>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
>Generally there is no harm in theorizing, but I consider psychology and psychotherapy to be too important to allow ourselves to consider untested information. Psychology and psychotherapy are almost wholly theoretical,…
>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?…
>Activists would do quite a lot more good by demanding better from their own government. Easier said than done. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/10/mexican-activi...
>This actually is democracy working as designed - people being free to bullshit one another They aren't free to bullshit one another. Facebook, Google, and co. regularly censor their users.
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…
When suing in a case like this, punitive damages would be paid out of the governments budget, rather than the personal assets of those personally responsible, correct?
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?
>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
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…
>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…
It's an ad hominem attack, an attempt to distract from the actual issue at hand. I.e., focusing on Chelsea Manning's sexual preferences, or on Snowden being a "narcissist".
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…
>Worthless but happy is not a worthy goal. How should one measure self worth? >Verify any approach to life by generalisation: what would happen if everyone followed it? The Buddhist approach leads to stagnation. Who…
>the poor will spend all their money on drugs, If and when attempting to formulate coherent arguments, avoid using such absolute statements.
>There are direct causal relationships between all of these behaviors and poverty. Not seeking work will result in not having a job, drug abuse will make you lose your job, and having no job makes you poor. Etc. Not…
Which one is that?
There's an old Zen saying that goes: "Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water." And another which reads: "Miraculous power, marvelous activity. Drawing water, chopping…
>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
>Generally there is no harm in theorizing, but I consider psychology and psychotherapy to be too important to allow ourselves to consider untested information. Psychology and psychotherapy are almost wholly theoretical,…
>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?…
>Activists would do quite a lot more good by demanding better from their own government. Easier said than done. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/10/mexican-activi...
>This actually is democracy working as designed - people being free to bullshit one another They aren't free to bullshit one another. Facebook, Google, and co. regularly censor their users.
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…
When suing in a case like this, punitive damages would be paid out of the governments budget, rather than the personal assets of those personally responsible, correct?
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?
>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
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…
>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…
It's an ad hominem attack, an attempt to distract from the actual issue at hand. I.e., focusing on Chelsea Manning's sexual preferences, or on Snowden being a "narcissist".
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…
>Worthless but happy is not a worthy goal. How should one measure self worth? >Verify any approach to life by generalisation: what would happen if everyone followed it? The Buddhist approach leads to stagnation. Who…
>the poor will spend all their money on drugs, If and when attempting to formulate coherent arguments, avoid using such absolute statements.
>There are direct causal relationships between all of these behaviors and poverty. Not seeking work will result in not having a job, drug abuse will make you lose your job, and having no job makes you poor. Etc. Not…
Which one is that?
There's an old Zen saying that goes: "Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water." And another which reads: "Miraculous power, marvelous activity. Drawing water, chopping…