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GyYZTfWBfQw
8y ago
For the same reason any other submissions concerning political philosophy, economics, etc. are. Quite many of those "off-topic" submissions climbed up to the top; probably because people here were interested enough in them. :) If
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The Hard Truth About Socialism (Stefan Molyneux)
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It's cheap and efficient to wear a mask, where it is the taxpayer's money being wasted on facial recognition systems, and on top of that: cameras don't prevent, and are not even being used to prosecute criminals, there are no
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I get your perspective, but just because someone has a red hair, it doesn't render their claims incorrect, or doesn't invalidate anything they say. I have seen many people being dismissed by others merely because of their voice, w
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8y ago
Define "kind" and define "better for everyone".
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People in that kind of setting don't care about your identity, they care about your contributions. People are encouraged to stay on-topic (nowadays known as: cyber-bullying) rather than spamming the site with irrelevant personal detail
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That's essentially the same problem I've had with what you had a problem. I'm confused.
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> Try sci-hub I thought you were a law-abiding, morally superior citizen, and the first comment from another post I find is incitement, which is the encouragement of another person to commit a crime. Well done, Sir. Made my day. :)
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Well he's just too far gone.
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> Most laws are actually against thing that can lead to bad situation. https://mises.org/library/legalize-drunk-driving
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But if they are sexually attracted to children and are "evil", then the creation of the videos and photos are just a "side-effect", the abuse probably would have taken place regardless, right? I had people telling me tha
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Ah, finally someone with a more positive tone (in contrast to mine) and a better way to articulate my thoughts. Thanks. :)
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Did he say that you don't have the right to care? He did not. You can care, you may not want these photos to be where they are, and you may attempt to have them removed if it is possible, but you don't have the right to punish peo
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> You shouldn't care about people possessing child pornography, because if you do then it's because you should have "paid more attention to your kid and improved your parenting". You are right; I don't care. You
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Yeah, that's what happens when you threaten them to deprive them of their freedom, to torture, and to murder them. Perhaps you are so civilized you resort to fines first, but what if they decide to not pay said fine? Are you going to p
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number :> You can literally arbitrarily associate any number to anything and ban it based on that, which they did: > In 2012, it was reported that the numbers 89, 6, and 4 ea
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Except it's not "everything is allowed", and the "ban and regulate everything" mentality seems to be more harmful, useless, waste of time and money in reality. Regarding responsibility: https://news.ycomb
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Hahahahaha. Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number > An illegal number is a number that represents information which is illegal to possess, utter, propagate, or otherwise transmit in some legal jurisd
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Hmm? I don't see how it is related to anything I've said. I'm pretty much against social media, but I don't want them to be regulated or banned. If you don't like them, then stop using them, and at the same time I d
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> However, the tone, structure of your arguments (namely, lots of wide assertions with scant evidence), and combative reactions is getting in the way of the points you are trying to make. It makes no matter if a view is the correct (for
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Do you think criminals care about the laws? Do you disagree with what I've said, or are you trying to be fallacious here and imply that because I don't have a solution, it somehow renders my claim wrong and makes criminals care
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Not the point. The point is that it's not banned merely because it could contribute to health and financial issues. According to many people here, it should. I'm merely mocking their idiocy to prove a point, hence why my karma w
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Slower speeds can increase the time to get from A to B therefore increasing fatigue which decreases attention which could lead to accidents, albeit they might not be completely fatal. It's a great game, isn't it?
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It is unfortunate that you have been down-voted. It seems that thinking is a luxury these days. Prohibition supposedly works even though a pile of empirical evidence suggests otherwise, and the Government supposedly has good intentions. All
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Well it is known that criminals don't care about the laws, right? Imagine my shock when I hear that there are stabbings on a daily basis in a country where carrying a knife without "good reason" (that the court decides) is il
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Your kids won't be able to use your money to buy loot crates which contain items that are either unknown or known, but have no way of knowing which you'll receive after opening the crate. Look, they say it's for the safety of
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> I'm assuming you're referring to the royal you here. Yes, definitely. Would you like to compare our e-p3nis? > I suspect you're in favor of making all opiods [sic] legal as well? Nice fallacy, but I'll take the b
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> What's the benefit of allowing lootboxes? What's the benefit of X? They're invented by business as a new way of attracting Y. Why shouldn't this be regulated or banned? Feel free to substitute X and Y by virtually a
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For the same reason you are perfectly fine with government surveillance and prohibition aggressively enforced by the State. Just stop giving your kids money, or pay more attention to their spending habits. If you think attention to your kid
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> Aske Mottelson, one of the paper's authors, says the algorithm's ability to detect lies is comparable to that of a polygraph. So in other words: useless. > However, it has its limits and shouldn't be used in courtroom
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