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originally posted by: M4ngo
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: M4ngo
originally posted by: eriktheawful
a reply to: M4ngo
Stealing, raping, murdering are all human constructs too.
And have been going on since before written history.
You propose that if we simply do nothing, that those things will go away?
Wow....
Where did I say do nothing?
You were questioned as to what action should be taken instead of incarceration. You said we should not incarcerate anyone.
You should go into politics.
If humans didn't intervene with natural selection then incarcerating wouldn't even exist, IMO.
Incarceration is a barrier to human evolution.
Like the poster above touched on about—you are basically #ed from the get go if you are caught breaking a human made law.
Human made laws have been a failure.
Survival is an essential part of life. Why advocate for regulating how humans survive?
originally posted by: eriktheawful
So basically you have been saying: let people kill, rape, pillage, destroy someones private property, etc, etc, etc.
originally posted by: eriktheawful
Mass anarchy.
originally posted by: eriktheawful
You do realize that one of the things that sets humans apart from all other wild life on this planet is: Rule Of Law.
originally posted by: eriktheawful
Being able to become aware of the idea of Right and Wrong was a big step in our evolutionary process. The idea that killing someone is wrong, and someone who does it without good reason should be punished, does not exist anywhere else here on Earth.
originally posted by: eriktheawful
Being able to reason and to come up with abstract concepts like this was not a step backwards, but a huge leap forwards.
originally posted by: eriktheawful
Without it, we would be nothing more than any other animal on this planet.
originally posted by: eriktheawful
I asked what you think we should you. You neatly side stepped answering the question, which means you either think we should do nothing (anarchy), or you have no answer that you wish to give (either because you do not have an answer, or do not wish to reveal it for whatever reason).
originally posted by: SR1TX
a reply to: M4ngo
Who gets it into the country? Who makes it? Who has the Sat images showing we know who makes it and also allows it to get here?
originally posted by: SR1TX
a reply to: chr0naut
At some point in the past, those on a conspiracy website would have been sent to the gallows, burned as heretics, bound and quartered as insurrectionists, or simply thrown off a cliff for being possible witches and warlocks.
To consider the survivability of the society, you would most of certainly of been hanged.
At some point in the distant past, being fit for anything would have made you a slave or conscript that would likely die in battle at some point. Being old would have made you respect and safe.
Global disasters happen every day and we do not cooperate at all most of the time except on a very small scale and faux agencies like red cross that come to make the situation go from bad to hell. A situation as you speak of would likely end in people overcoming something alright, and that's the last few rounds you have guarding whatever rations you have left or you doing it to another person with a group.
Since you say you are a seasoned individual, i'd say your evolutionary clock would be one of the first that such a society would deem not worthy of ticking.
originally posted by: SR1TX
a reply to: M4ngo
So you are like the Warren Commission on 9/11.
Does not matter who potentially funded 9/11, let's focus on Benny. Cute.
originally posted by: SR1TX
a reply to: M4ngo
I don't really care what flavor of drug it is. The fact is when you have lost all hope, you will have no hope, and probably result to such things as meth in prison if it's your escape from reality. Does that make you a bad person even more so than the crime one might be there for? What good would staying clean do when society looks at felons anyway or those with any jail sentencing as criminals anyway?
Your argument and focus is a clear example of how utterly biased and dumb down society is.
originally posted by: M4ngo
originally posted by: chr0naut
I also control and direct society around me. I'm a victor not a victim. If 'society' doesn't do what I want, i change it.
You control and direct society around you?
Proof or BS.
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: M4ngo
originally posted by: eriktheawful
a reply to: M4ngo
Stealing, raping, murdering are all human constructs too.
And have been going on since before written history.
You propose that if we simply do nothing, that those things will go away?
Wow....
Where did I say do nothing?
You were questioned as to what action should be taken instead of incarceration. You said we should not incarcerate anyone.
You should go into politics.
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: M4ngo
originally posted by: chr0naut
I also control and direct society around me. I'm a victor not a victim. If 'society' doesn't do what I want, i change it.
You control and direct society around you?
Proof or BS.
I was one of less than 20 people who started a political party and that party has been in coalition government of my country, through several elections, since 2008.
You are democratically governed. Have you considered how few people it would take to change a law or to affect government? 11 people can get the quorum in the electoral college and 218 can elect a president.
You do realise that you have a voice in your society, don't you?