Thanks Trump and Putin. Just what future generations of children need, more fucking landmines. /s

They do, also it’s a wider talent pool and more chance of recruiting the best and brightest.

If you use the wrong past tense all the time, that will definitely make you sound like a hillbilly.

Thanks!

Compelling argument.

Me too. It’s the one word that triggers something in my brain.

Oxford spelling, Oxford comma: what’s not to like?

Anything with a United Nations style spellcheck will sort it for you.

Depends on the tense.

I spell it wrong.

I have spelled it wrong.

I spelled it wrong.

I had spelt it wrong.

“I had spelled it wrong” sounds like a hillbilly.

Do you by any chance know where I could read a good introduction to Canadian English?

I can write fluently in UK and US English but Canadian sometimes has me stumped.

A billionaire tax haven where over 50% of the labourers are non-citizens?

That person is delusional. If North America were a group of Indigenous nations it wouldn’t have been a major immigration target for European refugees.

I am here because Germany went fucking nuts and bombed my homeland.

No, you’re there because the people already there decided to let your family in.

Them being in a position to let you in js a crucial factor. And the reason their society got to control that is because of what they had done to other people beforehand.

No one is asking you to feel guilt and no one is blaming you. But facts are facts.

they treat anyone outside of their bubble as an enemy

There’s the problem.

It might be you who needs to grow up. This is a weird knee jerk reaction.

Non Americans should be able to ask a question about America without being told to “grow up”.

It’s not childish to wonder how much Americans understand about how fucked up their choice of leadership is. We’re not psychic.

Perhaps you missed the headlines when the ICC called out Facebook for actively, deliberately obstructing the ICC genocide investigation into the Rohingya genocide.

I would prefer to send all of them to dig graves for the victims of various genocides and conflicts.

Yes, I think that’s what has happened. He could have been clearer.

Sounds like “all moral philosophies are equal, but some are more equal than others”

Love your username.

In moral philosophy cultural relativism isn’t merely an empirical observation about how morality develops, though. It’s a value judgment about moral soundness that posits that all forms of morality are sound in context.

(When he says “entirely relative” that signals cultural relativism).

To use your chess example a cultural relativist would hold buckle and thong to the argument that if most people in your chess club habitually play scholars mate and bongcloud then those are the soundest openings, full stop, and that you are objectively right to think that.

Of course chess is a problematic analogy because there are proven known optimums, so tha analogy is biased on the side of objective morality.

I think you’re missing the significance of his phrase “entirely relative”.

In moral philosophy, cultural relativity holds that morals are not good or bad in themselves but only within their particular context. Strong moral relativists would hold the belief that it’s fine to murder children if that is a normal part of your culture.