@patrickbetdavid Would this be sustainable? I understand over the long term the total size of the pie getting taxed goes up but could we survive the growth period between cutting the taxes and the realized growth if the pie? What would need to be cut to do this?
@jockowillink Every couple of months a jocko post appears in my feed. Each time I get more and more convinced one day its just going to be a photo of a rifle and a balaclava on the ground. Scary times.
@Maximumatheist You are making the mistake of gradualism. You assume because the rate of change you see is slow, it must of always been slow. Look at Nepal. Hundreds if not thousands of years of erosion in an hour. A once a century event can throw off you scale by thousands of years.
@God_Questioner And we all know the reason why. Those years of laughter, joy and hugs is more valuable than the pain when the day comes. As much wiser men than myself have said, paraphrasing, "Better to have lost a loved one than to never have loved at all."
@God_Questioner The simplest explanation goes a bit like this. The relationship between God and his people is like that between a Father and his 2 year old. Take any father and tell him "You child will die in a car crash at 16" and ask him if he still wants his child to be born. He will say yes.
@BelciuPetru@Pontifex The easiest is banning priests from marriage. When it became a method of power politics in the 1200s, despite the fact it essentially would have given Rome direct rule over nearly every kingdom in Europe, they got rid of it anyway because it would make them too worldly.