Darkpriest

No offense, but that's a pretty simplistic way of looking at life, humanity, or just biology in general. Altruism is an inbuilt imperative for many species, including humans. Yes but it does not override the overall competitive nature.

In regards to "fairness" theme. We are not created fair, our life starts with competitions of various cloisters of DNA fighting their way to end the race as a victor. We do not look the same, we do not have same DNA, we do not have the same talents, etc. hence "life is never fair" It will be always some form of "us" vs "them" as long as our reality revolves around limited resources, and each of us is trying to make the best for himself and his dearest ones. History shows that it was always about getting a competitive edge of various groups over others so their group could have better life and better conditions for their offspring, nothing will change that, because ultimately we are strains of DNA that want to continue its existence and spread, and we are not so different in this regard from "animals", we just use different tools now. Why should i care for them, when they will only endanger my way of life? Why should my taxes be spent on outsiders, when they could be used to secure better living conditions for people related to me? What is the benefit of this action?

Bruce, first of all, you need to look at the population of a given country in concjunction with its demographic structure. Let's take an assumption that there is around 25mln native EU Germans in the age bracket of 20-40 (reproduction bracket) - suddenly a yearly influx of 600k-800k people for 3 years into that bracket (because immigrants are mostly people in that age group) is not that small. In last two years there was what, around 300-400k annually, this year was over 800k and next year is estimated to be around 1mln, so that would be an influx of over 2.5mln people into that bracker, that's over 10% of that population group. (EDIT: Numbers above generous compared to what extrapolation of the below graph would lead to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany#/media/File:Pyramide_Allemagne.PNG) Now add to that that their birth giving cycle is usually 5-6 years shorter than EU (because we'd rather have more time for ourselves before commiting to parenthood - and we have increasing rates of 30+ singles) and the fact that they have between 1 to 2 kids more per average family, then you start to get into dangerous areas. This amount maybe does not look scary in our current population structure, but in 80-100 years, it will be completely changed to the point where you will have over 30% of total population being either directly from ME and NA or 1st and 2nd generation of today's immigrants. Looking how those cultures failed to assimilate previously, when in smaller yearly influx, it will lead to more tensions or outright losing control over certain areas of your country. Additionally that immigrant demographics is usually located in dense urban areas, so the ration in large cities will be even higher in their favor. If they would be culutrally compatibile and wanted to assimilate, then there would be no issue at all, but they are not, and as our past experiences shown, they will create their own districts, etc. and will live in accordance to their culutre and laws, with a lot of disregard for local customs and even the local country wide law. You need to stop looking at events that will have on going future consequences through the short cut-off of near future (i.e. 2-3 years). Once you set a porcess on, you will have harder time with each passing year to stop it.

Little Timmy who wants his third yacht for Christmas. That's a sacrifice I feel willing to accept. [citation needed] So what, the death of a loved one is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic? Pretty much. Why should I care for others? Do they care for me and my wellbeing, will they sustain my standrad of life for the ones I care about? Do you feel equally bad for the ones that die in some car accident on the other side of the world, and for example your mother, who would die in such an accident? Do you have the same emotional ties? I do not need to quote anything to prove my point, history does that well enough.

If humanity collectively believed that, we'd still be living in caves, you do realize that, right? I'd say it's because we don't believe this that we are not. yeah, if noone would think that he can get a real advantage and better living standard for himself and his dearest ones, we would still be in caves. it is the competitive advantage and desire to improve our own fate primarly, what drove us as humanity forward. Sure, some civilizations died in the process, but overall they simply were not fit enough to compete for the resources that would allow them to grow. What is the drive, when you know, that no matter what you do, everyone will have the same. why work then and not just sit and enjoy doing nothing, while others will work for you?

oh man, watch his Ironman Impossible YT series, or his Ironman Impossible full playthough campaign of Long War mod, he also was doing twitch campaign of Long War for over a year and it was damn good and funny (also browse his fanart gallery for some cherries)

I don't know, my life is fair? What does that really mean ....do we have an expectation that life owes us something? it is the "fair" outcome of actions of your parents, grandparents, and society before you. You can argue that perhaps it was not very nice for others, who lost their chances in the process, but in the reality of limited resources, someone has to lose for someone other to gain. your life does not owe you anything, your children, friends, neighbours, might owe you depending on your actions and what reality you might want to create for them, but there will be always someone on the "losing" side.

I never understood how people can unthinkingly parrot this phrase like it explained everything, instead of thinking "well then maybe we should bloody well do something to change the way it is". Why? there are limited resources, even the most simple ones like the living space and fertile ground, where the number of humans can grow into infinity. Until the moment of discovering perpetum mobile for energy and production and increasing the scope for possible settlement (like seas, space, etc.) there will never be something called "fair". the most "fair" you can get is what you have now, i.e. the amount of work you and those before you put into what you can achieve for those that will come after you.

No, life is not fair, never was and never will be. While i was not personally involved into what my family done for me, I can only work to make sure that others that I care for will get the same advantage and make sure that the work they did will be continued. That's how successful societies are built. I will not get into personal trips any further so good riddance, sit on your high morality and enjoy it. Although it might have difficulty when it will be surrounded by cheap opportunitists or even simple pargmatics.

Are you currently fighting for your country and "shedding blood and sweat, giving up your life" to build it up? Because otherwise I'm really not seeing much difference between you and the average refugee, and frankly, the sheer ballsiness of preaching about the sacrifices of "our fathers and grandfathers" while your contributions to your country amount to making angry forum posts about refugees fleeing from circumstances you've never experienced and probably couldn't even imagine astonishes me. i did work hard to get where i am, yes, and yes, i remember how my father also put effrot into buildign what we had, as well as my two garndafthers fighting in the war, so i can tell you keep your moral preaching for yourself and speak for yourself, if you so like to bend over, take them to your own backyard. Make your bloody mind up already, did you get where you are today because "you worked hard", or because you had what your father painstakingly built up during his life? (Also, I somehow doubt you'd remember your two "garndafthers" fighting in the war, given you haven't even been born at the time, but hey.) actually both, my father managed to get us to a state where we could have entered higher education, and from there on i acquired other things on my own, sometimes working to the brink of exhaustion. I honor my grandfathers and had a pleasure of (that not so many had chance to actually share) being able to see both of them alive as they both sruvived the war, one badly injured, another reaching Berlin. If they would not be there and others would feel like not fighting, I would probably not exist and not have the opportunites as they are. Again, decide for your own house and your own family, if you so want to help, nothing stops you from taking some into your own house, or perhaps suddenly you feel that its a bit too much for you, so you resort to hypocrisy and yapping for the sake of yapping without doing anything? Be a shining example, and help on your own, instead of just being a smartass and saying that others should help, but with your "moral" support.

Are you currently fighting for your country and "shedding blood and sweat, giving up your life" to build it up? Because otherwise I'm really not seeing much difference between you and the average refugee, and frankly, the sheer ballsiness of preaching about the sacrifices of "our fathers and grandfathers" while your contributions to your country amount to making angry forum posts about refugees fleeing from circumstances you've never experienced and probably couldn't even imagine astonishes me. i did work hard to get where i am, yes, and yes, i remember how my father also put effrot into buildign what we had, as well as my two garndafthers fighting in the war, so i can tell you keep your moral preaching for yourself and speak for yourself, if you so like to bend over, take them to your own backyard.

I am sorry, life is not fair, I will not risk a single life of my countrymen in a trade off for what? feeling morally superior? that feeling will not help you when you will get crippled or someone from your family will die due to some terrorist action. Time and time again, if you want to help them so badly, take one family into YOUR own house at YOUR own expense. I support helping them, but the help is to be provided in their home, not mine and those dear to me, and certainly not at a cost of safety. some people are born into rich familites, some people are born in safer and richer countries. Some people get rich and start of poor, why the same logic cannot apply to those countries? If they will work hard on that, they will develop, if they are not interested in that, then sorry, let them rot in there, i have no need for lazy people that cannot work for their better future in their own place of life. I have no respect for all those who decided to run like rats instead of standing and fight for the well being of their country and their land. Our grandfathers and fathers fought for our current freedoms and built the safety for US, they shed the blood and sweat for it often giving up lives when it comes to European countries and building up from the war devastation. They had the guts to do so, unlike thos spineless weasels and stinking rats waiting to abuse our societies and in some cases kill our own friends or family. Thank you, but no.

I watched all the vids and they are amazing!!!

Now i can't wait until i get home and watch this.

She might care but she is mauling it into a bloody pulp with that care.

We really do not need more than half of EU institutions. Some form of parliment and anti trust bodies. ECB as well but Euro should be for the states with similar economic str. and debt level. We do not need a whole lot of free loader who think they know better than others what should be done and how people should live. Strategic goals, helping out science and combined policy regarding food production. That's it. The most recent immigrant crisis is also slap i the face of some of the new EU states which had to wait up to even 7 years after entering EU for their citizens to acquire full rights including work permits and social benefits. Now the same states that put so heavy restrictions demand that others would take not their burden. I mean... But lets not derail this topic. If you want to discuss EU related things there are topics for that.

So what would be your ideal political structure for something like the EU....lets say you could implement any political system you wanted? This is fairly difficult to present briefly, and i certainly do not have time to write an essay here. I mean just a summary, for example should Poland leave the EU? Align with a different block of countries ? In short. No it should not but the shape of the EU needs to change. EU should remain what it was meant to be. Econmoy driving project that includes free movement of goods and people. We do not need an euro-kohloz that tells us how to live and what to think though.

IIRC the story of Geralt is done from their perspective. They might have new.things in that setting thoug but i expect them to go with something new and abitious that will combine the design quality of TW and something like DA:O personal backgrounds and a level of custom characters. We will see how they fare with Cyberpunl though

So what would be your ideal political structure for something like the EU....lets say you could implement any political system you wanted? This is fairly difficult to present briefly, and i certainly do not have time to write an essay here.

Yes this is all over the international media....Gfted1 when Trump makes comments like he did how do you feel? I'm battling to understand why you guys aren't more annoyed and or concerned ? I know I tend to perhaps overact to these types of comments but surly someone on this forum from the USA must be a little ......exasperated ? To be honest I doubt anyone over here really cares, either about Trump (non supporters) or what the UK thinks of him (supporters) As far as banning or even severely restricting guns in other countries I'd be curious to see what ownership levels and such were like before the bans. I could see banning them here eventually succeeding but it would probably take a few generations of moves in that direction, essentially changing the culture. after WW2? it depends, there was a lot of firearms easily available and that is the period of time when EU societies decided to remove the weapon from their sight. I mean, you also have to understand that people did not really want to even look at weapons after the WW2. If the same level of fighting and destruction reached US, i believe you would have the same notion. as for times pre-WW2 it is hard to tell, not sure if there are any reliable statistics for that period of time, but certainly pre-WW1 personal weapon was easily available (pistols, spades, rapiers, knives, etc.)

Nah Bruce. The world is changing. A lot and i mean A LOT of people see the more and more rigid PC and SJ rules, forced tolerance but only one way etc. as an ugly abomination that rose from fairly nice ideology. But then again even communism and national socialism were fairly decent ideologies which mutated into something horrible. You need to draw a line between acquiringnequal right and opportunities vs. Fighting for more privilages because "reasons". This is why ultra right wing parties win in CEE. This is why EU sees a rise in the same vein of politics, with France almost becoming another state under suuch influence. I see no reason why USA should walk a vastly different path.

It would be funny if you were wrong. Look at changes in EU. Especially France with rcent regional elections. Trump winning might be a real deal in a society that had enough of retarded PC/SJ in every single aspect of life

Is Trump winning yet?

you are trolling, right??

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