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Cake day: May 23rd, 2026

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  • People who don’t have that reflex are few enough that its absence can be considered an anomaly. If humans are God’s design, the existence of a self-preservation reflex like this sets a precedent.

    it’s weird that God determined accidental burns are bad enough that it’s worth taking away our free will to prevent them, but heinous crimes like paedophilia aren’t.












  • The people who you actually want to be around won’t judge you anyways. Sure, sometimes it’s worth it to avoid other people’s judgement (e.g. if it’s someone you’re forced to spend time with, like your coworker, or if your safety is on the line). But worrying about people’s judgement for the sake of it is just shackling



  • The guy who first came up with abolishing capital punishment had an idea: what if, instead of killing convicts (which makes us seem barbaric and instigates rebellion), we imprison them for life and make them work as slaves? Dying can be noble, but wasting away doing prison work takes away all dignity, so other criminals will not be tempted to emulate them.

    This was one little step in the long progress that lead to the fine-tuned fascism machine the USA is today.

    What I’m trying to say is, capital punishment is bad, and it looks especially bad because it’s flashy. It distracts us from other forms of punishment, which are just as inhumane (if not worse), but go unnoticed.

    So capital punishment absolutely needs to be abolished, but that is only the first step of many.