These two posts came up back to back, as the first and second items on my Twitter feed this morning. I leave them to you with no further comment.
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Empathy and Voting
There is a famous study conducted about 20 years ago at the University College of London (It’s hard for me to type that 2006 was 20 years ago. Damn.) In the study 16 men and Read more…
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oldvet50 · July 22, 2026 at 8:00 am
In a democracy, everyone should be able to vote. It’s a good thing we don’t live in a democracy, nor are we supposed to. It’s a Republic. Personally, I think we should not allow anyone on public assistance to vote. It’s illegal to buy votes, yet that’s what the politicians do with their welfare programs. In Florida, we recently passed a law that felons can vote after serving their time. If you’ve already proven you make bad choices, why should you be able to choose something that can affect me? Many, many years ago we did not have this problem with the felons, either voting or posessing firearms – they were dead. They would hang you for stealing a horse! Now the police won’t even chase after you for stealing anything – some bystander could get hurt.
Divemedic · July 22, 2026 at 8:25 am
If a felon can’t be trusted not to violate the rights of others they should at least be in a cage. If they can be trusted to not be in a cage, their rights should be the same as anyone else- guns, voting, or any other thing.
ghostsniper · July 22, 2026 at 8:14 am
Even after 43 years together I still don’t understand her way of thinking. We get along fine most of the time but now and then she says or does something that just doesn’t make sense to me, and when pressed, she can’t even explain it.
30 years ago her and I were at odds and I went over to my brothers house. He told me, “Remember boy, they don’t think like we do.”
It comes down to balancing emotions with logic. Too much of either can be a problem. And, learning how to control ones emotions is something that should be learned, along with the reasons, early in life.
No one ever died from being too logical but being to emotional can get your ass kicked.
Remember that blue haired blob of shit you posted yesterday, that was emotionally out of control? It needed an ass kicking, bad! lol