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Originaly posted by: Odifiend
And religion and politics fire people up, that's why people generally agree not to talk about it.
Which is why people continue to live in their own little worlds and nothing changes.
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Originally posted by: Shawnst3r
Once again though I thank you for your lack of flame.
Welcome.
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On a side note - Most of the deaths in Louisiana were a bunch of welfare recipients who were too lazy to move and just sat and waited for the government to come save them. I'll give you a hint im not a fan of socialism. (aka welfare) It is a blight on any country that it rears its ugly head.
Or maybe they didn't move because they couldn't afford cars? And the government didn't provide adequate means for them to escape? The whole 'the victims are REALLY to blame' is all conservative-talk-show spin designed to cloud the fact that the government's response to the Katrina disaster was disgustingly lousy, IMHO.
As for welfare:
Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." Matthew 19:21 Quote
Please respond to the fact that God was indeed very integrated into our government up until the 1960's.
You are probably correct. But again, this is a country that was intentionally, by the founding fathers, tied to the authority of the men of this country and not to the authority of a church. And this is also a country that is growing both increasingly diverse and increasingly aware of diversity. And I don't think that's such a bad thing.
On a related note, white, conservative, christian, american men seem to love to point to the 'good ol days' before the start of the 60's...and I just like to point out to them that those 'good ol days' were also the days where black people had to sit at the back of the bus. The 60's brought us a lot of good. They also brought us lots of sex and drugs, but, eh, the yin comes with the yang.
NOW BACK TO THE GAME.
Shawn, while I agree with you that the game is somewhat questionable morally (though for different reasons), I don't agree that it should be banned. Why? Because you can't legislate morality. You can, perhaps, protect children....if the game receives an E rating, the government could, at least, do something to warn of the sexual nature of the game - but they shouldn't be allowed to outright ban free expression, especially just because something presents ideas that people from a certain religion find morally objectionable.
Everyone else, for whoever said the thing is only loosely connected to sex....you do realize that, before this game, the developer went through other ideas that were all sexually-based, right? One of them was an orgy simulator. (no idea if they intended that one for children, too).
Okay then. Peace out, y'all.
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