Comments by "Roger Smith" (@rogersmith8339) on "Academy of Ideas" channel.

  1.  @rockoyhead  I guess it is people who think they are bigger / stronger / better than others and use this to take advantage of people. Often, when someone finally stands up to them - even an apparently weak person, they quickly back down (ben there, done that).
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  2.  @rockoyhead  The truly weak (physically) cannot avoid being bullied and it is not necessarily their fault that they are week so they are not "allowing it" as you put it.
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  3. I do love it when cowards try to show how brave they are by dismissing one herd and promptly joining another! What makes it even funnier, is when they purport to take the moral high ground and condemn those who are truly outside of the herd.
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  4. There seems to be a big surge in protests that affect "ordinary" people - the animal rights lot of the just stop oilers ruining things for others because they are "standing up for what they believe in". And all the LGBTQ+ whatever protests - again, people standing up for what they believe in. No one, other than that guy the other day, has actually tried to protest properly against the dinghy invasion yet dozens on here love to blame others for letting it happen. Who are the true cowards?
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  5. The old religion is the only one that rewards honour and bravery. I have booked my place in the halls of Valhalla among the great warriors and huntsman.
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  6.  @donkeypunch5138  WOW, an American who can write sentences!
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  7.  @donkeypunch5138  I was really thinking about such places as Brazil and many African countries rather than the US. America is a good example of those who toe the line doing well and those that don't doing badly.
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  8. There seems to be a big surge in protests by people standing up for what they believe is right - the animal rights lot or the just stop oilers ruining things for others because they are "standing up for what they believe in". And all the LGBTQ+ whatever protests - again, people standing up for what they believe in. Who are the true cowards?
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  9.  @donkeypunch5138  Please don't use America as an example of any form of freedom or being a good place to live. They have so many laws to prevent what is considered acceptable, even normal in the better countries.
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  10.  @GhostRangerr  They are not obedient in those countries, they just have no real chance but to obey.
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  11. @googlehomemini So a guy with a special vest on who decimates a crowd might be doing what he sees as right?
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  12.  @h-a-y-k4149  I really had to read what you are saying there carefully to get the full gist of it but what you are saying is pretty deep stuff and I am very much in agreement with it. At the end of the day, what is right or wrong has to be defined by someone and there by hangs the problem. My philosophy? The good old fashioned do unto others as you would be done, with the caveat that if they do unto you something you do not want them to, the rules go out of the window.
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  13.  @h-a-y-k4149  Some very deep and wise words there. There are some things I do (including with others) that, because they cause no harm to anyone else in society, I do not consider to be wrong, yet often get told they are wrong by others who are not affected by them. There are other things I think to be wrong because they do affect other people yet seem to be considered to be right by many. This is where it all gets tough!
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  14. But morality is all about what you have been told, the alternative is anarchy where people make up their own morals.
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  15. @googlehomemini And its even rarer for someone to be able to define "right" without relying upon someone else's definition.
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  16.  @jgappy5643  And I guess a larger amount of immorality too?
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  17.  @darnellpistachio2991  I don't laugh at the ones that pour milk around supermarkets or stop traffic, just because they think they are doing the right thing!
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  18.  @drjonesey5  Have people become more moral over time? Have we stopped burning witches and hanging, drawing and quartering enemies of the state?
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  19.  @h-a-y-k4149  You make some very good points there, but the big issue is how you define what is right without reference to what is wrong. The climate loonies think that they are right in taking action to save the planet and the animal rights lot that it is right to treat animals better / go vegan. Who says either are not right?
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  20. @googlehomemini It is even rarer to meet them again a few years later!
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  21.  @Hotomato  Some one just doing what they are told in an old book!
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  22. Isn't morality doing what someone told you is right or you think is right? After all, who actually determines what is "right" in the grand scheme of things?
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  23.  @legalfictionnaturalfact3969  I am a troll and I live in a hole as the old nursery rhyme goes. I have no idea what a troll is in the sense you seem to be using it as I don't follow all the latest fashion/ trends.
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  24.  @legalfictionnaturalfact3969  The big issue with that notion is that it still means people decide what they think is moral - just look at the animal rights loonies and their mad ideas?
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  25.  @legalfictionnaturalfact3969  If you say so, yawn.
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  26.  @legalfictionnaturalfact3969  I have no uploads as I do not want to fall into the social media trap of having to follow trends and "obey" the norm.
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  27.  @legalfictionnaturalfact3969  I have uploaded a cou8ple of videos in the past - from various holidays etc (sailing & skiing). As for subscriptions, I just checked and it looks like I have quite a few. As I said previously, I do not follow the masses and "have to be seen" like some people.
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  28.  @legalfictionnaturalfact3969  Yep that's me - still eating goats who cross my bridge and not going out in daylight to avoid being turned to stone.
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  29.  @legalfictionnaturalfact3969  By your rules, is big game hunting moral? And what about pornography? - If you consider it to be immoral, how do you define it (and don't use the legal definition as that is written by the elites to stop ordinary people seeing things that they can). Where do you draw the line between porn and art / entertainment?
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  30.  @legalfictionnaturalfact3969  I always eat what I shoot unless it is vermin (foxes, rats, magpies etc) and am a firm believer in the good old fashioned do unto others as you would be done by, even if the last puts me a little to the left by some people's judgment.
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  31. @googlehomemini Those prepared to blow themselves up because of what they believe?
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  32.  @drjonesey5  It is interesting that you raise the moral question over capital punishment. The truth is, it is not the deterrent that many believe it to be. When being gay was a capital offence in the UK, people still were in secret. Murders still happened. What it can do is stop the criminals doing the same again and free up prison space, saving the state lots of money.
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  33. Morality is doing what someone told you was right.
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  34. Was declaring war on the wicked Argentinians a form of mass psychosis? After all, the majority of the British were not affected by what they were up to in the Falklands?
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  35. One of the reasons revolutions fail to achieve their goals in the long term is that as soon as things start to get better, the original leaders lose interest and those that follow them only really know what was happening before and therefore are no better than the ones who were overthrown.
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  36.  Shaun  No, the lack of tin foil hats!
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  37.  @poom641  Was that man not from the most vulnerable group in terms of who covid affected?
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  38.  Shaun  I had a look at that, but am always sceptical of anything that Americans say, specially given that they developed the virus, presumably for ulterior motives.
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  39.  @dhaltonmiller1215  Blah, blah, blah? If I am a conformist then it has paid dividends when it comes to my life style. If you knew me though you would see just how nonconformist I really am, assuming you define conformist as being boring and doing the same as everyone else.
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  40.  @dhaltonmiller1215  I have just thought, surely being selfish is actually being anything but conformist? Conformity would be doing what everyone else wants you to or expects you to?
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  41.  @dhaltonmiller1215  I would very much like to know what, on a day to day basis, makes you a non conformist and what you believe (?) makes me a conformist? Is it retiring early because you got fed up with all the BS, having only a tiny city car when everyone else wants bigger and faster, or do you live in a tiny house that most would consider to be small for a first time buyer?
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  42. @Guitarzen "They"? Which "They " is that?
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  43.  @damnu8089  It is funny how the ignorant and uneducated people seem to hang on every thread of extremists who have a dark agenda.
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  44. Passive aggressive is the favourite term of the conformists to describe anyone who doesn't "fit in". Funny that, isn't it?
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  45. @Guitarzen Cowardly is shouting about something but not actually doing anything about it. Just think of all those who rant about the channel crossers but don't actually go down there and try to do something about it?
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  46.  Shaun  And to believe everything they watch on here!
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  47. @Guitarzen There are many levels of "they" from the elite to the giant lizards to ordinary decent people going about their lives to make the best of what they have.
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  48.  @dhaltonmiller1215  I will happily answer your question and try to explain the reasons for my decision if you are interested. I too will ask you a very simple question and would like you to explain the reasons behind your answer. Yes, I have had the jab and the boosters, much like I have been having the flu jab since I got it for free. I even had the jab to give me some protection from pneumonia and tetanus in the past plus all the other ones we got as kids. Now the reasoning. I have a couple of minor health issues that on their own really don't affect me much but before I started to have the flu jabs I would be wiped out for a week or two each winter a couple of times I got really bad. Over the winter before Covid was "officially " recognised I knew a few people who were very ill for a few weeks with what could only have been Covid (due to symptoms and how / when they became sick with it). Before the vaccine became available, a few more friends and colleagues also became seriously ill with it and talking to them afterwards it sounded horrific. When the Oxford one was announced I looked into it to find out more. It seems that they had been working on the concept and technique to prevent other related conditions for some time and with my scientific background and close contact with many people with quite a lot of knowledge on the subject I decided that the risk/ benefit analysis said for me it was the correct thing to do. I could have dosed myself up with vitamin D, but that is not quite as easy as some think in reality and where some of the supplements come from and how they are made and who by is another matter. Now I have a very simple and not contentious question for you to see if you are a conformist. Do you wash and clean your teeth and use deodorant every day and if so, please explain the reasons why you do.
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  49.  @brianmcmechan8625  Ok, it was those conditions that made me vulnerable to covid and other viruses. Sadly there is no magic drug to cure either or prevent you getting them. There are some that help with the conditions and I do use an inhaler when the asthma is bad. I control the diabetes by diet and exercise.
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  50.  @brianmcmechan8625  I was tempted to answer you very frankly but thought it better not to sink to the level of the rest of the herd on here.
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