Oddbean

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 Would you watch people die of thirst in front of bottles of water?
Property law does not always trump the right to life.

Has nothing to do with socialism. Socialists didn't invent those words.

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 https://lifehopeandtruth.com/cache/images/10-Commandments-List_1_644_460_80.jpg

you are promoting the violation of 10

prices go high when there is money to pay for it

if the people with the need for water only have $20 and there is 100L of water that's the market situation

the rightful owner of them also has a right to the lions share of what they rightfully own, or you are also promoting the violation of 8 as well

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 also, the switch and the rail tracks with the victims of differing number on the forks of the track is the same kind of rhetorical question

why would you not sell most of your water if you were a vendor of water and you only needed some of it to get you through until there was other options for supply, you just wouldn't

just as if someone is posing the train fork question who the fuck put those people on the tracks tho?

probably the person posing the question

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 You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make idols.
You shall not murder.

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 you don't have the right to judge, that would make you the God

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 charging a high price that can be paid is not the same as refusing to do business

this is a complete nonsensical argument about nothing

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 and i'm not interested in talking to a Christian who presumes to be the Judge

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 that would make you like my father or my stupid opa

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 That is not true.

We are not to judge someone else's salvation, as only God can know that, but someone dancing around a golden calf and sacrificing children to the  fertility god is clearly doing something wrong, and we may be required to call them out on it, for their own sake and for the sake of others.

Christianity should never lead to indifference.

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 you go ahead and steal someone else's property, i'll die of dehydration right here thanks

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 anyhow, it is stil a dumb rhetorical question because "price gouging" means where people can't get it anywhere else, they have enough that nobody is going to go without, but that money isn't gonna feed anyone either, and what kind of an idiot is going to say that they are taking advantage of a situation in which they are also in?

it's complete nonsense, typical illogical false argument of socialists who are really just trying to wedge a crack in your morals so they can eventually have you eating babies

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 charging a price that can be paid is not dancing around a golden calf and murdering babies

completely false equation and you know it

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 I wasn't equating. I was offering a situation in which I am obviously allowed to pass judgment, thereby negating the claim that I am never allowed to pass judgment.

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 yeah, an extremely unlikely one in which someone is not simply going to charge more because during a disaster their supply lines are cut and their own future is uncertain also

which is deceptive and dishonest argumentation and something that politicians use to convince people to accept unacceptable things, that paint normal people as demons , in order to win votes and cast shadow on their probably more honorable opponents

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 That was the scenario he described and that I was originally responding to. This was not about buying toilet paper before lockdowns.

What is going on with you, lately? You sound angry, all the time.

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 i'm not going to take part in some fucking stupid fake hypotheticals like trains and people tied to the tracks, these are not honest arguments and neither is the hypotheticals people cook up for these stupid price controls idea, or the idea that i can just ify stealing something from someone because reasons

there is no exceptions to the decalogue and you should know that

why am i angry?

because people are repeating mindless garbage that erases thought and i want to do something to shine a light on how and why it's wrong

and yes, i stopped drinking entirely 5 days ago, thanks to the help of our Lord and Savior

maybe he'll help me ignore stupidity at some point too but perhaps i like this game

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 Hey, congratulations! 🥳 Amen! God is good.

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 Just noticed that grumpy cat was back. 😂

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 yeah, alcohol was my way of trying to hide from it

sick of the way it hurts me and slows me down and makes my work disorderly

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 Well, then be grump for a while, then. You'll eventually adjust.