They are mad because when they were children, their daddy was mad at Trudeau.

According to political theory, the police are the manifestation of the state’s so-called monopoly on violence. The police exist specifically to do violence to citizens of a state. Is the state wrong? Are the police wrong? There’s no wrong answer, but there can be inconsistent ones.

The only possible responses to immediately present violence are surrender or greater violence. You cannot judge someone who chooses to respond to violence with violence – or who finds their bodies have chosen for them.

Every generation of Americans decide they want their President to be a bit more like the king that they rebelled from.

Needlessly speciesist but it’s a good start

I don’t even have to click through to know that’s bullshit

Honestly, decent people are so rare, one cannot afford to be fussy about appearance. Fortunately, ethical compatibility is VERY attractive.

I read that somewhere. What can you do, it’s in our DNA.

Appearance is never a sufficient factor on its own, but in my own case appearance, I wouldn’t consider it a disqualifying factor. Though me a few years ago wouldn’t have to try as hard, for sure…

Are there cases where a member state refuses to do so?

It certainly sucked for those who did, but the majority didn’t have to worry about war.

It’s not like you knew; you were still fucking worried even if you were in the 9/10.

And this is exactly why we can’t have affordable housing. All these boomers go from wealthy retirees to hungry tent dwellers like the rest of us.

Not at all.

politics, values, and kinks are way more important than appearance

Would anyone care to discuss the mechanism something like this would use? Does the EU have the authority to ban things in all member states or would this be something members can choose to opt into? And if they do have the authority, from where does it flow?

Slave owners argued that their slaves received benefits, like a place to sleep and food. Such arguments are only convincing to those who benefit from exploiting the bodies of vulnerable individuals. These arguments exist not to convince others, but to alleviate moral conflict within the person giving the argument.

The truth is, neither slaves nor animals need an owner’s help to live and thrive, all such can do is prevent their innate expressions and rob their autonomy. Virtually anyone here would sacrifice some food and sleep for the autonomy to choose their own mate, raise their own children, and choose the effect they have on the world.

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OTOH if you have to ask, then a couple possibilities need to be considered. Maybe they are already so well appointed, a twenty dollar trinket is just a waste of our planet’s dwindling resources. Maybe you know them so poorly, it really isn’t appropriate to be buying them a gift in the first place.

What we all want for our birthday is to feel like we are special to the people in our lives. That they know us, care about us, and wish us well. That’s not the sort of thing you can ask for; if you have to ask, it devalues it tremendously. We can all buy stuff for ourselves. Asking what they want and then buying it for them rather defeats the point of a birthday gift between two adult peers; its the sort of thing a parent does for a child, because a child only cares about getting stuff.

So we agree one is preferable to the other

There is no stigma that I am aware of.

They also forgot to teach you how to be frugal