I'm slowly losing my distaste for mass surveillance.

Maybe it's just me, but it feels as if our culture has become uncultured - as it were. The people we revere are the Kardashians and pop singers, and we read about their everyday occurrences in magazines and online. When we do climb the intellectual ladder, things are stifled by a STEM circlejerk and the suppression of things like aesthetics and passion.

The Enlightenment saw a burst of literature, the arts, philosophy - the humanities - which, it seems, has failed to bear any continuance. It seems that our culture is either emotionally mute or overly-rational.

What I meant was, how does that relate to values and how is that bad?

Compare, for instance, the tension between liberal and Islamic values in my own country. When you have two or more ideologies/philosophies/methodologies competing not just for political power, but moral authority too, then it's bound to get ugly.

Whats wrong with multiculturalism?

It can often lead to pluralism in the arena of values as opposed to just mere culture.

You can't have value pluralism like that in the general populace.

What's a tl;dr of nietzche and why should people follow his philosophy?

Nietzsche essentially argued that from the decline of religion as a result of the enlightenment, it would lead first to philosophical and political pluralism (which would lead to untold conflict in the 20th Century (bear in mind he died in 1900)), and then finally to nihilism which we'd have to face.

There's a lot of his philosophy, but it essentially revolves around three focal points. The first is that there exists a natural hierarchy among individuals (not races, or nationalities) which leads to there being "higher men" or Ubermensch who would form a new aristocracy to guide humanity. The second is the idea that our current iterations of morality - namely Judeo-Christian morality - are incredibly harmful to the human condition, and promoted behaviours and emotions which were detrimental to the flourishing of humans and, in particular, higher men. Thirdly, Nietzsche thought that the legacy of the Enlightenment was extra-rational, which removed emotion and passion from a position of importance in the human character and led us to reject our aesthetic sides; in essence, he thought high culture could replace religion, and serve to unite the community under this new aristocracy.

Are you ubermensch?

I try to be.

Thanks for proving my point; if the purpose of gun control was to prevent blacks for committing retributive then that means they were the ones acting people, but that wasn't the case. It was whites doing it and Gun control prevented blacks from protecting themselves

No, I didn't prove your point - I'm saying your point is irrelevant. There never would've been a black supremacy movement as substantial as the KKK purely because primal retribution will always be less organised than ideological fanaticism. I'm not saying the KKK didn't pursue racially-motivated gun control policies, I'm saying that doesn't detract from the fact that black people would've had an extraordinary capacity (which was somewhat justified) to commit violence themselves.

I'd support a graded cap based on various things such as socioeconomic status.

Of course, the most cultured people would be allowed to produce the most citizens.

People like to complain that people to fly the Confederate battle flag are racists, yet the first gun control laws was based on racism so therefore I should be able to draw conclusions that new gun control laws bring back the times of 19th and 20th century racism and discrimination

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Gun control prevents minorities from protecting themselves in areas of high crime, where they do tend to live

That's not racist, that's just unfortunate.

I'm not even that big on gun control; it's more of a cultural issue for America to me, and if I had my way I'd actually reverse the ban on assault weapons because you're essentially correct. Handguns are where the crime is, and even then they're most often illegally obtained.

But, please, for the love of God, don't play the fucking race card.

Gun control is not only racist

Is this type of weaponry really necessary?

Yes.

Everybody.

44pc.

Before I begin, would you please approximate where you think I'll land?