Yes phones are a significant technological improvement over cigs.
Smoking helps in certain jobs, less so these days due to the successful anti tobacco campaigns. But cigs definitely can't run gps or push notifications.
chamber of commerce. corporate lobbyists. religious advocacy.
just think of anything that's doing fine, there is a group for that.
but even if you pick something you don't find evil, like say you have a great park near you, there is probably some group or another that keeps it that way. so even though it looks like a do-nothing job, they are doing something.
Its true, Yemen isn't the only armed force to contribute. I was thinking of official, national military bodies. Because the OP was about Yemen. I dont think Lebanon did much to put itself in the middle of things?
I think of Yemen often, in a similar way of admiration. They stand alone in their bravery. Of all those who could have, they were the only ones who did make any direct military intervention to the palestinian cause.
But it's a nation of 33 million people and you can only be 1 person. A collective and an individual are different. The real question is how can you contribute towards creation of a collective with such moral fortitude as Yemen.
It seems like a rhetorical victory if nothing else (yet) that all these concepts have been so normalized. Even between the play-doh brained americans, everyone is at least framiliar with the allegations of thieving, disreputable conduct.
once I learned how to do them I started doing it all over the place anything there is a pattern and I kind of screwed up my eyes. Honestly I wish I never saw a magic eye. and I wish I never saw these things either.
Parents and spouses are typically adults. Adults are can and should adhere to higher standards of behavior than children. It is expected that all children do bad things sometimes, as part of learning to not do them.
In most cases the power asymmetry is reduced compared to a parent. A sibling doesn't typically have control of food, shelter, utilities, external relationships. A child is totally dependent on their parents for all life. Adults are generally physically larger and stronger than children, so they have a physical advantage.
So in cases of abuse by adults, the culpability is easier to discern. Its also considered that the character one has is more coherent and consistent through adulthood than between childhood and adulthood. It makes more sense to hold a 55 year old accountable for things they did at age 35, than to hold a 12 year old accountable for things done at age 5.
It is also expected that responsible adults should observe the interactions of children to detect and intervene on abusive dynamics. Even if harm came at the hands of another child, the question arises what was the involvement of nearby adults.
Nobody with a soul offers breaks in 15 min increments. Hate that shit.