Controversial Political Opinions

[Eric the Green]

(03-21-2022, 11:16 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: 1) No fault divorce was a mistake.

I don't know, but it seems to me people are happier if it is easier to break out of an oppressive and unhappy relationship.

Quote:2) "War crimes" should only be prosecuted if the person broke the laws of his or her nation at the time and did not do so under duress. If tried by another country, there is a violation of national sovereignty ("international committees" have no legitimate sovereignty, only countries). If tried for something that was legal at the time, the prosecution is ex post facto and therefore also illegitimate.**

International law is a thing. Nation states are a concept only a century and a half old or so, and (without some federal approach and more local power) are already grossly out of date. We don't need competing nations. We need global understanding and universal standards of human rights, as declared and agreed to over 70 years ago, upheld and enforced.

Quote:3) If you can't make a living out of high school, your education system has failed you. If you can't make a solidly middle class income out of university, your education system has also failed you.

People should be able to do those things, and some people don't, but it is not so much education that has failed, or masculine virtue that has been taken away, but deliberate political and economic policies that create an unequal society and take away economic mobility that has failed. It is Reaganomics that has failed, big time.

https://philosopherswheel.com/freemarket.html

Quote:4) If your ancestors committed human sacrifice, I give zero fucks about their civilization being destroyed, just like how I gave zero fucks that Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Soviet Russia and Maoist China all fell.

Civilizations everywhere and at all times have virtues and vices, and good and bad traditions. I think ethical principles are universal, and need to be upheld; no excuses. But people in different times and places have different levels of understanding. Some are worse than others. Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Soviet Russia and Maoist China were horrible beyond words and deserved to fail. But right now, the USA has less awareness of ethics than any other developed country, by far.

Quote:5) "Elite" should not be an insult. Being successful and having erudite tastes are something you should be proud of. Just don't be an oligarch or bureaucrat. Those are indeed legitimate insults.

I don't disagree, but we deserve a more-equal society. The USA and to some extent English-speaking countries in general are overly-unequal. Unequal societies result in a feudal system without human rights or democracy. That's what the neoliberals, who only care about the ability to compete and become part of the economic elite, are creating.

Corrrection though: a "bureaucrat" is frequently an honorable profession, and the "deep state" as government workers who stay on beyond administrations are the backbone of a decently-working government and society. Bureaucrats, WHEN they function under an administration and congress that enacts workable policies, are helpful to society.