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Well, they don't really exist for any other purpose

Are you sure about that? Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Because all we've got on the subject from a biblical perspective is texts written by humans, and there's something of a bias, there. To say nothing about the possibility of missing gospel and new prophets and whatnot. Purpose of the squid may be to be uplifted into majestic void squid and spread the word of squid!YWHW to the cosmos. You really comfortable saying with surety that there's no other purpose for non-humans but to be consumed by humans?

... where's that put the critters that just straight up kill us when we eat it, anyway?

... does he actually say anything about anything except swords, though? Maybe the guy was just really fond of swords, but didn't like anything else. Hard to say without some verse to back it up.

By the numbers, though, more of the christian population is outside the US than inside it. Only about a third was in the states back in 2010, and the south american and african christian populations are growing faster, iirc. Might be better to look to other parts of the world if you're looking for major influence areas, and around a forth of 'em are in europe, which is fairly anti-gun by the state's MUH GUNS crowd's metrics.

There is only an incentive for varied ads when there is a market worth marketing to. By shrinking that pool you are only continuing to create the situation you describe.

But... by not shrinking that pool I'm outright lying -- making signs I'm an existent market, when I'm not and won't be -- and creating false market signals for the advertising companies, which is pretty scummy from an economic point of view and probably impacts a considerably larger amount of people. It's certainly creating a situation where the advertisers are sending good money after bad, marketing to a market that doesn't actually exist -- because people like me, who don't block ads but also will not watch/be effected by them, are giving false impressions that they're a potential market.

I'd almost certainly state that, from an ethical standpoint, if you're absolutely sure there's nothing that can be advertised to you that will cause you to purchase the advertised good, you should turn on adblock. Because regardless as to if you do or don't, someone is going to be robbed that ten cent -- either the youtuber, or the advertising company paying them when they drop a dime for a false signal.

And there's marginal other efficiencies gained (bandwidth, electricity being used for activities that might actually generate market) involved for the person using adblock, which... further tilts things in their direction. Better to just turn it off if you're certain the ads aren't going to do anythign for you -- let the advertising companies spend that $0.10 on something that's going to actually make them money and be able to support more youtubers.

Yeah, I... don't think there's terribly much biblical evidence for YWHW caring much about the preservation of all human life. Or even a majority of it. Israeli Jews, maybe (or, at least, some of them -- chosen people, etc., etc.), but...

And yeah, thou shalt not murder just pretty much doesn't, at all, mean preserve human life as much as possible. It means thou shalt not murder -- specifically, the line intended one to refrain from unlawful killing of a particular sort, and has nothing in particular to do with suicide, in and of itself. Or anything more broad than, y'know, don't kill unlawfully.

As Grak says, reading more in to it is, well. Reading more in to it. Trying to justify non-biblical values as christian. _{Which I've noted previously is kinda' okay -- pretty much everyone does it, and it's pretty necessary to get anything workable and non-batshit out of biblical texts. Most every christian is some variation of heretic or blasphemer, and that's a-okay.}

Isn't one of the adblocks like... whitelisty or somethin'? Is that plus or the other one?

Well... it's hard not to, considering what they're basing themselves off of was written (by something like over a dozen authors, over several decades, pretty much all of it second hand, at best, and since translated several times over) a couple thousand years ago for a pre-industrial society. Of course you're going to come off as crazy if you're trying to replicate the cultural and ethical mores of a social group a millennium+ dead.

Lacking the ability to abstain, I'd be ethically forced to vote for Jeb. George was one of the major driving forces behind the deaths of multiple hundreds of thousands of civilians -- about the only thing I could vote him towards and hold on to anything resembling a conscious would be a firing squad life sentence behind bars.

Mind you, I'd rather, say, cut off my thumb or something than cast my vote for either of them, but yeah.

Re: Magicka, just... definitely try the demo first, to make sure it'll run on your computer. That'd be my only suggestion. It seems pretty fun, especially if you can get it on the cheap, if it'll work for you.