Infrastructure everywhere is wearing down. people think this stuff can last forever but it won't. trying to build something new is gonna be expensive and take money away from foreign aid bills. so it will be left to rot.
Good thing we got all those old editions as PDFs and the ability to 3D print. I ended up selling most of my 40k stuff a bit over a year ago. hadn't touched it in years so I sold something on the order of 4000-5000 dollars worth to a rando coworker for 700 in cash. just wanted the stuff gone...
O.K. I take your anecdotes. apply my own from what I have seen myself and look at the statistics that I know of. 2nd marriages sometimes work out however they also sometimes don't and they got a higher rate of abuse than the 1st marriage does statistically and they generally aren't as good for...
Except there are differences in outcomes for the kids of those relationships. so we know that the parents staying together is in fact better for society in the long run because you will end up with less criminality, better academic performance, and less mental health issues in the next...
It isn't about muh tradition. it is about the negative outcomes caused by fucking the institution of marriage. If I look at things from a perspective that only cares about outcomes this is such a massive negative externality for everyone. taking away allimony and child support isn't addressing...
Liberty isn't the only factor to consider here. Care, Fairness, Loyalty, Authority, and Purity are also factors in most peoples moral compass. pretty much only hardcore libertarians only value liberty. that is a small percentage of the total population. examining the other foundations.
Care? it...
Another factor to consider is hormone based birth control screws with women's brains. they aren't attracted to the same guys while on it as off it. so a woman who is on the afore mentioned birth control gets married and then goes off of it will generally find that she does not find the man she...
Nam was more of an issue since France was leaving a "friendly" dictator in charge their. communists took advantage of that to spread their ideology among those dissatisfied with such a regime. France then dragged USA into the war and then bailed on us part way through. I think if your goal was...