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by dabbledash 9y ago
Well, normally it isn’t.
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by dabbledash 9y ago
The objection to this line of thinking has to do with fairness. Time is much more evenly distributed than money.
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by dabbledash 9y ago
God, I hope it does. Tipping is just a way for restaurant owners to exclude the cost of labor from their listed prices.
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by dabbledash 9y ago
Interesting. I wasn't coming from that angle. I think cycling would be less risky if there weren't cars on the road, so I would see less of a reason to have cyclists take a test and get a license if they didn't have to mix wi
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by dabbledash 9y ago
That u-turn sounds legal for everybody. I think one the purposes of traffic law is to make the behavior of all participants predictable. My only issue with cyclists is I feel I can never predict what they're going to do.
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by dabbledash 9y ago
>Thought experiment: if you didn't have any motorised vehicles on the road, would you still want cyclists to have a licence? No. Why do you think this is relevant? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the rest of your ar
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by dabbledash 9y ago
Yet I still receive piles of garbage in the mail
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by dabbledash 9y ago
I think at this point our Overton windows are just non overlapping.
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by dabbledash 9y ago
High taxes on the rural poor won't net as much revenue as low taxes on wealthy, dense populations. Even with very high taxes it would be hard for Kansas to match MA infrastructure.
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by dabbledash 9y ago
It's as if a large chunk of people have values the author can't process at all. "Sure it's beautiful and traditional and ties us to a shared past and culture, but what's the POINT of it?" Maybe I'm overrea
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by dabbledash 9y ago
I guess I just missed the section on 'how you will be governed' and 'how will we care for the old / poor / infirm'.
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by dabbledash 9y ago
I think if 40% of middle aged men have a testosterone level that's below normal, we've probably misdefined 'normal'. (And conveniently misdefined it in a way that exploits men's fears about aging and masculinity to
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by dabbledash 9y ago
Well if you prefer you can disagree with people who aren't wrong...
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by dabbledash 9y ago
Under which exception do you believe hate speech falls?
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by dabbledash 9y ago
Apparently he doesn't have that power, since they're still on the internet.
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by dabbledash 9y ago
Why do you think more people should think it's unfair? The participants are explicitly told that the initial positions were assigned randomly. It doesn't seem like the reversed hierarchy is any more unfair than the original.
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by dabbledash 10y ago
I think it's great for doctors to solicit feedback from departing patients to see if there is anything they could be doing better. But on a related note: I'm not sure about the value of using patient satisfaction surveys to evalua
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by dabbledash 10y ago
I think this is based on a misunderstanding of the kind of "economic choices" a person with little or no income will face. If a person can't afford to pay for housing or food, it's probably not because they're blowi
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by dabbledash 10y ago
The problem with this idea ("you find jerks everywhere") is that it doesn't account for groups whose unifying ideologies make their members noxious. You might run into an unpleasant Lutheran or bird watcher or deficit hawk, b
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by dabbledash 10y ago
Love is not exactly long division.
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by dabbledash 10y ago
Well what would the logical alternative be? If I argue that someone should support a policy because it serves their self interest, that presumes a moral framework. If I argue they should support it for the greater good, that assumes a moral
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by dabbledash 10y ago
I don't believe any answer to a "what ought we do..." question can cohere without agreeing to a shared moral framework. The answer to the question will always assume you want to maximize something(s) and choosing among those
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by dabbledash 10y ago
Ah, well now you're changing the subject. If you're granting that the issue is sexual assault and not bad language we can talk about that. Saying he would like to commit sexual assault would be disqualifying on its own, but in any
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by dabbledash 10y ago
The people who have a problem with that tape aren't upset about a dirty word. If you friends are kissing and groping people they just met "without even waiting," you should probably call the cops. If they think "she let