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by DominikR 10y ago
Are you arguing that every drug abuser caught should be charged with murder? You kill the Rhino, you are responsible for killing the Rhino. You buy Rhino horn, you are responsible for buying illegal goods and creating demand. (which is not
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I wouldn't let anyone off the hook so easily, even if it is a poor African country. As long as Rhino horn trade is not a mayor income source for the government then how much does it cost them to introduce harsh punishments for this? Ch
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I agree, it's as if one would accuse the drug consumer of being responsible for Mexican drug cartels torturing and beheading innocent civilians which is part of their business strategy. That is not to say that I approve of drug abuse,
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I'm in Austria so I don't know every detail about the US educational system, but I can give you some examples of what is going on here. To get a spot as a student in most universities you have to take a test first and only the bes
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Sorry to ask, but where exactly was this addressed?
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My point was that the educational system has been tweaked to be easier for everyone across the board. Children that previously performed better still perform well, children that performed worse now perform better than before. I'm not r
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A more likely cause for these results is that there has been an effort in the last decades to dumb down education at every level. Not necessarily in order to lower the average level of education but to battle perceived unfairness or racism
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Yes absolutely, I meant actions that directly harm others. The problem is that once you start going down the path to prohibit something that might indirectly cause harm you've basically given your government permission to ban anything
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> Although this had unfortunate consequences, and would be unthinkable in today's enlightened world, I'm not sure the line of reasoning here was unreasonable. It is only reasonable for people who believe in social engineering o
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He did a cost benefit analysis and concluded that it is not worth it for him. There's nothing whiny about it.
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My solution to this would be to shrink the governments power in economic affairs so every investor can be sure that it wont retroactively change the rules of the game and punish them for investing in our economies. This could draw in a lot
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The reason why ISDS provisions are even discussed is that governments have become so overreaching in regulating economic activity that business owners today have the very real fear that they'll be put out of business because a governme
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The persecution actually began under Peter the Great. By the time Communists came into power most old believers had already fled. The main reason for persecution was the old believers distrust of state power. They didn't accept rule by
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Well if it was Google or Facebook I certainly wouldn't entertain this thought but with Amazon? They are known to do things that some (not me) regard as pretty shady to shave off costs wherever they can. I wouldn't object to that a
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Could it be that this has to do with Obamacare? I read that it is cheaper to have part time employees in the US right now, but I might be wrong on that.
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Thanks a lot! Very kind of you.
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Thanks, English is not my native language. So what is correct, 50s or 50's?
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Actually the 1000 year number comes from Project Orion in the 1940ties and 50ties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls... An updated design from the 80ties calculated a time of 100 years: http
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The sad part is that people would rather beg the government for decades to pay for relocation instead of just taking matters in their own hands and move to another place.
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The US is not a ethnically homogenous society like Norway is. Neither does Norway have a wide spread gang culture like the US has in African American neighbourhoods where even law abiding African Americans that want to have a normal life ca
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It is reasonable to assume a government actor. Russia has a motive for punishing a traitor just as Western elites have a motive to further their Cold War 2.0 agenda. The problem is that we cannot tell who did it as our government will not g
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> Exactly. That was the point of using Po-210 for Litvinenko. The goal was to leave no possible doubt who killed him and for what. It was a warning to all future defectors. And the proof for this theory is? I'm not buying anything m
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For multiple reasons that all weaken Israels position in the region. 1) Removed Libyan dictator Gaddafi who played ball with Western powers and kept illegal migration to the EU at bay. Replaced with ISIS style radicals. 2) Supported removal
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Really? Russia is now having a military base in Iran and Turkey will likely leave NATO and cooperate with Russia. Israel is also no friend of the Obama administration to put it mildly. Oh and we here in the EU are also very happy with the c
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No proof as usual. Let's just make Russia our enemy because they don't want to put men in women's restrooms and other similar issues that progressives can't accept. But being friends with Saudi Arabia and radical Islamis
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I'm riding a carbon road bike and I have to say that 22km/h is insanely fast for a runner. I'm not that much faster but I also do it for 6 hours straight. (with wind and some climbing) It's still mind boggling that a guy
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Yes, the material got better, but my opinion is that these are not the main factor for these kinds of improvements in the last century. Athletes competing today at that level basically have a staff of trainers, physicians and nutritionists
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> "social ownership" refers to the various forms of ownership for the means of production in socialist economic systems; encompassing public ownership, employee ownership, cooperative ownership, citizen ownership of equity[1] a
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> most jobs that pay enough that you could spend less time at work don't give you the option of doing so. In most countries outside of the West jobs pay much less and you'll be forced to work much more to merely survive. Want t
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In the article the following solution is given: > The problem is that detachment – solitude, quietly taking responsibility for your own actions – is inimical to modern life ... Top comment here: > It is the fault of advertising!! I&#x

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