It's okay, I forgive you 🙏🏼

I will break you of your pacifist ways. My raccoons are stronger than your poor fags. Just walk away.

I feed raccoons my breakfast

This is the type of joke people sub for.

But for real; official Daily Poor position on this topic: follow the rules of your language as it's usually spoken/written. Don't desecrate the language by breaking its rules to fit your politics. (Yes, doing so is, in fact, lib.)

The Associated Press violates English when it capitalizes the "b" in the word "black." The correct response to this isn't to join them in polluting English by capitalizing the "w" in "white." No, instead, It's to just continue using the language as it was before they spat on it.

Very similar thing here when it comes to downgrading proper nouns. Let's say I don't like Jack. He's a scumbag. Do I start referring to him with a lowercase "J" when I type his name? No. That's not how the language works, and I suspect that the average age for people who engage in that sort of behavior is around 8 or 9 years old.

Respect your language and treat it with care.

This daily poor guy is really unreasonable. I can't believe he declared war on this channel

If you don't actually understand the views of your opponents, you're probably not actually doing philosophy. You should know your opponents' arguments better than they tend to if you really care about an issue.

In days of old, before our time,
Society had different ways,
Tradition's wisdom was sublime,
Guiding people through their days.

This ancient order, known as "nomos,"
Gave structure to the world we knew,
From kings to peasants, all in cosmos,
Each role defined, both old and new.

But then arrived the Enlightenment,
With thinkers bold and ideas bright,
They spoke of rights as heaven-sent,
And individual freedom's light.

"All men are equal," so they claimed,
"With rights bestowed by nature's hand."
The old hierarchies were blamed,
As new philosophies did expand.

Yet pause and ponder, if you will,
This notion strange of "human rights,"
A concept new, for good or ill,
That set the world ablaze with fights.

For rights, you see, aren't carved in stone,
Not eternal truths we must obey,
But recent thoughts, not long have grown,
That push the ancient ways away.

This shift in thinking, some would say,
Is left-wing at its very core,
Though right and left both use today,
These "rights" to open freedom's door.

But as we chase this dream so bold,
Of liberty for one and all,
Do we not see the social fold,
Begin to weaken and to fall?

For when each person stands alone,
Declaring rights as chief concern,
The bonds of community have flown,
And social fabric starts to burn.

The modern world, so proud, so free,
May lose the wisdom of the past,
As nomos fades, what will we see?
Can individualism last?

So next you hear of "human rights,"
Remember this perspective new,
That questions if these modern lights,
Destroy more than they claim to do.

This view's not common, that is true,
It challenges what most believe,
But wisdom often hides from view,
In thoughts that few can first conceive.

So ponder well this ancient way,
Of nomos and community,
And ask if rights, so praised today,
Might bind more than they claim to free.

For progress isn't always clear,
And change can come at heavy cost,
In chasing rights, we hold so dear,
What treasures might we have lost?

I thought this was America

Good morning.

One of the things about modern life that shatters communities is the lack of consistent difficulties that bind people together

What were some times where you were pretty blatantly only exposed to one side of an argument?

In a political philosophy course at University as an undergrad, we read Locke's first treatise on government, which attempts to refute Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, without having actually read Filmer's book first.

The French arrested Durov as a diversion so that we wouldn't notice this happening right under our noses....

This is less common than the headline suggests, but still way more common than it ought to be.

'Bout to cook some chicken breast to 142°F over the next few hours. Critics are missing out.

Someone put a Trump sign up in my lawn. This is the first un-neighborly act I've received living in the UP

YouTube after I talk about being poor on my cell phone:

Woman: “Wow he is probably looking for something to eat.”

Bear: “Lord, I don’t know how you did it. But each day I see something that leaves me in awe at your creation.”