I don't donate money.
I'm stingy.
:(

You seem angry about something.

perceived pretension, mostly. and its not so much anger as annoyance.

I think you misread me.
I use really stupid terms of endearment, but I mean them.
I when I talk I call people "honey" and "sugar" and "sweetie", none of which are meant in any derogatory or insulting way.
But now that you pitched a bitch fit over my calling you my little buddy, you're not my little buddy anymore, guy.

I never was your little buddy. What the fuck, we've talked like twice.

And I can't imagine calling someone, "Lil buddy" without being pretentious. But if I actually MISREAD you IM SORRY. Maybe you should be more careful not to call people by pretentious sounding names.

I'm a southern pot head, dude.
duhhh

alright ;o

Oh and this:
Depends on the soldier. Lots of soldiers are enlisted forcefully (draft). If they don't have a choice in the matter, how can it be a sacrifice -- or moral?
Many soldiers also join the military to get money, to travel and to get their college paid for. When was the last time somebody went to a military recruiter and come home saying, "I get the chance to die for my community" and not, "I'm gonna get a five thousand dollar incentive and all of these monetary advantages for bleh. Excellent retirement plan, too."
A lot of people also join the military because they don't know what to do with their life, or because they have no where to go. ;o or because they think its SO COOL AND MAKES THEM BETTER THAN OTHER PEOPLE. I WANNA TRAVEL. etcetera

Most people don't make sacrifices, they make exchanges. I'm not even sure there is such a thing as a "Sacrifice." Being somebody who sacrifices makes you a whore. I mean charitable. And that makes you MORE MORAL and clearly superior to other people.

Nice.

That is true enough but there are certainly people who favor one over the other.

Right on, right on; totally not gay.

nice.

Not bad. I can wait.

Oh wow humanity is not so coolto you.

There is nothing wrong with trying to protect the weak; the only moral crime is the choice to be weak and to not fight for what is right.


Cool.

Yeah, Kahl, let's fuck this girl with great masculinity; high fives; a little bit of the 'seks grupowy' as the Polish say.

Of course Soldiers receive benefits witht heir job. The goal is not to deprive oneself and attain a purely altruistic existence, but at the end of the day the risk of this sacrifice is a big deal.

Perhaps some do this purely out of self interest and others are pressed into the service but I do not think that this takes away the full dignity of it by any means.

Can you guys just paraphrase instead?

What do you mean, champ?

I'm at work so I didn't get a chance to read the entire length of the conversation/post. I'll have to wait until I get home to comment better on the situation.

Communism encourages people to be weak. I mean, the weak do not become any stronger and they are not encouraged to do so. In a sense, its actually less beneficial because then you will receive less benefits from the government. Communism also discourages people from, "Fighting for what's right" because what's right is already what's instituted. It's a totalitarian government system.
And its not a matter of protecting the weak, its a matter of taking things from those who have made the choice not to be weak so that the weak will be what? Not stronger. Besides that communism is self-contradictory. Part of the point is not to be alienated from your work, yet communism proposes just that; to alienate the strong from the fruits of their labor.

*edit* and again, communism makes the strong and the weak equal in value. I don't see how that jives with your other ideas. Except as a hilarious joke.

It's not a sacrifice if you are doing it to benefit yourself. Besides, there is higher chance of dying in houston texas if you're a black man than if you are a soldier in Iraq. I fail to see the sacrifice ;\ Most people who are soldiers never even go to war. How many times have you been shot at?

how is it a sacrifice if you aren't depriving yourself? That's not a sacrifice, its an exchange.

Why talk? You don't even take hardline stances on issues. You say things, then have no arguments to support things. You're only "GUESSING." Its all, "Maybies." That isn't a hardline stance.
According to your own ideas you are feminine and weak :lol

Why isn't my Friday the 13th remake thread 2 pages long yet? It's way more interesting than this Hatebreed ethics seminar, and is only like 16 posts long and none of them are even very long.

ANSWER ME THAT WITH YOUR PRECIOUS PHILOSOPHY, KAHLICLES.

because the politics board gets folks all riled up!

Wish I got in on this earlier.

cause i like to look impressive and smart with all my philosophorizing :(

even though i dont think anybody has ever thought i was impressive or smart. Usually it is the exact opposite.

Hardliners are fascist dogs.

Whatever they are, Kultur isn't one of them.

BTW Bring back Orbitz and Blue Pepsi.

"It's bad to mix feminine and masculine"? What, are those two qualities drinks now?

Honestly, that's stupid. I can think of plenty of people who have both feminine and masculine qualities and are fine people.

First of all, exactly how do you justify grouping "weak" only with "feminine" and "strong" only with "masculine"? Don't you think there are weak masculine people or strong feminine people? Strength comes in many forms you know.

Second of all, no communism is not superior. It's not a bad thing, it just would never work. It's based on the idea that every single person in a nation will do their share of work for the benefit of others. Ideally, if every single person did this, every single person would be covered (you would be covering everyone else, and you'd be covered by everyone else). Unfortunately, the concept is thrown down the toilet if even one person decides to not do their share. Since it's impossible to expect an entire nation to pull their weight for someone else, then it's impossible for actual Communism (the way it was meant to be) to work.