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by suture 4y ago
Clearly.
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by suture 4y ago
The technical difference are fundamental. To interpret the intent of the writers one has to understand the world they lived in and not merely the words they wrote. “arms” in terms of lethality, ease of use, density of population, second o
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by suture 4y ago
Accuracy, and reload times, etc. are much different for cannons today than they were 250 years ago. Population density is different and society is much more complex now. A well regulated militia means that the government has the right to r
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by suture 4y ago
Obviously, the reference to Lincoln was about him ignoring the Supreme Court and not a call to civil war. Your reading comprehension in this instance was quite bad. One child was killed by jarts and they were banned. One person tried to b
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by suture 4y ago
You can find citations yourself. It’s easy to do. When large numbers of black men walk around with AR-15s there will be calls for gun control. The last time black men overtly armed themselves in 70s there was a call for gun control. Reag
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by suture 4y ago
Twice in Minnesota a black with a legal firearm was murdered by police with no consequences for the police. The right to a firearm is not, in practice or in law, at all similar to the right of free speech. The government, with impunity, m
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by suture 4y ago
That is not all the ruling implies or will lead too. You are badly distorting the impact this ruling will have.
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by suture 4y ago
The Constitution explicitly states well regulated militia and at the time the amendment was passed the lethality of guns was much less than it is today. The Supreme Court is on a clear path to destroy the mechanisms by which a modern sta
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by suture 4y ago
Your perspective ignores human nature and how easily influenced people are at scale. Toyota did not put a gun to your head but American society long ago evolved to the point where having a car is a necessity for the vast majority of adults
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by suture 4y ago
According to the following link confiscating of passports is common in Bahrain for migrant workers. https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/30/bahrain-abuse-migrant-wo...
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by suture 4y ago
Perhaps you don’t understand how words work. Words can have different meanings/connotations depending on situation and context. As I said repeatedly, for me it is correct to say “solved” given the constraints involved. Human societi
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by suture 4y ago
I hope you can break from the the intellectual shackles that bind you. I hope you can visit other countries and read from sources of information outside your comfort zone. Subscribing to a belief about which system of economics you prefer
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by suture 4y ago
It’s a solved problem as far as one can get given the constraints involved. As I said, if you don’t want to use that phrase then don’t. I’m not going to quibble over semantics. Human societies are far more complex than programming and th
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by suture 4y ago
In Saudi Arabia, Gulf States, and elsewhere in the region migrant workers have their passport taken by the employer and thus can’t leave the country. They are stuck. In most other countries the employer does not confiscate your passport.
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by suture 4y ago
Well, as I said, in my opinion people can be blamed given the readily available information and in regard to the multi-decade irrational fear of socialism. Willful ignorance is a thing.
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by suture 4y ago
The naivety is in thinking that if it doesn’t work in Canada then it must not be a solved problem. The naivety is in thinking that if you can find anecdotal evidence that in a particular instance Canada’s system worked worse than the U.S.
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by suture 4y ago
Yes, I know this. However, in this age of easy information and knowledge about other societies readily available it becomes more a matter of willful ignorance than being duped by propaganda.
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by suture 4y ago
I don’t disagree in general with what you wrote. On the bogeyman of “socialism” I do blame the electorate. The irrational fear of anything remotely related to “socialism” in America has been going on far too long.
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by suture 4y ago
Assuming by free you mean universal coverage that is (almost) free at the point of usage then this is a solved problem. What the United States lacks in order to realize a solution is political willpower and an electorate that is savvy enou
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by suture 4y ago
It appears as though you did not read the article. What the article describes cannot be attributed to booming stock market alone.
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by suture 4y ago
There is a book called “Number, Shape, & Symmetry”. You can download it at z-lib.org. It’s a book that will give you the flavor of mathematics and prove some of the basic algebraic properties. It does not require calculus but will re
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by suture 4y ago
Do you want something at the level of beginning algebra? Or something more advanced?
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by suture 4y ago
Typically before one gets to the point of really understanding how to prove things a fair amount of brain washing occurs. For instance, few people know why the distributive property holds but they use it all the time. Most people are comf
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by suture 4y ago
You are being deliberately obtuse. There are people who are enslaved in societies where slavery is illegal and, as a whole, considered evil by a very large majority of the population. People are sometimes kept in bondage by force and that
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by suture 4y ago
… because in that case there's nothing stopping the slaves from leaving Obviously this is false and you can find examples of people being enslaved in countries where it is outlawed. There are plenty of examples of an enslaved person
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by suture 4y ago
Someone will want to enslave people. This has been so for almost all of history for sufficiently large civilizations. In general humans exploit one another when they can get away with it. In the absence of government/societal regula
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by suture 4y ago
Obviously it was a whimsical way of saying “slavery is the natural minimum wage” in the absence of all regulations (which is a proxy for government/societal interventions). Some person/company will be willing to enslave people if
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by suture 4y ago
I’m pretty sure slavery is outlawed in all European countries so that alone prevents a 0 minimum wage. That itself is a regulation. There are lots of “regulations” (government interventions) that prevent a zero minimum wage. Indeed the l
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by suture 4y ago
Consider the possibility that harsher conditions/sentences do not deter crime. https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/business-law/do-harsher-pu...
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by suture 4y ago
I do not at all understand the reason for your response. Do you really think that I was saying that doing something for free is always a form of slavery? I think it’s obvious the meaning and intent of what I wrote and only a disingenuous

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