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So I dont believe in free will ,through a combination of experience and events in my life(most to do with leaving religion) however like most, I recognise the need for the concept of free will, as artificial as it may be

People who say this are more or less always confusing two different definitions.

Libertarian free will, being the ability to make a choice without context is obviously impossible.

What most people think of as free will "the ability to make a choice" is very obviously real.

I can chose to raise my hand, I can chose to lower it.

For example, alots people say that trauma doesn’t excuses abuse, only contextualise, it but if you have statical evidence that a large or even most of abusers have been abused/been through a traumatic event that is by defined an excuse.

People misuse the word "excuse" a lot. Like a huge amount.

People say "that is not an excuse" when what they mean is "that doesn't make it ok." or they say "I dont want excuses" when what they mean is "I am going to be mad no matter reasonable your actions are"

Yes, abusing somebody because you are abused is an excuse (in that it explains why), its also not an excuse (in that it doesnt make it ok).

You need to be more specific in what "excuse" means.

Okay I see what you’re trying to say, but calling it “Nazi propaganda” is inaccurate and confusing. Just because a Nazi said something doesn’t mean it’s Nazi propaganda. That’s just confusing.

But if its propaganda put out by a Nazi propaganda group and parroted mostly by Nazis and Nazi supporters...then it is Nazi propaganda.

Also, as someone who actually liked what Biden was doing a lot (specifically, his attack on monopolists/billionaires through the FTC and DOJ), I do believe he was senile. I’m not a doctor, but he showed clear signs of what many of us have seen in our own aging family members.

"Senile" means " Relating to or having diminished cognitive function, as when memory is impaired, because of old age."

So definitely, sure, any amount of diminished cognitive function is "Senile"

But that's not what people mean when they say senile. When people say "Biden was senile" they dont mean "Biden was old and his memory isnt quite as good as when he was 30" They are trying to pretend like he has dementia, and he very clearly doesnt.

I’m sure it’s easier said than done, but can’t she just go to a different doctor?

Hypothetically sure. But she is on Medicaid. Getting a new primary care doctor takes a lot of effort.

All of her specialists are in the same network, and all the notes follow her around in her network. The doctor noted that she is "suicidal," and now nobody in the network will let her get on hospice.

So in order to find a new doctor, she would effectively need to find a new network, get all new specialists, restart all the tests, go back through Medicaid to get a new doctor on her insurance.

Its not actively impossible, but its very difficult, especially for an 85 year old with Parkinson's. And changing doctors while you have Parkinson's somewhat managed is a bad idea, its lots of experimenting to find a treatment plan that works, and you have to basically start all that over while you loose a lot of ground.

Its way easier for her to just tell everybody to remember to not call an ambulance for her, she already asked me to help her die when she feels like her mind is too far gone, but since it would be "murder" for me to be in the same room as her while she takes the wrong pills, there isnt a lot I can do.

People get second opinions all the time

Much less common than you think,

I would vote for a cardboard cutout or actual criminal Democrat over trump, and I saw the debate, and I knew it was doom for the Biden campaign.

yea, the double standard is real.

But Biden was noticably confused, losing his place, forgetting what he was saying or what the question was, and returning to stock cliches.

Hes a bad public speaker and a bad debator.

99% of people watching would come out of it thinking “Biden seems older than he was” which is obvious on the face of it but Republicans had been laying the dementia propaganda for months and now they had “evidence”.

Right,

The only people who watched that debate and thought that Biden had dementia had already been guzzling the coolaid.

Not my kid, but my best friends, and I babysit a lot.

Couple things you might not think about, or might overthink.

The biggest one for me was that I kept mis-gendering the kid for like a month, but I didnt realize that how I was reacting to doing so was worse than the misgendering itself.

Generally speaking, people understand that there is a transition period, you have thought of this person as a he or a her for their whole life, suddenly swapping pronouns isnt easy. If you get it wrong, thats ok, dont make a big production of it, just correct yourself, say sorry and try to do better.

I was making sure to really get across that I was sorry, and eventually I got told that it was stressing the kid out, because it was now a big thing that I got it wrong.

I learned, and they relaxed a lot when the next time I misgendered them, I just went "hes a good kid...sorry, shes a good kid" and that was that.

Yea, but it has more to do with baby boomers wrecking everything than anything else.

He dropped out of the re-election bid because he had a “senior moment” in the debate - that’s not full blown senility, but it’s enough to sway plenty of people who are deciding who gets their finger on the launch button for WWIII.

Because he wasnt 100% perfect. This is just the standard double standard. Trump spends the whole time shitting himself on stage, and Biden isnt 100% perfect and now people are crying about him.

The only way people thought Clinton was a problem is if they started thinking he was a problem because they had already started drinking the cool-aid

Biden is not a great public speaker, and not a great debator.

But yea, double standard,.

Fucking yeah I sure hope so. Even the scum of the earth like this deserve due process

Due process involves discovery, where the full unredacted documents would have been turned over...

Due process doesn't mean you can just refuse to follow the law.

That is how hospice works. they won’t euthanasia they will just let you die and do theoretical pain management.

Depends on the doctor. If you get a good one, they will give you a lot of painkillers that will shorten your life significantly.

My mom died of dehydration in hospice because it was “unethical” to just give her a shot of barbituates when half her brain was no longer functioning after a stroke.

Unfortunately, end of life care is very poorly regulated (to protect people).

True.

But Hospice is generally required to get to assisted suicide tho.

Or at least, it was when my dad finally got to die.

The normal doctor wouldn't do it, the hospital didnt allow it except for in hospice.

And then we had to fight for a week to get the hospice doctor to let him die.

Check your state law. In some states it is very illegal to ignore a properly filled out DNR, religion or no religion.

It is 100% legal to refuse medical care because of being Christian. This has been litigated to death.

Its illegal to punish somebody for refusing to provide medical care if they claim that doing so would be against their (christian) religion. This has also been litigated to death.

Also, hospice is not state assisted suicide.

No, but Hospice does include not preventing death if the patient doesnt want to go on a bunch of stuff

Hospice is comfort care, and it’s not about causing someone to die, it’s about helping someone who is terminal be more comfortable during the time they have left.

And usually letting them die when they want to.

Its how my dad finally died, He got hospice and the doctor gave him a massive overdose of Morphine (after multiple days of asking the doctor to let him die).