Yep! It's bonkers stuff. And it almost certainly represents a widespread cultural practice, since they felt the need to regulate how and when you could do it.
It really highlights for me not just how irrelevant and detrimental the bible is to our world, but how disruptive teenage hormones can be to a society. Thousands of years later and exclusion, abuse and killing are still the tools that the troubled teen industry uses.
Giving birth to someone does not give you the right to murder them.
Obviously not.
It just highlights how much of a problem teenagers can be that the only solution canaanites could find was "I guess sometimes killing them is ok?" It's not. Throwing teenagers into the wilderness to pillage and rape is also quite obviously not on, nor is abusing them in a blizzard in Utah.
My point is that for thousands of years, we've been failing to find a reasonable way to deal with the problem of teenagers.
"Violence" in that sentence means specifically violence against elites.
Violence is absolutely central to politics, since electoral politics is about who controls the state's monopoly on legitimized violence.
The sentiment "Violence has no place in politics" is calling for violence to be kept where it belongs - directed at the poor and anyone with resources our elites want.
"Registered republican/democrat" is a very common phrase. I don't think that expression does anything to whitewash anyone, it's just a normal thing to hear.
When you register to vote you can register yourself as a member of a political party which allows you to vote in their primaries.
Every time someone tries to convince me that apples aren't just garbage fruit they ask, "but have you tried honey crisps?" Yeah, have you tried any other fruit? The worst fruit from the tropics is just way better than the best apple.
We were getting a single order of fries from McD's in Missoula Montana and the only employee worth a damn looked around 10.
He kept telling his mother that the fries were ready and he could just give them to us, but she insisted that orders must go out in the same order they came in. So we waited another 10 minutes.
When he was finally permitted to give us our fries, he had this incredibly mature, put-upon expression as he said "I'm so sorry for the wait."
At my previous job their was a role where you just called insurance companies and asked them incredibly basic questions about what they planned to do for a patient with diagnosis X and plan Y. This information should be searchable in a document with a single correct answer, but insurance companies are too scummy for that to be reliable.
In 2021 we started using a robot that sounded like a human to call instead. It could handle the ~80%+ of calls that don't use any critical thinking. At a guess, that's maybe 5-10% of our division's workforce that wasn't needed anymore.
With the amount of jobs like this that are 100% bullshit, I'm sure there are plenty of other cases where businesses can save money by buying an automated bullshit generator, instead of hiring a breathing bullshit generator.
"Morals and ethics and carnal forebearance"
Sure, there are definitely more than just two ways caesar that could be lying.
Thank you, you sweet voice of sanity!