Falstaff
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Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools
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Noodleface
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Kreugen
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if you haven't read Patton Oswalt's viral comment yet -
"This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness, but the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago. So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.' "
I have to disagree with Mr. Oswalt here though -"We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago."
A.) Until we were atomic we did not have the ability to endanger our own species
B.) I think Humans are inherently evil, IF you define evil as by taking each other's lives. We're really good at that, and always have been.
"This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness, but the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago. So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.' "
I have to disagree with Mr. Oswalt here though -"We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago."
A.) Until we were atomic we did not have the ability to endanger our own species
B.) I think Humans are inherently evil, IF you define evil as by taking each other's lives. We're really good at that, and always have been.
Lumi
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Ya keep the victims and their families in your thoughts by denying who the real perpetrators are. Go kill yourself please you waste of fucking life.
Lumie, even if let's say you're right and this truly was a conspiracy (devised by whomever) - Pretty sure a few thousand nutjobs like yourself hashing it out on the internet aren't going to get to the bottom of it.
Can we get real here?
Tanoomba
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Nothing "inherent" about humans taking human lives. It's either a genetic defect (something wrong in the brain) or it's learned behavior. That applies to gang members, soldiers, the 1%, and anybody else who takes human lives for any reason (except, of course, self defense,but if you have to kill someone to save yourself, they already fall into one the aforementioned categories).
Burnem Wizfyre
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Shouldn't we have all been dead by now, pretty sure 2012 has passed us by without a glitch.
Soygen
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Can you cite this? I am seeing that there were two unexploded devices in addition to the two exploded ones, but the wording is kinda unclear. I take it to mean that there were two devices found, no others.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...231807060.html
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Phazael
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Honestly, only Foraskin and now Melrin have made my ignore list.
Also, the human race is not inherently evil. It takes things like Greed and Envy to make the human animal into something capable of killing its own. There are other animals that engage in territorial and mating disputes that are lethal, but not on the scale we do and very few are herbivores.
Also, the human race is not inherently evil. It takes things like Greed and Envy to make the human animal into something capable of killing its own. There are other animals that engage in territorial and mating disputes that are lethal, but not on the scale we do and very few are herbivores.
Loser Araysar
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Evil is purely a man made construct. Nothing is inherently evil, and nothing is inherently good. "Evil" that we do, happens in the animal kingdom all the time, they call it that a tuesday. That's how everyone survived for thousands of years before we became sophisticated enough to have the leisure time to sit around and pontificate on abstract concepts like good and evil.
If herbivores had the means to kill each other, they would, but its hard to kick or chew someone to death.
If herbivores had the means to kill each other, they would, but its hard to kick or chew someone to death.