Humanities & Culture
PhilosophyBy Random Pilot
9 days ago
Everyone with a developed mind, there being very few exceptions other than children, is aware their actions (or inactions) have consequences, for themselves and others. We take into consideration the amount of pain our actions may cause. Being unable to feel exactly what anyone else is feeling, we begin the journey towards empathy by identifying the type of pain felt by someone and attempting to match it to our own understandings of pain and types of pain. We do harm because we fail to find a match to another person(s)'s pain, or the match we do find doesn't remind us of a pain intense enough to convince us the action should be avoided. Even if a match should be considered a match rationally, we are not rational beings (if you HAD to choose between the death of a loved one and that of a thousand people you had never met before, which would you choose? -- and if the number were a million?), and our point of view changes what is and isn't considered a match. |
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy halthouse1
4 weeks ago
Middle Class Tax Hikes On The Horizon?
Homeland security in New York has one meaning when the name is mentioned. Keeping the citizenry safe from terrorist attacks of any kind. Now, however, that President Obama has opened up the potential to raise taxes on what his administration deems to be the middle class, home security will be questioned as well.
With the economy in extremely poor shape and people fighting just to make ends meet, is a tax hike the answer to exploding budget deficits, or is cutting the budge more of the answer? The academics now running Washington, and our lives by extension, had better learn a lesson from history before they start down the tax hike path again.
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy halthouse1
5 weeks ago
Tensions In Iran Could Come To A Head Thursday
This Thursday marks the day thirty one years ago when then leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared Iran an Islamic state, and so began the age of theocratic dictatorship that has survived to the present. Similar to May Day in Russia, this day has typically been for celebration and shows of strength.
This year, however, promises to be much different, with as many as 3,000,000 anti-government protestors (part of the green movement) expected to converge in the center of Tehran. They will be opposed by as many as 12,000 militia, as well as 500,000 pro-government supporters. In a statement, the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Iran would "give all arrogant powers a punch in the mouth". He went on to say this of the people who continue to oppose the reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:
"It is now completely known that those who stood against the Iranian nation's choice in the election don't belong to this nation. They are either counterrevolutionary or are following in the steps of counterrevolutionaries out of ignorance and obstinacy."
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy halthouse1
6 weeks ago
The Obama Tales
This Fairy Tale was created by a Pastor's wife (actual source unknown), and it depicts the chronology of events that lead us to today. On the one hand it is extremely funny, but in reality it is not!
And it came to pass in the Age of Insanity that the people of the land Called America , having lost their morals, their initiative, and their Will to defend their liberties, chose as their Supreme Leader that Person known as "The One."
He emerged from the vapors with a message that had no meaning; but He Hypnotized the people telling them, "I am sent to save you." My lack Of experience, my questionable ethics, my monstrous ego, and my Association with evil doers are of no consequence. I shall save you With hope and Change. Go, therefore, and proclaim throughout the Land that he who proceeded me is evil, that he has defiled the nation, And that all he has built must be destroyed. And the people rejoiced, For even though they knew not what "The One" would do, he had promised |
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy halthouse1
7 weeks ago
The President WantsTo Dictate The Running Of Banks
In a move on Thursday that is designed to appeal to the masses, President Obama wants to put a limit on the scope of business that financial institutions will be free to transact. There is no arguing with the fact that loose regulations and lenders greed combined to contribute mightily to the financial crisis that we now find ourselves in. There needs to be a limit, however, to the extent that a government in a free and capitalist society can dictate the business model of private firms.
At a time when the economy as well as individuals depend greatly on some semblance of stability, the action in the stock market today clearly shows that this new plan could throw a wrench into an already damaged machine. It appears that the strength of President Obama's words in this instance come as a response to other events, such as the near death knell for his healthcare bill, as well as the loss of the Massachusetts Senate seat to Republican Scott Brown.
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy halthouse1
2 months ago
Because Most Of Them Have Zero Private Sector Experience!
How very revealing...,
Why Obama's Team Seems To Lack Business Comprehension?
In case you missed it, on a recent Glenn Beck Show, he had a graph that illustrated the percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet. You know what the private business sector is... a real life business, not a government job. Here are the percentages.
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy halthouse1
2 months ago
One Year In, The Overwhelming Focus On Matters Other Than National Security Leaves Us Less Safe Than Under President Bush
More popular as a country under this "leader" maybe, less feared perhaps and certainly not more safe. Viewed as weaker, as a caterer to all things left and an appeaser par excel lance. A great speechmaker, but not a great mover of world leaders to his point of view.
The direction and fate of the country is his now. No more of the crap about the country that he inherited. No more being able to place the failings of his administration at the door of the Bush administration. The intelligence gathering operation that led to a near tragedy over the skies of Detroit are courtesy of Mr. Obama, and his weak, inept, soft, misguided domesticentric (newly coined) administration.
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