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  • Its duty?!

    The US has no mandate to meddle in international affairs, any more than a bully in grade school has a duty to stop smaller bullies from picking on their own victims.

    The US has never been an international savior, it's the only country in the world to have dropped nuclear bombs on civilians.

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  • You're not out of your mind, nothing in life is black and white and if your feelings don't match up with "normal" maybe that's a good thing?

    Idk, if I were in your shoes I wouldn't be upset, but the relationship (as it was) would be over.

    Monogamy works for a lot of people and polyamory works for a lot of people, but switching between the two is not a decision to be made by anything less than a unanimous decision!

  • If you can only play mario on the switch, even if it costs a lot of money, people will generally buy the switch and the game.

    Implying that people really like mario and that people are generally expected to do whatever it takes to play it.

  • Ethically, depending on the religion, it is absolutely mandatory for parents to teach their children their religious views.

    For example, let's make up a cult. "Pireneists" are devout religious cultists that genuinely believe in their god, Kundo. Kundo's holy book says that any who partake in the evil plant, the peanut, have been led astray by evil and will suffer for all eternity in the dark chasm of the lost.

    For parents who legitimately believe this it would be completely unethical for them to let their children eat peanuts, their mental state has everything to do with their ethical mandates. The only ethical thing to do is to teach their children about their beliefs in such a way that the children will follow the same beliefs for their whole life. Indoctrination is indeed within the bounds of ethics.

    To you it may seem silly. In fact to most of us this is peak idiocy and if the leaders of the pireneists have been known to take money from people to pay for their lavish lifestyles you could say that the organization itself is evil. However the mental state and beliefs of the parents override the fundamental veracity of the claims of the cult/religion. True or not, the parents believe and their inaction would be unethical.

  • And for that reason and just the amount of care and work that the team put into it, I think it was decided that, 'Yeah, this feels like $9.99 is not an exorbitant price. It feels like a good value for what you're getting out of the product

    Man has a hard time pronouncing "greed"

  • What a remarkably interesting take from somebody who has obviously been completely programmed by a completely different set of media influences. How beautifully and horrifically malleable the mind truly is.

    We all have thoughts, ideas, and beliefs that are incorrect. Some are demonstrably wrong, some are more nuanced. I believe your post is among the former.

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  • Things do happen in your life, nobody lives in a vacuum. You are alive and are experiencing things every day including the stuff that's happening to all of us. Recent economic news, political drama, geopolitical events, etc are all fair game

    I used to think nothing happened in my life then I started to keep a diary/journal and realized that a ton happens all the time!

  • Nihilist, insofar that even if there is a god (about as likely as me actually being a secret agent for moon people) why would it matter? While nihilism is not a religious belief I think it fits the prompt.

    I made a poop the other day, I'm its creator, I don't care about it, I don't control its destiny beyond the flush.

    I'm an optimistic nihilist, nothing matters and that's kinda neato. Existence happens, how fascinating is that? It's absolutely meaningless just like everything in the universe, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy the ride.

  • Curious how does that stack up historically with the largest drops in history percentage-wise?

    I checked out the investopedia article:

    • The Dow had its sixth-worst week of the 21st century; it fell 7.9% over the week and 9.3% in the last two days.
    • The Dow shed 2,231 points on Friday, its third-largest one-day point decline on record. 
    • The Nasdaq Composite has dropped 11.4% since Trump’s tariff announcement, also its worst 2-day stretch since March 2020.
  • Probably not the best time for a person in the Middle East to immigrate to the US.

    Both countries have incredibly well laid out options, your specific situation will change exactly what options you have. Are you incredibly wealthy? Are you a student? Lemmy is a good community but really not where you should be getting this kind of easily searched for info.

  • For me when somebody apologizes a lot it feels as though there is a subtle belief that I am the type of person who would be annoyed by the things being apologized for. As though their apology implies that I am an impatient or otherwise short fused person.

    It’s important to me that I am patient and forgiving so excessive apologies subtly make me feel like I may be projecting some impatience. Ironically the very activity of constant apologies does lead me to be slightly impatient, quite the conundrum.

  • Had an old roommate flame me in his journal, he'd rushed out leaving the page open and I saw my name when I went in his room to drop something off.

    He said some incredibly valid shit about me being condescending and it changed my outlook on my whole life. Nobody lies to their journal.