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7 days agoWhile deserving, this would require violating our own laws.
We cannot cut down all the trees to find the devil Mr. roper.


While deserving, this would require violating our own laws.
We cannot cut down all the trees to find the devil Mr. roper.


The overlap of people who have the conviction and experience of fighting from the tree line at 3AM and the people that share this sentiment contains very little overlap.
I wouldn’t be so confident in inevitable.


There is a mountain of evidence that shows 13 different cancers are directly caused by obesity. 8 more are suspected to be caused through excess weight.
When something is 500% more likely when a biological factor is introduced, it’s 100% correlation with strong possibility to be causation. So strong that there is no point asking that question unless you are asking it in bad faith.
It’s from A Man for All Seasons, a play that illustrates the importance of the rule of law.
William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”
Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”
William Roper: “Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!”
Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!