Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "Forbes Breaking News"
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@notyourtypicalcomment2399
When a life is taken, and that life is inside your body at the time, then YOU get to decide whether or not taking that life was a crime.
Inside your body there is no right to life for anyone except you, except if (when) you say there is one.
Inside another person's body, the right to life is conditional on that person's will.
Inside my body, you wouldn't have a right to life unless I said you had one, and if I did, I'd have a right to switch your right to life on or off like a bathroom light. "Now you have one!" "But now, you don't!" "And now, you do again!" "And now, it's gone!" Wheeeee!
You see? Inside my body, I decide who has rights, and which rights they have, and when, and why, and how long. Because the inside of my body is the inside of my body. So I decide who gets to stay there. And other people's opinions don't matter. Including yours.
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@huntersdealer Right you are! It's a Chinese bio-weapon, and the reason why the Chinese unleashed it when they did is very obvious to anyone who was up-to-date on the trends in classical music.
There's an opera-- Puccini's last opera-- which is very challenging and not performed all that often, except by the really top-level companies, because it's so difficult for the singers. Puccini never finished it, but other lesser composers have composed endings. It's called TURANDOT and it is set in ancient Peking, or rather, in Puccini's fantasy of what ancient Peking was like.
Now,TURANDOT was experiencing renewed popularity early in 2020; it was a big fad in the opera world. The Met was scheduled to do it in April, and several other opera companies like San Francisco Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera were gonna do it, and even the "little-grand-opera" companies like Regina Opera in Brooklyn and West Bay Opera in Palo Alto -- companies which cast young, still-unknown singers to give them a start on their careers, and which perform in small venues for audiences of fewer than 150 people, were getting ready to do it.
It was also trendy in Europe. (These trends come and go.)
This opera TURANDOT is very offensive to Chinese nationalists, because it depicts the Chinese people as superstitious, bloodthirsty barbarians ruled by a sadistic tyrant. But because of COVID-19, the companies had to cancel their performances. This was obviously what the Chinese government was hoping to accomplish by unleashing the virus at that particular time-- to prevent TURNADOT from being performed in Europe and USA.
That is cui bono in this case.
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@notyourtypicalcomment2399
Because the event you are trying to interfere with is happening inside another person's body, and she has not invited you to interfere there.
Here's an illustrative example (note: htis is not a metaphor or a simile or anything like that; just an illustrative example): suppose you were going to have your appendix taken out, and I thought (for some reason) that removing your appendix would be murder - a special, unusual kind of murder, but still, murder. (That sounds weird and delusional, but there are plenty of weird, delusional people in the world.) Like, suppose I thought that the individual cells of your appendix were human lives (they actually are, in a sense: they are alive and they are human) and that by removing them from your body your surgeon would be murdering them. And suppose I purchased some state legislators with big bribes/donations to their campaigns, and got them to pass bans against doing appendectomies. How would you respond?
One possible way: you might try to convince me that I was wrong, that individual human cells of the appendix are not human beings. But the point is you shouldn't have to worry about what I would think, at all, because the appendectomy would be done inside your body. You should be able to say "even if removing my appendix really were a form of murder, even so, what I do or get done inside my body is none of your business, so go away!" You should be able to take for granted that inside your body the only opinion which should matter is your opinion, and that no one else be allowed to interfere with what you decide to do or get done inside your body, no matter what they think about it.
And that is what we demand for the abortion patients: the right to make their own decisions about their own insides, without having to worry about what you or any other medically-illiterate loop-a-dupe has to say about the question.
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@jackmeoff9299
So far the public high school in NYC which I went to has produced:
* Four Nobel Laureates (three in the sciences, one in Economics)
* One Fields Medalist (the Fields Medal is like the Nobel Prize, but for math--there is no actual Nobel Prize in math)
* Several winners of the Wolf Prize, which is one step below the Nobel
* At least one winner of the Breakthrough Prize, which is BIGGER than the Nobel (more money)
* Several members of the National Academy of Sciences
* Numerous high-ranking academics and tenured professors in STEM fields, including the first female theoretical physicist ever to win tenure at Harvard, and the most influential geneticist alive today
* Numerous successful entrepreneurs, lawyers, engineers, inventors, and physicians
* Numerous successful writers and journalists
* At least three actors whom you have almost certainly heard of and very likely seen on your screen (unless you are one of those people who never watch movies).
And it shows no signs of slowing down.
("Nothingburger." ROTFL)
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Right you are! It's a Chinese bio-weapon, and the reason why the Chinese unleashed it when they did is very obvious to anyone who was up-to-date on the trends in classical music.
There's an opera-- Puccini's last opera-- which is very challenging and not performed all that often, except by the really top-level companies, because it's so difficult for the singers. Puccini never finished it, but other lesser composers have composed endings. It's called Turandot and it is set in ancient Peking, or rather, in Puccini's fantasy of what ancient Peking was like.
Now, Turandot was experiencing renewed popularity early in 2020; it was a big fad in the opera world. The Met was scheduled to do it in April, and several other opera companies like San Francisco Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera were gonna do it, and even the "little-grand-opera" companies like Regina Opera in Brooklyn and West Bay Opera in Palo Alto -- companies which cast young, still-unknown singers to give them a start on their careers, and which perform in small venues for audiences of fewer than 150 people, were getting ready to do it.
It was also trendy in Europe. (These trends come and go.)
This opera Turandot is very offensive to Chinese nationalists, because it depicts the Chinese people as superstitious, bloodthirsty barbarians ruled by a sadistic tyrant. But because of COVID-19, the companies had to cancel their performances. This was obviously what the Chinese government was hoping to accomplish by unleashing the virus at that particular time-- to prevent Turandot from being performed in Europe and USA.
That is cui bono in this case.
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