Add Dostoevsky and Camus

Yeah and no weak poor people in the military either, just wealthy and powerful nepo babies whoops I mean alphas. Only people on the front lines should be politicians, millionaires, and billionaires since they are so much more effective than anyone else. /s

Tythe, Rachel Dradd - The Light https://youtu.be/nx4WcxFdDns

Depends how much money you put in the envelope

Everyone wants to touch my base and I haven’t even started building one yet

Colonel: You write “born to kill” on your helmet, and you wear a peace button. What’s that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?

Joker: No, sir.

Red 5, standing by

Faith is belief without evidence, and I have evidence everyone who has lived so far has died and the rest of us have enough in common that would cause us to die for similar reasons as those already dead. I don’t need faith to believe we’re all going to die, faith would be needed to believe someone won’t die because we have no convincing evidence for any immortals yet.

You may be interested in a paper Thomas Negal wrote about 50 years ago called “What is it like to be a bat?”

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf

It’s not just about emotional states, which we can observe the behavioral states of but don’t know what it is like to experience as other animals. It’s about experience and consciousness which I think speaks to the underlying question of when other animals experience an emotional state if we can relate it to our own phenomenology for similar appearing states.

You can’t just look at the total numbers and %'s because not every vote has equal weight, the way the electoral college is set up and fptp elections means votes in contested states and districts count for much more than if you’re from a highly partisan area.