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Phatscotty wrote:MegaProphet wrote:Phatscotty wrote:MegaProphet wrote:Phatscotty wrote:Nola_Lifer wrote:Yes, idolize the robber barons who held monopolizes, exploited workers and the government for profit. One of the reasons we are in the mess we are in.
....and also vastly improved Nola's Life, and every person Nola knows life as well.....
"BASTARDS!"
Are you not grateful for Rockefeller, Carnegie, Edison, Morgan, Tesla, Westinghouse, Vanderbilt, Ford?
Did the show feature Tesla? Maybe I will have to watch it
ummmmmmmmmmmmmm? Yes.....why would that compel you to watch it, but nothing else?
Electricity is definitely one of the most important building blocks of modern America. Tesla invented AC, afterall... and he certainly is one of the men who helped to build America
I just really like Tesla
You might really enjoy this then...
Phatscotty wrote:so, basically, school shootings are comparable to the human instinct to expand and the human desire for vengeance?
School shootings happen because some kids don't know right from wrong, because there is no longer any sanctity of life. nothing has meaning, there is no black and white, morals are no longer taught, no longer allowed to be taught. We have failed to teach and raise those children properly and with values and culture.
In the 19th century in America, children brought their guns to school for show and tell (if you are at all interested in a relevant comparison)
Nola_Lifer wrote:Phatscotty wrote:so, basically, school shootings are comparable to the human instinct to expand and the human desire for vengeance?
What vengeance was that? Indians shooting European settlers? Might want to re think that one.
Nola_Lifer wrote:Phatscotty wrote:so, basically, school shootings are comparable to the human instinct to expand and the human desire for vengeance?
What vengeance was that? Indians shooting European settlers? Might want to re think that one.School shootings happen because some kids don't know right from wrong, because there is no longer any sanctity of life. nothing has meaning, there is no black and white, morals are no longer taught, no longer allowed to be taught. We have failed to teach and raise those children properly and with values and culture.
In the 19th century in America, children brought their guns to school for show and tell (if you are at all interested in a relevant comparison)
Out of context. High school kids shooting people is a sign of some mental issues, and not whether you morally sounds or not. In what reality do you live?
Lootifer wrote:Hold the phone...
Pretty sure kids are taught that murder is wrong.
Phatscotty wrote:I live in the reality that when schools are not allowed to teach "you should not murder" you are going to have more killings than if children were taught, universally, that murdering is wrong.
Haggis_McMutton wrote:Phatscotty wrote:I live in the reality that when schools are not allowed to teach "you should not murder" you are going to have more killings than if children were taught, universally, that murdering is wrong.
Are you claiming that teaching kids strict Christian values decreases violence?
Do you believe society was less violent in the past? Specifically when? 1800? 1900?
Phatscotty wrote:I live in the reality that when schools are not allowed to teach "you should not murder" you are going to have more killings than if children were taught, universally, that murdering is wrong.
Metsfanmax wrote:Phatscotty wrote:I live in the reality that when schools are not allowed to teach "you should not murder" you are going to have more killings than if children were taught, universally, that murdering is wrong.
Then you don't actually live in reality.
This, of course, comes as no surprise to off topic regulars.
Metsfanmax wrote:Phatscotty wrote:I live in the reality that when schools are not allowed to teach "you should not murder" you are going to have more killings than if children were taught, universally, that murdering is wrong.
Then you don't actually live in reality.
This, of course, comes as no surprise to off topic regulars.
AAFitz wrote:Phatscotty wrote:MegaProphet wrote:I might watch it, but I rather see the Story of All of Us
Indeed that's the story of every country, the story of all of us.
Every country has held slaves and battled with indiginous peeps.
Some more than others.
In any case, the indiginous peeps in our case, were more slaughtered by the black plague than they were us. As in all other countries with "indiginous peeps" they would most likely have a massive presence, if not have kept the invaders out, if it were not for the plague having something like an 80% mortality rate with Native Americans.
By the way phatty...the use of the phrase; "battled with indiginous peeps"... makes you a POS
I hope you someday get to be that type of peep.
Napoleon Ier wrote:You people need to grow up to be honest.
Phatscotty wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:Phatscotty wrote:I live in the reality that when schools are not allowed to teach "you should not murder" you are going to have more killings than if children were taught, universally, that murdering is wrong.
Then you don't actually live in reality.
This, of course, comes as no surprise to off topic regulars.
Why don't I? Is it really that hard for you to accept the more that something is taught and reinforced, the more it will have been learned?
Neoteny wrote:AAFitz wrote:Phatscotty wrote:MegaProphet wrote:I might watch it, but I rather see the Story of All of Us
Indeed that's the story of every country, the story of all of us.
Every country has held slaves and battled with indiginous peeps.
Some more than others.
In any case, the indiginous peeps in our case, were more slaughtered by the black plague than they were us. As in all other countries with "indiginous peeps" they would most likely have a massive presence, if not have kept the invaders out, if it were not for the plague having something like an 80% mortality rate with Native Americans.
By the way phatty...the use of the phrase; "battled with indiginous peeps"... makes you a POS
I hope you someday get to be that type of peep.
FWIW, I believe you meant "smallpox" instead of "plague."
Just two years before the pilgrims started the tape recorder on New England's written history, the plague wiped out about 96 percent of the Indians in Massachusetts.
In the years before the plague turned America into The Stand, a sailor named Giovanni da Verrazzano sailed up the East Coast and described it as "densely populated" and so "smoky with Indian bonfires" that you could smell them burning hundreds of miles out at sea. Using your history books to understand what America was like in the 100 years after Columbus landed there is like trying to understand what modern day Manhattan is like based on the post-apocalyptic scenes from I Am Legend.
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Metsfanmax wrote:Phatscotty wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:Phatscotty wrote:I live in the reality that when schools are not allowed to teach "you should not murder" you are going to have more killings than if children were taught, universally, that murdering is wrong.
Then you don't actually live in reality.
This, of course, comes as no surprise to off topic regulars.
Why don't I? Is it really that hard for you to accept the more that something is taught and reinforced, the more it will have been learned?
When it comes to the topic of murder -- yes. I think people generally rationally know that murder is wrong; that idea runs through our society. People already know that murder is basically the ultimate evil. Constantly telling them that can't make them know it any more, and it doesn't do anything to change the completely external reasons why things like school shootings happen. If you want to stop them from happening, you either need to take away the weapons, or find a way to stop the motivating factors.
Phatscotty wrote:Fascinating. Why do you think people generally rationally know that murder is wrong? Is that it, "just cuz it's wrong"?
Metsfanmax wrote:Phatscotty wrote:Fascinating. Why do you think people generally rationally know that murder is wrong? Is that it, "just cuz it's wrong"?
I think murder is wrong, and I don't particularly care what the "first commandment" is. How do you explain me?
Phatscotty wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:Phatscotty wrote:Fascinating. Why do you think people generally rationally know that murder is wrong? Is that it, "just cuz it's wrong"?
I think murder is wrong, and I don't particularly care what the "first commandment" is. How do you explain me?
How do you know murder is wrong?
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