Sarah Palin: An Introduction

In which John talks about Sarah Palin, John McCain's surprise pick for the Republican Vice President slot. (Republican nerdfighters always complain I don't talk about Republican politics, so I am! Hopefully I did so even-handedly.)

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• sarah
• palin
• john
• mccain
• vlogbrothers
• nerdfighters

[azerskater]

@ghostrider98xx You sir, have an exceptionally intelligent way of insulting people.

[LMNOP1214]

John, I think you messed up at 0:49... The plural of moose is obviously moosen :D Anybody? Anybody? No? Darn...

[likjewso]

haha. still giggles every time you say "best wishes" ^^

[LMNOP1214]

@abridgedfan Yup! :D

[abridgedfan]

@LMNOP1214 PFFT, Brian Regan? XD

[amazingfertilla123]

there are about as many republican nerdfighters as there are pleasant winter days in alaska

[maydayway97]

@StafoofooTV Really? The one thing that I though I could be clever about. Jeez.

[StafoofooTV]

ya republican nerd fighters all 2 of ou

[Deathnotechick999]

@mikeloaf Nah. I'm conservative in politics.

[suicunesrider]

I just felt like I needed to say that, because some people are like "a human's life is worth just the same as ANY animal's life, and killing a human is no worse than killing an animal!" ~DERP~ and others are like "Human life is worth more than animal life, animal lives are diposable and we are ABOVE animals!" ~AROGANCE~ and neither of these ideologies are true. So I just thought I'd try to get some logic and reasoning out there, via nerdfighteria. =/ sorry about that. ^^;

[suicunesrider]

It's because we should take into account all value of life when we decide our morals. Many animals are capable of emotion, memories, mourning, and suffering. What we call "intelligence" is a very complex thing. And so putting lives into a "heirarchy" is wrong. But a human simply has more to live for. A longer life, can enjoy the world more, and suffer to a greater extent. This is why we CAN differentiate the "value" of life, but NOT dismiss other species lives as just "lower" and not mattering.

[suicunesrider]

Just want to give nerdfighteria my opinion on something: The great debate about whether an "animal's" life is "worth" the same as a human's, is sort of flawed. Personally, I believe that it is silly, arrogant, and simply illogical to flat-out say that human life is "above" "animal life." (Especially because humans ARE animals.) But if given the choice to save a human or, say, a horse from dying, you should obviously choose human. (will explain why-- continued.)