Jimmy Kimmel on the Killing of Cecil the Lion

Posted by LetsShrug 8 years, 9 months ago to Culture
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This is what we've become? He who has the biggest public emotional reaction wins??
Not to mention the witch hunt that is now in hot pursuit.
Jimmy Kimmel... Jackass.

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  • Posted by LetsShrug 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Spoken like a true thumper. Throw "period' on the end of an illogical remark and somehow we're supposed to be convinced. You are brainless.
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    Posted by AmericanGreatness 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Are you not familiar with the Judeo-Christian principles on which Western Civilization and America are based? I assumed that at a minimum you were, but perhaps my error is in assuming a certain baseline of knowledge for those engaged in debate on this forum.

    If you don't even have that baseline of knowledge, I don't have time to impart decades of study/knowledge or centuries of writings. Your comment is quite an indictment of our education system.
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  • Posted by woodlema 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The epic fail in this thread is not "everyone", just YOU!!!.

    Also you have REFUSED to very specifically tell anyone in your vague rhetoric WHAT THE SOURCE of your version of morality is.

    What WRITTEN code where this morality is listed and detailed.

    You have changed the subject, made just plain pathetic statements trying to support your view by just saying. YOUR WRONG< with NO evidence or proof at all.

    So again for about the 5th time,

    WHAT SOURCE? What written code, or "WHO" is your source for making these statement of morality?

    Until you can clearly articulate your source, your are an epic fail because you are making comments and statements based on some blind ideology with zero substance.
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    Posted by AmericanGreatness 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    So, it doesn't matter if your examples/assertions are correct, as long you say something. Your previous responses are starting to make a lot more sense now.

    Am I unwittingly chatting with Pelosi???
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  • Posted by Technocracy 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Irrelevant, you asked for an example, I gave you one.

    It is obviously pointless to attempt a dialogue with you.

    Welcome to my ignore list.
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    Posted by AmericanGreatness 8 years, 9 months ago
    My judgements about being historically uninformed are based on their uninformed arguments. If someone proclaims 5+5 is anything but 10, is nota stretch to say they're no math prodigy.

    The lack of historical knowledge asserted by some claiming expertise is staggering, and I expect more from those in this forum.

    If I'm debated with false facts, and I'm going to call out the pseudo intellectual and rebut vigorously. If it results in people taking the time to actually look up facts and learn all the better, but they will likely recoil defensively and stay uninformed.
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    Posted by AmericanGreatness 8 years, 9 months ago
    The fail is in your historical knowledge. The connection to the topic came about when moral relativism was introduced as it relates to the morality of killin for sport/trophy and the effect that has diminishing the value of life generally.

    Whether you like it or not, the moral compass of a society is directly linked to its freedom and liberty. Your failure to recognize this does not constitute a fail on anyone's part but your own.
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  • Posted by Technocracy 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Since nobody other than yourself recognizes you as an authority on anything, your judgment on how informed we are carries the same weight.

    You are being chastised, at least on my part, for poor behavior. You are rude and prefer insults to cogent arguments. You wear the troll face.

    Further, since you know virtually nothing about anyone on this forum you are making judgments without any facts to speak of.
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  • Posted by Technocracy 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Nice twist and stretch to drive outrage on your part.

    The only armies that marched through there were the allied forces and imperial Japanese forces in WW2.

    What messed their lifestyles up was western goods and culture. Look up the cargo cult.
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  • Posted by Watcher55 8 years, 9 months ago
    The arguments flying to and fro as usual are a confused mishmash mainly based on emotion.
    The only nugget of relevant fact is whether the hunter had the legal right to shoot the lion, and if not whether his shooting it was knowing that or a mistake.
    The insanity of the furore is illustrated by the simple fact that this guy killed one lion. Are people so divorced from reality that they don't realise that lions themselves are apex predators who kill, and kill, and kill other animals? If it is OK for a lion to do so, then it is OK for us.
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  • Posted by khalling 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    what do you mean , slavery does not exist? leave the country and find out ;)
    I have to PAY in order to not be a citizen. what the f is that about?!
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  • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When a transaction harms no one, it is perfectly legitimate to choose to engage in it without any deeply-thought-out reason.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Prostitution (not to be conflated with slavery which pretty much doesn't exist) is a value for value exchange, and the law has no business banning it. And like the drug trade, pretty much ALL the harms that "result from it" actually result from the laws against it.

    Everybody should have sex available to them, and prostitution is what makes that possible.
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  • Posted by woodlema 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And yet again you fail epically in your ability to follow a post and even READ it. I made mention of the 10 enumerated powers, which also plays to the 10th amendment which allows states to do what they want.

    However. You again are an epic fail, because of the 13 states at the time, even though they may have supported a "state church" each of the 13 states individual constitution NEVER legislated morality, and ONLY in the Statutes may or may not have addressed prostitution but ONLY in terms of legality not morality.

    But yet again this has NOTHING at all to do with the topic at hand, which was the Lion...the guy was legal, had every right to kill it, he did, ts trophy gave the meat to the villagers, and all is good.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The problem is that killing is not connected to a gap (food, safety, etc). I have no issue with killing, but we will gain no momentum supporting killing for fun, and I'm not sure where the line should lie there.
    Is it a superior moral position to kill a 13 year old lion with children and self-awareness, with an arrow that languishes in pain for 40 hrs, or a human fetus, or a criminal, or ..

    What are we arguing in favor of? I don't buy sport vs all all else, when the same people argue the infinite sanctity of human life.
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