I appreciate your personal story and I understand that there are lots of different personal stories, along with countless very difficult situations of every variety. For as many stars in the sky, is the possibility to be wrong in a question such as this.
It's not my argument to prove you or anyone wrong for that matter. My argument sets aside my own belief that every human life has value, no matter what stage in human life that may be.
It is no doubt, that within you, you know what is right for you on an important subject with life and death literally the subject.
What I'm also able to do, is to recognize that to many, concerning the very same and exact situation, the opposite belief is true. No less sure, no less heartfelt, and with every right to also hold a stout opinion on the very same important subject of life and death.
Where I personally differ from many on both sides, is that I recognize that to universally allow for one, literally denies the right of the other.
This is the reason that we have the 10th amendment.
This is the reason that the Supreme court rightly returned this very difficult issue back to where it should have always been.
Those that held the belief that all life has value, whether liked by many or not, accomplished what took decades to accomplish the right, and legal way.
If, and this is a very big If, we as a Nation cannot accept the only peaceful way to make change. Change that is equally as important on both sides of the issue. The only recourse left will be violence.
This is where we are, we've been here before, History has seen this very thing play out multiple, multiple times on an innumerable number of subjects, it always leads to the same conclusion.
If we truly want a peaceful solution, and I most certainly do! We have to accept that in some cases a compromise has to be made. the 10th amendment miraculously provides that.
For your personal story, you chose to, and had every right to, move to a place that you felt was right for you. Will you give that same right to everybody else?
That is the question.
That is my argument.
Many people take questions as an attack on their beliefs for various reasons, not excluding their own uncertainty in their faith, whatever that may be.
Christainity has also been under assault from pretty much every angle, so if you're questioning someone who may not know your intentions, it might be seen as an attack.
@BuenoForMiami The Accurate Translation: The original Hebrew phrase is lo tirtsah. The verb ratsakh specifically means to commit unlawful homicide or murder, rather than a general termination of life.
@ClaireFosterPHD When every action you stated is in itself done in defiance against another, how did you come to the conclusion that it is not you, who hates the other?
Well to be clear, it says that the pain will be increased, not added from zero.
I personally think that it has to do with no longer being in the garden, where there was no pain, no hunger, and life was without significant effort. This can be the reason for God turning to Adam and saying that his life would be hard, working the soil for his living.
Interesting comment, seemingly out of the blue, what brought it about?
“Ask yourself a simple question. Why is almost every celebrity on the same side?
“Actors, singers, late-night hosts, award-show presenters. Thousands of people with different backgrounds, different lives, different temperaments. And somehow, on every major issue, they land on the exact same opinion, at the exact same moment, with the exact same hashtags. Free minds don't behave like that. An ecosystem does.
“Now ask a second question. Elon Musk is landing rockets on their own tails. He's bringing internet to villages that never had a phone line. He's building cars that drive themselves and implants that let paralyzed people move a cursor with their thoughts. Artists are supposed to be the ones who dream about the future. Here is a man actually building it. How many of them stand next to him? A handful. Why?
“Because Hollywood is not a free market of talent. It's a royal court.
“A young actor doesn't make it because he's good. Hundreds are good. He makes it because someone lets him in: an agent, a casting director, a producer, a studio, an awards committee. Every step is a gate, and every gate has a keeper. When your whole career depends on a few rooms, you learn very quickly what can be said in those rooms and what can't.
“This is how it works. First you stay silent. Then you nod. Then you repeat. Then you believe. Compromise never arrives all at once. It arrives one dinner, one role, one red carpet at a time. And once you've given up enough, you need the system to stay in place, because the system is the only thing that makes the sacrifice worth it.
“Want to see the whole mechanism in a single story? For decades, one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood was the subject of accusations from dozens of women, and much of the industry treated it as an open secret. A host even joked about it at an Oscar nominations announcement, and the room laughed. Speaking up seriously meant losing everything. When the truth finally broke, the same industry dressed in black and applauded its own courage. Silence while it pays. Virtue once it's safe. That's the system.
“And that's the real lie. Not that these people are monsters. Most aren't. The lie is calling it courage. Real courage costs you something. Saying what every room in town already applauds costs nothing. Saying the opposite is what costs. That's why so few artists stand with Elon. Not because they've studied his ideas and rejected them, but because standing there is a career risk they can't afford.
“Look at what happened to him when he left the consensus. Advertisers fled. Friends disappeared. Invitations stopped. He could afford it. Almost nobody else can. That tells you exactly how free that world really is.
“So wake up. Stop taking your political cues from people whose paycheck depends on agreeing. A celebrity endorsement is not an argument. It's a loyalty signal. Your vote, your convictions, your children's future: don't outsource them to people who are paid to recite lines someone else wrote.
“The people who build the future rarely get applause from the people who perform it.
“Think for yourself. It's the most American thing you can do.”
—Brivael Le Pogam (@brivael), translated from French
Europeans as a whole haven't the ability to recognize what freedom is, because if that reality, they are easily mislead and have a long history of the same.
Of course they have no idea what MAGA is.
@ML3democrats I don't think that Europeans as a whole know anything at all about what MAGA is, nor do they have the ability to ever understand what freedom is.