Barbarity in the USA! (Sung to Springsteen's memorable hit)

[iHateFatPeople]

How would you propose making the death penalty more cost effective? Maybe a televised gladiatorial tournament?

[Sava]

Yes, I'm aware that you believe effort = failure.

I don't see how that is relevant in this case.

But yeah, I believe there is a spectrum

working smarter ------------------------------------- working harder

[iHateFatPeople]

I don't think the average Republican works very hard on their beliefs.

[rah]

Do average Democrats?

[iHateFatPeople]

No. Clearly both are equally smart.

[rah]

Then why did you specify it?
Or just normal demonizing?

[iHateFatPeople]

Sava seems to be left wing

[Lorizael]

How would you propose making the death penalty more cost effective? Maybe a televised gladiatorial tournament?

It's very easy. If we want the death penalty to be cheap, just deliver the sentence immediately following the conclusion of the trial, with no possibility of appeal or anything like that. I don't think this is a good idea, but it's not an inconceivable one.

I don't see how that is relevant in this case.

But yeah, I believe there is a spectrum

working smarter ------------------------------------- working harder

I think it's relevant because I think the need to explain one's beliefs can be correlated with the effort one puts into formulating those beliefs. And I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing because, you know, life is complicated and nuance has value.

[Sava]

I think it's relevant because I think the need to explain one's beliefs can be correlated with the effort one puts into formulating those beliefs. And I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing because, you know, life is complicated and nuance has value.

Life is complicated. Beliefs shouldn't be.

"Don't be an asshole"... that's simple (for example). Sure, there are exceptions. But I don't see the point in making every little nuance a part of a belief system. If being an asshole is called for at some point, then it is okay.

This stuff should be instinctual.

[Lorizael]

Yeah, I strongly disagree, but I don't see much hope of changing your mind, so /me shrugs.

[Sava]

Yeah, I strongly disagree

It certainly is within your right to make things more difficult than they need to be.

[Lorizael]

And it's certainly within your right to be wrong about the important stuff.

[Sava]

And it's certainly within your right to be wrong about the important stuff.

K

[Sava]

Tell me again how you think that Hitler didn't do anything morally wrong.

[ricketyclik]

L seems to think that human life has no intrinsic value, so anyone can do what they like to anyone else and there's no moral dimension to that.

This existential crisis appears to have scarred his existence.