Recent content by AlpsStranger

Real talk: I'd seriously rather have my jaw wired shut any day of the week than have someone rape me up the ass. Not all sexual assault is some minor groping. That's not even getting into the possibility of getting an STD or, for women, pregnant.

That's foolish, though. Emotional instability in a partner can ruin your life even if it's "just a girl." You don't have to be full of testosterone to slit someone's throat in their sleep, sabotage a condom, shoot someone, etc.

As someone who lost a great deal of weight and is now an order of magnitude healthier than I had ever been in my life... I can say your body is the single most valuable thing you own. I'm not talking necessarily about superficial horsehocky like a chisel jaw or a six pack or something, that's nice...

Still, having someone handle horsehocky at home makes work WAY easier. I can see, given the divorce rate and such, how many would be loathe to make this bargain, but you can work 100 hours a week if you have a full-time homemaker having your back. Basically this 'silent support' is enabling your...

I mean, the world is still pretty brutal to women ( if we're talking about the whole world. ) This is silly and crass and I'd sincerely advise against it if I were asked, but it doesn't offend me in the slightest. We're talking about a world where, even in the free world, we're struggling to...

My #1 would be something like the greatest flourishing and meaningful personal freedom for the vast majority So universal healthcare clearly violates individualism, but it also provides the greatest flourishing and material day-to-day freedom. I.E. Not having to cancel your vacation to pay for...

The Libertarian is boxed in and must say yes. I, on the other hand, will strangle the greedy fudge owner in his sleep and use him to feed the local fish population.

So I just have to earn some money and hire some guys from a poor neighborhood and start explaining to them that I'll triple their pay if their attractive wives agree to "marry" me. I'll basically be Negan but without having to have the balls to actually cave people's heads in or burn their faces...

Time to trot out one of my favorites that made me cringe even back when I was more libertarian leaning. When you've gone this far astray, one of your premises is mistaken. Period. In this case, it's simple: Non-aggression is a good rule of thumb in most cases, but it's not a good 'core' moral...

Honesty this sort of crap isn't surprising or all that disturbing to me. Of course silly echo chambers exist. It doesn't excuse 'grab them by the pussy' or any of the other retrograde nonsense you're implicitly defending. Feel free to tilt at windmills all you like, but you can be solidly on...

Yet they apparently don't deserve the sort of political perks and personal prosperity that one earns by, say, having a grandfather that got lucky investing shares in a company.

Ask these sacks of human garbage. I'm sure it's blah blah private property blah blah personal responsibility blah blah Ayn Rand blah blah taxation is slavery. No society where there is vast inequality and money can literally buy health, political influence and legal defense can be civil by...

I guess it's just getting to me. I've been doing a lot of very blue-collar grunt work lately ( long story. ) A lot of my coworkers are barely literate. More than a few have single-digit numbers of teeth and no prospects. I have bad dental health myself ( as I've discussed before, ) but I have...

Religious Freedom folks!

I asked myself one pointed question and I think it killed my little bit of remaining libertarian streak. Why, if your system has no OTHER moral components ( no concern for the marginalized, no concern for the general well-being of others, etc. ) should you arbitrarily exclude "force?" The more...