supporter of the Iraq war. Like huge. Um absolutely could not wait for that bloodshed . Um and did it as a complete atheist, right? um as an avowed atheist.And so he's sort of a great example of someone who it didn't take God to make him interested in violence and
bloodshed . Um and did it as a complete atheist, right? um as an avowed atheist.bloodshed . He did it all by himself. Um and I take that to be true of people
Stone, cold water, rinse. Make absence of any bloodshed , I, your wife, clean up all your messes. You play no judgment on such rash decisions as these.
yes Stephen tired of Bloodshed and they tried it and they long for something else and I think it seems to be human nature that that's
yes Stephen go back to what Bloodshed yeah I mean that seems to be the way the way we work
It's not like-- 2018, are enough of them going to be able to vote that they change the landscape of politics? Because your body believes it's bloodshed , a sacred kind of beauty, thinks you're more martyr than murder.
I vow no sleep will be lost over this. And I know from experience all bloodshed can easily be washed away. Thanks. Oh, I need water.
And then the people in southern Europe go, you are all heretics, and we are going to burn your ass as well as your books. And so the whole thing escalates into 130 years of extraordinary bloodshed that culminates in the 30 Years War. When I look at where we are now, I worry that we've created engines of polarization online.
In-building post went round hourly, and while some market developments did need immediate response, once you let people flag intraoffice mail, even inane check-ins mysteriously ended up marked "triple urgent." A little bloodshed ought to help clarify the situation. The mail demon consulted the building register and found-- odd-- the recipient unlisted.
I went into the military in 1985. You can't walk through that amount of bloodshed and bodies and black bags and-- you just can't walk through that and not be affected by it.
And there was just something about that that was like, this is everything that this is about. And I'm peaceful. I don't want bloodshed .
their humanity. They hadn't a clue. For all its brutality, its bloodshed , European imperialism achieved at least one thing. It discovered humanity. Humanity in the sense that there is a single species, that we share things in common.
-- a sense of fairness-- can decrease it. And then there's reason, the cognitive processes that allow us to engage in objective, detached analysis. The key question then is, which historical developments bring out our "better angels" and stay our hand before they can allow us to engage in bloodshed ? One possibility is that Hobbes got it right when he called for a Leviathan, a state and justice system with monopoly on the use of violence, which can bring about peace. First of all by eliminating the incentives for exploitive attack by punishing
The next question is, okay, so were most white people motivated to put on blue uniforms because they wanted to kill slavery? The answer to that is no, they were not. They were motivated to put on blue uniforms to salvage the Union, which they saw as a unique gift that the founding generation, based on the bloodshed in the American Revolution, had bequeathed the successive generations. And the two key parts of what the Union meant for them was, number one,
They just didn't like who won the election. And so if the republic is so fragile that it can't have an election without having the people who didn't like who won leave, then the founders had wasted their time, the revolution was for nothing, all that bloodshed meant nothing. You had to step up and save this precious republic that had put in place by the revolutionary generation and gave its citizens the benefits
And so this exercise of saying you're either with us or you're against us. And if you're against us, I have this word for you that says you're not this, like I said, that never ends well. It ends in war and bloodshed . Typically leading atheists today who write books on this. Okay? Richard Dawkins is among them. Uh he wrote a
bloodshed . Um and did it as a complete atheist, right? um as an avowed atheist.his belief such as they are, right? I mean, it's a lot of bloodshed , a lot of
And I have, probably out of the 20 years, taken about seven years off. I'm really shocked that the Joker continues to be a very popular villain, because he was very good for the '80s where we were really into bloodshed ,
And it's an illustration of the dangers of being overly heavy handed in your approach to counterinsurgency, because that can backfire, as it in fact did for the French in Algeria. Most of them like, the Paris Commune in 1871, wind up going down in bloodshed .
So let me, let me just ask the room here. How-How many of you guys consider yourselves gamers-in the room? Wow! That's about half. Interesting. So this is-there'll be some internecine arguments and bloodshed at the end of this session, I hope, while we all debate whether or not they do, in fact, matter.