I apologise for the distasteful subject, yet it presents a serious problem in moral philosophy, & one that admit of no easy answer for those who judge everything by the category of the deed rather than the virtue & intention of the individual performing it.
Suppose you & your best friend inhabit an unusually barbarous country. Wrongly convicted of stealing a spoon, both of you have your arms amputated & are condemned to spend the next twenty years together in a prison cell.
Your friend is then bitten on the testicles by an exceedingly rare pider whose self-replicating venom attaches itself to his spermatozoa. By a fortunate coincidence, you happen to a medical toxicologist, and are therefore perfectly aware that the only antidote in such cases consists of the repeated administration of the urine obtained from an individual who has previously ingested semen contaminated by the active venom.
The regimen admits of no interruption; it must be administered faithfully thrice daily, without omission, for ten consecutive years, at the conclusion of which the patient is permanently cured. Missing even a single day's treatment, however, results in the most excruciating death ever recorded in the history of medicine.
No other physicians are available. No pharmacies. No women. Your friend, having no hands, is unable to administer the treatment himself. The only means of saving his life is for you to perform fellatio on him thrice daily, swallow the infected semen, urinate into a cup, & have him drink it throughout each day for the next decade.
The question is entirely serious. Have you committed a homosexual act? Have you acted immorally? Or would the moral course be to refuse to save your best friend, & insead allow him to die in the most excruciating possilbe way?
More generally, is the moral character of an act determined principally by its outward form, or by the virtue of the performer, and the intention with which it is performed?
in Gaziantep i called the police after watching a woman flee a vehicle and then get physically dragged back in after being chased down. After i informed them that i did not know the woman they hung up
The shakers are quintessential Americana and integral to the cozier aspects of modernity like brooms working and our garages having immaculate tool cases. If any of Waspdom's peccadillos is beyond reproach it should be them
The Shakers were a Christian sect that advocated for complete celibacy, even after marriage.
Despite this, they lasted for over 250 years. Because they propagated their dysgenic beliefs to children.
Vulgur wave revival energy drink called Nutcracker featuring flavors of the dances with a racist caricature
like Coffee, with a view of the twin towers from a cockpit with a hookah
I can't think of anything great for the Spaniards or Chinese
Rome achieved what man desires, we still marvel at Rome's feats, we envy their world and the west blankets itself in the legacy. Brazil has managed to achieve India's ancient past before the caste crystalized in racial totalitarianism
Brazil achieved what the Roman Empire never achieved. People of different ethnicities living together peacefully as one people with different local cultures. The country is divided into 5 regions and each region has a totally different culture. Every Brazilian has the blood of tribal Indians from the Amazon, African and European. In Brazil, skin color is only the result of chance, because to this day whites have children with blacks and miscegenation continues.
Rome's territorial extent in 117 AD, the maximum, was 6,500,000 km². Brazil's 8,515,000 km².
The language is derived from Latin, it is Portuguese. Before school reforms at the end of the twentieth century, Brazilians frequently studied Latin. Any well-literate Brazilian can naturally understand a text in Latin, at least partially.
I don't even need to go into details of the royal family and lineage because the popular structure of Brazil itself is sufficient.
Had the black plague not lay waste to the entirety of the ecumene the eurasian negroid race of the present would be reading about their arrival, ethnogenesis, and ascent in medieval history class
By the 2030s Scotland will be in population decline with a smaller working age cohort unable to support an increasingly elderly society. Starmer has just announced an immigration policy that is counter to the Scottish interest. And he just does not care.
Given how important social media engagement is in the political class' perception as a pseudo polling, especially with how our gerontocracy is unaware of how foreign the Anglo internet is, it might help if the likes public figures get were viewable
I was born in Boston. I’m addicted to Dunkin Donuts coffee. I’m a Cubs fan by birth & a Yankees fan by marriage. I’m a military spouse. My husband is Italian.
I’m also Hindu. I speak Bangla. I cook North Indian food.
I’m American, and America is for me. Deal with it.
We can look at Freddie and know he isn't one of them, we can look at his lineage and know he isn't of them.
In response to the deluge of complaints about Indians being ethnic interlopers he posts one of his kind's ethnic interlopers
A week into having lost the ability to sweat and I thought trying to keep the gym routine was hell, I shall die a desiccated husk in this philharmonic.
Madame Castafiore making her appearance at this two bit philharmonic means that third billing was being generous. A straight up doppelganger if not some Herge devotee's satanic summoning
the compact piece is great but acting like discrimination against white men is uniform across the United States or across industries is (ironically) just another form of coastal elite intellectual ivory tower arrogance
academia & publishing are obviously run by leftists but many industries r still incredibly difficult to break in2 as a young woman & even for the most hardened high agency women you still need to deal with “old boys clubs” & serious prejudice - regardless of top down HR quotas & legal protections, young women in many industries & regions are at a disadvantage
doesn’t match the illegal systems of discrimination white men are up against in publishing & academia but it’s not nothing!
American respondents, who have somehow gained unauthorized access to this post, are repeatedly demanding that the numbers be broken down by race, as if their deep-rooted history of racial inequality should give them a pass for their terrible social failures.
My mother was born to an Irish woman living in this country.
So, according to this logic, my mother isn't rightfully American.
And if she isn't rightfully American, I'm not rightfully American.
Did I get this right?