132 points

More debates need a simple “CAN IT”

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More rough than “can it”. Pretty sure the closer translation would be Shut Up.

I agree with it.

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13 points

Fermez le bouche

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He said gueule, not bouche. It’s the rougher of the two terms.

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3 points

Fetchez la vache

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9 points

My French listening isn’t that good yet. What does he say?

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18 points

Ta gueule.

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Some debates don’t even need to happen anymore. No the earth isn’t flat. No trans people aren’t monsters trying to kill Jesus. No vaccines don’t turn you gay. No the world wasn’t created 6000 years ago.

We’ve legitimized too many morons in the world. Not everything is a debate, some things are just facts that need to be thought to the ignorant.

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94 points

If only we did all politics like this.

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52 points

let’s be honest if the argument about anything is religious the person don’t have enough brain to debate anything

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31 points

I tend to agree, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve got a bit less strict with thinking all religious people are idiots.

But I’m still pretty fervently of the mind that dogmatic monotheism is honestly one of the — if not the — worst thing that happened to humanity.

The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien [beliefs and cultures]. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam, and it might not be unreasonable to suggest that it would have been better for Western civilization if Greece had moulded it on this question rather than Palestine.

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_monotheism#Violence_in_monotheism

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21 points

Similar mindset for me. You can have your religion, I don’t care.

But like masturbation, keep it private or with specific loved ones, keep it out of politics, or any public sector, and DEFINITELY keep it away from kids since they can’t consent.

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11 points

Quoth George Carlin… Commandment #11:

Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.

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7 points

The silliest thing is that even YHWH was once but one of the Israelites’ many gods. He just slowly ate away at their pantheon until there was nothing left but anger and jealousy.

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5 points

As I’ve gotten older I’ve done the opposite! If they think there are any gods at all, then they make important decisions without evidence. That always spills over into more physical concerns, like climate change.

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Agree with you completely. Now shut up.

\s

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Maybe that is what we need to do. “Decide” on certain moral questions based on best scientific data and our values and sound arguments and then stop debating them. Unless new scientific evidence challenges those moral edicts.

Somehow we keep going round in circles as a civilization.

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4 points

And who exactly can be trusted as the centralized guide for human morality?

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4 points

My vote is for the interviewer in this post.

But srsly, the person you replied to needs to understand just how slippery of a slope his argument is. There’s no such thing as 100% objective morality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F

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66 points

Choosing to love Jesus makes that man happy, and that’s great as long as he doesn’t try to ruin other people’s fun. Why is that so hard for some people to understand? Just live your own life and leave other people alone.

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35 points

us trans people try to do that, but we’re constantly being told not to

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15 points

Just live your own life and leave other people alone.

But then I’ll have to deal with MY own problems! I can’t live with that! I have to project!!!

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17 points

That’s fucking awesome

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5/5 I mean this tracks extremely well irregardless of which side of the fence you are.

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39 points

I’m on the side of irregardless not being a word 🤓

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6 points

Haha, got me. Dunno which brain damage was responsible of that.

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4 points

After googling I am fairly confident that it is in fact a word!

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3 points

It is quite the funny word. Basically irregardless means regardless… so, like, what’s the “ir” for? Regardless, it is considered not appropriate for formal writing. So I think you both get to be partially right here. Everyone wins!

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