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jakelafort wrote:
Tell me Simon if you are okay with the cultural relativism that protects abusers and punishes the abused.

No, I’m not OK with beating women, or for making excuses for it.  Do people really do that?  Can you find evidence of a “lefty” defending abuse of women by Islam?  I’m not denying it happens, but I’ve never seen it in the fl…[Read more]

Jake,

All of those innovations from Israel are Sowell-ian trade-offs that are oh-so-well-played trade-UPs.

These innovations are continutions of The Green Revolution, which was a great step forward for humanity that saved over one billion lives in the 20th Century.

In justice, the Owl houses are where the Middle Agers got it right and today the…[Read more]

Enco,

Punk soul brother. I read Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, when i was a kid. It was sort of THE ecology book. It may be dated now idk but one of the takeaways was how evolution is hastened and the impact of pesticides is to require stronger pesticides. Short life span. 1000 pests. 3 survive. Survivability passed on.

On a strong hunch that…[Read more]

“Put it this way, different people value different norms and goods, and some of those norms/goods are incompatible with each other.”

So sez Simon.

Islamists are attempting to impose their norms on the world. Lefty’s are cooperating. Nay, helping Islamists.

Give this 11 minute vid a look see. Tell me Simon if you are okay with the cultural…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
But one thing i will touch on is how wrongheaded it is to decide that morality is always relative and that we should not judge others who make us retch and puke purple and green chunks because of their vile norms.

Put it this way, different people value different norms and goods, and some of those norms/goods are incompatible…[Read more]

Reg,

I’d run from that therapist, take the kid away, and get the kid an RC car and a tour to an auto factory to teach the wonderful benefits of individual tranportation.

Jake,

Doing categorically without modern pesticides could mean some not-so-well Sowellian trade-offs:

Mideaval Pest Control

Medieval Pest Control

So sternly-worded letters to rodents and anecdotal remedies by people with primitive grasp of causal connections, remedies that may not even have reproducible…[Read more]

Moral Purity rocks!!

Democracy dies in dumbness and stupidity.

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.” – Plato

The above link has a good article on Bonhoeffer.

Hmm, let’s see. Here is the playbook.
Step 1) Destroy the ability of the Social Security Administration and Medicare to function effectively.
Step 2) Point to this as a reason to end it. My hero!

I can’t think of any Mexican immigrants that threaten me. I can think of a South African immigrant who is actively trying to destroy my retirement…[Read more]

“Moral purity means observance of moral norms. So, woke people can go big on purity. So can nazis. So can religious people. That doesn’t make it a bad thing, but it can get very oppressive and tiresome, to the exclusion of values like compassion.”

So says Simon and Simon sez. Hmm. Yeah i can’t subscribe to notion that it is not a bad thing. I…[Read more]

Zalts!

Gimme lots of it. Love it love it love it. But i understand if you have high BP then it is in moderation. My BP is good because i kill myself as often as possible. When i was a sedentary great big fat person practicing law it was too high.

And while we are often admonished about too much salt in our diet be mindful that too little is a…[Read more]

Reg,

Regular table salt often contains anti-caking agents (like sodium ferrocyanide or calcium silicate), which are synthetic additives. These could further disqualify a product from being labeled as “organic.” But even if unrefined sea salt is used, it can never be labeled 100% Organic…..salt is a mineral so can never be called an organic compo…

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Regular table salt often contains anti-caking agents (like sodium ferrocyanide or calcium silicate), which are synthetic additives. These could further disqualify a product from being labeled as “organic.” But even if unrefined sea salt is used, it can never be labeled 100% Organic…..salt is a mineral so can never be called an organic compound.

Jake,

Where do you come down on organic food v non?

Refer back to my previous statements. If it is Carbon-based, as detected by Dr. “Bones” McCoy’s Tri-Corder, it is Organic, so everybody is automatically going Organic without even thinking about it.

Off the top of my head, about the only food item people consume on a regular basis that is…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Women’s bodies are moralized more than men’s, study finds.

Thank you for posting this.  I haven’t seen it anywhere else, and it’s enabled me to answer a number of long-standing questions in research on morality.  Namely, about moral purity, “harmless harms”, and “moral dumbfounding”.

Moral purity means obser…[Read more]

Enco,

Where do you come down on organic food v non?

That sunday school video about evil/stupidity is food for thought. Reg threw one right down the middle. For Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor who opposed the Nazis, and made a distinction between evil and stupidity, stupidity was more dangerous than evil. One can be stupid and yet…[Read more]

Reg,

Bierce had some real doozies that could have added comic relief to Webster’s work if they were contemporaries, as well as some things that wouldn’t pass muster with either standards of his day or now.

@TheEncogitationer  – Your descriptions of the various foods are good. I was reminded of Ambrose Bierce’s “The Devil’s Dictionary” which I dip into on occasion. Here.