Alex Strait

Father, husband, software engineer, local ai specialist, musician, gamer, writer, American deist. 🇺🇸

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Enlightenment stands in tyranny's way.

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@robalso @MikeWingerii Even predicting a negative response still doesn't support your argument so why say it at all? It might even be a distraction because others may wonder why you see the need to disclaim to begin with. Like me starting this tweet with, "people will hate this, but..." it's rhetoric.

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@robalso @MikeWingerii A person with just a bad idea could say the same thing: "people think it's bad? That's evidence I'm right. People think it's stupid? That's also evidence I'm right."

At the end of the day you still need substance, so pointing out your opposition just kicks the can down the road.

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@MikeWingerii The freedom of speech you are exercising right now started out as unpopular. Then, after painstaking vigilance and sacrifice, it found itself enshrined in our culture and codifed into our laws. If your book can't follow the same path maybe there's something wrong with your book.

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@MikeWingerii Pride is one of the states of mind people can have. It can be reasonable or not. Holding an unreasonably elevated image of one's self *can* be a pitfall, but it can also just be an innocent, blind optimism that fuels personal growth and fosters community.

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After 10 years the MAGA reality TV show has not been renewed for another season. 🎉

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@LyingWrongAgain HADD could also be our ability, as beings of intent, to recognize agency in our environment. The taller order is conclusively demonstrating *any* phenomena as completely unintentional. We *are* agents, but we don't know that non-agency is real. That always requires an assumption.

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@LyingWrongAgain Intention is comprehensible mainly because we do it. You intend to wake up around a certain time tomorrow? That's an easy comparison whereas anything in our world we deem unintentional only *seems* that way. We can't personally demonstrate unintentionallity like we can intention.

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@LyingWrongAgain Why frame both as equally reasonable, though? Intention behind the change from one to the other makes more sense than unintention. The former is volition which is easy to imagine and hard to explain, but the latter is incomprehensible bordering on the absurd. Intention wins out.

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@AlexDuncanTX Wrong. Halloween *confronts* death.

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@ThePrimeagen There is no pill. There is only push and pull.

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@darwintojesus It's a very complex debate that involves identifying what life actually is, when it begins and why that matters morally. It goes into consciousness and personhood both complex, unresolved debates. It's also high stakes and polarizing which adds to the complexity even moreso.

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@MentallyNathan The burden of proof isn't a universal because not all knowledge is derived empirically. Some can be arrived at without even making a claim. For example I know I am real. It's not a claim it's just a rational conclusion I that can come to. The reality of God is also like that.

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Stay safe out there!

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@MikeWingerii The hate of the love of money is the root of all kinds of good.

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@Meldougherty77 The Bible's silence on abortion is deafening because the wider debate has always been deeply polarizing and unsettled. That historical backdrop matters a lot. The Bible writer's silence means it's left to ones God-given conscience rather than intervention from the government.

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@IkeNotabot @SlothNamedYogur @maklelan You just kicked the can from the interpretation of murder to the word innocent which is, again, at the discretion of the established law. Who constitutes as an innocent party isn't universal. For example in the OT you can avenge a kinsman even if the death was purely incidental.

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@IkeNotabot @SlothNamedYogur @maklelan Correct, if they did indeed make it legal. Now when you define murder as the shedding of innocent blood then yes it would be, and was murder. But to interchange the definitions and ignore context would be commiting equivocation.

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@IkeNotabot @SlothNamedYogur @maklelan Murder is when the established government doesn't sanction the killing. That's all it means in the context of law which is what the OT is.

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@SlothNamedYogur @maklelan The interpretation is contingent on your metaphysical stance. Some are are materialist and say it's the only the body that counts (like stitching a literal doll) and others see a moment God "breathes" life into the material vessel which could happen later like the quickening.