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They can be held accountable. Society just generally lacks the interest to do so.

There will always be a group of people in society who are quietly pushed into the backgrounds, because those around them don't want to deal with the problems they cause. Such people are always vulnerable to victimization. Asylums have simply been one place they have (sometimes) been abused in...

...Not even remotely close. Aside from tiny spin-off denominations and the dying 'old protestant' denominations that have been overrun by wokeists, Christian denominations generally regard each other as 'you've got some details wrong, but the core correct.' Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists...

Unfortunately, this is part of how the left has gained so much social authority. Get polite people to not talk about politics much. ...Then be aggressive and assertive about politics all they want. One still shouldn't be aggressively rude about politics, of course, but don't cede the ground...

There is so much lack going on here, I don't even know where to begin. ...I don't think I will. Unless I'm radically misreading something, your frame of understanding is so radically departed from that of Conservatism, we'd just about have to from ground zero on the whole historical period to...

I see someone has been absorbing at least some of the leftist propaganda about the founding fathers. Why?

...Yes. And 'putting in the work' is an ideal. One that is pursued imperfectly.

There are very, very few ideals that are possible to 'fully implement' in a civilization made up of fallible humans. And all of those ideal are incredibly bad things to aim for, because the only reason they're attainable, is because they're easy, not because they're good. Any meaningful ideal...

The ideals America was founded on have observably done the best job in human history at bringing prosperity, and are at least a contender for the best at a stable society. What exactly are you comparing American history to?

Back in the 90's, Wing Commander IV came out. The name of the game was 'The Price of Freedom,' and the line is delivered (by the villain ironically), 'The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.' I was ~12 years old when I played it, but that line has stuck with me ever since. Stories matter...

We were talking about how it can be damaging before that point. After that point, when done for fetishistic/erotic purposes, it's sexual harassment of a minor.

That's going to depend on the individual child, due to differing growth rates both physiological and psychological. Usually healthy introduction to the basic biological parts of sex is sometime 12-14.

The point where it provokes a sexual response they are not ready to handle.

A pre-pubescent child will generally either think nothing of, or be confused by nudity. A post-pubescent child will have a hormonal response. There's a lot of argument about how far this does and does not go, but there's the root of why a baby responds differently from a tween. A place where...

No, it's not absurd at all. When you spend your formative years bombarded by 'women are wonderful' messaging in media, when girls are given favoritism by a lot of authority figures, when you yourself see attractive girls as desireable, and it's in vogue to constantly shit on men in leftist...

That's my point. He picked 'fashionable pretty girl' types hanging out at a mall. The 'ditz' stereotype exists for a reason, and girls like that are a large part of it. The group of people I was talking with are college students, one of them in a department that's usually a bastion of liberal...

No, this absolutely is a biased sample. I've got a batch of Zoomers in a game I just started GMing, three of them. They're all 19-20. I was planning on having a plot arc of a movement trying to overthrow a mageocratic feudalistic government that treats non-mages quite poorly coopt their...

Particular money quote on this: "discouraged the development of autonomy." Women are no morally better than men. The way they destroy people just tends to be less immediately violent.

Autism doesn't appeal to the sexual fetishes of the rich and powerful.

They tend to be obnoxious, but I think there's 3-5 people who care about such things on the board?