Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Pushing Dave On: Nationalism, Drugs, Abortion & Guns | Michael Shermer | POLITICS | Rubin Report" video.

  1. Actually, we haven't become more radicalized. What's happening is the people who feel the strongest are hijacking all the platforms, giving us a false dichotomy between crazy left and crazy right. A "normal" person needs to pick and choose, and have the courage to call out lefties and righties when they go too far. Sometimes Jimmy Dore gets it right. Sometimes Alex Jones gets it right. But no "normie" I know agrees with anybody on everything. For instance, Tucker Carlson gets a lot of stuff right, but he doesn't score any points with me when he cites divine revelation (his religious faith) as the source of his belief in something. I can respect that belief, but it's not moving the needle for me in the "That's RIGHT! It's in the BIBLE so it MUST be true," because I know a little something about the nature and motivations of the people who wrote the thing. Bronze-Age wise men were definitely wise, and definitely limited in their understanding. For instance, making homosexuality a taboo is a fairly good survival strategy for a Bronze-Age tribe with no notion of disease transmission or safe sex. Men are dogs, and when men have the hots for other men, runaway promiscuity can take place. But in a modern society, making it a taboo actually leads to less responsible behavior. This is another reason I like the idea of the same recognition of marriage between same-sex couples as any other couple. Encourage long-term, monogamous relationships, rather than encourage repression of your desires for long periods, with short periods of zipless sex in restrooms or orgies, which are an epidemic just waiting to happen.
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  2. Religions that persist have a clear survival imperative built in. Often by design, because the originators of religion are all about unifying people under one political banner, with God - and faith - as the unifying principle. They persist because they agree - whether thru science or "Divine Revelation" - with what science eventually ends up telling us. We can talk about civil unions 'til the cows come home, but the fact is that not a single human being who ever lived was the product of a homosexual union. LGBTQXYZ are all products of heterosexual unions. I'm not a huge fan of state-recognized marriages, hetero or otherwise, because the advantages they build into having children mainly serve the state's endless thirst for tax revenue and cannon fodder. It's an artificial "grow!" imperative from an earlier time. But since it IS enshrined in the law, and MEDICAL and PENSION BENEFITS are attached to recognized unions, then ANY union - hetero or otherwise - should be recognized by the state, as well. It should be that people get married because they want to solemnize a long-term relationship. And if you share the same home, same bed, same LIFE for years, your spouse should receive the standard spousal benefits.
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  3. Centralized, top-down command economies are created on the assumption that the elites know what's good for us and WANT what's good for us. But in practice, the task of managing everything from on high leads to destruction and the elimination of civil rights for the individual. It's for our own good, so we should accept hundreds of millions dead by firing squad and starvation.
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  4. They use our virtue against us. Such is the nature of naked pursuit of power. And no I'm not talking about a guy looking for an electrical outlet sans clothing.
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