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d, in school, like actually by a teacher, I was taught that sacrificing my life for the country for freedom was a noble thing to do. What if the AI just said, you know, people will try to tell you it's a noble thing but here's how the system works. It's not the old people who are going to go to this war. They're going to sit in their mansions and say there's a good reason for you young people to g…

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aid children deserve to be killed? Nope. Nope. So she's responding to an imaginary situation in which there's also an imaginary alternative where your family isn't killed. This is not an opinion. It's a half opinion. A half opinion allows you to ignore half of the conversation and just say the thing you want to say to feel good. Like let's not kill children. People who think it's okay to kill children are bad. Who doesn't agree with that? That's the part we all agree on. If you can't handle the tough question, you have to get out. Leave it to the people who can. If you want your family to survive, you want to delegate this duty to someone who will kill anybody who challenges the life of your family, whoever it is, however dangerous it is. You want somebody else to decide who to kill to protect your family because you're not capable. You seem incapable to hold the whole thing in your head. If the only thing you can hold in your head is save the children, you cannot be involved in war because it's never an option. I mean you do the best you can but it's never an option to save them all.

Here's another one from another woman. Again, identity should be unimportant. In comment the poll said some people are debating whether it's okay to kill children. This is so heartbreaking. No, nobody was debating whether it's okay to kill children. That's a half opinion. You ignored the reason why anybody would even ask the question. You ask the question because your own family will be killed by these children or you have a percentage likelihood. So there are people who can't think past killing children. Now aren't you glad they exist? Yes. Do you think that the men are like the good or smart ones in this conversation and there's something wrong with the women? No, no, no, no, nothing like that. I don't want any mothers who think it's okay to kill children under any condition whatsoever. I don't want any mothers ever thinking it's okay to kill somebody else's children to protect your own or any other reason. Leave it to the men. We'll make that decision. We won't love it but we'll survive it. And with any luck we'll protect your family. But it's men's work, unfortunately. It's the dirtiest of dirty jobs and I wouldn't wish it on women. And if women want to say things like all I care about is don't kill any kids, I say that's a good mom. That's who I'd marry. That's good. Stay that way. But let the men take care of what they need to take care of.

All right, so that's my what a sexist would say to quote Greg Gutfeld. All right, the opposite side would think the same probably, right? And that's what makes it a war. That everybody doesn't agree.

And yeah, all right, ladies and gentlemen on YouTube, is there any topic I forgot? Anything we need to be mentioning? How to reframe a gambling problem. It's hard for me to do reframes sort of on the fly and live stream, but keep asking. Those are better for the man cave. I'll give you a little more time in the man cave for that stuff. Is DEI ruining the country? Well, it looks like DEI will be maybe mocked out of existence. It does look like that wokeness was ruining the country. So we'll see if Elon Musk is right and that there's some kind of a turning point. No such thing as May. Yeah, the Golden Age looks like it's put off for a little while here.

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Here's the thing though. When AI becomes super AI, which won't be very long, we don't know what's going to happen. It wouldn't surprise me at all if money became no longer a thing. Almost anything's possible. Purple smoke age. Yeah, we don't need to do the dead baby jokes. You could maybe less of that. Maybe less of that. Could collective consciousness level up rapidly due to AI? Collective consci…

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