I agree. One thing that bugs me about lemmy is how intellectually dishonest and blind people are when it comes to their own biases.

All proselytizing or just the religious kind?

I went down a stoicism rabbit hole for a while, but got a little disillusioned with it because it doesn’t really leave room for joy, excitement, passion, because these can all be taken from you. While this is true, I think it is harmful to focus too much on that, and it is better for mental health to leave room for joy and hope. Stoicism is a little bit too cynical for me. My theory is that this is why it died out. People are meant to be hopeful, even more hopeful than they should be.

It’s pretty hard to take you seriously tbh.

You got a lot of anger bud.

What are you even talking about.

Advertising, marketing, and the stock market are the worst aspects of capitalism, and the system could be improved dramatically with heavy restrictions on all of those. Yeah it would shrink the economy, but the new steady state would be much better. Less waste, better stuff.

Luigi situation is interesting because pretty much everyone agrees that the health insurance industry is broken. While most conservatives (probably?) disagree with his method, they can’t wholly disagree with his motive.

Make it a year of pto, and you get to spend that time over the next 18 years. I’d happily take a week after birth and then more time off later as they get older.

Utter nonsense. There isn’t a single doctor anywhere who wouldn’t treat a completely nonviable and dangerous ectopic pregnancy.

Do you care about people who lost their job because they didn’t want to get the jab? Even if they had verifiable natural immunity from infection? Or what if they followed all the rules and mandates, but their livelihood was ruined anyway because they weren’t connected to the right people or because they were considered non essential by some ambiguous criteria? Walmart was able to stay open, but small local stores and restaurants were forced to close, forever eliminating Walmart’s competition in small towns across the country. And what about the generation of kids whose education suffered, who sacrificed against their futures to possibly slightly reduce the risk of the privileged and fearful elderly ruling class? Years of critical developmental time lost forever, and for reasons that were increasingly disconnected from real science. Where is your empathy for the kids? They had no say in it or ability to advocate for themselves but were forced to bear the largest burden despite being the lowest risk. These injustices were behind the American support for the Canadian convoy. Where were you during that time? Don’t lecture me about hypocrisy. No, I’m not as concerned about people who decided to come here illegally or if they made some bad decisions while here on a temporary basis. Most of those situations will resolve in time, but late cancer diagnoses, accidental overdoses, suicides, and the previous examples I mentioned are long term, lasting impacts. Yes, I have much more empathy for them.

How many total people are we talking about? Actual people.

Whose rights are being taken away?

Don’t ask lemmy for advice. Lemmy cares about their own ideology and nothing else.

My point is that the united states is a stabilizing force, and in many cases someone else would step in if we left. So my question is, would they be more fair? Its not as simple as saying that the united states is the sole source of evil in the world.

Do you think it’s possible to live in harmony with the rest of the world? If the united states conceded its powerful position, who would take over as the new world power? (Probably China) Would you be better off? Would the world in general be better off with someone else in charge? Would you prefer to stand for the Chinese flag or the American flag? Or do you actually think we are ready for a world where there are no super powers?

It’s a little jarring seeing a post like this alongside a post celebrating the possibility of jailing people for doing a nazi salute. Anyway to answer your question, some people cannot function in society. They are dangerous, and the only way to prevent them from harming others is to isolate them from society.