present
to assure lawful behavior from your citizens, but if you teach people to RESPECT
the police and the law, it stimulates lawful behavior from your citizens, when there
is no risk of punishment too.
Black people are afraid for their lives if a cop just talks to them.
Do you have any ability to imagine what that must be like?
Try to speak to a black person randomly in a store or something and most of the time,you get a friendly reply,maybe even conversation,
But there are those few exceptions, "oh that cracker is a racist i gots to be on the defensive" .
those are the only 1's you hear about on the news.
They are people, like you! What do you expect?
Besides the many stories of black people getting killed by police,
every single black person can tell you many stories about COPS bothering them, while they were just minding their own business, like shopping, traveling home or to work, jogging or exercising in a park, eating in their car near a drive-through.
No matter what normal shit they do, some COP asks "What are you doing here?".
Then they are expected to be very polite, or the COP instantly escalates the situation. But, being polite is no defense; if a COP is in the mood of bothering a black person,
it will continue. It's literal bullying, and it happens to black people a fucking lot. It's a constant pressure on black people to know their place. They better take it, because if they resist in any way, the COP ends their life. Then you come along telling me that they got themselves killed, by not being polite enough. THAT IS RACISM, because it doesn't happen to white people. On the news, you only see the bullying that ended
in the death of some black person, but there is a pattern of abuse behind it.
Then there are just instances where entering your house while holding a sandwich
is considered suspicious enough to get shot with several bullets. And then you think that's ample justification for a cop to shoot. But, that's not you being racist, right?
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I don't take on a job that consist of me being shot at,cussed and so on
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Black people are harassed by cops constantly.
Most black people just see it as a fact of life,
but some think this is not how it should be and protest it.
Those cops deserve NO respect and I think it's courageous to show that.
Your party once supported FREEDOM. Remember that time?
Or was that only for white people? Dumb question; of course.
You actually know I'm right, you just like it that way.
"A Black person is five times more likely to be stopped without just cause than a white person. A Black man is twice as likely to be stopped without just cause than a Black woman. 65% of Black adults have felt targeted because of their race."
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Prove them wrong!
This video is not completely related, but please listen to this American guy
who explains how much different it feels for him living in The Netherlands:
"I Found In The Netherlands What We Lost In America | An American Living In The Netherlands"
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We all know you hate America, you are a socialist and we do not want that shit here ananas2xlekker.
And they didn't mean cut money to police and not replace what police does in other ways.
Spend a few minutes on actually researching what they mean, and you would know that.
Biden increased police funding. You just keep straw-manning and making up shit.
Meanwhile Trump is cutting money to EVERYTHING that is important for Americans, even the police. Agencies who secure your elections, protect people against scamming financial companies, protect communities from environmental disasters and willful pollution, and that goes after corrupt politicians (dems as much as reps) that's police too.
I DON'T hate what America stands for, I love it! I hate what YOU stand for.
YOU ARE NOT AMERICA!!! You are a traitor to every single American principle.
I want a government of the people, by the people, for the people. That's SOCIALISM.
That makes me more American than YOU!
You deal drugs and someone dies from one pill then I say put the dealer to death.
Yes law enforcement usually secures the elections, but during shitty britches reign the law was weaponized against Republicans.
Talk about traitor, that is you. I was born here and I vote so I have a right to bitch; however you do not. By your definition of me, I guess 77 million Americans disagree with you.
Now run along little boy and mind your own damn business.
It's YOUR CONSTITUTION and you are crapping all over it.
Many of those 77 million Americans are already regretting their vote.
Many are saying "We didn't vote for THIS!".
But we warned that THIS would happen, so they DID vote for THIS!
They fucked around and found out.
Georgia has already been denied their Hurricane Helene relief extension.
Latinos who voted for Trump already see friends and family members get deported.
Farmers who voted for Trump are already complaining about his policies.
Teachers who voted for Trump are already seeing their job security at risk.
HE IS JUST ONE MONTH IN!!!
Lunatic extremists on the left have NO POWER WHATSOEVER.
Lunatic extremists on the right are RUNNING YOUR COUNTRY NOW.
Who had "Defund the Police" on their Trump Bingo card?
Kamala wasn't going to defund the police.
She was also not canceling the agency to protect you against international corruption.
She was also not going to make insulin expensive again.
She was also not cutting 70% of the cancer research budget.
I could go on, but you wouldn't care anyway.
Surely she wouldn't have let a bunch of hacker kids hack the treasury.
One of them was fired by a cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets.
That's who you trust with 6 trillion tax-dollars and your secret information.
I might do a lot of the same, but I would let the guy breath.
It's possible to subdue someone without squeezing the life from them.
Even in a situation of self defense, you still have an obligation to use the minimum force necessary. If you don't do that and intentionally kill someone, who didn't need
to be killed, then there should be consequences for it.
NOT GUILTY.
The fellow that died was homeless. family friends apparently didn't give a fiddlers damn about him and left him out on the street knowing he needed help and should have been somewhere safe.
But now that the fellow is dead, his father is trying to cash in on his death. suddenly the family cares. because there is MONEY to be had.
He is a neoliberal; someone who wants to hand over everything to capitalism;
PRIVATIZATION. He just didn't get to destroy their public healthcare system, yet.
"Neoliberalism came to Canada with the government of Brian Mulroney in 1984. Mulroney initiated the privatization of Canada’s publicly owned corporations
(crown corporations). They included Air Canada, Petro-Canada, and Connaught Laboratories, one of the top vaccine companies in the world. Mulroney’s decision to enter into a free trade deal with the U.S. was a key moment in Canada’s neoliberal transition."
"It was extended to Mexico under NAFTA and ratified by the Chrétien-Martin government. The Liberal government’s neoliberal architecture ... delivered massive cuts: from transfers to provinces for health, education, and welfare; cuts across almost all departments and agencies, social housing, and international assistance. It was followed by the privatization of the Canadian National Railway."
"A central consequence of decades of neoliberalism has been the rise of the oligarchs and the unprecedented increase in income and wealth inequality, including within Canada."
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Dams that held water in lakes that could be drank or used for fire protection were destroyed for the sake of a fish.
Taxes in that state are high, regulations are tight,and they STILL can't get it right.
Just proves that taxation and regulation only harms in the long term
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While the fire department's budget was cut, the police department's budget increased by $125.9 million, a roughly 7% increase. Is that wasted money?
As you know, you can't spend money twice.
So, lets agree that it would be very unwise if DOGE is going to cut funds for the fire department even further. OK?
What would not be dumb is to cut out social programs that provide safe spaces to do drugs and so forth. and cut out them damn methadone clinics to.
Those programs are intended to reduce harm on society.
There is nothing better to reduce the addiction problem than those programs.
They are also much more cost efficient in lowering crime, than raising police budgets.
The best solution to reduce the wildfires in California is to nationalize PG&E, and directly invest public money into modernizing their power grid. No company should be allowed to cause 1,500 wildfires in 6 years. Imagine the cost of the damage to their citizens.
Where the hell do you get your stories? The Santa Ynez Reservoir was closed for fish? It was offline this month for previously scheduled maintenance. If a reservoir that provides water to fire-hydrants needs maintenance, January would be the best month to plan it in. That's normally the month with the least risk for wildfires. The problem is that the climate isn't normal anymore.
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