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Phat Member Posts: 18298 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
ringo writes: This reminds me of how I felt yesterday when I was reading about another instance of piracy on the high seas.
A lot of the evil that we see in the world is people pushing back against what they perceive as evil. Is it evil to kill people? Yes, often it is. Is it evil to kill people to prevent them from killing other people? That's when it starts getting gray. Pirates Seize Captain, Engineer From Vessel Off Nigeria For some reason, these sorts of news stories enrage me! I think of ways that we should use drones to pulverize these bastards! Its odd though---what is it about them that makes me sooo angry?
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Phat Member Posts: 18298 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
No one is evil for their feelings or thoughts. Would it be evil for us---as a society---to send drones after the pirates?
You would only be evil if you actually did something (or intended to do something) that was evil.
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Phat Member Posts: 18298 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
Why? Drones have the technology to monitor large areas of ocean and are cheaper than naval vessels. Additionally, the Drones could be instructed not to blow them out of the water until they were confirmed. I see it as a possible solution to these rogues.
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Phat Member Posts: 18298 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
Any nation or group of people who fight us---we are supposed to spend our own tax money on and educate and train and allow them to build up and prosper so that they can then compete with us and maybe even take our trade away that way? God how i hate competition! We end up spending money to build up our own competition!!
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Phat Member Posts: 18298 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
someone should do an audit to see if its cheaper to blow them up than it is to educate and eventually compete with them.
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Phat Member Posts: 18298 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
all im saying is that this whole idea that a bunch of poor folks can become greedy and have no regard for the property of others and then we are supposed to comfort the poor babies by investing our tax dollars (which we need ourselves, by the way) into fixing up their country. I say that we should treat them like the criminals they are.
Dont you understand what will happen to the U.S. middle class if we build the whole world up to compete on equal footing? (I know that you do because we have been through this time and time again...) Our tax dollars should be used on our citizens first. period. And I realize im not sounding very altruistic right now, but sometimes we have to claim what is ours before it is all given away to other countries.
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Phat Member Posts: 18298 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
sometimes I fly off at the handle.
I'm all for rebuilding the infrastructure and educating the masses here at home. I think my anger is more properly directed at the two recent wars that bankrupted our future. Education is a huge issue and hits close to home for me, as my niece--who is a teacher without tenure---was told essentially that she is being let go since the district is 2 million dollars n the hole(St.Louis inner city) and yet we pay and pay for military stuff. And here I go and advocate military action against the pirates! I was using them as a scapegoat for middle aged frustration, I suppose.
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Phat Member Posts: 18298 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
Here in Colorado, the Republicans nearly swept the Democrats out of every major office except the Governor---the only notable Democrat to win.
Hows Slovenija? Have you all managed to fully recover from the "Great Recession"? Edited by Phat, : No reason given.Saying, "I don't know," is the same as saying, "Maybe."~ZombieRingo One of the major purposes of debate is to help you hone your arguments. Yours are pretty bad. They can use all the honing they can get.~Ringo
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Phat Member Posts: 18298 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
new guy writes: That is not found anywhere in the bible.I will grant you that we do tend to wander off topic. You sound like a Milton friedman type conservative! (Am I close? ) Your bible says your lord helps those who help themselves. Saying, "I don't know," is the same as saying, "Maybe."~ZombieRingo It's easy to see the speck in somebody else's ideas - unless it's blocked by the beam in your own.~Ringo If a savage stops believing in his wooden god, it does not mean that there is no God only that God is not wooden.(Leo Tolstoy)
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Phat Member Posts: 18298 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
Wiki writes: A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that is acquired through the scientific method and repeatedly tested and confirmed through observation and experimentation. But why must evidence be provided for a belief? Saying, "I don't know," is the same as saying, "Maybe."~ZombieRingo It's easy to see the speck in somebody else's ideas - unless it's blocked by the beam in your own.~Ringo If a savage stops believing in his wooden god, it does not mean that there is no God only that God is not wooden.(Leo Tolstoy)
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Phat Member Posts: 18298 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
My point is that you dismiss any and all beliefs...due to no evidence.
While this is your preference it is by no means the only option. Granted we believers may be engaging in fantasy but this is not a default conclusion simply because evidence is lacking.Saying, "I don't know," is the same as saying, "Maybe."~ZombieRingo It's easy to see the speck in somebody else's ideas - unless it's blocked by the beam in your own.~Ringo If a savage stops believing in his wooden god, it does not mean that there is no God only that God is not wooden.(Leo Tolstoy)
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