Heh heh no what was that about moral subjectivity again!
On 24 Aug, 14:02, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well expressed point Ian. In Bahrain, women have voted more
> conservatively than men since the new constitution. It might even be
> that women will vote for such draconian 'male laws'. I can't get the
> name right, but there's a Taliban in Nigeria (something like Nagwag
> Bozo - though he was a real idiot I knew). The name means 'destroyers
> of education' or somesuch. I might have more time for democracy if I
> didn't have to spend so much time wondering which of my wives should
> enjoy cleaning my toenails tonight with a toothbrush and how many of
> the others I should deign allow the dignity of pleasuring me in order
> they may increase their small chance of entering heaven, where I shall
> reject them in any case for fresh virgin. I used to vote myself, but
> now that uneducated women can it is easier just to send the harem off,
> certain in the knowledge they will do the job for me in order to keep
> the only life of bliss they know. A democracy of fools is perhaps no
> democracy at all. Even our taxes are low, now that you British send
> soldiers over to suppress our hotheads, though your chaps are not as
> cooperative as the Americans when it comes to the profitable
> distribution of our poppy crop. Perhaps you could depress the already
> squalid living standards of their wives and children back in the UK
> further, in order to increase demand for poppy derivatives?
>
> On 24 Aug, 12:55, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > ask the magic conch shell! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MINiYurEsOs
>
> > On Aug 24, 7:44 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>
> > > Okay Ian, Now you are scarring me. Twice I find myself agreeing with
> > > you in one day!
>
> > > Whilst not strictly a pacifist, I do find myself thinking, 'war, what
> > > is it good for?', okay yes I know my history and I myself have
> > > proclimed that I too use violence when I have to.
>
> > > Yet another way must be possible.
>
> > > I find myself in the uneviable position also of haveing to declare my
> > > dislike for your avargae squaddy, belive me I know a lot of them and
> > > have never met a decent one amongst them, and of course this then gets
> > > seen as 'I do not support our troops'. Well in reality I do not
> > > support war, and I think our(UK) goverment are guilty of taking normal
> > > teenagers into the armed forces, letting them serve their time and
> > > turning them back out into civy street without the nesicary
> > > unprograming needed to let them live a life outside of the armed
> > > forces. I blame this soley on the goverment.
>
> > > Ahh what to do what to do?
>
> > > On 24 Aug, 12:36, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > 2009/8/24 Molly Brogan <[email protected]>
>
> > > > > Are you blaming democracy for the passing of this law?
>
> > > > No, I'm:
>
> > > > 1) Highlighting that this supposedly moral mission of bringing
> > > > democracy to
> > > > the Afghan people was worthless, given that the elected government is
> > > > pursuing a similarly repugnant agenda to the Taliban's previous one.
>
> > > > 2) Pondering the notion of absolute truths.
>
> > > > Ian- Hide quoted text -
>
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