In my youth I was more militant about correcting their ignorance. These days I've grown old and weary, so I just treat such concepts as being equivalent to quantum physics. Sure, you can tell them everything you know but it's not gonna make a dent.
In my youth I was more militant about correcting their ignorance. These days I've grown old and weary, so I just treat such concepts as being equivalent to quantum physics. Sure, you can tell them everything you know but it's not gonna make a dent.
My 16 year old cousin is doing just that, posting about how she doesn't "agree" with homosexuality and that she finds it deplorable. It's going to be a difficult Christmas avoiding blowing up at the sect of the family for their completely ignorant interpretation of the 1st amendment. 'Tis the season.
You told me they moved to a farm upstate!
There's been an empty box of magnum condoms sitting in my apartment parking lot for a week now.
*takes money for food* So once again, [PAYING CUSTOMER], what was briefly yours is now mine.
My problem with intentionalist morality has always been that it ignores the subjectivity of morality. What to some is a good and worthy intention is to others morally repugnant. Just because the first person acts in such a way that they feel their intentions are good does not mean they area good person at all.
Very few people are "obsessed" with pop culture, they partake of it and they enjoy it because it brings them happiness, or allows them to talk with their neighbors about something, and for a thousand myriad reasons. And it's just plain fucking stupid to argue that people are "more into" pop culture now because it…
I've always thought "A Canticle for Liebowitz" had an amazing viewpoint on a post-apocalyptic world. But I've always appreciated post-apocalyptica that looks at the big picture, because I've never deluded myself into believing I'd survive an apocalypse.
I watch teh walking dead, and other "garbage entertainment" and I drink alcohol, and I like to indulge in junkfood from time to time. Then every day I go to work and I sustain and improve a process line that costs millions to build and creates some of the most advanced technology out there. The products that I help…
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