(September 29, 2015 at 7:51 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(September 29, 2015 at 7:39 pm)KUSA Wrote: What do you think of building codes?
Depends on the purpose of the code. Model codes like NFPA (national fire protection association) are research based and proven strategies for ensuring life safety during emergencies. But there are others like parts of the Chicago Building Code that only exist to protect the interests of trade unions.
You're in Chicago? Man, I'm so jealous of that city. I saw a special on them, just last year. They have been quietly moving in the "green roof" and other environmental-building concepts direction for the past two decades, and the stuff I saw on the special was amazing. I especially liked that old El-train track that they made into a garden walkway through the city. Magnifique!
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
