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by cam_l 10y ago
I would argue that literally here is a modifier to murdering, and in fact both are used here in an intentionally excessive (or emotional if you prefer) in order to underline a point. By all means disagree with the point, but sugar can actua
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by cam_l 10y ago
google literally.. ie. informal - used for emphasis while not being literally true.
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by cam_l 10y ago
"Renting has its perks" Do you mean renting or rent-seeking? I fail to see how renting has perks.
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by cam_l 10y ago
My best shot Feudalism == Capitalism (specifically, unfettered capitalism). Seriously. Markets are where capital (ie. prior labour(yours or some one/thing else's)) is arbitraged for gain. The important part of this rather simplist
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by cam_l 10y ago
Thanks brc. This is is a good summation of all the Liberal (in oz Liberal = conservative) talking points. >including the idea that what happens to the people on Nauru is mysterious or that they are in limbo not true http://www
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by cam_l 10y ago
So is it just me who types a reply even when the app knows exactly what I was going to say.. just because I find it morally repulsive. ..and still feel a little bit guilty for being so bloody shallow.
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by cam_l 10y ago
I see, and make, this argument often in relation to a lot of things.. with one caveat, which I think is important. The 'because' in "it is opaque 'because' it is in the interest of.." does not have to be a caus
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by cam_l 11y ago
Not if you assume punishment is the appropriate response to a crime. But if you think a mixture of public safety, admonishment, and rehabilitation is the better response, then yes probably.
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by cam_l 11y ago
There are more people living in slavery today than ever before in human history. These things are not binary.
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by cam_l 11y ago
Maybe you are just looking at the AAA battery the wrong way up..
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by cam_l 11y ago
Interesting ideas.. ..tangentially, why even bother with reputations? The big issue with money based economy is that money is all cleansing. All the shitty things you did to get your money can be forgotten and your money used to buy yoursel
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by cam_l 11y ago
You don't need to appeal to Einstein.. Csiro invented WiFi.
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by cam_l 11y ago
"The SUV driver is responsible for his/her actions." Hey, that is what ford said about the Bronco II. Anyway, I agree with you in principle that if presented with the clear evidence in court it would be as you say. My content
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by cam_l 11y ago
People drive SUV's, which have a much higher likelihood than ordinary cars of killing the occupants of other vehicles or pedestrians. No lawsuits. Just for perspective, the lawsuit you are talking about is the family of one dead pedest
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by cam_l 11y ago
Google "savings account". Google poverty.
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by cam_l 11y ago
a revenue-neutral carbon tax to fund a welfare state.. Love the idea, but we had one of these for a couple of years, and at $23/t there was at least an order of magnitude less money in it than needed for a GBI. And per capita, we are a
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by cam_l 11y ago
Missed the forest for the pedantries. In an employment market, I am the supplier, my boss is the consumer. I hold a monopoly over my supply. All of my competitors offer my employer a slightly different product. The market is a monopolistic
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by cam_l 11y ago
I find it interesting that most people coming down against GBI do so under the assumption that coercion is the strongest incentive to work. I think it much more probable to look at GBI as separating the monopolistic part of the work market
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by cam_l 11y ago
Cynically, I always figured anti-drug advertising is directed at elderly conservatives rather than actually trying to decrease drug use. If the side effect is to increase drug use whilst increasing outrage in their chosen demographic, that
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by cam_l 11y ago
"There are significant chances for it to go wrong" If you read that link you posted you would realise this is the first time it has happened on this scale. Ever. The implementation of electronic voting in NSW has had its own probl
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by cam_l 11y ago
so how much is the oil, coal, gas industry worth? how much more than a billion? the money politics is pretty clearly stacked on one side. your argument about eugenics, though distasteful, is actually illustrative of what happens when you la
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by cam_l 11y ago
not sure what you are getting at, being compulsory doesn't make it any less of a right. anyway, I am Australian.
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by cam_l 11y ago
Voting is a right, not a privilege. The right to self determination tempered by the rights of others. The right to vote is taken away under the auspices of having broken a social contract by committing a crime. But taking away the right to
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by cam_l 11y ago
"The USA doesn't understand that humans who did errors are still humans and need to be treated as such." Fixed it for you. The fact that the states strip prisoners (or even ex-prisoners) of the right to vote is just fucking
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by cam_l 11y ago
There is a great story I heard about the architects winning the competition. The jury had to do an inspection of their offices to ensure the architects were established enough to take on the project. So Rogers & Piano hired out a floor
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by cam_l 11y ago
there's this stretch of road in western Queensland runs straight about 50 clicks. I drove through there once years ago just after a bushfire. horizon to horizon was dead flat. the land was the same color as the road. i remember driving
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by cam_l 11y ago
I am going to go ahead and rephrase that as a question for you. "Do you advocate prison as a place of solely rehabilitation because you're putting yourself and the people that you know in that hypothetical situation?" no. i h
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by cam_l 11y ago
E) stop trying to apply simple heuristics to people. The solution is really simple in principle but also really difficult in practice. Treat everyone as an individual, case by case. Use prison as a place for reform and rehabilitation, not p
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by cam_l 11y ago
"having serial murderers dumped on their shores as they were two centuries ago" you are talking about the british, right?
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by cam_l 11y ago
i see what you're saying, but i disagree with your premise. particularly in light of both the article and the parent comments. consciousness is a defacto categorisation because we cannot point to a distinct thing which defines it. we h

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