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[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@haston159357 But since love is an act of free will, this necessarily entails that man can will to do other than love. And man brought evil into creation when decided to love anything more than God.

[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@haston159357 One of the big reasons is to allow for humanity to be capable of love. To love is to will the good of the other, the key phrase being "to will". God (who in the Christian view is goodness itself) made us because he loves us and so that we may love him.

[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@SableOnyxIV @JadeAtrophis St. Thomas is not saying here that the sinner's dignity is totally eliminated.

[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@AyySkatey @Wendigoon8 I'm not even defending the notion that A.I art is really art, I think the human element is very important. I just think a lot of people who dislike it have very strange ideas about art that don't hold up.

[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@AyySkatey @Wendigoon8 If you saw an amazing piece of art that really spoke to you, and then I came along and told you it was made by A.I when it wasn't and you believed me, causing you to no longer feel those emotions, is it still good art? Because emotion and passion is not part of the art itself.

[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@AyySkatey @Wendigoon8 "Real artists" who can't create anything better than what a soulless machine can.

[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@geniusliberator @TDisputations @Rumble056 You may as well ask why it's permissible for a parent to have children if there's a chance the child will make choices that lead their own misery. Sure, God could've never made man so as to avoid suffering. But that would also be a world where man could never love or be loved.

[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@boreddeleuzian @JadeAtrophis If common sympathy is what determines what actions we ought to take, then there's no reason a psychopath who feels no sympathy for others ought not to rape and murder as much as he likes.

[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@LonesomeWest If a fetus can go from a state of not having any mental state to having one (which you admit is your view), why can the same not hold true for an unconscious man? Clearly having a prior mental state is not necessary.

[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@LonesomeWest So you think if all mental activity ceases for even an instant then the person dies and a new one is created?

[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@LonesomeWest @alcadizzar19 @memeticsisyphus If they did disappear temporarily would it be acceptable to kill them?

[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@WilliamCicciEsq @ruallsion Your argument leads to the conclusion that rape is acceptable if it results in the birth of a child. IVF is wrong because it runs contrary to the unitive end of sex even if it fulfils the procreative end. Also Church doctrine is not just the opinions of random clerics.

[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@uncle_deluge P1) All racists are racist either contingently or necessarily.
P2) No one we see is racist necessarily, but receives his racism from another.
P3) But there cannot be an infinite chain of contingent racism.
C) Therefore there is a necessary, Prime Racist.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.

https://t.co/EuKgGWBRhS

[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@Tysenberg @OVTweetmarck "Yes we murdered our own child, but we were really sad about it :'("

Zero sympathy. Simply don't murder the child.

[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@DoomerCoomer "English is so powerful that I'm forced to speak it."

[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

Old Bombadillo continues to be the ultimate midwit filter.

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

WHY I THINK TOM BOMBADIL IS EVIL
Some of this diatribe comes from the awesome article by km_515 titled "Oldest and Fatherless".

So first off, I make no secret of disliking Tom Bombadil. He's an unwelcome (to me) deus ex machina that comes out of nowhere. He sings and rhymes which to me is always the worst part of Tolkien's work. He's so far and jolly and happy and his wife is adorable.

But consider: Bombadil CLAIMS to have lived in the Old Forest since the earliest days of the First Age. Since before the hobbits arrived. Yet Elrond knows almost nothing of him.

Bombadil loves food, and songs, and rhymes, and booze, and partying. He lives RIGHT NEXT TO THE SHIRE. It's impossible to believe he wouldn't be legendary among the hobbits. They'd be heading over to Tom's place every weekend. Merry knows all Buckland's history. He's been in the Old Forest lots of times. He's never heard of Bombadil. The hobbits are afraid of the Old Forest - to them, it's not the home of a happy fatty who shares his bounty.

If Bombadil has lived in the Old Forest since the First Age, then it would appear he has not appeared to a single hobbit ever before in the 1400 years since they arrived in the Shire.
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[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@betostaxes @JadeAtrophis The underlying isssue is that many (which I suspect includes you) do not view the unborn as people. No amount of throwing money at people who murder their children will change that.

[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@BeanerOfSnow @memeticsisyphus Except those rules could logically be another way to how they are. So they need an explanation outside of themselves for why they are the way they are.

[Pango @BizarrePangolin]

@MorphingReality @memeticsisyphus Still going to pretend?
https://t.co/fRfRAupI4H

[Morphing Reality @MorphingReality]

@RJtheCableGuy @jeremykauffman If he was hit in the midsection by a 4000 pound car he wouldn’t be on his feet