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by crusso 13y ago
And we are not talking about everyone a luxurious car, but for some a roof and bread If the discussion were about providing people food and shelter, then we wouldn't even be debating any longer. Those things have been available to e
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by crusso 13y ago
You call it a "tired mantra" and a "meme". If that were the case, then I'd think that you'd destroy my position with data vs a couple of lines of rhetoric. To what kind of scrutiny are you referring? I'd
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by crusso 13y ago
You're demonstrating the exact problem the person to whom you were responding was discussing. You can take a "damn them all and defeat them at all costs" stance if you want to. There's always something that "the ot
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>> and would be completely fine with another civil contract with the same rights but a different name. >Because "separate but equal" had such a good run last time around eh? Do you take the same hardline stance with other
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Even worse -- on top of the shaky ground of the argument that "income inequality is a huge evil" is built a remedy that the government is somehow going to equitably redistribute the wealth without destroying a great deal of it in
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He supported a campaign that was supported by over half the voters in CA. By definition, if over half the people supported the position, it's "reasonable".
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by crusso 13y ago
As a supporter of gay marriage, and somebody who believes spirituality isn't real, this still strikes me as picking on someone Same here. To think that you can't even participate in the political process now without the thought
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by crusso 13y ago
You said, "it's that the theory doesn't have a lot of support" I was simply pointing you to a reference that showed that "academics" use the exact same language regarding chemical balance of neurotransmitters a
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by crusso 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_imbalance Not that wikipedia is the last word, but, "[...] companies such as Pfizer continue to promote drugs like Zoloft with advertisements asserting that mental illness may
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For years we've heard the charge that pharmaceutical companies are little more than parasites creating perpetual users of their drugs rather than curing anything. It's worth noting that this drug company is curing something signif
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by crusso 13y ago
My initials are CR and all. Makes sense. ;)
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Hey... and thank you, pdonis, for typing out the arguments I was making in shorthand notation. I salute your stamina and patience. :)
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Why speculate when we already have some data on activity levels under CR? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction#Activity_le...
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Ageing has been such an insurmountable problem, any methods that indicate that there are ways to somewhat control it are promising and can lead to other discoveries. Perhaps CR only invokes the release of hormones that have a protective eff
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by crusso 13y ago
While I don't disagree factually with what you're saying, the way you're saying it sounds like a slight misunderstanding of the results here. CR has been shown to have effects on short-lived species because that's all th
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by crusso 13y ago
it's essentially a PR line that both doctors and the general public have mistaken for science That sound derogatory. Did you expect her to go into detail about serotonin, what the latest Science tells us it does, what serotonin uptak
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by crusso 13y ago
You call it "rhetoric", I call it "evidence that what you're focusing on isn't important". All this focus on economic inequality is misguided. The focus should be upon breaking chains of economic mobility.
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Value relative to effort. society to justly allocate its rewards Your arguments ignore the failure illustrated by history of the strategy of society proactively allocating anything. Decades and decades of programs that spent billions o
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by crusso 13y ago
I think pessimizer was saying that the relative return to the labour at the bottom end is low At which end of the economic ladder do you think improvements occur for there to be a dramatic reduction in poverty within a whole society?
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by crusso 13y ago
Apparently you want to disagree with my point Jeez, another straw man. Are they really necessary? Actually I do think that Cuba has been tragically mishandled by the US. I would have thought that trading with them and being a good examp
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by crusso 13y ago
The value: not so much for them. How is a "dramatic reduction in poverty" not of much value? http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/stats-on-human-rights/sta...
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Wow, a "preemptive strike straw man". You don't see that every day. :)
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That's an unfortunately popular belief, but not the way things happen in the real world. In the real world, corporations use and corrupt the facilities of governments to undermine restrictions on the behaviors they want while supportin
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by crusso 13y ago
Exactly. Why question whether or not our suspicion is greater or less than it was in some bygone era? It's like saying, "Cancer survival rates are much better now than they were a hundred years ago, so let's question peoples&
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by crusso 13y ago
Interesting question, though, is if this logic applies to things like medicine: there isn't any barrier to entry other than buying a scalpel and a stethoscope I don't understand your question. I don't think you can put pra
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During the bootlegger era, it was common for public officials to be quite openly on the take Is that the measure? That politicians have to be openly on the take for the modern citizen to be justified in distrusting authority? As with mo
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Did you actually ask everyone Yeah, I did communicate with people about the efficacy of the working environment. Plus, for the past 12 years or so, everyone I've worked with has had a laptop that they could always (and did at times)
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Short of the hope that medical advances and genetic engineering will bootstrap a dramatic increase in human intelligence... I got nothing but observations on the futility of the problem.
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It would seem to be easier to break the cycle on the marketer's side because you're viewing the problem at the choke point where marketers are ostensibly in control - but really it's a systemic problem with people that would
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Boom! You nailed it. It's the social expectation to do something and BE something that is an excuse for people without those natural tendencies to act out. Out of their comfort zone, feeling social force to try to be funny, they over

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