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“Personal responsibility” and “parents” were the excuse the tobacco industry used for years to market and sell harmful, addictive products to children for years. I’m quite suspicious of anyone who thinks they need to push responsibility for mass phenomena backed by billions of dollars onto relativel...

As you know, I've been on this forum for many years, mostly as a lurker. I don't make public personal rebukes lightly, and this one is based on patterns I've observed for a very long time. I trust readers to draw their own conclusions, as you have, about whether the rebuke is warranted and about wh...

I didn't rebuke JM for raising concerns with FOTW or Sattler, and neither of us are members of either institution, so that's a red herring at the moment. As you know, I've been on this forum for many years, mostly as a lurker. I don't make public personal rebukes lightly, and this one is based on p...

Do you have any evidence the “criminal record” is having a cellphone at school or being arrested for jaywalking? If those offences happened before 18 they would be juvenile records anyway and not show up on a criminal background check. You keep saying “kids”. Now, if we’re talking about adults… adul...

That’s quite an attack, jahertz. I see a distinct lack of Christian charity in this thread. I have met and spent plenty of time with both JM and jahertz, sat around a bonfire and chatted, spent the night at their house, talked on the phone for hours, and so on. I think it is perfectly reasonable to ...

RZehr wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:28 am

Josh wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:00 am I like to cut and paste a transcript into Copilot and request a summary.

I don’t know how to get a transcript or know what Copilot is. How?

You can cut and paste a transcript on YouTube.

And what is wrong with that? Take my hypothetical example of a minimum speed regulation that inadvertently excludes the Amish from our public roads. There was no intent to discriminate against the Amish. In fact, no one was even thinking about them when the regulation was written. Yet such a regula...

Yes, it is extremely well documented that poor Black kids are frequently subject to criminalization for activities that are not criminalized for kids whose are White and middle class. Everything from trivial issues of school discipline to things like walking on the street, driving with a broken tai...

I'll ask again. No weasel words please. Have you stopped beating your wife yet? Why not simply answer the question with a yes or no? If you refuse to give a direct answer, why? What are you trying to hide? I asked a direct question and you've refused to answer it. Haven't even acknowledged it. That...

If you call me “reformed” I will expect you to justify it through actual reformed doctrinal sources. I doubt you are familiar with any of them. Fortunately, there's an easy way to clear this up: Do you agree with reformed theology? Yes or no? No. Don’t affirm any of the 5 major points of Calvinism,...