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it is not wrong for catholics to vote for a prochoice president, in this political climate

con has taken it upon himself to define what proportinoate reasons means, on behalf of the catholic church. given it wasn't defined, it is more open to interpretation. and, the quoted part where ratzinger said a catholic can't vote for a prochoice person because they are prochoice, was irrelevant to this situation.... the people are voting for them in spite of their prochoice stance. given proportional reasons is open to interpretation, it would make common sense to say if nothing is going to change to vote for a candidate, that you don't have to vote on that issue. a common issue presented back in the days of that quote, was torture. eg A is prolife but protorture, an intrinsic evil. B is prochoice but not protorture. the abortion issue won't change as a practical matter in this hypothetical. torture is pivotal on who wins. everything else is the same issue wise. how is it not proportionate to vote for B given torture has a chance of changing? it is proportionate. anything else would be to read an agenda into the pope's words.

CMV: The internet (not Climate Change) will be the cause of the extinction of our specie via widespread depression caused by accessibility of informations enabling the comparison with the #1 person in every domain

The internet has produced extreme advances in every possible areas of humanity and it's responsible for the rise in Gross Domestic Product since the late 1990s and up to the new millennium. But if the platform is new, the use which humans do of it is always directed by market forces which are on their own directed by our nature (see for example how the vast majority of the internet is pornographic content). Our nature is to compare ourselves with others and the internet has exacerbated this phenomenon and literally have it run wild If you are a small owner trying to provide for your family you have the Bezos 200B net worth in your face all the times, if you are a girl trying to feel cute about her body..then you have Emily Ratajowski in your face, again, all the time And our nature, by the way, is not to look away and don't pay attention to our competitors but to keep head down and grind to eventually reach #1 and finally be happy. But the notion of #1 implies that there can only be only one winner and 7,999,999,999 losers at this game. So we are already seeing a comparison induced depression state across the board, but this is nothing yet compared with what's about to hit us. It will hit us from the inside , unlike any external enemy and it will be global You think the current situation is bad? It's still seen nothing compared to the violence of an enemy which we can't even study and have no hope of defeating. At least with But if the platform is new, the use which humans do of it is always directed by market forces which are on their own directed by our nature (see for example how the vast majority of the internet is pornographic content). Our nature is to compare ourselves with others and the internet has exacerbated this phenomenon and literally have it run wild If you are a small owner trying to provide for your family you have the Bezos 200B net worth in your face all the times, if you are a girl trying to feel cute about her body..then you have Emily Ratajowski in your face, again, all the time And our nature, by the way, is not to look away and don't pay attention to our competitors but to keep head down and grind to eventually reach #1 and finally be happy. But the notion of #1 implies that there can only be only one winner and 7,999,999,999 losers at this game. So we are already seeing a comparison induced depression state across the board, but this is nothing yet compared with what's about to hit us. It will hit us from the inside , unlike any external enemy and it will be global You think the current situation is bad? It's still seen nothing compared to the violence of an enemy which we can't even study and have no hope of defeating. At least with Our nature is to compare ourselves with others and the internet has exacerbated this phenomenon and literally have it run wild If you are a small owner trying to provide for your family you have the Bezos 200B net worth in your face all the times, if you are a girl trying to feel cute about her body..then you have Emily Ratajowski in your face, again, all the time And our nature, by the way, is not to look away and don't pay attention to our competitors but to keep head down and grind to eventually reach #1 and finally be happy. But the notion of #1 implies that there can only be only one winner and 7,999,999,999 losers at this game. So we are already seeing a comparison induced depression state across the board, but this is nothing yet compared with what's about to hit us. It will hit us from the inside , unlike any external enemy and it will be global You think the current situation is bad? It's still seen nothing compared to the violence of an enemy which we can't even study and have no hope of defeating. At least with climate as well as the current situation we know what we should do to solve the problem (it's more a matter of getting our act together and doing it), but with this particular enemy (comparison induced depression) there's nothing we can do. We don't even know how to attack it

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McCain offers the right kind of change

"Editorial: We recommend John McCain for president". Dallas Morning News. 18 Oct. 2008 - "Americans want 18 Oct. 2008 - "Americans want change, yes, but banking on change alone is a risky proposition. Both Barack Obama and John McCain offer new deals to a tense, weary nation."