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by throwaway94857 7y ago
This is true, but it's a matter of abstract ideals vs concrete benefits. Who are we to tell people in a poor community that certain economic development cannot take place because it will harm certain animals or plants? This is a very r
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by throwaway94857 7y ago
It's perfectly reasonable to consider cost - which is what this move entails - when deciding whether or not to protect a species. We already employ this calculus, in that we are not spending our entire national budget on protecting som
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by throwaway94857 7y ago
Some try, fewer truly succeed. It's one thing to reject your nature, it's quite another to not live in some lingering dissonance as a result.
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by throwaway94857 7y ago
What? We're far wealthier in the US than the vast majority of the world. It's not propaganda, it's data and fact. Healthcare and education are generally more expensive here than in Europe, but people also get paid more here a
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by throwaway94857 7y ago
Competition is as innate to animal life as is breathing. It's naive to think we can simply ignore our drive to compete with one another, as naive as thinking we can ignore hunger thirst or sexual desire.
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by throwaway94857 7y ago
But violent revolutionaries almost never have credible or effective alternatives to the current system. That's why they have to resort to violence, their arguments for why things have to change usually aren't good and they're
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Will the ABA Reject Due Process?(wsj.com)
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by throwaway94857 7y ago
It's not just the journalists who tend to be anti-male. The psychological and sociological establishments have been subtly anti-male for a long time. An example of how this anti-male bias manifests is in the very language used in acade
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by throwaway94857 7y ago
We'll be fine. We already have the tool to save the climate (nuclear), just need to actually use it.
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by throwaway94857 7y ago
>"that's really weird " Not really, given that our use of pesticides allows us to feed billions of people worldwide at low cost. Rates of hunger in the developed world are almost non-existent and globally hunger rates are
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by throwaway94857 7y ago
It may be true that Russia is trying to orchestrate disinformation campaigns around the world, but it is simply preying on feelings that are already quite strong in the West. It is not creating these feelings. Can they be explained by feeli
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by throwaway94857 7y ago
China is not Communist or Socialist though. They are basically fascist, or if you want to be strict about the definition of fascism they represent an entirely new form altogether.
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by throwaway94857 7y ago
I agree completely. I'm saying if we remove anonymity we won't need top down censorship.
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by throwaway94857 7y ago
I'd like to elaborate on the unity of the different elements of Chinese society you mention. Chinese institutions are all unified under a single structure, and that structure is the Communist (in name only) Party. Party members are emb
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by throwaway94857 7y ago
I believe the age of the anonymous internet is over. It's time for real world identity linked accounts for participating in online conversations. This is necessary for 2 reasons. First, it gives us confidence the people we are speaking