something to ponder

well he's pretty much ultraconservative-super republican Dubya all the way
it's expected

 

Well I guess slavery is a good idea if you don't have a soul. I mean you don't have to pay anyone.

Slap him in the face and make him listen to some Rza. That'll straighten 'em out.

 

you are friends with a person like that???

i couldnt do it... i would honestly be mad at him all the freakin time...

 

meh
i'm just a friendly person
i mean, i don't agree with him
but why hate him ya know?
hate's bad

 

i would need ibuprofen ever time he spoke...

how do you do it? i can barely handle living in a red state. but being friends with someone like that.. no, never. eek.

 

Fighting hate by ignoring it doesn't work. Guy might not even realise what he's saying, might just be a mouthpeice for his uncle or something. Calling out that kind of rampant ignorence is the only way to fight it.

 

'Coathanger', on the other hand, is perfectly understandable? Don't get me wrong, I'd think it cool to know someone referred to as Coathanger.

Back to the original thought, I believe slavery would have been abolished regardless, that was just wrong. Civil Rights, I don't know. Liberia might be substantially more populated, maybe suffering the same internal turmoil we are currently experiencing.

Mexico definately would be bigger. Confederate tactics would have never worked with another uncivilized enemy.

The one good thing that would have come of it? We wouldn't have Bush in office

 

Exactly.

And really, the emancipation proclamation's only purpose was to get europe to side with the north. It made slavery illegal in the country, but the south wasn't even part of the union at that point.

Good political move, but it wasn't done for the good of the slaves.

 

If somebody gets more enjoyment out of a slave then a slave feels sadness (and a man born into well-treated bondage may not feel that bad, I couldn't tell yah), it is justified by a Utilitarian standpoint. Greatest good for the greatest number.

 

It was a fucking ace idea, morally despicable but objectivly genius

 

yeah, i think that was pretty much his reasoning
something along the lines of that

 

Objectivity can pretty much justify anything...

 

and now you know how he thinks
=)
lol

 

Oh man, that must be painful to argue with....

 

it is
especially for the girl in the class that was ultraliberal
and you find it odd that i was his friend
THESE TWO were friends
picture that
an ultraconservative and an ultraliberal

 

Opposites attract....apparently...