Amoral

Can an amoral person commit a crime? When did intent become a necessary component of guilt? Is it a necessary component of the justification of official killing?

Where the shift of the law’s focus from effect to intent occur? When does the initiation of youth into sexual experience turn into abuse? Is is abuse if the perp doesn’t mean anything by it?

Killing a person is, of course, just the ultimate escallation of abuse. So, if we want to interdict killing. We have to stop abuse.

Trump the turd.

Reminds me of the “Entertainer,” a has-been who cannot relinquish his shtick. The Turd cannot give up his lies. Why? Perhaps it is a late-onset compulsion.

Anyway, the result of persistent preverication is pseudo everything. Nothing is real.

The Turd likes the word “fake.” Pseudo President might be better.

The connection between abortion and slavery.

That the terminology is wrong does not matter because the real issue is not abortion; it’s coerced reproduction. Just as some cultures keep cattle as status symbols, some U.S. populations look to have off-spring as a source of effortless status and wealth. That is what I heard the other day when an irate, obese woman proudly proclaimed herself a single mother of two boys, a three and a sixteen year old. She was offering to sell us her house at an outrageous price.

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