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snoopy7548 said:
I was just gonna say... slow drivers deserve to be tailgated. 😱
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Tailgaters . . . for any reason . . . deserve to have their private parts removed from their bodies, fried, and shoved down their throats. Although, for a first offense, puncturing all four of their tires would do.
 
Perknose said:
Tailgaters . . . for any reason . . . deserve to have their private parts removed from their bodies, fried, and shoved down their throats. Although, for a first offense, puncturing all four of their tires would do.
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why are you letting them off so light?
 
You are not, and never will be, a product of your environment. You are a conscious being who makes choices that have consequences.
 
nakedfrog said:
Uh... no, no it isn't.
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Really? I'm not going to put words in your mouth, out of respect, but you're wrong. Anyone, anywhere, anytime can do what they set out to do regardless of the hand you are dealt. I grow increasingly tired of people using their environment as an excuse as to why they never amounted to anything.
 
GobBluth said:
Really? I'm not going to put words in your mouth, out of respect, but you're wrong. Anyone, anywhere, anytime can do what they set out to do regardless of the hand you are dealt. I grow increasingly tired of people using their environment as an excuse as to why they never amounted to anything.
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You're six years old, you live in Iowa with poor parents, and you want to go mountain climbing, versus you're six years old, you live in Colorado with rich parents, and you want to go mountain climbing. You're telling me that the only difference is choice, when you're six years old?
 
nakedfrog said:
You're six years old, you live in Iowa with poor parents, and you want to go mountain climbing, versus you're six years old, you live in Colorado with rich parents, and you want to go mountain climbing. You're telling me that the only difference is choice, when you're six years old?
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I mean, I could distort the context of the argument to suit my position too but it wouldn't get us anywhere. If that six year old wanted to be a mountain climber, or aspired to climb mountains, then yes, it is simply a matter of choice.

You're using lack of independence to gain traction on your argument. Children who are presently six years old don't usually claim that being poor was hard too hard to overcome. They are children.
 
Mainstream media/the news is biased as f (in favor of the left). Now I'm to the center-right, usually (most closely would be libertarian I guess), but really I don't care, I like to call out BS from where ever it comes from. And I think the American public is getting a huge disservice done to them because they're getting one, biased, side of the story usually. Most "journalists" these days are lazy and biased and terrible. There, flame me.
 
-There is no afterlife, or higher power (unless you count technically advanced civilizations).
-Morality is entirely subjective, and subject to change.
-We exist within a computer simulation, or at minimum a universe based so intrinsically on math that it's indiscernible from a computer simulation.
-Mankind will probably lose their footing on earth within the next two generations. We may still technically exist, but not in any form recognizable by current civilization, beyond theorycrafting of sci-fi schlock or ancient history.
 
GobBluth said:
I mean, I could distort the context of the argument to suit my position too but it wouldn't get us anywhere. If that six year old wanted to be a mountain climber, or aspired to climb mountains, then yes, it is simply a matter of choice.

You're using lack of independence to gain traction on your argument. Children who are presently six years old don't usually claim that being poor was hard too hard to overcome. They are children.
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No, I'm providing an example of how environment impacts choice. I'm not saying one can place all the blame for one's shortcomings on environment, but I think it's absurd to deny that environment has an impact.
 
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