In 2019 there were ~47,500 deaths by suicide in the USA. Men are 2-4 times more likely than women to successfully commit suicide, so let's drop that by a fourth to 35,625 deaths. There were ~61,000,000 married couples in the USA during this time.
This means, at the absolute most 0.06% of married men commit suicide each year. And this is with extremely favorable and certainly inaccurate interpretation of the numbers in your favor.
So an institution with a 99.94% chance of NOT causing you to commit suicide is a total failure and should be abandoned BECAUSE of the 0.06% chance it may lead you to commit suicide?
No, you don't. You still appear to hold the bluepill notion that women have some kind of moral agency.
Women have moral agency. To argue otherwise is to argue they can do no wrong. Their moral agency makes them responsible for their actions and behavior. The fact that so many women flee from responsibility doesn't exempt them from it.
80% of women will ADMIT to having rape fantasies, which means 100% actually do. But the trick is they only want to be raped by chad, not you.
I'd be careful about assuming fantasies are accurate representations of people's desires. Fantasies are what you get when you entertain primal instincts without the constraints of morality, exercise of judgement or consideration of consequences. You don't want all your fantasies to manifest in reality and neither do women, for good reason.
This is by design. The Left has crafted their messaging (lies) to appeal to women as one of their main voting blocks.
Women are easily deceived. Without a husband to set a standard, women will vote emotionally. This has been known by Communists and other revolutionaries for ages. The rise of Communism in Russia was preceded by women’s protests and women’s marches. The same goes for the French Revolution. This is nothing new.
We should repeal the 19th and go back to the standard of only allowing property owners to vote, as the founders intended.
I wouldn’t go so far as to call them “vermin”, but they are grievous sinners who are not only unrepentant, but demand others participate in their sin. They need to be forced back into the closet and removed from the public sphere entirely… but that will never happen.
Pre-Islamic Persia wasn’t atheist, they had many religions.
That aside, I never said it wasn’t possible for a nation to prosper without Christianity, but the advancement in the human condition that happened under the rise of Christianity and the formation and flourishing of Western culture over the last millennia simply isn’t comparable to anything that came before.
Our political and justice systems. The magnitude of scientific advancements. The number of people worldwide lifted out of poverty. The obscene degree of luxury people who live in Westen countries experience on a daily basis compared to prior generations. The medical advancements. The space race. Splitting the atom. The advancements in the last 200 years alone are exponentially higher than any other time in human history.
They don't care about China, Russia or Muslim countries. This is being passed to give the Left license to persecute Christians and other "traditional values" folks in countries like the USA, UK and Australia. This is specifically an attack on the West and Western Christian values.
Remember that Christian baker in Colorado who has been sued relentlessly for simply refusing to support homosexuality? They want to do that to anyone who disagrees with the Left. This gives Leftists license to do just that.
You think it would be obvious but, unfortunately, so many people are completely oblivious to the fact that they're being propagandized and that everything they see and hear is being designed with a narrative or agenda behind it.
I never heard of Lizzo until the flute nonsense.
I honestly don't care about her obesity. My problem is with the black celebrity culture that she comes from and exemplifies that promotes envy, jealousy, rebellion, greed, hate, violence and other forms of immorality.
Black culture is a culture of degeneracy, and Lizzo is a black celebrity who embraces and promotes this culture. This is my problem.
Honor, integrity, self-sacrifice, accountability and consequences are all lost concepts in the new world. Hedonism, self-love and self-gratification are the new moral virtues of the new religion.
It used to be that calling someone a liar was an insult worthy of a duel to the death. This is because your word meant something. Nowadays words are cheap and nobody bats an eye to slander and insult others without any justification or reason behind it.
Words were more scarce and more valuable, and the insights of people with experience or insight were greatly valued. Nowadays everyone feels entitled to have their opinions heard, and people feel encouraged or even obligated to have strong opinions about everything whether their opinions are worth anything or not.
Morality was objective under Christianity, then it became relative to tear down Christianity, and now it's purely utilitarian, specifically in respect to the political power of the high priests of the new religion. Morality, meaning, language... everything now serves the new religion. It's truly dystopian.
I think you hit the nail on the head.
Christianity was the bedrock moral foundation for Western civilization going back more than a thousand years, with unprecedented prosperity and advancements for humanity to show for it.
Beginning in the 1800's, a spirit of animosity against the West and against Christianity began to well up, and competing economic and moral ideologies with the explicit goal of overthrowing both the West and Christianity began to gain traction. The most "sticky" of these ideologies was a combination of Marxism and Darwinism.
Marxism challenged the morality of capitalism with an more "compassionate" economic system in communism, while Darwinism allowed people (starting with intellectuals and scientists) to abandon God and adopt a purely materialistic worldview, opening the door to a re-interpretation of morality.
What the forerunners of these ideologies envisioned was a utopian society based on science and rationality where humanity could evolve beyond the constraints of religion and superstition which they believed were holding back humanity and causing so much of the suffering in the world.
Fast forward a hundred years or so, and despite the long list of terrible failures and atrocities caused by these new ideologies, they've continued to evolve and coalesce into a new pseudo-religion/political philosophy with the specific goal of targeting and replacing Christianity and Western political philosophy with an entirely new secular, materialistic moral framework of which politics plays an integral role. In fact, in this new religion, morality itself is defined by the utility of specific actions and behavior in forwarding positive political ends, that is, forwarding it's own political influence.
I’m not sure, but I think a large motivator behind it is the establishment and the Left’s thirst for vengeance against Trump. They want to put him in the ground. They want to isolate him, ridicule him and make him a pariah for daring to trespass on their turf. If possible they want him in prison or dead with his legacy and accomplishments ruined.
I think DeSantis is just the most convenient way to isolate him right now. The moment Trump is out of the picture, they’ll do the same to the next person who stands up to them without bending the knee.
I think DeSantis has potential but time will tell if he’s anti-establishment and good at out-maneuvering them or simply “establishment-lite”.
You're talking about democracy in it's purest, most idealistic form, which nobody ever claimed existed. Arguing that X doesn't exist because it's most pure, idealistic interpretation doesn't exist is nothing but pretentious navel gazing. It's essentially the same argument that communists use to say communism has never been tried.
Yes, democracy exists, in many forms and in many interpretations. Just because none of them achieve the ideal doesn't mean democracy doesn't exist.
While you're correct in principle, climate change IS actually quite easy to falsify. The Leftists narrative just won't allow people to falsify it without being ostracized and persecuted, effectively using fear to silence opposition, same as they do for everything else they promote.
If there's one thing COVID taught us, is people are easily shamed and pressured into obedience when it comes to scientific topics. People have been convinced they're not smart enough to evaluate scientific topics, so that ground has been effectively ceded to the Left.
What you're saying is reasonable. The science is compelling and the patterns hard to deny. Unfortunately nowadays we live in a "post-truth" society where science is little more than a skinsuit worn by those seeking credibility. All of our scientific institutions are fallen to the enemy.
It's also blatantly unconstitutional and violates at least one landmark ruling that have upheld the constitution on these grounds. I hope this goes all the way up to the supreme court and people are punished for this... but I'm not holding my breath.
I don't think there's any reason to believe it's a typo. Given the specificity of the voter-count, I'm assuming it's a row count from a voters table in a database somewhere. It could be a malformed query, but it's all just speculation.
That type of philosophizing is just navel gazing. In reality, anarchy is just as unsustainable as communism. If one person’s freedom encroaches on the freedom of another, then it is detrimental to freedom overall.
In the real world, freedom requires boundaries in order to have any sort of meaningful persistence.
Here we go again. Nazis and Communists are causing trouble again, feuding between themselves as they vie for power. Inevitably it will fall to God-fearing, freedom loving people to put them in their place once again.
Single sex education used to be the standard. It creates a distraction free education environment that is comfortable for men or women to interact with their own kind without sexual tension, and for those looking to abide by Christian morals, a place where there's less temptation. There's no reason for assuming single-sex education is only for people who hate the opposite sex.