So that's how the sausage is made.
I've gotten to the point where I no longer want compromise. I know it's not sustainable. I know it's bad for social progress and wealth. But you can't just keep choosing the cooperate strategy against an opponent that chooses to defect half the time. Liberals need to choose defect pretty much constantly for the next two years, until we get a group that understands the value of compromise.
Like, I'm at the point where I just think we should take everyone's guns away. Do I really think that? Not so much -- I believe in a Californian's constitutional right to hunt and fish. And there are parts of the country with real wild animals that will kill you. But you know what? Fuck 'em. So many people are dying from American guns across North America, and so if we lose a few citizens to bears, so be it. It will still be less than how many die now. The social contract where the government answers to its citizens because they have guns is a fantasy -- if the modern military wanted to seize power in the U.S. there would be fuck-all we could do about it. Five and six year olds in Japan are expected to walk to school alone, but here in the U.S. adult women are afraid to go out alone. There's a long cancer on the country, and at this point, we probably gotta use the chemo because we're past the point where a minor surgery would fix it.
I've gotten to the point where I no longer want compromise. I know it's not sustainable. I know it's bad for social progress and wealth. But you can't just keep choosing the cooperate strategy against an opponent that chooses to defect half the time. Liberals need to choose defect pretty much constantly for the next two years, until we get a group that understands the value of compromise.
Like, I'm at the point where I just think we should take everyone's guns away. Do I really think that? Not so much -- I believe in a Californian's constitutional right to hunt and fish. And there are parts of the country with real wild animals that will kill you. But you know what? Fuck 'em. So many people are dying from American guns across North America, and so if we lose a few citizens to bears, so be it. It will still be less than how many die now. The social contract where the government answers to its citizens because they have guns is a fantasy -- if the modern military wanted to seize power in the U.S. there would be fuck-all we could do about it. Five and six year olds in Japan are expected to walk to school alone, but here in the U.S. adult women are afraid to go out alone. There's a long cancer on the country, and at this point, we probably gotta use the chemo because we're past the point where a minor surgery would fix it.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto