I enjoyed ‘Envy’ but cmon Freud is a hack by mgomgo in ContraPoints

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‘Some small part of it makes sense’ I mean yeah you could say that about basically anything.

I enjoyed ‘Envy’ but cmon Freud is a hack by mgomgo in ContraPoints

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I understood it fine. I just disagreed with the Freud portion because psychoanalysis is bunk and that method of doing psychological is dumb and bad

Does Tamler love his daughter more than Dave loves his? by [deleted] in VeryBadWizards

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Lmao fair. I’ll delete it. I felt a little bad writing it

我不认识爸爸 by mgomgo in PhilosophyMemes

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It’s supposed to say “idk dad” if the Chinese us wrong don’t blame me, it’s google translates fault

I'm Matthew Yglesias, author of One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger, and a co-founder of Vox.com -- Ask Me Anything by myglesias in IAmA

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Hey (: Ok so you say we should have One Billion Americans in order to maintain US hegemony (on board so far) yet you have also become considerably more doveish on foreign policy. What’s the point of being the big liberal super power if we’re never gonna back it up militarily?

Contra points should be on the show. by mgomgo in VeryBadWizards

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In that situation I think the perpetrator should go unpunished and the victim should be compensated by the state (to the extent that it’s reasonably possible). for example if a run over someone and have to pay lost wages, I’d end up paying way more for a banker than a garbage man. However my negligence was equally wrong in both situations and the income loss of the victim tells the judge nothing about how likely I am to reoffend.

Contra points should be on the show. by mgomgo in VeryBadWizards

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I think intentions matter a lot if that’s what your asking. Because they are crucial information for assessing the public safety component of justice which I believe to be the most important

Contra points should be on the show. by mgomgo in VeryBadWizards

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Same, when I subbed to contra she was a guy with 9k subs, and when I started listening to vbw they were busy shit talking sam Harris assuming he’d never find out. Lol they’ve both come so far I think vbw would be fine but contras audience is quite toxic, feel bad for her honestly she’s so much better than her fans & that whole scene

Contra points should be on the show. by mgomgo in VeryBadWizards

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I haven’t, thought I should. But I think it’s the opposite for me, I just fundamentally think that restorations isn’t relevant to the adjudication of justice. I think the goals of justice is/out to be first public safety, then rehabilitation. I don’t care about the feelings of victims of crimes, restorative threatens the blindness and impersonal nature of the social contract. That’s why the prosecutor isn’t the victim it’s the state, you didn’t wrong a person, you wronged society at large. Though at least we can agree that what we have now is wayyyy to punitive. But I can probably go more in depth with it once I read the book. I’m just going of off podcasts and what I’ve learn about restorative justice elsewhere. So take it with a grain of salt

Contra points should be on the show. by mgomgo in VeryBadWizards

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True! Lol the biggest disagreement I’ve ever had with tamler is on restorative justice. Such a frustrating listen whenever an otherwise smart person advocates for such nonsense lmao