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    Well, many beliefs do see it as souls floating around to inherit bodies, randomly taking the new one in line (in some beliefs, this includes animals/all life).

    The luck factor is basically that you didn't choose to be born and raised in Sweden for example, so if someone else didn't have the same equal opportunity as you due to the social-cultural conditions, it doesn't make them 'less human' than you, and if the 'souls' were reversed, you would possibly turn out very similar to them.

    But ultimately, soul or not, it is about promoting greater equal opportunities across the world, giving everyone a fair and good start in life, and that working together, we could give someone less fortunate due to the vagina they popped out of, a similar good experience to you growing up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
    Well, many beliefs do see it as souls floating around to inherit bodies, randomly taking the new one in line (in some beliefs, this includes animals/all life).

    The luck factor is basically that you didn't choose to be born and raised in Sweden for example, so if someone else didn't have the same equal opportunity as you due to the social-cultural conditions, it doesn't make them 'less human' than you, and if the 'souls' were reversed, you would possibly turn out very similar to them.

    But ultimately, soul or not, it is about promoting greater equal opportunities across the world, giving everyone a fair and good start in life, and that working together, we could give someone less fortunate due to the vagina they popped out of, a similar good experience to you growing up.
    Absolutely, I agree.


    However, before we start to think of how we can bind nations together, we need to ABSOLUTELY VEHEMENTLY argue against the failed chain of taught that we are all equal, because we are not.

    We should all be respected, sure, that is why I am vegetarian... But respected and equal is not the same thing.

    Black people right now are NOT equal on the work market in Sweden, as an example.

    So the more the "good" people claim we are all equal, the more we will see racial riots.


    HELLO, what is it that we see all over right now?




    I say blacks are problematic to integrate to my society because THEY ARE PROBLEMATIC TO INTEGRATE INTO MY SOCIETY.


    I don't hate them, I don't wish them any ill... By all means, if I can I will help.

    But let's skip the post WWII trauma where every observance of cultural or genetical difference is = BLOODY RACISM, shall we?




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    Hey, it's not your society. You can pack your bags along with the migrants.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
    Hey, it's not your society. You can pack your bags along with the migrants.
    To whom does it belong if not for people who built it and their offspring?

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    And here I thought we were going to have a thread about something other than race differences and immigrants. Oh well.

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    Just reminding folks to keep it civil.

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    I think its an interesting concept. On one hand yes, my parents have done their best to give me the best life they could. But on the other hand, I feel lucky that my consciousness, or as some might see it, my soul, was given to me. It could have been given to anyone else, but it was given to me in my certain circumstances, with all the benefits and challenges that being me gives. So I think this question is a more spiritual one than anything else.
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    To whom does it belong if not for people who built it and their offspring?
    Reality is not an inheritance.
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