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  • Originally posted by Ben Kenobi View Post
    It is no different, the motivation is precisely the same. You are bringing civilization to the natives and helping them throw off the trappings of superstition and bringing them into the modern age. To leave the past behind into a glorious future. You believe this, do you not?
    I have not addressed "superstition" in any way.

    I want to give them a choice economically. That is all. They can decide what to do with it.

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    • I do find the greater social acceptance for contraception here in the Philippines a very good sign for the future.
      As I said previous, you have learned very little in your time there. This is most unfortunate.

      Well, I wish you the best, Aeson.

      "By all ye cry or whisper,
      By all ye leave or do,
      The silent, sullen peoples
      Shall weigh your gods and you."

      I hope your god of Progress proves up to the task.
      Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
      "Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
      2015 APOLYTON FANTASY FOOTBALL CHAMPION!

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      • Originally posted by Ben Kenobi View Post
        As I said previous, you have learned very little in your time there. This is most unfortunate.
        I have learned many things since coming here.

        I don't find it unfortunate at all that increased social acceptance of contraceptives may help head off further overpopulation and suffering.

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        • I don't find it unfortunate at all that increased social acceptance of contraceptives may help head off further overpopulation and suffering.
          No, you have learned precisely nothing. Not a thing has changed since you got there - you have simply taken your previous ideas and way of thinking and brought it there. It would not matter if you were still in America or there - the effect on you is the exact same.

          Anyways, I've seen this story and I know the ending to it, the tragedy is you would repeat the same mistakes for the same reasons.

          It's funny that you believe I could have a negative effect here on Texas. When I've simply argued that it is my duty to conform not the other way around. I do not wish or desire to change Texas. Merely keep her as she is as best I can.
          Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
          "Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
          2015 APOLYTON FANTASY FOOTBALL CHAMPION!

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          • Originally posted by Ben Kenobi View Post
            Not a thing has changed since you got there
            Really? You mean Bene (one of my workers) still lives in a house without electricity or indoor plumbing? I'll have to tell him that next time he turns on the light, charges his cellphone, or washes the dishes in their sink ... he needs to know it's all an illusion!

            It would not matter if you were still in America or there - the effect on you is the exact same.
            The effect on me is wildly different here. It is also not what we were talking about at all.

            Anyways, I've seen this story and I know the ending to it, the tragedy is you would repeat the same mistakes for the same reasons.
            Ok, predict away. Should be good for some laughs. How does my story go?

            It's funny that you believe I could have a negative effect here on Texas.
            I said your effect there in Texas would be negligible. It's good we can agree on that, and how you and I are nothing alike (contrary to your opening arguments).

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            • The comparison of conforming to the way people in Texas do things to complacently accepting abject poverty in the Philippines makes no sense unless Ben is telling us that Texas is actually a third ****box.

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              • I think Ben is following the Prime Directive or something like that.

                Ben Luc Canard: I know having to watch an entire civilization wiped out by dysentery is a grisly fate, but there's nothing we can do.

                Counselor Troi: But we could save the children if we just gave them some water filters!

                Ben Luc Canard: That is unacceptable! If we got involved their culture might be mangled into something that didn't involve children dying of easily preventable diseases! We must follow the Prime Directive!

                Riker: Speaking of preventable diseases, I want to bone Counselor Troi ... but my herpes are acting up

                Q: No problem ... I have magically installed an unremoveable condom on Riker's willy

                Ben Luc Canard: This is unacceptable! Riker, I order you to stop boning Counselor Troi until you are able to impregnate her as God intended!

                duuhh d-d-duh d-d-duuuuuuh...

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                • Originally posted by Tupac Shakur View Post
                  Dude, cut him a little slack. It's not his fault. It's fine to put him on ignore (god knows I've been tempted to do so at times), but calling a disabled person an "idiot" is just ****ty.
                  Since when did you become a PC nazi?
                  A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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                  • The comparison of conforming to the way people in Texas do things to complacently accepting abject poverty in the Philippines makes no sense unless Ben is telling us that Texas is actually a third ****box.
                    Texas is awesome!
                    Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
                    "Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
                    2015 APOLYTON FANTASY FOOTBALL CHAMPION!

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                    • Imagine that, Aeson ridiculing wanting to wait for sex until marriage.
                      Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
                      "Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
                      2015 APOLYTON FANTASY FOOTBALL CHAMPION!

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                      • Originally posted by Ben Kenobi View Post
                        Texas is awesome!
                        Sure, that's why your lack of interest in changing it is irrelevant to a discussion about a developing country like the Philippines.

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                        • Originally posted by Ben Kenobi View Post
                          Imagine that, Aeson ridiculing wanting to wait for sex until marriage.
                          Imagine that, BK too stupid to understand what is being said.

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                          • Originally posted by MrFun View Post
                            Since when did you become a PC nazi?
                            I do have some small sense of decency.

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                            • ... and a much larger helping of passive aggressiveness

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                              • Originally posted by SlowwHand View Post
                                5% of his salary. Big damned deal. The only thing he has to pay for is what he eats at the White House.
                                He gets an allowance to live in the White House, plus his 400,000. I just look it up. His allowance is 50,000 per year. So his real pay is 450,000 a year.

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