Zampano’s dead, it was clearly Truant

I have a friend named Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla

Their faces are similar enough

And then get killed, which is worse than losing an arm. Where’s the fight? You just lost both arms.

It’s definitely harder after college, but not impossible. You’re just going to have to put in a bit of effort. The two best recommendations I can make are:

1. getting involved in some kind of hobby that’s either inherently social (board games, team sports, etc.) or puts you together in the same place with other hobbyists (I’ve done a lot of socializing at rock climbing gyms, despite it technically being a solo thing)

2. working a job that forces you to socialize in small doses (hospitality, customer service, etc). Being thrust into micro interactions dozens of times a day makes it a lot easier to approach people in casual settings.

Thanks, Chef Jean Pierre

How? They’d figure out swap before they even started.

Met a couple with a pet raccoon, on a leash and everything. I asked them how it was, since my wife had fantasized about a pet raccoon. They described it as a “little mischief goblin”.

Likewise, I’m just hypothesizing.

Perhaps, but then you introduce the factor of the adult being a capricious sexual partner. In both cases, your goal is to navigate the question without offending their opaque and confusing sensibilities.

Sometimes I wonder if this sort of question is like an instinctual parental fitness test. Kids ask all sorts of wild questions, maybe this is a test to see if you can navigate that kind of question with tact.

He’s an ex-father

Personally, I’d rather see the relevant information extracted and put into a shorter document and circulate that.

Eh, I dunno what the big deal is. There’s a bit in there about organizational sabotage which is useful, but most of it is about how to subtly break machines from the 40s. It’s designed to fight the fascist military industry in occupied Europe 80 years ago, not a corporatized political takeover at home in the 21st century. Still, it’s symbolic I guess, but it seems like the sort of thing people download without actually reading so they can act like part of the resistance.

Translation is weird, especially when long periods of time are involved, even more so when you’re dealing with a text largely composed of symbolic or metaphorical language. Often times one word in language A corresponds to multiple words in language B, and you rely largely on context to decide which meaning was intended. Another biblical example is “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter heaven”. In Aramaic, the words for “camel” and “thick rope” are nearly identical. Hebrew in particular has a lot of terms that refer to multiple thematically similar concepts.

The Hebrew noun translated as "rib’', tzela (tzade, lamed, ayin), can indeed mean a costal rib. It can also mean the rib of a hill (2 Samuel 16:13), the side chambers (enclosing the temple like ribs, as in 1 Kings 6:5,6), or the supporting columns of trees, like cedars or firs, or the planks in buildings and doors (1 Kings 6:15,16). So the word could be used to indicate a structural support beam. Interestingly, Biblical Hebrew, unlike later rabbinic Hebrew, had no technical term for the penis and referred to it through many circumlocutions. When rendered into Greek, sometime in the second century BCE, the translators used the word pleura, which means side, and would connote a body rib (as the medical term pleura still does). This translation, enshrined in the Septuagint, the Greek Bible of the early church, fixed the meaning for most of western civilization, even though the Hebrew was not so specific.

Or so goes the claim.

You’ve just a conceded that enforcing said laws don’t actually prevent the crime

Except I didn’t concede that? I said enforcing laws doesn’t totally eliminate crime, in the same way that putting a soda in the fridge doesn’t drop the temperature to 0K. Enforcing laws reduces crime.

I would say enforcement never prevents any crime

I would say you’re demonstrably incorrect.

and enforcement is about punishment not prevention.

Punishment is the method of prevention. Additionally, incarceration is in part about removing law breakers from polite society so they do not continue to break laws. We quarantine the murderers so they don’t keep murdering people.

So when is it worth it?

As with most things in life, we decide on a reasonable compromise. Putting a soda in the fridge is beneficial, putting it in the freezer is too much, and causes more problems than it solves. We decide these things collectively as a society, by electing representatives to draft laws. When they overstep, we elect new representatives to change the laws.

How much abuse and Injustice is necessary to assuage your fears about the other?

What’s abusive and unjust about trying to prevent murderers? Where’s the justice for victims and their families if as a society we just say “Golly, sorry this guy killed your children, but if we punished him we’d be just as bad”? How do you recommend reducing the injustices people enact against each other?

Surely you’re not going to sit here and tell me only fear of punishment is what stops you from murdering people?

Me personally? Of course not. But obviously some people want to do crimes. You can’t build a society based on everyone behaving just like you all the time. Some people are more violent, or greedy, or deceptive. We are barely domesticated apes, jungle impulses course through us all. Some more than others. Without some mechanism to curtail that, consequences that outweigh the benefits of selfish behavior, you wind up back at might-makes-right anyway when the selfish behave selfishly with no recourse.

That doesn’t prove that not enforcing them would somehow make murder disappear, it just proves that you can’t absolutely eliminate a behavior. Every action has diminishing returns.

I can remove some of the heat from an object by putting it in the fridge. I can remove more by putting it in the freezer, but that requires more energy. I can remove even more by using more and more sophisticated scientific equipment, but I can never reduce the temperature to absolute zero. That doesn’t mean the soda in my fridge isn’t colder than one on the counter.

Perfect results aren’t obtainable except in trivial cases.

exactly what putin hired him to do.

Stop repeating this nonsense. It’s extremely unlikely he’s being paid by Putin. Blackmail is much more likely.