alanwatts
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>it is unconscionable that we support the literal mass murder and ill-treatment of billions of animals each year when there are alternatives that require no suffering and no death. There are ways to put down animals…
*Psychology and psychiatry I meant to say
>Also there's no such thing as a negative emotion. Everything we feel is a necessary (or at least programmed) reaction to our experience. Have you ever met someone with emotional issues, i.e. anger management issues?…
Ah, my mistake. I misread it as "many more people..."
Fair enough. Though my concern is not for myself, but rather for any potential great leader who could be silently neutralized/blackmailed/extorted by mass surveillance techniques. Whether the culprits' organizational…
>the fact that many people are more worried about marketers than the NSA? How do you know this is a fact, was a global survey done? >I am more concerned about A than B" is not a claim that B does not exist, nor is it a…
Dr. King was monitored by the NSA for "thought crimes". Is that "100% tinfoil hat mode"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.#NSA_mon...
Which is circular logic. To sue an entity which you fund is to indrectly sue yourself.
The terms "foreign" and "domestic" are meaningless in the context of the world wide web.
Neglecting to save millions of lives in order to make some extra money is okay, but killing a dog is not?
It's not perfect if your endpoints are compromised.
>You'd just make everyone's job easier. How is that a bad thing? 1,300,000 people die each year in car wrecks and another 20,000,000 - 50,000,000 more are injured and/or disabled. Google's motto is "Don't be evil" after…
>sounded like there was a huge cop-out at the centrw of everything that people were trying to ignore. Yes, like that of the post which I was directing my response towards: >As a lifelong believer in science... Science…
>I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive; -Harriet Tubman
"Modern science is based on the principle: ‘Give us one free miracle, and we’ll explain the rest.’ The one free miracle is the appearance of all the mass and energy in the universe and all the laws that govern it in a…
"We are still looking at the computer as if it were a means of doing what we were already doing." -Marshall McLuhan
The income itself is what stabilizes the population, this phenomenon is known as the demographic-economic paradox. The real false assumption here is that increased standard of living leads to overpopulation. The data…
>There are two states in nature. You either grow or you shrink. There is also homeostasis. Perpetual growth is cancer.
>On one side, it's economically unsound Actually, it is more economically unsound to maintain poverty in the midst of plenty (i.e, in the US there lies ~6 empty homes for every homeless person), if you consider the…
>No. It's more effective to lobby your local member of parliament/congress to pass laws restricting what media organisations can or cannot do. No. Facebook has far more lobbying power ($) than any of us. There is a…
Perhaps this phenomenon is a result of the religious imperialism which first reigned over the New World. Nudity was highly sacrilegious for los conquistadores de las americas, but the violence they used was not.
>Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. -Marshall McLuhan The Vietnam War was the only one…
Perhaps it is because the fundamental nature of "finance" as a social conception is inherently centralized. So any purposefully decentralized/distributed system used for financial (centralized) purposes becomes…
>To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease. -Lao Tzu
The family unit has been anything but since the industrial age. For ~99% of human history, families lived, learned, and worked closely together. As of late, the opposite is now true. How can parents provide adequate…