Comments by "" (@snowcat9308) on "PragerU"
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Batuhan Sündal
Dude, nobody wants to pay taxes. But it's our duty. And if you are sitting on a fortune that will most likely sit there and collect dust, you are obligated to pay higher taxes so that people like my mother and father can have some financial relief. If one billionaire pays $500,000,000 a month in taxes, that's the equivalent of 1,000,000 people paying $500 a month in taxes. And believe me, when you are sitting below the poverty line and getting only about $15,000 a year, that extra $500 is a LOT.
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 @glenfoxh Okay one, stop pretending like you have a deeper understanding of the English language than you actually do. The pseudo-intellectual crap makes you look like an asshole.
Two, substantiate your anecdote. Trans people are silencing de-transitioners? Who? Where? Why? Don't get me wrong, medically transitioning is a huge, costly, and hard-to-reverse life choice that someone can make. I do believe that the weight of their choice should be communicated to them so that they are properly informed on what they're about to do.
However, the "concern" coming from the right strikes me as performative and post-hoc; an attempt to obscure their true (transphobic) beliefs, especially when (according to the "The Amsterdam Cohort of Gender Dysphoria Study (1972-2015): Trends in Prevalence, Treatment, and Regrets", Google it and read) only 0.3% to 0.6% of people express regretting their transition. For comparison, between 5% and 14% of parents regret having their children.
And of course you begin having a conniption about diversity and inclusion.. for some reason? I wasn't talking about that at all, dude. This is a conversation about the percentage of trans people who regret transitioning. I'm not the woke Twitter branch of a Fortune 500 company, nor am I a liberal games' journalist.
I know it may shock you, but there are actually real people out there who really care about the rights of trans people.
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​ @Hades-Art-t5f ​ Lets focus on your definition of evil: defiance of the Ten Commandments. I'll be abridging them here since the language varies depending on the version of God's inerrant word you are interpreting.
1.) Do not worship false idols (gods).
We're off to a really bad start. Having differences in religious belief is not evil. In fact, I would be willing to say that demonizing other people because they believe differently to you has lead to some of the most "evil" acts that could be described.
2.) Do not take God's name in vain.
While I think it's fair enough for a religion to ask its followers to not vainly refer to the all-powerful deity they worship, I wouldn't exactly call it "evil".
3.) Keep the Sabbath holy.
I think it's quite healthy to have your society dedicate a day to community and relaxation, but I wouldn't call it "evil" if people wanted (or had) to work on that day (as long as they got other days off instead).
4.) Honor your mother and father.
Again, this is a good message to send, but not all parents are faultless saints. If you have terrible parents, you are not "evil" because you refuse to honor or respect them.
5.) Do not kill (murder?).
This one is very confusing for many reasons. Killing people can absolutely be justified, mostly through self-defense, but in other ways too. For example, in 1 Samuel 15, God asks Samuel and Saul to "go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."
6.) Do not commit adultery.
While I am a moral relativist, I would agree (as would most) that cheating on your partner, married or not, is pretty messed up. I don't need to believe in objective good and evil to see how that might make another person feel awful.
7.) Do not steal.
Again, another one that is good in principle, but I wouldn't describe shoplifting a pencil from Staples as "evil". Arguably, I'd say that screwing the mega-corps that have been corrupting our government and destroying the American Dream is about as close to objective moral good one could get, honestly.
8.) Do not lie.
Lying typically leads to more harm than good, so it is fair to say that doing that is usually bad. However, there are different degrees to which you can lie, and lying about what you ate for breakfast doesn't exactly have the same consequences as lying about the structural integrity of the nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl power plant.
9.) Do not covet your neighbor's wife.
Again, while I can see the negative consequences of desiring someone who is already in a relationship, I wouldn't describe it as "evil" per se.
10.) Do not covet your neighbor's possessions.
Interpreted to mean "the possessions belonging specifically to your neighbor", I can understand the "evil" that would come about as a result of that desire to have the things that aren't yours. However, interpreted to mean "possessions that other people generally have but you don't", I actually completely disagree with this.
As an American, a core part of our culture is the "American Dream" which is about desiring a better life, and turning that desire into a reality through hard, passionate work. The idea that 'life can be better' is such an integral part of what it means to be an American. I flatly disagree with the idea that defying this Commandment, under the latter interpretation I gave, can be described as evil.
Most importantly, however, none of this addresses the FEAR of God. And no, "historical meaning" is completely irrelevant here, as translations and interpretations of the Bible from all points in history (especially recently) stress the idea of "fear"ing God. If your god is all-knowing, then clearly he meant to use the English word "fear" to describe the emotion of fear to the English-speaking readers of his word.
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