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ye certainly have embraced my old professor's mantra of "dazzle them w/ brilliance or baffle them w/ bullshit," good sir you had a lot of fancy footwork in there, I doubt i'll answer everything you asked or consider every argument, but here's my 3-minute response yes, I do think all states (using the consensus definition humans have established over the ages for what a state is (and incidentally, would you contend iran or north korea don't meet it?)) have the right to build the defense force they feel necessary to defend themselves - no, I don't think deterrence will always prevent the use of those weapons, though we've managed the better part of a century to have them and not use them - Russian atheists probably were more concerned w/ the here and now than fellers dreaming of forty virgins and a pie-in-the-sky, and thus less likely to invite a nuclear holocaust. the details of what is/isn't a state i'll leave to you to hash out (can I apply the supreme court's pornography definition? sure seems to work ) - does isis call itself a state? yes. do I think it's a state? not yet, but maybe someday. do I want a future nation-state that calls itself isis to have nukes? no, of course not. would I consider myself a hypocrite to say the usa could have nukes, but not this future isis-state? definitely. would I be okay w/ our country annihilating that state prior to using those weapons? no. afterwards. yes, though I'll concede it was a bummer it had to come to that. I'm a happy-go-lucky nihilist - douglas adams was my prophet but he's dead now and that's all that matters of course a utilitarian will bend the rules to benefit himself and his family. it possible that I'm as lousy a nihilist and utilitarian as I am a climber/father/teacher/human-being/etc not certain what to make of your "argument from equality" - is equality even a real thing? I just thought it was a slogan

people w/ drills

the anchor bolts on meth rage are the least of that route's problems

Buckaroo, I suspect you'd be a bit more pleasant in person. But who knows. In any event, angry paranoid libtards like you are a big part of the reason ordinary people are tuning out the D's. Glad they have ya on their side. :kisss: don't think ordinary people (meself included) feel anything akin to loyalty to either party hypothetical question: would you deny 10000 citizens the right to vote in order to prevent 1 illegal vote? 1000? 100?

light comes w/ a cost

but...but...but...felons are mostly black n' brown, n' you know how'd they'd vote!

so long as you don't go jugging on'em

congrats on not making yer first gear climb cinnamon slab great first trad lead actually, i've always thought the second is way more in danger on skyridge.

gotta put the fence back in to contain the dog, the chickens n' the frack'n children it's all gonna work out - just gotta get a true n' honest drunk on first, then go rent some power-tools

it seems to me, if nothing else, that compulsory voting is cool b/c it helps solve the problem of intentionally trying to suppress voter turnout....in retrospect, that DOES make sense then why certain political parties might not like it

...locate the mother of the motherfucker who set all the posts of my (broken) backyard fence in concrete so i can cape her dumb ass before she shat out that sad rat-fuck bastard anybody got a jackhammer they can lend a brother? maybe some nitro? black-tar heroine?

'roooooooooooound heeeeeeeere...

i've never given mandatory voting much thought - seems a wierd concept, but in a mail-voting system like ours where it takes precisely zero effort, it doesn't seem like anything to get excited over - the little i know is that australia has it - hmmm...never heard of australia as being a commie shit-hole, so how bad could it be? as to "worshipping" a president - who the fuck ever worshipped a president, besides maaaaaaybe washington? not worshipping anything seems a pretty key part of liberalism for me ole'barrack's done a decent enough job, better than grandpa n' bible-spice or mittens n' company i'm sure - if nothing else, i've been able to listen to my president talk the past 6 years w/o cringing the whole time - it's the little things, see?

have any modern climbing accidents involved a dynamic rope of any age breaking due to strain, not cutting?

old sprayers don't die, they just faaaaaaaade away

"dogs look up to us. cats look down on us. pigs see us as equals." winston sharting churchill

your alpine rope can be any age you like 'cuz yer not allowed to fall on them anyway i'm always in the market for junk ropes to use as fixed lines god knows where....

lovely world we live in

i see the diving board snag

i love my neighborhood cat - it used to spend lots of time in my house, very buddy-buddy, feral but friendly - the day the wife brought her dog-damned god home old puss pissed off for 2 years w/o a word - the first summer the family went away and the dog got boarded, damned if that cat didn't instantly become a regular again

You will be able to spend every night in a warm bed with a girl for the rest of your life after you get married. Do the unplanned bivis now, while you still have the chance. dunno, after seeing what i assume is said lady this past summer, i think the lad might be guilty of little more than common sense

how has 14.4 missed this gem?

it was curly's gold!

i think we would be but one of the usual suspects rounded up after somebody wacked him

that walker feller would sure help the left get off it's collective ass