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canadianceilidh

In Which The Author Finally Shows That He Isn't Uber Super Crazy Stupid Liberal Anymore, Or Somethin

Jul 25, 2006 01:46

So, here's the latest installment of my political essays for me to work out these things in a coherent form in my head, written mainly because I just drank a Monster and my heart is racing like a pedophile in a preschool ( Read more... )

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leeflower July 25 2006, 14:04:13 UTC

On the whole, I think your points are valid. Liberals have a problem with thinking that people will listen when they shout "vote for us because it's morally right." Well, no one gives a fuck about morally right. They want to know what's in it for them. Maybe I'm a bad person for assuming that the average individual is going to favor himself over the good of the greater community, but impirical evidence indicates that it's not a baseless assumption ( ... )

leeflower July 25 2006, 14:07:44 UTC

I think a distinction needs to be made between lobbies and PACs, though. Granted it's grain of salt time, because I'm sitting at the FCNL reception desk as I type this, but there is a difference. PACs endorse candidates. They raise money to give to parties, candidates, causes, etc. Dirty lobbyists do that too, and have no qualms about bribing people to get what they want. But a vast majority of what groups like FCNL do isn't that. For one, they're legally forbidden to endorse candidates or make donations to same ( ... )

enivri July 26 2006, 18:32:41 UTC

First off, pwnage. Pretty good stuff in there. Kudos.

Secondly, what are you thinking?

Nature is not the world we should look to in order to develop our morality. It is, in fact, what we should look to to gain our opinion on what 'evil' is. Yes, fuck you, I said it. Nature, by nature (I made a funny) is competitive, brutal, nasty, and cruel.

What the hell? Are you just trying to give Andrew more reason to cast "detect alignment" on nature? Seriously though, you present nature in your essay as a moral thing. Nature is pretty distinctly amoral. Nature is not a thing that cares if you live or die or chain yourself to a tree or skydive right into the volcano with a nuclear device. Nature is not an enemy or a friend. It is a tool, an environment, a setting, a place, and an idea.

Otherwise, nice post.

canadianceilidh July 26 2006, 18:49:00 UTC

I cast magic missile... at the darkness ( ... )

enivri July 27 2006, 15:37:51 UTC

I'm not saying that the hippies believe nature is amoral or anything I said above. Fuck hippies, in all species, with Thor's hammer. They'd probably let themselves be trampled by a zebra rather than "disturb the environment". Hippies are dumb like that ( ... )