Arthur Brain
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Wouldn't get much odds via William Hill or Ladbrokes on that one. In fact I think it's one of the few bets where the pundit always loses whatever...
Pro-life and Democrat
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Wouldn't get much odds via William Hill or Ladbrokes on that one. In fact I think it's one of the few bets where the pundit always loses whatever...
Arthur Brain
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You're "Nobody" now?
Doesn't really matter to him what I post. He goes through the same motions. You know what it's about. I even tried setting it out without the inference.
It was an appeal to emotion.
Try to make rational points. That's what one would expect from a rationalist.
That was the response. It's not about getting or not getting, except for the goat.
What I wrote for Kat wasn't an emotional appeal, but a call for a broader perspective, a recognition that her complaint is problematic, that in the right context we are, each of us, the worst possible expression of the negative stereotype that fuels her irritation.
If we, as Christians, are saved from our willful acts, then is it so much to help those who are only described that way in the margin?
There was nothing wrong with her words. We get it: You don't like them. You could just say that. Instead, you trot out an appeal to emotion that exposes your ignorance of what the gospel is.
It's not an issue of salvation.
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Arthur Brain
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Oh, sure I do. It's the standard Stripe "response" to post silly little smileys when smarting or caught lacking in argument. It's little wonder he's reduced to it so much.
There is just an observable contradiction for me, as on moral grounds I would be against abortion and for open, even paid adoption. On economic grounds it would be irrational to be pro-life.
So, there you have it the moral side of me prevents my condoning pro choice, which presents a contradiction in my stance on women's rights and personality theory.
Is this endemic to the poor/poverty or rather a condition of the low-wage/max-profit system the 1% (enjoying 80% of it's proceeds) have constructed for themselves?
The 1% everyone hold up to criticism are not replaceable. Think about it; say, an ordinary labour is worth twice his wage, so the company makes his wage in profit, thus pays him half they retain from his labour. Now imagine that one PhD. student in chemistry, the one who is just smarter than all the other PhD. graduates, and he invents a new cancer or AIDs drug, or maybe just a real working insomnia medicine, and the company which hired him makes billions off his great gift of extreme ability. and he is the only one, or only one of very few. Now he goes to work for a big pharmaceutical company that offers him a 5 million dollar a year salary. Is he not being cheated in a way, since all the manual worker can offer is twice is worth in hid labour, while the chemist will make the company 1000 times his worth! Now who is being cheated?
Welcome to the world of economics! What you Marxist leaning thinkers need to understand is that !% who originally made their wealth have done more than 100,000 workers, yet you can seriously entertain that the genius who make industry work does not deserve his great wealth.
The government taxes him by his salary them up the percentage as if it is wrong to be a smart and creative person.
You take God out of the equation, as many today do and what you have is the reality that most persons are simple not worth as much as the few others, and that is reality, which divides people.
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
which 1% ?
name them
are you referring to physicians, lawyers, accountants, dentists, computer designers?
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is there any particular reason you think they shouldn't be entitled to the fruits of their labors, that others should benefit from their hard work, years of education and intelligence?
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
it's jealousy, plain and simple - they want that which they haven't earned or deserve and demand it like little children
a lot of ongoing conversation in canada about this at the moment - they've just implemented $14/hour minimum wage in Ontario and there's increasing talk around the feasibility of a Guaranteed Minimum Income
$14/hour mandatory minimum wage. Say goodbye, teens, to entry level jobs where you learn a skill while earning pocket money
Interesting, you need your god to give you worth?
The only avenue of objective worth is through God.
Without any objective evidence of your particular deity. Again, interesting.
Apologetics for the advantaged always seems bizarre (ironically superfluous) to me..especially coming from the - less than auspicious - working-class segment of that remaining 99%. :idunno:
Well then, in that case put God back into the equation...and recalculate. Or perhaps, never take Him out to begin with! :idea:
God is, as God does....via mankind.
Idolater
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You don't think Christ's Resurrection is 'objective evidence?' Interesting.
Not by objective evidentiary standards.
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
Certainly not by hearsay...religious or otherwise.