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    Doug Morris reacted to tadmjones in USA v. Donald J. Trump – Indictment 8/1/23   
    But Biden is a stronger general candidate or do you mean Harris or Newsom maybe the Transportation Secretary? Big Mike ?
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from tadmjones in USA v. Donald J. Trump – Indictment 8/1/23   
    You said it.
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from StrictlyLogical in Catholic Church Slurp at the Public Trough Called Religious Liberty and Education Freedom by Republican Governor   
    Morally, the only right answer is separation of state and education.
    Constitutionally, the courts have to work it out.
     
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from Boydstun in A bit of humor   
    DEA officer stops at a ranch in Texas and talks with an old rancher.   Ghost Girl, studied Literature, Languages, and Communication at Foreign Langauges (2011) Posted May 10 He tells the rancher, "I need to inspect your ranch for illegally grown dr*gs."
      The rancher says, "Okay, but do not go in that field over there," as he points out the location.
      The DEA officer verbal...
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from EC in Natural rights, borders and deportations   
    Those who actively violate rights forfeit their own to at least some extent.
    Those who disagree with the concept of rights still have rights, even if they don't believe it.
    Those who don't understand the concept of rights still have rights, even if they don't understand this.
    What about children who haven't reached that level of development yet?
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    Does this mean that socialists have no rights, or at least no property rights?
    Does it mean that people who want abortion to be illegal have no rights?
    How do we keep this from degenerating into "Anyone who disagrees with me has no rights"?
     
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from Boydstun in Natural rights, borders and deportations   
    People should not be subject to restrictions on their rights unless they actually commit or attempt a violation of rights.  Simply advocating wrong ideas should not be punishable.  As Rand said, the way to fight bad ideas is not with suppression but with better ideas.
       
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from StrictlyLogical in Reblogged:Fox Discovers 'Addition by Subtraction'   
    Most of these people still buy the altruist morality.  Most of them do not understand what government is.  
    This makes them ineffective as defenders of rights or of freedom.
    Only when enough people learn what Ayn Rand has to teach.
     
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from StrictlyLogical in Is it moral?   
    If you mean that he would know it is fentanyl and what it can do to him, this may not quite be murder, but it comes pretty close.  (I mean morally; I'm not sure about the legalities.)  A very similar case would be actively helping someone to carry out their own choice of committing suicide, when you believe that choice to be irrational.  I think the other posters have done a good job of explaining what's wrong with such actions.
     
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from Jon Letendre in Shameful Display of Anarchy and Violence   
    The election tampering in Georgia and inciting the insurrection on January 6 are both attacks on our political system that need to be prosecuted.  If there are serious grounds for accusing Trump of recklessness with classified material, that is also pretty serious and may need to be prosecuted.
    Bragg's prosecution may be iffier, but if there is an ulterior motive involved, it may have more to do with the other three cases and/or Trump's much-greater-than-usual dishonesty than with his being a political opponent.
     
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from tadmjones in Shameful Display of Anarchy and Violence   
    The election tampering in Georgia and inciting the insurrection on January 6 are both attacks on our political system that need to be prosecuted.  If there are serious grounds for accusing Trump of recklessness with classified material, that is also pretty serious and may need to be prosecuted.
    Bragg's prosecution may be iffier, but if there is an ulterior motive involved, it may have more to do with the other three cases and/or Trump's much-greater-than-usual dishonesty than with his being a political opponent.
     
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from Boydstun in About the Russian aggression of Ukraine   
    Couldn't Russia seizing Crimea, or even getting ready to, reasonably be taken as an indication that more war was possible in the future and that Ukraine needed to be better prepared?
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from Boydstun in What is the explanation for why some people live according to reason, and others don't?   
    People have free will.  Each individual has the power to choose good or evil. Unfortunately, some choose evil, at least some of the time. 
    The things you mention in point 1 of your O.P. can influence this choice, but do not determine it.  It ultimately comes down to the individual's choice.
    Thanks to Christianity, and more recently to Kant, bad ideas have dominated Western civilization.  This makes it harder for people to make good choices and easier for them to make bad ones, both directly and because of the resulting conditions.
     
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from Harrison Danneskjold in Covid Passports   
    I don't support keeping ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE locked under house arrest for any reason.
    The point I am trying to make about peanut butter is that it is irrelevant as an example because people know it contains peanuts and can avoid it.
     
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from Harrison Danneskjold in What are the similarities and differences between 'Q' haters and Ayn Rand haters?   
    The photos that supposedly show earlobes connected to cheek actually have the relevant area in shadow, so you can't tell whether the earlobes are connected or not.
     
     
     
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from Harrison Danneskjold in Covid Passports   
    Obviously it is possible to overdo concern with safety.  It would be ridiculous to equip buses with lifeboats in case they get caught in a flood.  The question is where and how to draw the line.
     
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from RationalEgoist in About the Russian aggression of Ukraine   
    Why is Russia going out of its way to trash Ukrainian culture?  Or do you deny this is happening?
     
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from Harrison Danneskjold in Honesty   
    It would be more to the point to say that one should not lie to total strangers that one expects not to ever interact with again because there is no telling how far the lie and its effects will go.
    (This is in addition to not lying simply because one should not do wrongful harm.)
     
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from AlexL in About the Russian aggression of Ukraine   
    I don't recall seeing anything in the Western media that dehumanized the Russian people.  If you see so much of it, can you give a few examples? 
     
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from ReasonFirst in Question About the Epistemology of "Betting" or "Gambling" on a Certainly True Proposition   
    Another reason omniscience is impossible is that knowledge is gained by a process, and no one can process everything.
    If we define infallibility as immunity from making mistakes, we have a different question from the one DavidOdden answered.  I still think the answer is no, but I'm not ready right now to give a good explanation.
     
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from AlexL in About the Russian aggression of Ukraine   
    This requires a more detailed analysis.  
    Lviv is pretty far west.  
     
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from AlexL in About the Russian aggression of Ukraine   
    Your map needs work.
    You could start by showing Lviv, the path of the Russian missile, and where the countermissile was fired from.
      
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from Boydstun in Space Tug   
    A new article in the NPR news feed,
    SPACE
    The International Space Station had to move to dodge space junk
    Facebook Twitter Flipboard Email October 26, 20225:00 AM ET   includes the following links among others:   NASA says the maneuver increased the ISS' altitude between 0.2 and 0.8 of a mile. Without the move, the satellite debris would have come within about 3 miles of the space station.   The fragment in question was from Russia's Cosmos 1408 satellite. Russia destroyed it with a missile in November 2021, creating 1,500 pieces of debris, according to NASA. U.S. officials condemned the anti-satellite missile test, saying it would create hundreds of thousands more pieces of debris in the coming years.   "It is of particular risk to the United States because the United States is probably the most space-dependent power around," said Saadia Pekkanen, director of the Space Law, Data and Policy program at the University of Washington, in an interview with NPR earlier this year. "Relative to other powers, if anything happens to those satellites, it does affect the civilian, commercial and military capabilities of the United States."  
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from Boydstun in Progressive education?   
    She was working at a fast food place.  I don't know what sort of college she was attending.
    I think she was thinking more of the effect on the student than of any question of who was responsible to pay.
     
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from Boydstun in Is Donald Trump Dangerous?   
    In addition Trump has created and stimulated disinformation and unnecessary confusion about elections, putting the process fundamentally at risk.  One example of the results is the passage of laws that may allow politicians to overturn election results they don't like.  Another is the stirring up of threats against election workers, demoralizing them and pushing some of them into quitting.
     
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    Doug Morris got a reaction from chuff in Why use the Word “Selfishness” explanation only gets you half way there   
    Another possible description is "sacrificing others".  This gets at a key confusion in popular concepts of "selfishness".
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