Born Hunter
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We really shouldn't be allowing this in a modern society. It's the 21stC ffs! It will just normalise disgusting fascist views encouraging the deplorable Right to speak up when we should be locking them up for their damaging, invasive and hurtful opinions!
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The residents of skeg will probably consider a nuclear fallout zone on their doorstep a nice getaway destination!
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I'll chance the apocalypse tar.
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IMO there is a very big and not often spoken of aspect of power projection going on here. The Obama years was a period of the US backing down on the world stage, engaging more in diplomacy and less in hard power. The UK did the same. France on the other hand surprisingly waded right into Mali! France aside, after drawn out conflicts from the Bush/Blair years the West has stepped down a bit and at the same time the Eastern powers have stepped up, showing a desire to operate out of their back yards and challenge the balance of power globally. This has happened again and again through history, em
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Everyone thinks I'm a bit mental but I totally agree. I mean I don't want such an event to happen for obvious reasons but can you imagine how amazing witnessing it would be? Like the tests done in the early days. Similarly the 911 attacks. I don't suppose anyone could really understand, but that was such a huge and unique event, such a significant historical event, I couldn't help the feeling of wanting to have witnessed it first hand. Not wishing for this shit to happen, just feeling an urge to have witnessed it. I suppose a lot of folks would think I'm some sort of psychopath for that b
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I understand that mate. Always two on patrol right? With the other two on training or refitting etc, potentially all four deployed at wartime? But it's still a significant naval base with warfighting assets, conventional subs associated weapons and support systems, marines etc. I'd be surprised if it's not a target.
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I bet Lossiemouth and Faslane will be targets too. Faslane certainly. That'll keep Scot warm and irradiate a fair chunk of Scotland!
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You're all so paranoid! I'm just at home living my life as normal. Nothing will happen.
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British nuclear submarine reportedly moved into Tomahawk missile range for Syria strike also French warship buzzed by Russian combat aircraft in warning against missile attack The comments on that site are always worth reading, some genuine industry subject matter experts. Thought this one was worth consideration; Evening What is likely is that a chemical attack was launched against a suburb of Damascus. What is also likely is that this attack was launched from the air utilising a crude deployment method, more than likely by helicopter. Only two nations currently depl
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Whether folks like it or not this is a controversial topic, both abortion and free speech for that matter and some are gonna talk about it, like every other controversial topic. Behave gentlemanly and there shouldn't be an issue. Politics is something you as an individual can choose to avoid, it's not something you can make others avoid.
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I'd say you're about cock on there. For the sake of escalation I'd imagine a US strike will be entirely cruise missiles launched from destroyers like last year. The implications of a aircraft being shot down are too great even if the risk would be small. And the consequences of Russia responding by attacking a US warship would be f***ing huge! Putin ain't daft, hes an expert in pushing the limits. Let's face it the Turks mullered a Russian fighter and all the russophiles were garunteeing war but nothing major happened.
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And as utterly f***ing bonkers as it seems there is a tiny glimpse of potential success in that strategy. His twitter war with the DPRK is well known and well criticised and yet for the first time in history we may see the 'de-nuclearisation' of the Korean peninsular! Of course it may all collapse, be part of Kim's tactics or even just be coincidental but nonetheless twitter and his VERY layman type language is what this POTUS has defined himself with. I just like it because for some reason it is still shocking to me. We're so used to every past president behaving, well, presidential and
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Is this shit for real! Pissed myself when I saw this, it's brilliant. The level of statesmanship during the cold war years was premier league stuff, real bone tingling national addresses and political strategy etc. Now we have this...
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I don't know how 'flexible' ground C so I can't comment. But I will say that if ground C was there for the situations of the 23 yr old shown above then there would be no need for grounds A and B which cover that very explicitly. Anyway I just wanted to add some facts.
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Just wanted to add some facts to this. Interpret them as you will. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/679028/Abortions_stats_England_Wales_2016.pdf 1.4 A legally induced abortion must be certified by two registered medical practitioners as justified under one or more of the following grounds: A the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk to the life of the pregnant woman greater than if the pregnancy were terminated (Abortion Act, 1967 as amended, section 1(1)(c)) B the termination is necessar
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You aren't in Kansas anymore! Yep this is England, your knife and hate speech free zone...
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Where I'm at too, I think. I'm fairly sure you got the point so this is now redundant but I should probably have said, as with your thought experiment, only one option available. For me, I'd almost certainly save the crying child and leave the sedated to die. Because of the emotion and suffering component, not because I don't believe all children have a right to life therefore making saving the ten sedated most logical. I get that, I just think it's a fairly 'selective' logic. I mean should we not make judgements on other issues that won't now effect us directly?
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It's CJs clever (genuinely nearly gave him a like as I felt it was so good an argument) way of challenging the 'right to life' argument that is the foundation of the pro-life argument. The argument that all life is equal, even prenatal. His thought experiment attempts to show that prenatal life, embryonic at least, is not equal to an infant child's life. It's good, I liked it. I just don't think it's the full picture, it doesn't consider suffering imo which is the cause of the apparent inequality in that thought experiment.
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An alternate way of looking at that is that a child has feelings, explicit emotions, loved ones and those than love back. The impact of that fire would be great and visable suffering. The 1500 embryos though? I get the point, using the 'prolife' logic against them but I'd pose a counter thought experiment. Exact same situation, a crying child or 10 sedated children, which do you save? All life is equal on paper, but when we emotionally quantify suffering suddenly it ain't. I don't think that component can be dismissed.
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As would I. I think we're getting beyond the "It's a right" argument now though? Now we're into quite specific situations and cases of saving the mother's life/health. I'm not absolutely either way on this. I don't believe it's a right or should be illegal or that terminating prenatal life is no ones business but the one responsible.
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I was actually referring to the prenatal human. I think the fact that there is this other 'individual' involved, an individual that could have been any of us, not just a female, makes the issue one everyone has a right to make a judgement on. I completely agree with your final point. And it's probably the only reason I do tend towards supporting abortion to some degree. It's a pragmatic position rather than one consistent with my political ideology (every humans right to life specifically).
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Or from people that aren't circumcised.... oh wait we've done that! I don't buy into CJs principle here myself. It entirely focusses on the mother ignoring the third party. We don't apply that logic to other situations so I find it hard to get on board with. Though I admit I used to take the same position.
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If you believe in the right to free speech and protest etc then yes they should be allowed to. In the UK that right tends to be restricted in this instance because it would inevitably lead to a violent conflict and harm. It's a balancing act between protecting that right and stopping it being the cause of civil unrest or becoming a form of harm in itself. Everyone seems to fall in a different place on it.
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It's the Westminster version of a middle class yuppie at a dinner party telling everyone he spent his gap year building a hospital in the Sudan. I'd decimate it and put it straight into the defence budget, ring-fenced for humanitarian deployments.
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No, no I doubt it was vinegar.....
