TheLeviathan
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I wish I could take time off when I'm sick. Sometimes that is easier said than done.
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You are using a very loose definition of "plays".
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There are kids that cannot get the vaccine because of immune disorders. Every moron who doesn't vaccinate their kid (usually on the basis of debunked "studies") risks destabilizing the herd immunity. In other words, they risk bringing diseases we have fought to the point of extinction back that would otherwise not threaten those children. Not vaccinating a kid capable of getting one seriously risks the life of a kid with an immune disorder. This is a real thing.
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From what I've read the male contraception is basically a pill that sterilizes you for a short period of time. And it's been tested as far more effective than current forms of contraception that are generally incumbent on women.
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Appreciating Dozier's Dominant First Half
TheLeviathan replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
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All parents make mistakes. They aren't who I refer to as "bad parents". I could give you a litany of examples from my teaching experiences.
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I play those games and I'm alright, but they are reaching extremely young audiences. Too young. My licensing thing is a joke, but as a teacher I can tell you parents of all different ilks are awful at it. You want to talk about a way to help the future - fix bad parenting. It's running rampant. And pay teachers more so there are more awesome ones like me, but I digress.....
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In most cases that just isn't the reality of the situation.
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I didn't address "unwanted children" because I agree with that hypocrisy on the right. But we won't have unwanted children if we don't have unwanted pregnancies. The reality is that there are millions of children being born and raised unwanted in their own home, that problem is a far larger one and need not be tied to the discussion of abortion. On a related note, who wants to jump on the bandwagon of licensing people to reproduce?
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Jose Berrios Promoted to Triple-A
TheLeviathan replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
If this swoon continues, this move could mean we see Berrios for 6-7 starts this year. That's really exciting. (The Berrios part....not the swoon) -
The consequence of making abortion illegal is untenable, but acknowledging that we'd eventually like to make unwanted pregnancies a thing of the past should be the goal. That would be the ultimate victory for women's rights. (Hell, male contraception liberals - let's start talking about it!) But why don't we? Because there is so much time and effort into making our arbitrary definition of personhood seem scientific and indisputable that we don't have time left to do anything else. We settle for the easy excuse and we dress it up as meaning more than it really does. I would prefer we get to the point not that we have to compel life to be born, but to eradicate unwanted pregnancies. But abortion is too often framed as a "good" thing rather than the best alternative we currently have. This is what I was alluding to earlier with OLTF - abortion has become a "right". A good thing. A positive for society. I just can't wrap my head around how people can conclude that when so many women still have to struggle with that really difficult choice. Again, how great would it be if we could stop unwanted pregnancies before they happen? Or at least dramatically reduce them? Why isn't THAT the objective rather than a crusade to keep a fetus from being recognized as a human life? I'm not directing that at you Psuedo, just using a few of your comments as a sounding board.
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It is about women's rights. It's also about human life. It can be about both. The "semantics" should be important. We've made them unimportant so we can feel good morally about our conclusion.
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I think there are a ton of reasons the right and left can get behind environmental protection. But I think both sides of the debate are being driven by politicians with their pockets lined with money. So they like to keep it divisive for their own purposes. At least, that's the best explanation I have for it.
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Absolutely, I'm not sure science can answer that question for us. "Personhood" is a value statement, it's something socially created to bestow rights and protections. We've long abused that distinction for pragmatic and manipulative reasons. In scientific terms, upon conception, a fetus is a living human. Anything beyond that is a social construction based on what we value.
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Look, it's been more than slight and I'm of the opinion that the entire issue is being argued poorly by the left. The basic science is that we emit a lot of carbon and carbon in the atmosphere will trap heat. It's just a fact, so even if the climate models and readings aren't 100% reliable, the truth is that we have to be more cognizant of our own emissions or we're going to create a huge problem at some point. We should be finding more common sense, practical solutions and let diplomacy help reduce them around the world.
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Look, I'm being hard on your viewpoint because I respect it and have gone through the same struggles. I've just come to see that part in bold as the true crux to our national conversation. I really don't like that.
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It's absolutely not a strawman. I'm taking your logic and applying it to a different group of humans and suddenly you feel like I'm calling you evil or uncaring. But you only feel that way because an abused 6 year old or a druggie 28 year old on welfare are harder to deny as "people". It's the same sort of pragmatism you are arguing, the only difference is that when you do it you're talking about a fetus. When one pushes hard enough on the "logic" behind the pro-choice movement it invariably falls back to this: "only take my arguments about pragmatism so far as they concern a fetus. After that I abandon them completely." Because it's convenient for us to not see a fetus as human because it makes our conclusions easier to swallow. Like you, I don't know the answer about personhood. I'm not sure there can be an answer, but I know I don't like bad arguments out of convenience. So should abortion be legal? Absolutely, we have no other choice but to abuse the rights of women. (So, not an option) But that doesn't excuse the bad arguments the other way and maybe, just maybe, if we confront them honestly and look for true solutions - maybe someday we can find one.
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I think most people agree with this and that is precisely the problem.
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"Pro-choice" is plenty preposterous. Right down to the name. In fact, they might be even worse IMO - at least the other side doesn't pretend to know personhood, it relies on faith. (It's stupid, but at least it's not dressed up stupidity) Pro-choice relies on a bunch of silly, convoluted arguments that turn a human life into a non-person. For me, we've spent enough of our existence declaring each other non-persons to justify our actions for me to swallow any more of it.
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Oh I totally agree. I said earlier that abortion should be our greatest moral dilemma but it has been reduced to a bunch of freaking nonsense. Contraception should be free as far as I'm concerned. Sex Ed. should be taught in early middle school. We need to do more as a society to support children and those that raise them. But we'll never get that far because the narrative around abortion, by both sides, is preposterous.
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If this sort of pragmatism is sound reasoning, why not just go around killing people who suction off the state? It's not that far of a stretch and I don't ask that to be a jerk, but it gets at what bugs me the most about these conversations: We allow abortion out of convenience. It's easier to say about something we can't see or can more easily deny or hide behind women's rights about. But the logic behind it is only vaguely different, if that. Pragmatism leaves an awfully unsavory taste in the mouth when talking about human life. But the truth of all of these issues is that they do boil down to that. What upsets me is how we pick and choose which lives we choose to be pragmatic about. And we aren't honest about why.
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I agreed with Span for Meyer at the time and still appreciate the logic behind it. Where this team went wrong was betting on Aaron Hicks to take Span's place. That mis-evaluation/mishandilng makes this seem even worse.
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You should look up his 4 starts prior to that clunker, he's been doing just fine.
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That's swell, doesn't change the fact that May has much better odds of maintaining his success going forward compared than Pelfrey. Hopefully May is lights out and the right guy stays in for this team.
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I appreciate Pelfrey's effort tonight in helping keep May in the rotation.
