Ramble on

That our government has given weapons and training to rebellors in many countries particularly the middle east, to take down a leader that does not line up with US morals, and then throws in their own leader (dictator, authoritarian, etc) to suit their own (US) needs

You get whatever you want in heaven right? So what if your grandparent/parent/etc dies, goes to heaven and one of there hopes is for you to go to heaven when you die. God's prob not gonna deny their wish if they're there in the first place so boom easy access

I believe the 2020 election will have a much higher turnout in young adults newly able to vote than past primary elections. I think Trump has done enough for the younger generation to be so against him they will make sure they go out to vote (not even for an alternate party or anything, just in general)

Societys beliefs are like a pendulum. On one side is more personal freedom, and the other is more protection for the people. As the pendulum nears one side society starts to slowly reach a point of criticality where that belief cannot go further without anarchy. To avoid this society starts to shift towards the opposite end. The pendulum starts falling and repeats this process for the existence of the society. This was a concept introduced to me in my college political science class from Prof. L. She explained this such as a country wants it personal freedom, to not be stared down by the government in order for them to be protected, so the people fight against it, until the freedom becomes the norm and so lax, until the point where an event occurs or people start to get scared where they start wanting more protection. I believe we are currently nearing the end of the pendulum swing, slowly reaching the end of government protection. It may take years or decades as the pendulum could be ...

"Can you look at a guy and say he's an American who fought for his liberty and anybody can see he's a very different guy from a Canadian who didn't? No by god you can't and that's that."

I believe those who beg for money on the side of the road are making society less empathetic because they try not to give them money. This is a vast over-generalization, but I believe it gets the point across. It's no surprise that the human race is becoming more and more apathetic as time goes on, given the way the world is now. Media is showing more and more vulgarity, gore, and violence than before, and more people are getting exposed to this at younger and younger ages. This exposure is desensitizing us collectively and we respond less and less to this stimuli (an argument shown to me by Bobby). However, I believe that the desensitization is only to a limited extent, with the border being the killings we see in media (which we shrug off as it is not affecting us in any immediate way) to 'ignoring' the beggar on the side of the road. This is a generalized barrier, with a rough definition that varies from person to person. In support of this barrier's existence, I...