naevaTheRat

https://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-beigeness-or-how-to-kill-people-with-bad-writing-the-scott-alexander-method I remember this being a pretty reasonable critique.

Anything he writes on feminism also.

Did you seriously link writing by cryptofascist Scott Siskind? Dude needs a disclaimer.

Fourth largest country in the world, a pseudo-democracy like our government, right off the coast. You don't hear a fucking whisper about them unless some moron is breaching their boarders during a dick polishing exercise.

Conscription is fucking evil. Forcing people to die for a fucking legal entity.

Training programs for a population is one thing, so people are ready if they choose to fight in the face of a threat that is actually existential but forcing people to go murder other poor sods over lines on a map somewhere else in the world is... something.

But what if China raided our trade routes with China!

My wife followed it closely and is a bit of a lawy person from a family of lawyers.

From what she relayed it seems difficult to explain why she took all the actions she did, except if she did a murder, but given that murder has the bar of intent as well I'm not really sure the prosecution established that she did murder.

But like she obviously collected, preserved, and then fed people poisonous mushrooms just like did she intend to kill people beyond reasonable doubt? Idk

After studying court verdicts a bunch by attitude has always been that if I ever end up in irons try my hardest to get a bench trial with sentencing after lunch.

It would be cool if we could actually like try the UDHR, just once, as a treat.

Maybe not, ostensibly if you're persecuted you could seek asylum and you're probably a lot less likely to be killed overall.

I defs wouldn't give my life to defend people that don't respect me. Conscription is a crime against humanity at the best of times but conscripting people without full rights is straight up evil.

Imagine getting conscripted to die for a government that doesn't even think you're fully human...

I don't know who this person is but aside from the eusocial animals humans are probably the next most social creatures. Talking about fending for yourself is batshit insane, how would you even do that? Everything we have, know, or do involves other human beings.

See? outing your barely repressed antisocial violent urges.