However, both decisions are deliberate.Animavore wrote:I say that you don't pull the lever. If you pull the lever you are deliberately responsible for a person's death. If you don't you're not.
It's you or them, who do you choose?
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“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
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Including modesty.Scot Dutchy wrote:Hey Dodo learn a bit of history. Why is anything Dutch negative in English? Simple they were better at everything than the English.
The Dutch sailed up the Medway, and destroyed a group of moored, and unmanned vessels? Proof positive the Dutch are far superior...
The Dutch, of course, lost 3 out of the 4 Anglo-Dutch Wars. After the English defeated the Netherregions, again, in the 1780s, The Netherregions was just a hollow shell. In 1797 the English destroyed another Netherregions fleet, and France just decided to have done with it an annex the foul, low-lying brothel in like 1810. The Brits then sailed over and commandeered most of the Dutch colonies (with the exception of the Dutch Antilles, a Japanese trading post, Indonesia and Suriname) in the years after the French annexation.
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
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A quiet life when one is not confronted by Forty Two's mumblings.
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Mumbled or not, it's the truth. I can't help it if your little podunk backwater was graciously carved out of the Spanish Empire -- you had brief era of glory in the 1600s, mainly on the backs of indigenous peoples which you sods oppressed, if not slaughtered. Then you proceeded to get trounced by the Brits and the French in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The Netherregions were then set free after Bonaparte, with the Kingdom of the Netherlands including Belgium. The Belgians, like everyone else, couldn't stand the Dutch, so they promptly broke off into their own Kingdom. Who can blame them? I mean, the Belgians may be kinda funny, but at least they're not those Dutch insufferable boors....Scot Dutchy wrote:A quiet life when one is not confronted by Forty Two's mumblings.
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
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To keep telling people that you're happy to be ignoring them is like prodding them with a rusty stick from behind the bins. If you're going to troll 42 you might as well un-ignore him and feel the full benefit eh?Scot Dutchy wrote:A quiet life when one is not confronted by Forty Two's mumblings.
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I know Brian. I was being a bit childish.Brian Peacock wrote:To keep telling people that you're happy to be ignoring them is like prodding them with a rusty stick from behind the bins. If you're going to troll 42 you might as well un-ignore him and feel the full benefit eh?Scot Dutchy wrote:A quiet life when one is not confronted by Forty Two's mumblings.
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I hope you've learned your lesson young man? Now go out and play- and be back by teatime.
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Total bollocks, you invented the stock market and that is it. Once we stole your idea we kicked your arse good and proper.Scot Dutchy wrote:Hey Dodo learn a bit of history. Why is anything Dutch negative in English? Simple they were better at everything than the English. They even sailed up the Medway and destroyed the English fleet. Everywhere in the world the Dutch were there before the English. Far superior navigators and sailors but the Dutch were not a navy but just a loose band of adventurers and not interested in claiming land which why New Amsterdam was given up so easily. It was only when the the VoC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) was set up was the idea of having colonies evolved.
You will not find much about this in English history books.Too embarrassed and does not fit into the perfect picture they have of their sailors.
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Delusion is one thing that never changed with the English in all the centuries. You were shit and still are.
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“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
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