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Tree Lives Matter.

I genuinely hope you don't believe that. If you really do, I have no argument to make. Administering medicine to the dead is a waste of time and energy. Suffice to say that I hold to a medical ethical system based on doing the most good with available resources, allocating them to those who...

Fossil fuels being necessary for some time to come, I favor sourcing them from countries that have deserved reputations for good environmental and industrial standards for extraction. Same way I feel about pipelines. I don't like 'em. But I like trucks and trains even less, because they have...

The more time goes by, the less the rack counts for.

For about half the population.

Thank you. Yes, for well over a century the standard for ethical medical decision-making has been "which is most likely to benefit from treatment?" As you say, that is the basis of the brutal but necessary practice of triage. I find neither of the alternatives, "who deserves it more?" and...

Good idea. Better yet, you could include "total lifetime taxes paid" as a mandatory item on the paperwork.

That's nice. Have a day.

Be one heck of a decision matrix. Do you give the bed to the one who needs it most, or the one who deserves it most? Let's say you have one ventilator left. Do you give it to the unvaxxed Covid patient or the smoker?

Generally prefer "right." All important considerations. Maybe you should elect somebody smart. We did (from the two available choices).

You do what's right because it's right, not because it's popular.

How about if you ski out of bounds, no attempt will be made to rescue you? You made your choice, right? Go ahead on and die. Ultimately, that's what you're advocating.

Well, down hereabouts they just made lynching a Federal hate crime.

To be fair, that's part of tax policy. To use economic pressure to encourage desired behavior and discourage undesired behavior. The fact that it stacks up the loonies in the Treasury is strictly a side bennie.

Well, considering that sex for you has consisted mostly of fucking your hand, I guess you're pretty sick.

Or at least pay for the privilege.

Maybe you should address that to the dozens of sexual images kids of all ages are subjected to every day.

Unless it's heterosexual, right? Or do you object to movies, books, and advertising showing them behaving in a sexual manner?

I doubt Sleepy gets much of anything.

I still had the high-capacity mags for the .40. That was the decider for me. It's a good gun. I can ring steel consistently at 100 metres, 3 out of 4 at 150. Not exactly a scoped .308, but I pretty much gave up hunting (getting too old for it) so it certainly fills every conceivable need I...