Tags for this video have been changed from 'cute' to 'cute, overwatch, mei, antartica, homage, thing' - edited by Mordhaus

snuff film for pseudo masochists..this is appalling for many reasons..if I ever have kids I am moving them to antartica and we will study penguins. symbolic downvote

He's actually doing it as a test to see how the humans will react. It's part of the 40 year human experiment the penguins are carrying out in Antartica to better understand human behaviour.

The penguins are as well doing this............. 'cos the humans hav'nt managed to figure out human behaviour.

At the risk of coming off as a horribly condescending know-it-all prick, let me bring you up to speed. The main Sift Talk page is reserved for posts about VideoSift itself, be they bug reports, feature requests, public humiliation of annoying members (actually, we don't do that anymore), specific video posts that contain content that pushes the envelope of VideoSift's posting guidelines, etc. The channel talk pages are where posts such as this belong, and they are quite visible in "Latest Channel Talk Posts" sidebar. Click the "modify post" link, and uncheck the box to include this post in the main sift talk area. (In a bit of historical irony, blankfist once got mad at me for telling him to remove his own politically oriented talk posts to the appropriate channel pages. He will, of course, deny this.)

As for taxes being theft, you are near the mark, but missing it slightly. That miss is exactly the kind of opening that libertarians are looking for. Whether one is born into citizenship, or emigrates to it to escape worse conditions, is irrelevant. The simple fact of the matter is that the overwhelming majority of people cannot afford to simply pick up and move to another country (never mind the fact that unless you plan on moving to someplace like Antartica, taxes are collected by all nations). There are also cultural and familial ties to be considered. Also, the political power that the average citizen wields is miniscule, and if exercised at all, is incredibly unlikely to change the fundamental structure of the society in which they live. The notion that an individual can so dramatically change the social structure in which they live is absurd.

A libertarian (or anarcho-capitalist, in netrunner's lingo) will tell you that a citizen should not be required to make such drastic changes in their life to change which services they consume, and from whom they purchase them. A libertarian would say that all such transactions should be voluntary. What the libertarian will not tell you is by what mechanism you can intelligently decide for which services you want to pay, nor the mechanism by which service providers may sell them. The natural consequence of such a situation is something like feudalism. The strongest and best security services will locally dominate their markets until every competitor is driven out. At that point, local security forces will either align with or come into conflict with neighboring forces. Ultimately, you would be in exactly the same situation the libertarians decry now - you are de facto forced into an agreement with the local authority to purchase protection, and any other "services" they deem requisite for all citizens. Only, in the voluntary society situation, you have no legal recourse to a higher authority like the Supreme Court and its interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. No doubt, interpretation of a 235 year old legal document is plagued with problems, but at least it does give a reasonable foundation from which to work.

I always find it funny that libertarians use the word "theft" to describe the compulsory transactions enforced by government. One can argue the legitimacy of the transactions, but they are transactions. As you note, taxes pay for roads, common defense and security, schools, hospitals, etc. It's not like the government simply takes the money and pockets it (except in cases of illegal corruption, which is correctable). They may not spend it wisely or efficiently, but they do spend it in the interest of the people. The word the libertarians should be using is "extortion", which is of course exactly what taxes are. Pay me some money for your protection, or something bad might happen to you. Libertarians, though, seem incapable of distinguishing between extortion for criminal profit, and extortion for the common good. All they can see is extortion, and to them that is bad, independent of ideology.

It is amusing, but I can't help but feel that we are either not getting the complete story, or it is fake.

I mean, there are a few things which just don't seem possible.

1. The guy talks to the girl for weeks about his trip and it doesn't sink in AT ALL?
2. He calls her the night before leaving to tell her he's leaving and it STILL doesn't sink in?
3. He goes off to Europe and doesn't call his girlfriend ONCE for 2 weeks? This is Europe, not f'in Antartica. I for one check my personal e-mail at least once every couple of days when traveling.
4. Not one of his other friends seemed to know he was at Europe either? Seems the girlfriend would have heard it while complaining to a mutual acquaintance at some point...

To me, it seems much more likely that it is either made up or possibly, she WAS a clingy girlfriend and he thought it would be funny to not tell her and see what happens.

^Jesus Sagemind where the H do you live, Antartica?