A very close friend and my occasional drinking buddy.
Cool. He wrote a piece on the difference between ethnic and civil nationalism that I think is fantastic. Next time you see him buy him a drink for me. :)
It's a dangerous one
The only certain danger is the danger to the life of the child in the womb who is facing the prospect of being aborted.
Certainly hardly anyone in the population thinks about it as deeply as you do.
It's not me thinking deeply, my thinking is pretty simple and straight-forward and shared by millions, if not billions, of others around the world. It just sounds deep because the semantics and twisting the realities of what abortion is in actuality has caused great confusion for many.
even weirder if it's coming from a guy who's been married three times
The Great Combover won't be giving lectures to the Senators who will be confirming his nominee--he won't be present in the Senate chambers. I hope you aren't suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, cms; you seem like an alright guy, and I'd hate to see you suffer. :)
Think logically.
I have, I am, and I will. :) It's like a reflex with me nowadays. I used to dabble in illogic in my youth, but then again, I was pretty much on the left back then, so it goes with the territory. But, meh, why am I telling you that, you already know well how that goes. :)
Remember we're talking about ideological conflicts.
America doesn`t need another ideological conflict in current time.
Ideological conflicts are simply opposing ideas clashing with one another, and it's mostly done through persuasive non-violent means such as debate, education, political or social movements, civil disobedience, elections--those types of things. Sure every now and again it crosses over into violence, but not usually. And, the ideological conflict of abortion has been OVERWHELMINGLY non-violent.
The attacks on abortion clinics were never commonplace and were vehemently renounced by the pro-life movement in the US. They were done by an infinitesimally small number of people who were way out on the fringe of the pro-life movement. They were all renounced and thought to be harmful to the pro-life cause. You holding that up as some kind of gauge of the ideological conflict surrounding abortion is intellectually bizarre and is hard to take seriously.
what differences you see between slavery and incarceration with forced labor?
Well, the big differences would be with slavery a person is the property of another person who is totally subjected to the will of his owner. It wasn't the slaves behavior that made him a slave, but the misfortune of being caught and put into the slave trade. Whereas, someone who is incarcerated is in jail because of his free will--the incarcerated freely committed a crime and suffers the consequences of his own actions. In other words, the incarcerated person is justly bound to his shackles, whereas the enslaved is unjustly bound.
What do you think, Velund?