I don’t think the judicial system has been very judicious since it’s become so politicized. With so many right leaning justices and straight up corruption in the courts I don’t respect their opinions anymore.

Perhaps it would be different for someone right leaning, but it’s my understanding that average people on the right distrust most government by default. The Republican mind and the libertarian mind are often similar.

All that to say I don’t think this is a valid trigger for introspection, and in fact I don’t think there is a single thing besides brown jesus christ himself coming down and rapturing their opposition that would cause even a second of pause.

Many women would prefer a relationship without penetration, for some women penetration can be painful without proper warmup and many men are frankly terrible about it.

This is likely less of an issue than you fear.

If interest rates go down prices will come up, there’s no world where house prices go down without massive economic pain for everyone.

A depression would bring house prices down, but then nobody could afford them, especially not those who don’t have the capital already.

I think that’s fair, superstition is directly opposed to evidence based reasoning. Not every superstitious person is a lost cause though. Most belief comes from indoctrination, and with time and critical thinking a lot of people can and do escape.

I think it’s similar to racism, people who do racist things can sometimes change when introduced to people of color, or to the subject of their bigotry. In the same way the victims of racism aren’t morally obligated to “fix” nor trust the people who perform racist acts, victims of the superstitious are not obliged to trust them.

The optimist in me hopes we can just help these people heal from their mental issues, but the realist realizes that in many cases it’s hopeless.

I completely agree prayer is utterly meaningless at best and actually harmful at worst. When somebody prays for an outcome they are getting the benefits of doing something without affecting any change, it’s like asking your imaginary older brother to take care of the bullies at school. “Who wee that job is done, I did my part by asking big bro for help”

That said, I think we ought to tone down the anti-prayer rhetoric because it can push some people who are actually waking up to the issues caused by recent political events away. While centrism in general is a bad political play for politicians, less derisive language among us common people could be good. Let some of the mindless religious fanatics do their praying that trump won’t hurt them, but when he does we should at least try to be sympathetic and let them change their mind.

We often get caught up in the schadenfreude of the self inflicted political wounds and forget these are people who will suffer needlessly.

Cause it’s freakin cool

You’re not out of your mind, nothing in life is black and white and if your feelings don’t match up with “normal” maybe that’s a good thing?

Idk, if I were in your shoes I wouldn’t be upset, but the relationship (as it was) would be over.

Monogamy works for a lot of people and polyamory works for a lot of people, but switching between the two is not a decision to be made by anything less than a unanimous decision!

I have a fully custom keyboard layout on my split ergo keyboard, makes it really hard to work on somebody else’s machine!

Ethically, depending on the religion, it is absolutely mandatory for parents to teach their children their religious views.

For example, let’s make up a cult. “Pireneists” are devout religious cultists that genuinely believe in their god, Kundo. Kundo’s holy book says that any who partake in the evil plant, the peanut, have been led astray by evil and will suffer for all eternity in the dark chasm of the lost.

For parents who legitimately believe this it would be completely unethical for them to let their children eat peanuts, their mental state has everything to do with their ethical mandates. The only ethical thing to do is to teach their children about their beliefs in such a way that the children will follow the same beliefs for their whole life. Indoctrination is indeed within the bounds of ethics.

To you it may seem silly. In fact to most of us this is peak idiocy and if the leaders of the pireneists have been known to take money from people to pay for their lavish lifestyles you could say that the organization itself is evil. However the mental state and beliefs of the parents override the fundamental veracity of the claims of the cult/religion. True or not, the parents believe and their inaction would be unethical.

If they were tasked with rewriting all laws we would be in anarchy without any laws ad infinitum

Curious how does that stack up historically with the largest drops in history percentage-wise?

I checked out the investopedia article:

• The Dow had its sixth-worst week of the 21st century; it fell 7.9% over the week and 9.3% in the last two days.
• The Dow shed 2,231 points on Friday, its third-largest one-day point decline on record.
• The Nasdaq Composite has dropped 11.4% since Trump’s tariff announcement, also its worst 2-day stretch since March 2020.

Probably not the best time for a person in the Middle East to immigrate to the US.

Both countries have incredibly well laid out options, your specific situation will change exactly what options you have. Are you incredibly wealthy? Are you a student? Lemmy is a good community but really not where you should be getting this kind of easily searched for info.

Had an old roommate flame me in his journal, he’d rushed out leaving the page open and I saw my name when I went in his room to drop something off.

He said some incredibly valid shit about me being condescending and it changed my outlook on my whole life. Nobody lies to their journal.