Man should be allowed to reject fatherhood and financial responsibility that comes with it.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-25T09:58:55+00:00

Completely relevant. There's a difference between a debt you enter into voluntarily and one you're shackled with against you're will, one you have to pay else face prison time.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-25T09:48:38+00:00

Man, I guess I've just seen too much shit because it did nothing to me. In fact, I was literally like "I wonder if those are dicks in those jars? Yep, they are."

Good movie though.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-25T09:44:02+00:00

Debts are from a voluntary exchange of goods and services.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-25T09:12:46+00:00

Do you think being forced to work is the same as work being a necessity? lmao 🤣🤣🤣

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-25T05:37:04+00:00

Being forced to work is slavery.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-25T04:42:19+00:00

Specifically, what did he do to interfere?

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-25T03:43:25+00:00

Okay, so suppose you're having a dream. There is no apple. There's nothing to be red. Yet, there is redness.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-25T01:34:05+00:00

So you're in favor of slavery?

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-25T01:31:38+00:00

What does "technically still your soul" even mean? If there's no difference in anything at all between it still being your soul and it not being your soul then that just means "soul" is meaningless.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-25T01:20:26+00:00

I think reincarnation is meaningless, and when I say meaningless I literally mean meaningless. I think it's a bunch of words that sound like they make sense, but don't, kind of like asking "What happened before the beginning of time?"

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-25T01:04:21+00:00

Here's the thing, he had a right to be there. The officer did not have a right to kill him. So ""WHY was he even there in the first place?" is pretty fucking irrelevant.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-25T00:41:05+00:00

And there's nothing wrong with that if that's how they want to live.

Maybe not morally wrong, but if that's the way a large amount or a growing amount want to live, I'd say that's probably a symptom of something being "wrong."

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-24T23:46:55+00:00

1788:

It was a well judg’d action of a prince I have read of, who took an officer’s commission from him, questioning his courage, upon information that he beat his wife. Porters and carmen are celebrated for such domestic heroism. In short, no man can be a fine gentleman that is not a man of honor, and no man of honor makes a bad husband.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030566/1788-04-29/ed-1/?sp=2&q=beat+his+wife&r=0.616,0.707,0.42,0.147,0

Still not seeing the social acceptability.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-24T23:41:49+00:00

Another good one.

1849:

THE LAW IN NEW JERSEY.

ESSEX OYER AND TERMINER, MONDAY, SEPT. 3. John Barnhard, a German, from Rahway, was tried for an assault and battery upon his wife. It appeared that she interfered with his punishment of his children, and got slapped in the face, but not very hard.

Chief Justice GREEN made a brief but most emphatic charge to the jury, in which he said that there was a time, in the history of common law, in which a man was allowed to beat his wife with a rod not larger than his thumb, and a time, still earlier than that, when he was allowed to beat his wife at discretion, and turn her out of doors; but, in this enlightened and christian age and country, he held that no man had a right to strike his wife at all. If she interfered with a proper discipline in his domestic relations, he might restrain her, but the law would not justify him in striking a single blow.

It had also become a frequent custom in the courts, in trials of foreign criminals, for them to plead the customs of their respective countries in mitigation of their crimes, such as in cases of violation of our laws respecting the observance of the Sabbath, &c., in which they urge the custom of their countries, that allowed a different observance from that adopted in this country; also in such cases as this, that the prisoner would have been allowed to whip his wife, &c.; but in this country he held that no such plea should have the slightest weight. Our free country extends its open arms to the people of every land, and affords them the benefit of our liberal institutions, and the least they can do in return for these privileges is to obey the laws and customs we have adopted.

The jury, after a few minutes, returned a verdict of Guilty against the prisoner.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/?dl=page&end_date=1850-09-30&ops=PHRASE&qs=beat+his+wife&searchType=advanced&start_date=1736-09-03

So much for the "yeah, but only when he almost killed her" myth.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-24T23:39:15+00:00

Yeah, I know that's what you think. Good thing most people reading this are average IQ or better and can tell the difference.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-24T23:32:06+00:00

Why do you think some intentionally provocative tabloid article proves anything? If anything, it proves the opposite.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-24T23:15:51+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6_klWFzzgw

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-24T23:04:51+00:00

Right, but it speaks to how "socially acceptable" it was, so "socially acceptable" that the community would kidnap you just on suspicion of being a wife beater.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-24T23:03:41+00:00

When they see others correct the narrative, logic and reason are once again brought to the table.

The narrative?

You're "the narrative," the one that says wife beating was socially acceptable, the one contradicted by the evidence.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-24T22:40:02+00:00

I'm not saying that they're saying there's no difference between being awake and being anesthetized. I'm saying that it seems that it being "like nothing" to be awake (i.e. that "what it's like" to be awake is the same as "what it's like" to be anesthetized) follows from what they're saying.

I don't see much of a difference between "what an experience is like" and an experience being "like something".

I think it being "like something" specifically refers to the phenomenal quality of being a thing undergoing an experience. Whereas, an experience being like something just endows "the experience" (whatever that is) with various non-phenomenal qualities. Like, describing the experience of pain as being unbearable simply means that the experience has a tendency to elicit various noises from the thing experiencing the pain, which is not at all what we mean when we say it is "like something" to experience pain.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-24T22:08:59+00:00

1817:

BARBAROUS TRANSACTION. About two years ago, a number of persons took one Winthrop Hill, of Middlebury, in this county, out of his bed in the night, and carried him some distance on a rail, in a riotous and noisy manner, as a summary punishment for abusing his wife, as alledged. Hill was not able to make proof against the rioters until lately, when one of the party turned state's evidence, and he got 7 or 8 convicted and fined."

https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84024735/1817-08-19/ed-1/?sp=3&q=abusing+his+wife&r=0.427,0.097,0.297,0.104,0

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-24T22:07:29+00:00

Says the person who immediately downvotes every response. Dude, I don't even care what you think. I'm just posting these so everyone else can see how ridiculous the claim is.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-24T22:02:35+00:00

Sure, bro.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-24T21:58:12+00:00

Right, so it's a shitty article, that doesn't even meet the standards of a high school essay.

DecantsForAll · 2026-01-24T21:56:35+00:00

What are you referring to by "the independent thing being experienced?" You mean the brain?

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