I’m not. I condemn slavery. Like holy shit, can you not assume that much?

The problem with slavery isn’t that slavers don’t benefit! How can you sit there and say that slavers don’t benefit from the transaction? Why, then, would they do it?? Just to be dicks??

You’re taking an ideological stance that you don’t fully understand and not considering what you are actually saying. The fact that people benefit from it doesn’t JUSTIFY it. Nothing can justify treating an intelligent creature as property. But that doesn’t mean someone didn’t make bank from it. That doesn’t mean that people alive today are not still benefiting from the tragedies of the past.

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He is certainly a student of Harper.

Mindfully identifying and meeting your own needs. Acting for yourself as a guardian might. Doing the needful things that will benefit you when you might rather just be a lumpy puddle.

You’re asking why you are “expected” to have human empathy? I can’t answer that, but I can tell you that you are personally better off accepting and processing other people’s emotions and experiences, than you are refusing to do so. You are better off with compassion and allowing yourself to feel pain than you are closing off your heart and feeling nothing; doing the latter maims you and your capacity to feel.

Seems like a non sequitur given the context was someone trying to deny that the USA benefited from slavery. If that is not the time, then when the fuck is?? Excuse my snark.

You’re missing the point. Some modern Americans continue to benefit from historical slavery. Saying, “No one benefits from slavery,” is an attempt to deny that and avoid the moral responsibility that comes with those benefits.

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What are you talking about? The world sees the USA’s exploitation of slaves as being HUGELY beneficial to their development. That’s not anyone’s problem with it?

Okay, fine, thread. But why do you have such an emotional, lose-your-shit response if you merely think it’s not a very useful technology? I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I also think there is more going on that is not acknowledged.

If you consider X-Plane n as n approaches infinity, it becomes indistinguishable from a subscription model.

what were you thinking

The difference is a safe injection site attempts to provide harm reduction and access to addiction treatment, while an LCBO retail location simply provides harm and addiction.

A lot of people, especially people who live in small Ontario towns and cities, are absolutely sick of addicts ruining things for everyone.

No, addicts are sick. People who would rather see addicts die are merely selfish. Nothing has been ruined except addict’s lives.

Have you seen Tusk? Of course it isn’t going to be good.

You are asserting things you have no knowledge of. You’ve never seen me having an “imaginary conversation.” You genuinely seem to be confused and dysregulated, with wild overreactions to minor or even imagined irritations. Please take care of yourself.

So… is that a yes?

Been programming since the 80s, ditto.

It’s not the Scotsman fallacy. You don’t even address the arguments and try to show how it is.

“Your body my choice” has genuinely been the goal for a generation. They’ve been salivating to have RvW torn down probably your entire life. The only thing that was missing was the pithy slogan, but the sentiment existed, openly.