The woke left has not. Look at the Map advocacy. Multiple breadtubers(vaush, contrapoints) have defended pedophilia and said the child adult distinction is a false power dynamic. Nevermind drag time story hour.
Do you have references for those accusations? I’ve heard this before about Vaush, but haven’t seen any evidence of the sort after searching for quite a while... I haven’t heard that about contrapoints.
Quotation needed. Outside of religious circles there's very little debate about this. Scientific consensus is that fetal viability is considered to begin at 23 or 24 weeks gestational age. That's long after the embryo stage.
Just to make communication easier; are you aware that there's a difference between embryo and fetus?
> You also don't have any definition with a clear line when this switch from non human to human happens.
I never proposed that a embryo is not human. But we can talk about the line dividing persons from non-persons, if you like.
Many (including myself) consider abortion to be murder even before fetal viability.
> Outside of religious circles there's very little debate about this
Do you live in the US or Canada? Almost every other country, including almost all of highly secular Western Europe, bans abortion before at no later than 17 weeks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_law).
It's not just about now. Who knows what happens in the future.
Eastern Europe was fractured and weak following World War One. A huge invasion still came twenty years later. This is a game played out in centuries, not 20 years. The future is unpredictable. Russians leaders plan in that world.
If there was a kingdom hundreds of years ago, and every printing press was owned by a church that did not allow itself to be criticized, no one in their right mind would say that kingdom had free speech.
That is the current situation in the west with social media and the woke religion.
Of course Lewis isn't explicitly humanist - Humanism is a "worldly" movement, and we can't let the "evil", "fallen" world take credit for anything good. I would be more inclined to buy Lewis' depiction of the Christian god if it didn't clash with all of Christian history up until, serendipitously, humanistic principles gained traction.
As someone who has one, only minor traffic violations. And only in certain places (cops not in the northeast generally are not unionized and dont honor them. ) It's not a get out of jail free card like it's being described.
Rules are useless without a policemen capable of enforcing them. They are at best suggestions, if not simple propoganda for domestic consumption. This is made even worse when the supposed policemen break their own rules as well (Kosovo). I say all this as an ardent American nationalist.
States have always existed in a state of anarchy and act as you would expect them.
Thanks for the interesting reading! I took a dive and it turns out Operation Starvation was remarkably effective and arguably should have been used earlier [0]. Also it didn't actually lead to any deaths from starvation [1]. Here are some excerpts.
"After the war, the commander of Japan's minesweeping operations noted that he thought this mining campaign could have directly led to the defeat of Japan on its own had it begun earlier. Similar conclusions were reached by American analysts who reported in July 1946 in the United States Strategic Bombing Survey that it would have been more efficient to combine the United States' effective anti-shipping submarine effort with land- and carrier-based air power to strike harder against merchant shipping and begin a more extensive aerial mining campaign earlier in the war. This would have starved Japan, forcing an earlier end to the war." [0]&[2]
"While some of the main actors (the UK, the US, Germany, and Japan) escaped famine..." [1]
"In Britain, Germany, and Japan, rationing was effective; even though food availability was sharply reduced almost everywhere, few literally died of hunger. Britain and Germany managed to maintain food consumption per capita at about 3,000 calories throughout the war. In Japan consumption fell from a norm of 2,000 calories per capita before Pearl Harbor to 1,900 calories in 1944, plummeting to 1,680 calories by the war’s end." [1]
