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I'm skeptical that we should have any minimum wage.
On one hand, I understand the premise: to protect against unfairly low wages.
On the other, I feel like it's an excuse for many employers to default to the minimum that wouldn't otherwise.
It depends on your definition of art.
Some see art as the mere product.
Personally? I think that art as the artist's communication "encoded" in the product.
That makes something made by a human more special than something largely automated.
Great analogy to illustrate a point that I often make on the abortion debate.
It has never been "my body my choice" as you're both legally and morally compelled already to provide for your infant.
The abortion debate can ONLY be about the personhood of the fetus.
Imagine a mother giving birth in a small, isolated, and impoverished town. Six months later, she decides that she no longer wishes to use her body to breastfeed the baby anymore.
Nobody in the town is willing to adopt the child, and there are no alternative means to feed the baby.
Can the mother invoke bodily autonomy and deny the baby breast milk until the baby dies? If yes, then it seems like bodily autonomy can justify infanticide. If no, then why is bodily autonomy a defense to abortion but not for some cases of infanticide?
Broads will moralize for weeks about consent and no meaning no, and then get angry that a guy didn't catch the vibes about her no meaning yes
Why don’t men understand that sometimes a girl says stop because she wants you to take the lead? We were making out on the bed, MUMU tried reaching for my pants, and I told him to stop. I wasn’t even struggling with him. This CLOWN actually stopped and ruined my whole mood. DOG , YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO READ THE ROOM.
The same result can be achieved with humanitarian aid.
You know this, of course, but it's not about merely helping them, it's about them being here, specifically.
Do the benefits of a free market apply to healthcare?
I'm pro free market on most things, but I struggle to see how emergency services can have benefit the consumer through competition.
Can a dying or unconscious person shop around, or negotiate price?
You will die one day; that's inevitable. All you can hope is that you'll be strong enough in character for the day after.
It's probably because some homeless dude whose secret lair is a refrigerator box on the sidewalk and whose only gadget is a frisbee with razor blades taped to it wouldn't make that compelling of a villain, but go ahead with your diatribe or whatever
Power monopolies don't just exist on the institutional level, they happen along various strata all throughout society, even on the individual level.
Using one structure's power to judge the directionality of racism is incoherent.
black people cannot be racist
they CAN be racially prejudiced and act as such but racism is systemic, and the system works at the hands of white people in this country. so no, they cannot be racist.
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Dictionary definitions of racism include racial prejudice, discrimination or beliefs in racial superiority by individuals of any race, in addition to systemic forms.
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Any amount of illegal alien households existing in the US is a problem.
A lot of people try to move the goalpost to whether they commit additional crimes or fraud, etc. but the mere fact of them being here illegally is reason enough to deport.
America is often ridiculed for its obesity rates and poor lifestyle choices.
Let me ask you this: is it ethical for a country so riddled with lifestyle-related health issues to offload care costs onto everyone, including those who take care of their body?
I say no.
"If you made money linearly rather than exponentially, it would take you a long time to get a lot of money, so that's how come having a lot of money shouldn't be allowed"
