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 No.7923[Reply]

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Honestly, this thread may seem like an old man's rant on the times of today and I don't even know if I have the drive to engage in a serious discourse on this, but I do want to vent my thoughts on this matter somewhat.

So I was reading the news and there was an article where they were looking for a young man who approached a young woman for sexual favours in exchange for money. She turned him down a few times but he would have pressured her to follow him into a fast food joint - bathrooms and there she would have performed sexual favours on him. It was to be classified as rape, as this was under pressure and the woman had some mental disabilities. She herself has come out to her attendants and clearly wasn't consensual in the act.

So reading some comments on the article, I did find people ask "why didn't she just leave?" It bothers me that that is exactly what the man will claim and what might be his ticket to getting away with this. He was just offering money for sex, she agreed. he paid her and now why is she saying he raped her?
Which falls under that old victim blaming. It was pointed out that she was mentally challenged, to have the mind of a younger child, so she didn't know any better. personally, I think that when being pressured you always put someone in a hard place. If you refuse and they turn away, you can just go on with your day. but if they stand over you, plead, maybe threaten or hide their intentions with different requests... you're also getting intimidated by the others insistence and you do get set up with the fear of what will happen if you don't comply, especially if threats are involved.
Anxiety and discomfort will simply put you in the mind that if you comply, then maybe it will just be over and you can live on safely again...

Anyways, I do find some point where I have problems with this and where I feel this is an issue with society overall as well. What is it with men like these who simply approach a woman and haggle over sexual favours like that out of the blue. To me that's as if sexual intimidation has become such a normalcy in society that to some it becomes a legit means of getting off. If you're out dating with someone online , or meet some woman at the club and you pop up the option of having sex, I can sort of understand. Or if you meet a woman in public, chat up and exchange contact to be followed up by the possibility of sex on one of the following dates.
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 No.8213

>>8212

Alright. I got lots of them. I understand if you don't have time for all of them, so just pick the ones you want i guess, though the first is rather important to me for context on the rest, so please answer that one. For starters:

-Are you straight, gay, or bisexual?

-If you are straight, have you ever made the first move towards a man? Like, in a real way, not dressing up a certain way and having your eyebrow a cm more to the left than it otherwise would be, indicating interest and waiting for him to chat you up. More, gone up and started a conversation?

-Have your friends done so? Why or why not?

-Do you enjoy sex with men? If you enjoy sex with men, but have never started up a conversation, why?
-Do you reject sex when offered from men? Do you feel offended if this happens? Why?

-What do you consider to be the difference between sexual harassment and flirting? Is it just subjective reception, or is there a more measurable variable there?
-Why do women dress up to go out? Is it to attract men? Only certain men? Is it some kind of social power game that women play amongst themselves? If so, why?
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 No.8215

>Are you straight, gay, or bisexual?

I consider myself to be very straight. I have no sexual attraction to the female body, nor any sexual attraction to what I personally feel like is feminine features on men, such as clothing or certain soft features in the body. I am sexually attracted to the much more masculine aspects, although there is many types of guys out there, and sometimes some of the more soft, nerdy, or boyish ones catch my eye just as well.

I can still appreciate when a women is gorgeous, or obviously has a lot of sexual attraction about her for one reason or another, but if given the opportunity to have sex with them, it would likely do nothing for me and not turn me on. And I do know from experience, having had a threesome with my partner and another women, that it just doesn't do much for me at all. I participated and had a good time, but that was because the act of seeing my partner so turned on and enjoying himself got me turned on. So, again, my sexual attraction was focused on the man.

>If you are straight, have you ever made the first move towards a man? Like, in a real way, not dressing up a certain way and having your eyebrow a cm more to the left than it otherwise would be, indicating interest and waiting for him to chat you up. More, gone up and started a conversation?

Oh yea, plenty of times. Infact, I would say it's been about fifty/fifty and pretty equal. Back in highschool, it was a little more awkward, but as I grew older it got easier. I don't think I've ever outright just walked up and asked for someone's number, but instead I have just started light conversations and tried to keep a subject going. If the conversation went well and flowed pretty easy, and I felt some kind of connection to the person, then it usually ended with something along the lines of "Well it's been really fun talking with you, do you think we could do this again some time?", and then either A-they're not interested and politely decline, or B-numbers get exchanged. And that's happened the opposite with me as well, where someone will start up a conversation.

>Have your friends done so? Why or why not?

Yes they have, and it's been about the same. About half of my friends have dated old friends from back in highschool though, and those conversations were more along the lines of trying Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.8217

>>8215
Bleh, sorry, didn't realize that link i gave you didn't have thr full article. It's hard to find studies that aren't pay-gated. I'll try to do more digging for it later.

As for your question at the end, of course my perception is based on culture, anyone's is, especially for courtship, since approach strategies are going to be made or broken by the social environment where they are recieved. I grew up in various mid/high population burbs, myself. I've never felt any sense of community with humans who reside temporally close, if anything, there wad some animosity there.  There were times i felt close to those around me, like in college, but classes never lasted long enough for those to feel like they really solidified. I remember in high school, i asked about the harassment/flirting thing, nobody could give me a good answer, hinging on the problem of me, not being a mind-reader, being unable to be certain if a flirting attempt would be received well or not, which seems to be the crucial difference between flirting and harassment. This leaves any initiator in a sort of schrodingers's harasser situation, where they have to make themselves a potential harasser in order for anything to happen, hoping it's recieved well. Considering there can be legal consequences for harassing, and that it would likely take many attempts to find a worthwhile relationship, it seems there'd be better odds of me ending up in prison than with a true love, and even if i did get married, it could ruin me financially if my hypothetical wife just wanted money from the divorce, and people seem to do bad things for money all the time, so it's not outside the realm of probability. The statistics of how women tend to marry up financially make this both more potentially treacherous, as you can see the incentive, and make finding a woman richer than me to mitigate this risk more difficult than the already-difficult task was shaping up to be. Then there's bed death to worry about. Just a whole lot that could go wrong and seemingly very bad odds of things going right.

i figured the cons outweighed the pros, and so out romance on the backburner until i could formulate a safer, more effective plan. I've been kindof taking notes on how culture has developed since then, and, at least with how things are presented in media, have only seen things get more dangerous.

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 No.8170[Reply]

Discuss?

 No.8172

Audio quality is pretty sub-par.
Would it be possible to summarize/highlight the important points?

 No.8180

I think 27 minutes is too long for a Youtube video.

 No.8214

>>8172
I too suggest a summarization of what the video is about and what you would like to discuss about the video be given.

 No.8041[Reply]

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How much of an impact do you think COVID-19 (and especially Trump's response to it) had on the presidential election?  Would Trump have won but for his poor handling of the pandemic?
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 No.8205

>>8190
True enough, I suppose.  I personally have complaints as far as rights go, but since he left those largely to states, I pin that primarily on them instead.
Otherwise, though, I just don't see a lot else he could do. If he did what Australia is trying, he'd be called a tyrant. If he did nothing at all, he'd be called irresponsible.
Both I would say rightfully so.  But, those are not what he chose to do

 No.8206

>>8204
That is something you can say, yes. Because "is it a fatal mistake to them" is again a completely different question. As is the literal question you just asked here, to which the answer is obviously "considered by whom?". It'll clearly vary from person to person, and with the stark polarization the histogram of individual answers would be very bimodal, with a huge sharp peak near 0 and a wider peak much further down. Doesn't even matter who the president is (in the US at least) or what the issue is, society is so polarized that getting at the actual, underlying truth of any matter by just looking at approval ratings is a fool's errand. Instead you have to consider what the reasonable metrics for success are and then see what actions were taken (in context) and whether they could have reasonably been expected to be better. Not everybody will care about each metric the same and many people will even care about none of them at all, thinking the entire issue unimportant, but if the performance is poor and actions ill conceived and contradictory on pretty much all of them? Yeah then we can say they did a poor job. A question of whether that matters in terms of votes is only vaguely related.

 No.8211

>>8206
My initial response to OP was basically that I'm not sure.  If Trump did a bad job on some standard irrelevant to votes, it doesn't matter much.

 No.8046[Reply]

We have a new President who cares if i and people i care about live or die and even if we live well or suffer.

AND a preliminary statement i heard has 5 Justices including new Kavanaugh stating that the ACA's stricken mandate is severable and the rest will stand.

This lifts a major burden because people who work can get cheap medical now and on public minimum-standard-of-care i can get all the holes i need drilled and filled and before ACA neither of these things were true and i'm dancing in the streets not because anyone lost but because i and many others get to be a cared-for firstworld person and not a decaying animal.  This was a very real threat to my world on every level.  

What good thing do recent events mean to you?

Those who are unhappy, im sorry for your loss but this thread is only for positive things.  You will also be cared for and you can take ypur laments to your /townhall where the denizens of this site deem they belong.

Now.  Whos a silly pony?  Im a silly pony.  Youre a silly pony.  Whos a silly pony APPLEJACK la la la

happy things please.  silly ponies
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 No.8168

>>8101
You do know the rules do not restrain us from expressing such arbitrary concepts on which i personally rely to attempt communication.

Im glad you survive, animal with adjective acquaintance.

 No.8171

>>8168
Speaking of which, OP is not $adjective $animal.  You are somehow special.

 No.8176

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>>8171

Animals are far too worthy for op.  Perhaps op can be a nice bit of grass or a mold.  Grandiose perhaps but i do aspire.

 No.8107[Reply]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVjWUCIbAc&t=6677
>Maybe you get a higher good when there is an opposition between good and evil.
>Maybe the good you get when good and evil are both possibilities is a higher good than the good you get with just good.
Any thoughts on this?
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 No.8137

This might be unfair, I suppose, but given that Peterson is somebody with a reputation for being misleading to the point of maybe outright lying and/or trolling, what makes his opinions on an ancient philosophical debate that's never been even close to solved relevant?

 No.8142

>>8137
I'm not sure I'd agree with characterising it as "never been even close to solved". The solution is obvious and has been standing for thousands of years ever since Epicurus and it's the one in the last line here: >>8121 (more or less, some form of "evil does not exist" is the other option). What hasn't been solved is the problem of finwangjangling the logic to successfully arrive at an answer fully in line with the preferences of folks who really want their omnigod, but that one will never see a solution. The logic is simply too straightforward to do anything but sow rhetorical confusion and hope to sneak a shoddy logical element through under its cover. Which, honestly, sounds exactly like Peterson's MO so there's the connection I guess.

 No.8167

>>8107
Pretty sure if a greater good tramples a lesser good, the decider might be evil.

 No.8157[Reply]

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The Militia Acts of 1792 required every free able-bodied male citizen of fighting age (with certain exceptions) to equip himself with a musket or rifle and ammo.

Should Congress again exercise its authority (under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 16) to require free able-bodied citizens of fighting age to arm themselves?  
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 No.8164

>>8162
>not much of the US military is dedicated to direct defense again invasion of the homeland
The purpose then is to make invaders fight apartment complex to apartment complex to earn the conquest of America.  (I suppose the law would also have to require that landlords allow renters to keep weapons.)

>[if] Congress has the authority to arm disabled persons, then they can included too, to the extent that their disabilities allow.
OK.

The armed forces of another nation overtaking the largest military power in the world to land on American soil and subdue the population by force seems...a remote threat.  Never, of course, impossible, but I don't feel strongly for the need for a militia based on what I know so far.  True, I'm not privileged to the plans of competitor nations.

 No.8165

Isn't it an explicit violation of the 1st Amendment both in the letter of the law and in the spirit of the law to force religiously active Americans against their will to participate in either killing or preparation for killing when they view all that as inherently immoral?

 No.8166

>>8157
Thats a half question.

That was a standing militia that could be called to arms under military discipline.

So a Yes must also include this term.  Does it, in your view?

 No.7376[Reply]

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What should happen to infants, toddlers, and other kids who show up at the U.S. and Mexico border?

Is it ethically just as well as practical to punish them along with their parents if it turns out that their refugee statuses are invalid?

What if they show up unaccompanied, with that possibly changing matters?

What if they show up needing medical treatment or otherwise being in a state in which merely leaving them alone is questionable?
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 No.8154

>>8149

Inflation is the result of printing more money, not from people raising prices for things.

Which isn't to say people won't raise prices, that just seems important to clarify.

 No.8155

>>8154
Isn't it technically the result of there being more money in circulation, rather than a straight up printing of more money? Giving it to people who will actually spend it instead of hoarding it does seem like it would raise the inflation somewhat. It's a different question as to whether this tradeoff is worth it (I'd say yes), but some inflation should actually be expected. I estimate not enough of it to offset the gains the minimum wage workers would personally see from getting a higher pay, but it's a different question yet again.

 No.8159

>>8154
>>8155

I guess the question becomes: Where is the extra money for the minimum wage increase coming from? I would say the idea answer would be it's coming from the scrooge-mcduck style hoards of money that the higher-up employers hoard away, but realistically speaking, that's not going to be the first choice of said scrooge-mcducks.

I think the bigger problem is the shareholder mindset of entitlement to unlimited growth. It's an absurd expectation, one that actually isn't physically possible on the macro level, and yet it's expected, and there's legal consequences to not following through on that. The natural consequence is that companies squeeze and squeeze until they implode, and one of the ways they squeeze is to get as close to reduce wages.

It's all absurd, but those who buy into the absurdity have all the power, so here we are.

 No.7597[Reply]

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Every election at least one person will bring up the idea of Democracy.  America, of course, is not a Democracy, it's a Republic.  There were legacy reasons for America not electing the President directly -- difficulty of tabulating a popular vote, belief that electors or state legislatures should use discretion, compromises between large and small states required to form the union, but now it seems that the most relevant remaining argument is that land surrounding a person should have sway in elections, or put another way rural areas should not be held hostage to population centers.  Is this a good political argument for Republican Presidential elections?  Is there a better one I'm missing?  Or do you favor Democracy instead?
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 No.8087

>>7864
Land may not be legitimately owned as property?  That seems to be an uncommon view, although I suppose it is somewhat affirmed by the existence of some public land.  I doubt I quite understand, though.

 No.8089

>>8087
I think that they mean that most developed nations were build on conquest/colonization, and thus was originally stolen from the indigenous peoples of that land. This is certainly true of much of North America, and many of the UK's territories.

 No.8092

>>8089
I think it is true that if you traced the lineage of title (or the idea of ownership or tribal/clan occupation before formal titles) of any given acre of land, excepting remote wastelands, you would find at least one transfer of ownership due to armed conquest or dominating coercion.  If titles must be clean from the first claim to the last, most ownership is problematic.

 No.7395[Reply]

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A while ago, there was controversy related to the posting of signs that read "It's okay to be white".  At the time, I was completely baffled by accusations that sign was racist.  But now I have a theory.  Were those who were offended by the signs employing an interpretive principle such as expressio unius est exclusio alterius to read the signs as suggesting that it's not okay to be non-white?  E.g., would a message like pic related be considered by them to be inoffensive?

(I assume that most people who found the signs to be innocuous interpreted them simply as a rejection of anti-white claims such as "All white people are racist by virtue of being white" or "White people alive today are guilty for slavery imposed by earlier generations of white people".)
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 No.8037

>>7895
Yep, it's the thing I'm talking about is a wider phenomenon which inclues it. It's actually pretty much this in fact: >>8033

>>8016
I don't think you read the "no parking" example right. The hours it's pointing to are in the daytime, nighttime is the time it's not mentioning. But anyway, given that I'm explicitly not arguing how things should be but how they are, the mismatch with your explicitly saying you're not arguing how things are but how things should be kind of leaves no point in a discussion. It's literally perfect complements. There's plenty I'd disagree with anyway in what you wrote in this section, but since we're again seeing the explosion of ><><><>< here I think that's a good reason to cut it there in the interest of nipping it in the bud. If you want me to respond to it anyway, please try to narrow it down to some fragment or otherwise collate it somehow. Instead, onto the examples.

>symbols

The point of asking you about the symbols was to establish whether you completely reject using context to inform your readings or not. It seems now we agree after all that the context is important for the reading of the message, even if you focused on "it's fine" vs "it's not". Okay, so what makes symbols special where they get to have that but text doesn't, with the text requiring the use of literal reading only? What of text in another language? Imagine a local Chinese mafia is using these symbols: 鸡块. Do you consider a guy more likely to be one such triad when you see he has those symbols tattooed? Should we start to discard such information once we learn that these symbols are actually legitimately text, text whose literal reading isn't "triad member" but "chicken nugget"?

>autodestruct

What's the hypocrisy that the sign has shown in its opponents? I don't see it. Interpreting things in the worst possible light (regardless of whether that's actually what happened or not, since it's a side discussion of its own) isn't hypocrisy? As for your example of ice cream rage guy, my answer is "it depends". Why is the guy punchy? Some possibilities:
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 No.8052

>>8032
>Someone will always be offended by something. I don't think it's realistic to idiot proof every single thing you say.
Here's a good example of how to clarify to avoid misinterpretations:

https://youtu.be/tYLZL4GZVbA?t=1301
(from 21:41 to 22:33)

Notice that he specifically disclaims implications that people might otherwise infer from his statement.

 No.8058

>>8033
>It's true that it's impractical to ward off every possible misinterpretation.  But if you realize that a large percentage of people might misinterpret your message, it's probably best to clarify it.

Yes, this is utterly correct.

Seconding in the strongest possible sense.

Suppose I walk up to a place with a large sign that says "The Rapists Here" and ask what the hell is going on only for somebody to say "This is a psychological counseling center, with our message meant to be 'Therapists Here'.". It's completely right to call them out and tell them that they should think about the consequences of their actions. Give reasonable criticism.

 No.7506[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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I bet I'm right.

https://www.270towin.com/
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 No.8028

>>7922
>I think it's difficult

Yeah, I can see that it's difficult.  Getting rights for black people has always been difficult.  It's like 200+ years of difficulty over here.

>>7931

Yeah, unfortunately we can't really police (pun intended) who shows up to a protest, and people of all walks will gladly take advantage of the chaos to do whatever thye feel like.  In a sense I'm actually opposed to protesting, I just feel like it hurts a movement more than it helps.  That's a whole different topic, though.

>>7937
>You can't just go to the 1/3 to 1/10 of Americans that are bigots and say "Fuck off!" and expect that that's the end of that

Certainly not, no.  Telling them that we disagree is merely the first step.  It's after that when we have to try to wrestle power away from them.

 No.8029

>>8028
Eh, I think you can at least police your own to some extent, even with the most simple of actions just condemning the violence, and of course physically stopping, documenting, reporting,  all go a ways to help.
As is,  it seems like nothing is being done.

I don't disagree with you in regards to the effect of protests. I don't think they typically build much support. Though they might still work well at lest for getting publicity from media types.
The people you're going to interact with, though, aren't likely to be swayed and are more likely I think to become bitter to your cause

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>>7944
>Any more than you'd be happy with me giving you a stick of cheese that's 25% mold and going "eat this".
Roquefort has entered the chat.

 No.7630[Reply]

In one Michigan county, it was allegedly discovered that the counting software was miscounted some Trump votes as Biden counts.

They recounted the votes by hand and found that about 6,000 votes were miscounted by the software for that county.

47 other counties in Michigan use the same counting software, meaning there were potentially 200,000 miscounted votes in Michigan, which would flip the state.

If the software is used in other states, then those ballots will also need to be recounted, and could likely flip those states which are only Biden by a few tens of thousands of votes.

However, there are, understandably, many doubts about these claims, and it is highly likely that any ballots counted with this software will be recounted by hand, which will reveal if in fact there had been a software issue.

There have also been incidents of counting areas being blocked from the view of the count auditing witnesses in some areas, for reasons unknown.

It's looking like the 2000 election all over again (where Gore was called the winner for an entire month before the recount discovered Bush had won Florida), except on a much larger scale with many more states.

So even if Biden is the real winner of the election, Trump is going to push hard for hand recounts, and the election results won't be official until those are finished.

 No.7631

This is probably a dumb question, but from what I understand, what really matters is the voting of electors on Dec. 14.  Do electors have to vote based on vote counts?  How does it work if votes are not satisfactorily counted by then?

 No.7632

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>>7630
>what really matters is the voting of electors on Dec. 14.
Yes.

>>7631
>Do electors have to vote based on vote counts?
Depends on the state.  In Chiafalo v. Washington (2020), the Supreme Court held that "A State may enforce an elector's pledge to support his party's nominee—and the state voters' choice—for President".
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/19-465_i425.pdf

>How does it work if votes are not satisfactorily counted by then?
Again, varies by state.

 No.7633

Trump is going to try and delay the inevitable, no doubt. But Biden's lead is looking to be so big I'm not sure it will matter. It's being reported that those around Trump are trying to make him aware of this.

That said >>7539 can wait until January 20th to eat his MAGA hat.

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"Biden's Proposed Bipartisan Commission on Court Reform Could be a Hopeful Sign for Opponents of Court-Packing"
https://reason.com/2020/10/22/bidens-proposed-bipartisan-commission-on-court-reform-could-be-a-hopeful-sign-for-opponent-of-court-packing/
https://reason.com/2020/10/22/joe-biden-would-create-a-bipartisan-commission-to-figure-out-whether-he-should-pack-the-supreme-court/
>... this new promise to create a "national commission" seems mostly like a way to make the question go away. It's a tried and true political strategy: punt a controversial issue to a panel of supposed experts to make it look like you're doing something. As a longtime creature of the U.S. Senate—which isn't called the "world's most deliberative body" for nothing—Biden understands the value of doing nothing while looking like you might do something someday.
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 No.7502

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>>7501
Well, then rather than calling it "Supreme Court", you should call it "Supreme Legislature".  And I would disagree with a doubly indirect method of altering the fundamental fabric of the Republic.  Such alterations should need to be approved either directly by the people or via only one layer of indirection (the people's elected representatives).

 No.7503

>>7502

Perhaps, sure.  My reasoning here is that the actual Legistlative branch is a bit more open to minorities, as was mentioned, and while I think minorities should have an important position in law making, they won't necessarily have a complete knowledge of law history.

This third branch, regardless of what we call it, should be one that does absolutely require a healthy background in law and law history, for the purpose of determining exactly what was meant and intended not just by our constitution but by any laws enacted since then, such that they'll be able to write down and set precedents based on this.

I would say this is most similar to what we currently call the Supreme Court, but not necessarily the same thing.

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>>7503
Although major Constitutional rulings get the most press, a lot of the Supreme Court's work is ordinary judicial work interpreting federal statutes.  (E.g., Liu v. Securities and Exchange Commission (2020) dealt with 15 U.S. Code §78u(d)(5).  The Court held: "A disgorgement award that does not exceed a wrongdoer’s net profits and is awarded for victims is equitable relief permissible under §78u(d)(5)".)  In such cases, Congress can effectively overrule the Supreme Court (but only prospectively, not retrospectively) by altering the statute at question.  And furthermore, the questions are often rather technical, and don't really involve any consideration for minorities.  What is desirable there is simply highly competent jurists.  So I'd say that we still need an institution like the Supreme Court to resolve splits between federal circuits and especially splits between state supreme courts and co-territorial federal circuits.

 No.7480[Reply]

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So I work many jobs (in the United States), but one of them  is related to construction and maintenance of homes and businesses.  I don't want to give details, but it's unusually active, especially for winter.

The reason this is on my mind is because I expected recession, to some degree, and at least short term relaxed demand.  Buying houses requires either ready money or the ability to convince a lender that money is coming in the future.  My question: with so many unemployed and reports of businesses closing for good, lost income, are we entering a boom time?  And if so, how does that work?

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-2020-broke-the-housing-market-inventory-could-run-out-2020-9

 No.7484

The housing market is particularly explosive right now because of the riots, lockdowns, and laws completely destroying states like New York, causing people to move out of the state to safer and more lenient states.

But for the economy as a whole, it's already booming back from covid lock downs, and will continue to do so if Trump wins, but economists are saying the value of the dollar is ready to plummet if Biden wins because of his economic policies.

So the housing market is going to be pretty good for some time, but the economy as a whole depends on the election.

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Was thinking about the sex education thread, and in the back of my mind there's the amy coney barrett hearing. Plus any time lgbt people gain rights and equality. There's this thing that is often used in opposition to progress or used to justify regressive policy.

Freedom of Religion

But what should be permissible under freedom of religion that would not be permissible otherwise?

Should a private company be able to deny legally mandated Healthcare benefits to its employees?

Should a private company be allowed to discriminate against a protected class?

Should parents be allowed to exclude their child from parts of education?

Should a government employee be allowed to not perform critical functions of their job?

Should a tax exempt church be able promote and push on its members a political ideology? Or use the church's money to donate to political causes?
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 No.7350

To me freedom of religion implies that you can follow and practice any religion freely, but you shoud still abide by the laws society put in place. Religion does not make you exempt from the law.
On the flipside, separation of Church and State should imply that laws shouldn't be made to single out and attack a religion.

> Should a private company be able to deny legally mandated Healthcare benefits to its employees?
No. If it's set in the laws that certain rights are given to your employees, religion doesn't make you exempt from this. If someone calls inspection, they have every right to penalize you.

> Should a private company be allowed to discriminate against a protected class?
I suppose it depends what the laws say. I think it should be morally rerehensible, but not really a legal matter what people you deny service to.

> Should parents be allowed to exclude their child from parts of education?
Around here, kids are by law forced to take schooling until they're 18. And even in private schooling and homeschooling, there's an education plan that sets requirements on what knowledge needs to be acquired.
So it is against the law to deny your kids set education standards.

> Should a government employee be allowed to not perform critical functions of their job?
Religion should not be a reason to not perform your duties as an employee. But this is up to the employer, I suppose.
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>>7339
>Can my church be tax exempt too?

I believe so, if you do the right paperwork.

>Or should we take tax exemption status from religious organizations?

As they seem to be grouped with other non-profits, I don't have a strong opinion, I don't think.

 No.7461

The boundary, in my experience, is best outlined by saying this: You can't force someone to do something they believe to be morally wrong, with a few exceptions like repayment of debts, punishment for crimes, fair compensation in a trade, and the fulfilling of contractual obligations.

Using that basic outline, here are my answers:

>Should a private company be able to deny legally mandated Healthcare benefits to its employees?
No. That falls under fair compensation in a trade.

>Should a private company be allowed to discriminate against a protected class?
Yes. No classes should be protected, and businesses should have the right to choose who they do business with. If they wish to miss out on profits because of bigotry, that's entirely on them.

>Should parents be allowed to exclude their child from parts of education?
Depends. Parents should have almost total control over what their child learn in education, however, preventing their children from getting an education altogether could and probably should be considered child abuse to some degree.

>Should a government employee be allowed to not perform critical functions of their job?
Yes, absolutely. Every individual should be allowed to make their own moral judgements about what parts of their job they will do. If the employer wants to fire or replace an individual that will not do that part of their job, then that is also valid.
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 No.7444

>>7442
A nation at least has obligation to its citizens.
I don't think the same ought to apply to those of other nations. At least as far as things like open boarders go.

Half-hearted responses get half hearted results.
If we're going to save the world, we ought to simply invade their countries and fix them ourselves.

>I'd like to imagine that nothing is keeping these people from simply not participating if they think it's a bad situation.  The same would go for crossing our borders.
I'd say you underestimate the human inclination to assuming the grass is greener on the other side.
Especially when basically everyone tells you it's the land of opportunity, where anyone can make it big. I'm personally skeptical such presumptions are true, living here.

>Every participant in the free market uplifts the free market.  
I am not so convinced. Any market when flooded with a good will end up inevitably losing value on that good.
Turning the job market from where the seller has the greater power, to where the buyer has the greater power, just means lower pay and worse conditions for those of us who are not so fortunate as to sit on the higher racks.

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 No.7445

>>7444

Yeah, those are fair criticisms, I don't really have any rebuttal for most of those.

>I am not so convinced. Any market when flooded with a good will end up inevitably losing value on that good.

To some extent that one is still good, though.  Like in theory the ideal is that all goods have no value.  We want to reach that point of post-scarcity.  This, of course, would require further adjustments to how our society functions, but in the long term and with proper support, floods of goods is good.

 No.7446

>>7445
I'm not so sure. There's use in value. I can't imagine the world where nothing is valued. One where basic survival needs are unvalued, sure, but everything?
How a society like that would even function on the basic level without turning to some serious eccentricity I cannot fathom.

But, in any case; people are at least one thing we shouldn't have as without value.

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