Why...is "God bless America" so awful to you, neef?
Not particularly, nor is that exactly what the young lady's poster said.
Your concepts of patriotism are yours to have as you wish, of course.
To me, however, they sound more like what I heard in grade school during the cold war 1950s
that what I hear from contemporary sophisticates.
It also goes back, by the way, to our always-fun "free will" conversations.
Punishment requires guilt to be justified,
and guilt requires free will to occur,
and I don't know for certain that there's such a thing as free will.
Dangerous people must be segregated or removed from civil society, I agree,
but, my having third millennium level sophistication,
I prefer other methods to punishment.
Hanging and other forms of execution are punishment.
Humane euthanasia, while providing the same result, is not.
Can we at least agree, Oom,
that I'm more evolved than you are?
Nobody is suggesting that it's your fault.
As with cards, we get the genes that we're dealt.
