(August 24, 2018 at 9:58 am)Khemikal Wrote:Right. I am firmly in the legalise camp on this. Do I want to use it? Not really, although I have in the past. Legalising it is not going to force me to do so, but it sure as hell wipes out the crooks. And by now, surely America realises that prohibition simply does not work, no? A whole century has passed since that was shown to be utterly useless.(August 24, 2018 at 8:20 am)negatio Wrote: You've completely lost me here, I do not follow you, what brute fact ?The brute fact that the law against growing weed here really is the only reason I'm not growing weed. The very moment it changes..I will be growing copious amounts of weed. Law is not completely efficacious when it comes to human determination, granted..but it's not entirely without efficacy, either.
(August 24, 2018 at 9:58 am)Khemikal Wrote:Law is necessarily flawed and necessarily a long way behind the reality on the ground.Quote:"...you might even have misattributed the incompetence central to your argument..."I'm suggesting that the inability of some people to moderate their actions in accordance with law might demonstrate their incompetence, but it doesn't necessarily demonstrate incompetence on the part of law, or those who set it.
You write excellently, however, at first glance your statements are not immediately apprehensible, I think that by ''misattributed'' you mean that I am mistaken in saying Christ is mistaken !
(human or divine).
(August 24, 2018 at 9:58 am)Khemikal Wrote: In plain language, and playing the part of an apologist;Sure, "god" knew all that, killed everyone bar a family of eight and thus endorsed incest. How lovely. Hello, Oedipus.
"Didn't god know that law was an imperfect tool? That it would predictably fail a great portion of humanity - those for whom law does not drive their determination?"
-It is man that is imperfect, and none are righteous, not even one. Yes, god did know that. He was very well aware of this.
Or Adam and Eve. According to the babble, Cain had it away and built a whole city for himself and had kids with whom? Watch the pretzel logic the apologists come up with for that.
The random birth sows that women are supposed to be remain nameless. This is because christianity places no value on the feminine. Women are merely chattel, possessions.
As a man, I find a strong, independent woman really attractive. Christianity would have me beat the very same for insubordination of my authority. That is just sick.