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by task_queue 11y ago
It's a good thing language and society are fluid despite being held back by people who are unchanging in opinion or operate on religious zeal. The function and intention of marriage has changed through time and locality. To pick a sing
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by task_queue 11y ago
Morphine, from which heroin is derived, codeine and thebaine come directly from a plant. Many prescription pain killers like hydrocodone are derivatives of the latter compound.
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by task_queue 11y ago
Because heroin sale and use was mostly confined to poor and minority communities. Now a different population is consuming them that happens to be white and suburbanite.
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by task_queue 11y ago
You're drawing a line that doesn't exist. By all means, alcohol is an addictive hard drug with withdrawals that can actually kill or cause long-term brain damage. The only other class of drugs that have the same dangerous withdraw
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by task_queue 11y ago
A small subset complained, but the majority voted for politicians who were vocal about their intentions to implement harsh laws that would impact the poor and racial minorities. They also voted for judges and DAs who voiced their intention
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by task_queue 11y ago
Addiction, a loss of control in behavior and thought, is very different than an organic desire for a product or service. If you asked an addict if they want to have to consume a product everyday in increasing quantities, lest they convulse
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by task_queue 11y ago
The safety information is: don't fucking do it. There isn't a set guideline for mixing potent CNS depressants because there is a fine line between breathing and complete respiratory failure that is unique to every user.
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by task_queue 11y ago
Reminder that people only started caring about police brutality when it became common knowledge that the cops could break down your door and shoot your dog with impunity. The decades of brutality against the poor and racial minorities befor
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by task_queue 11y ago
Pattern jury instructions exist in most states to prevent arbitrary and unjustified decisions made by jurors. I don't agree with how they can be used in some cases, but you might be explicitly barred from making such decisions.
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by task_queue 11y ago
This is assuming your case goes to trial. I'd assume 99% cases don't ever reach that stage. Plea bargains are also marketed as a way to save resources and keep the justice system from getting backed up. Most people take a plea bar
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by task_queue 11y ago
Yes, they are responsible for killing them. It's a conscience decision an executioner makes to kill those the state deems worthy of execution.
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by task_queue 11y ago
More than half of the police shootings this year were of white males.
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by task_queue 11y ago
Tell this to the mentally ill, whose first encounter with anyone trying to get them help usually involves police with guns who have a tendency to shoot them.
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by task_queue 11y ago
Cancer is not in an organism's interest, but mutations can still occur and cause it.
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by task_queue 11y ago
I started drinking green tea and black tea in the morning in high school. Then I ran out. Cue a few days of headaches, bad moods, falling asleep and cold-like symptoms. Then a few years later I started drinking coffee regularly. Same thing
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by task_queue 11y ago
> My hope? The USA elects a Tea Party slate of candidates and goes isolationist. The Tea Party can be motivated to support our continued invasions as long as it fits in their framework or is promoted by their figureheads, just like any o
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by task_queue 11y ago
I'm not sure why you think therapy is not a form of real treatment. Cognitive-behavioral therapy and dialectical behavioral therapy have been proven to be effective for treating numerous biologically based mental disorders. They are no
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by task_queue 11y ago
Most Basic Income systems I've seen do not do away with existing social services. BI is a supplement to them.
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by task_queue 11y ago
> Some approach the issue from a Kantian perspective, and ask 'what right does A have to take B's money and give it to C?'[1] What right does someone have to reap the benefits of society and not give back? What right does
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by task_queue 11y ago
"Does talk therapy help ease symptoms of schizophrenia" is a very valid question to ask and study to conduct. Treatment options for schizophrenia call for some of the strongest psychoactives psychiatrists prescribe. They will lowe
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by task_queue 11y ago
Nothing gets them off more than profiting off of a minority in shackles.
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by task_queue 11y ago
There's a great quote by Lee Atwater about The Southern Strategy and how they knowingly use dog-whistle politics when their policy and rhetoric starts getting dated/transparent. http://www.thenation.com/article&#x2
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by task_queue 11y ago
Laissez-faire liberals might denounce Friedman as not being liberal enough. He supported social welfare and a basic income because he recognized that the market failed in those arenas. He supported a progressive tax system as well. Suggesti
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by task_queue 11y ago
Another thing on the internet I'm not paying for.
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by task_queue 11y ago
>No I'm not. No matter what I do, the government will try to tax any income I earn. Almost any opportunity for an income in the US exists because of the society its tax dollars prop up. To reap the benefits of society and not pay in
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by task_queue 11y ago
Everything isn't to be treated as a debate in good faith. It is very, very rare for a person to be making inflammatory comments in an earnest attempt to start a debate in good faith. I agree, if the platform is a debate-like context, i
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by task_queue 11y ago
Consequences of speech are people's thoughts or reactions to speech. Where does someone's right to say what they want without consequence end and my right to have a thought or reaction to what I heard begin? Your right to speak yo
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by task_queue 11y ago
Yes. The first can simply be a reaction someone has to speech and the other is a criminal offense.
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by task_queue 11y ago
Go on
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by task_queue 11y ago
You are in essence saying there shouldn't be social consequences for speech.

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