Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "Wisecrack" channel.

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  6. I understand the point of the video, but the title is all kinds of misleading. Jesus didn't outline a very cogent view of how to get to heaven. He had like 2 rules and basically everything else was thought up by the organization around it which grew from his life and worship. Does that mean anyone who doesn't follow the Catholic church isn't a Christian? Catholics probably will say yes. You reading this, probably not. That's basically what defines a Marxist in the modern world Clearly, i do not believe it makes sense to be a Marxist in the current year. He gets it wrong from the get-go with surplus value and he'd know that had he even run a business and had to take in operating costs (Spolier, if the only thing into consideration for the price of a product was work done by the laborers, it could be a lot lower while the business still exists and everyone has a job), and fundamentally the relative theory of value works as a much better economic framework for understanding costs. Marxism is only attractive because it gives power to intellectuals who otherwise don't have it, and the industrialized world makes us feel like like tiny cogs in an unending machine taking away all power from us. With the decline in religion as well, it provides an attractive moral framework in its absence. It's not so much a useful tool but more of a popular trend from people who feel that something is wrong and giving them something to aim their anger at because the world is complicated and we like simple answers.
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  9. 24:28 This is incredibly disingenuous and the appeal to the early gun control in the early parts of the video is equally disingenuous. Much of the gun control in the early colonies had to do with limiting groups that we'd now see as protected. On top of this, while you had laws about it being to the militia and early rights, this didn't necessarily transfer to the newly formed states and in fact you had examples such as a letter from the president saying he could arm his ship with canons and many of the restrictions post revolutionary war being ordinance restrictions basically on the grounds of noise complaints. "You can own your Canon but please don't fire it near the city because it's loud" On top of this, you basically lied when you said the reason for the second amendment as it stands was to prevent the government from preventing the states being able to fight back. It was written as is to prevent people from mandatory military service requirements. Not to simply oppose the federal government. On top of this it was created in an environment where most of Europe was disarmed and thus was created basically in opposition to Europe's lack of firearms among the citizenry except in a few key places where it was often a requirement to own it basically because they got invaded so often. This is honestly a pretty disingenuous look at things and you've now gone through half of the video basically praising gun control and bashing on firearms advertisements because guns, but haven't really addressed the cultural predilections toward violence which persists even without guns as the US has a high homicide rate even without firearms. US has a higher knife crime rate than Britain and it's the 3rd most used weapon for the US while the first in Britain. I was hoping to get an actual cultural breakdown but what I'm getting is a fairly half-baked history lesson and a bashing of advertising. At least get the history and context right guys.
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  14.  @MrAndrew535  Not necessarily. And in the event that the comment about using real names applies to me then please understand this was created as a child and I simply don't care to change it as it is unnecessary for YouTube. Now let's acknowledge that no worldview is truly consistent with reality as it'll be inevitably poisoned by the perception created by ones upbringing and even in the face of figures and statistics the way they're done can be manipulated as to not know the true nature of it so even worldviews based on the facts can be distorted. It also depends on the evidence provided and even when proven beyond a reasonable doubt that information the individual knew is false, as emotional creatures humans will still reject them. This is all a point to say that due to humans being emotional creatures influenced by upbringing and genetics above all else, their self perception will be based more around that than any statistics that could be shown to present a picture of the world as it is. Then your tangent about laziness shown by the access to information is also a misconception as people only look up necessary and or desired information. If it's unnecessary and there's no desire to then there's no reason to find that. You attributed that as proof and that people only have incorrect self perceptions due to their own laziness to verify (correct me if I'm wrong) but as I've espoused no amount of self reflection can overcome genetics and upbringing so every view will be distorted. The reason I mentioned confidence is because substantiated or not confident (oftentimes arrogant) people will overestimate themselves and same for underestimation in those who are self deprecating or not confident. Those are the internal factors which are largely based on the individual's environment and genetics which contribute to the level of confidence which will ignore external factors which can be unreliable anyway due to no matter what, our social circles largely agreeing with ideas we have or all agree with the individual in question disagreeing. In summation: no matter what no-one will have that. Say the person you posited did exist then that's the only person who could possibly have a true assessment of themselves.
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