Are you saying that abortion has kept the black populating artificially low? And that black Americans could have represented a much larger portion of the electorate?

Give it a generation and Hispanics will be considered white. It’ll happen just as it happened to the Irish and Italians and Eastern Europeans.

The threshold is the same as a constitutional amendment because it would take a constitutional amendment to make happen.

Can we do both? Lewd behavior doesn’t belong in public.

With unlock I didn’t even know there was an arms race. Seamless performance the whole time!

It is government’s job to make sure international trade is done according to some basic rules, including labor and environment. Business’ only metric is profits.

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Hamas is a non-state group which creates a loophole where this rule does not apply. 🤷‍♂️

China pollutes so much because George HW Bush and Bill Clinton pushed American jobs to China so CEOs could make bank on huge profits on cheap labor, unsafe work places, and near zero environmental regulation that was impossible in the United States. We built China by disregarding worker rights and the environment and we are paying for it dearly.

If you were to try to argue their view, I think they would say that their only problem is when you exhibit immortal behavior. Their definition of immoral behavior isn’t the only historic definition but is certainly a prominent one.

It would be restoration by proxy. I once had a friend who stole money. He did not know the person and could never find him again. To make restoration he gave an equal amount plus reasonable interest to a charity, anonymously. The charity was a proxy for the man from whom he stole.

I read about 50 books per year, one a week. Nothing sticks out as one leading a public debate on this question. Most published books aren’t read by more than a few hundred people. Is there one you are thinking of that I missed?

If Texas wasn’t killing people with razor wire in a river, I might be willing to consider the argument they have a right to enforce federal immigration laws inside their borders. They may have the correct legal argument but lack the moral high ground.

Bingo. If Texas tried to leave, a HUGE chunk of the population would revolt against the State of Texas. Many more would just leave. Very little good would remain.

In a democracy everyone is a political actor.

That’s a good argument for increasing the threshold of guilt for capital crimes. But of those legitimately and obviously guilty, do they owe a debt equal to their own life for murdering someone else?

If it is a public debate it’ll be in the news. Private debates are like this. They may show up somewhere on the internet but nobody cares and it isn’t represented in the public consciousness.