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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1448533)3/24/2024 4:27:41 PM
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“The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute is self-sacrifice—which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction—which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good.”

That's why there aren't many absolutists.

Aaron Bushnell Self-Immolation: What We Know

New York Magazine


Mar 5, 2024 — Since the Vietnam War, self-immolation has been a dramatic but rare act of protest in the U.S. Vigils were held throughout the country on Monday ...

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"The issue is whether you do or do not have the right to exist without giving him that dime"

Really? My right to exist might depend on how I treat all beggars? That sounds more like my right to exist in a place called Heaven once I'm dead than my right to exist on Earth.

Do you think she asked the hospital people who took care of her in her dying years, "Were you a kind person before you became a nurse, or are you just being kind to me because being nice to the most miserable old shrew on your patient list is part of the job?"
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