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Then what do you consider kids being shot every year? A nose-itch?

Be smart. The choice is not between short-term solutions and long-term, root cause solutions. You need both. If you get in a car accident and are bleeding out, someone has to stop the bleeding. Later you can figure out what went wrong and avoid it in the future.

Neither will a knife. If AR-15s aren't effective for school shootings, then by that logic no one needs one to protect themselves either. So they shouldn't be sold.

If men weren't so deaf to the critiques of feminism, potentially she would have had less problems with men.

1) It's not happening equally everywhere, it's happening disproportionately in places with more guns 2) The point is not that this would solve everything. These are just basic safety protocols Don't be so hung up on root cause solutions that you ignore the obvious.

Are you honestly arguing that stab attacks are more of a threat than an AR-15?

It would still be an improvement. You can stab a lot less people than you can shoot with an AR-15.

Reincarnation is irrelevant when you understand God.

Evolution is just another form in consciousness. It's part of the dream-construct that is your life.

Your framing of the issue is still off. Slut-shaming is not just about a bunch of bitter guys who can’t get laid. This is a failure to understand the phenomenon.

That's not really true. That's more of a useful lie PUAs tell themselves, wrapped in a bit of truth.

That’s good you’re looking to put the puzzle pieces together. The most important thing is an honest sense-making process.

He has many libertarian / free-market fantasies. I'm not interested in debating it. I'm just pointing it out.

I would not consider this tier 2. He is making many errors.

Teal implied it. I'm willing to give her some benefit of the doubt on this, but not a great take from what I heard. Certainly there are pros / cons that aren't always acknowledged. Talking about those are fine.

I get that pretty women have their own unique set challenges. But the idea that they somehow have it harder than everyone else is ludicrous.

The issue is not using money. The issue is what's your priority?

But your analogy to government is not equivalent. You are talking about starting a private company.

And why should your vision for society matter more than someone who is less conscious? What if I agree with how government currently allocates wealth? What if you're corrupt? Why do you get to be king? A major function of government collecting taxes is to ensure that someone doesn't do exactly what you are describing. Government is a public entity, owned by no one and run by collectively elected officials with checks and balances.

Even that will only be minimally effective. You're not going to top-down develop the red-states. It doesn't work that way. Grassroots campaigns are only as good as the grassroots participants.

Good luck with that.

No obviously not. I'm just saying it probably won't happen in our lifetime. If I'm wrong, great. But I doubt it. Long-term societal change does not happen on a human-centric timeframe.

That's not how it works. I think there's space for life purpose and conscious people taking some action in the world. But why rationalize power / money seeking? You don't need to save the world.

They don't. Expect that you will probably die without seeing deep change.

@Hardkill Isn't it obvious? People in red states don't hold their elected officials "accountable" because their elected officials already represent their collective level of development. They are getting what they want overall.