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by asabjorn 8y ago
I don’t have to do anything to figure out if I should murder you or not. It’s just wrong and there are only two options. However, I have to do something active to be obliged to not offend your beliefs as there are as many sets of beliefs th
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by asabjorn 8y ago
The reason why the right to not be offended is a positive right is that I am obliged to find out what might offend you, which is impossible when speaking to a large crowd, and if there is a need to express something along the same ideas I a
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by asabjorn 8y ago
"you have a right not to be the object of offensive conduct." is not a negative right, because the one that has to oblige to act upon it is not the one with the right. Not only that, for you to have that right the other person is
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by asabjorn 8y ago
From the link: "Negative and positive rights are rights that oblige either action (positive rights) or inaction (negative rights)". How is it different?
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The way I describe it is conformant with the official definition of positive and negative rights: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
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Human rights was originally conceived of as negative rights, e.g. you have the right to pursue happiness in the same way as I do. Negative rights is a sign of freedom, and positive rights are a sign of the opposite because they infringe upo
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by asabjorn 8y ago
Is this for a startup? A large corporation might tilt more towards someone that does an assigned task on time regardless of how mind-numbing it is, and even when they have to invent the instructions as they go along.
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Millenials are largely healthy on average due to their youth which is why I didn't include that. However, for the ones that are sick that is definitely a huge problem.
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The student loan bonds probably benefit the ones owning them the most, which is not baby boomers in general. Maybe retirement funds buy them so they indirectly benefit? Exclusionary zoning benefit those that own housing the most, so it does
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I think it is worthwhile to know that a liberal arts degree when done right teach you how to think, and therefore how to effectively formulate problems and evaluate solutions. A classic liberal arts education is therefore generate reliable
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So the three largest problems for millenials: - large and increasing cost of housing due to artificial restrictions of housing through zoning and housing permitting - large and increasing cost of education due to subsidized education with n
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by asabjorn 8y ago
The climate change that contributed to the fall of the Roman empire was relatively quick [1]. [1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-ch...
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The evidence suggests that the parent commenter was wrong when indicating that the last significant climate change happened 125000 years ago.
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Climate change has affected society for as long as we have records, and even before that. Drought overthrew pharaos [1], the Romans experienced a little ice age that contributed to their fall [2] in the 500s, Mayans form drought in the 1100
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by asabjorn 8y ago
## source who voted for brexit Repudiation of the story that the leavers feel economically left behind [1]. Some Leavers certainly felt economically left behind, but many did not. Research has since shown that three groups were key to the B
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by asabjorn 8y ago
The problem is if the people of England is correct in the assertion that it has given away too much Democratic power to unelected political bodies, and I am not the one to answer that. I am just saying dismissing their concerns seem a bit u
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by asabjorn 8y ago
As I said elsewhere: Yes, the KGB defector Yuri [1] in 1984 said as much that there is manipulation. He describes a slow distruption they started of America by infiltrating the education system. This attacks the weakness of a democracy, whi
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by asabjorn 8y ago
We all know the rhetoric used against the brexiters, and what I stated is representative of that.
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Close minded means you are not open to new impulses.If they are close minded they by definition is bound by something old which should make them harder to manipulate. A person that does the creative arts is generally very open minded.
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Yuri was a real KGB defector, and the interview is from 1984 which is way before the effects we see today. Watch the whole thing here [1], and read the sometimes a bit offensive book on it by a CIA case officer [2]. Then take both with a bi
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by asabjorn 8y ago
How do you know that other more major political stories is not the real product of manipulation [1] and these opposition movements are a symptom of problems not solved by a malfunctioning Democratic system? [1] https://youtu.be&#
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by asabjorn 8y ago
Yes, the KGB defector Yuri [1] said as much. He describes a slow distruption they started of America by infiltrating the education system. This attacks the weakness of a democracy, which is the fact that it’s run by people for the behest of
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by asabjorn 8y ago
How do we know that we in the elites that have been given ideology instead of a classic humanities education, taught what to think instead of how, and to become practiced in ignoring what our mind as well as eyes tell us is not worse off?
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I am just observing. It’s very impressive for Russia to be the essential force behind all major opposition movements that apparently are not rooted in legitimate concerns.
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It is interesting how any movement in opposition to globalism is caused by Russia, and any opponent of the progressivism pushing for this is obviously an racist/sexist/bigot. It is interesting how all the yellow jackets, the maga
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by asabjorn 8y ago
Yes, it is shoddy science or possibly not science at all. Testing an assertion using known measures that have been shown to not test what you want to test does not add to the scientific knowledge and instead subtract by adding noise. Buildi
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I would argue that the replication crisis is a sign of improved rigor, but certain parts of psychology is more political than science and hence doesn't replicate well. The positive news is that psychology is in the process of establish
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One of the core authors of the IAT paper administered here to measure implicit bias released a paper last year showing how the test doesn't actually measure bias, and how it is not clear what this kind of test actually measures. Many o
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Read: I am not saying you are a racist, you just sound like one. How is that not just a rhetorical trick for calling someone a racist without having to own up to it? And your point about opportunity is demonstrably false; groups such as Nig
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by asabjorn 8y ago
It is not a horseshoe, as it is not a continuum. Far-right is pre-modern and far-left is post-modern, and both have a distinctly different view in opposition to the modern enlightenment project. However, the current dominant ideologies on t

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