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by guscost 6y ago
Capitalism depends entirely on the existence of functioning markets. It is the philosophy that recognizes their value and promotes them.
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by guscost 6y ago
Exactly. It is the worst system, except for all the others that have been tried. “Business is war.”
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by guscost 6y ago
Who determines the value of nature? Would you be satisfied letting a market do that, instead of a centralized authority? The fact that “money” is still involved has nothing to do with this argument. Even the Soviet Union issued currency.
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by guscost 6y ago
Well you’re more honest than most, and I respect that.
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by guscost 6y ago
Funny how the solutions to these “global” problems always involve ending capitalism. Perhaps that’s the real goal?
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by guscost 6y ago
The glaring difference between this situation and your analogy: There is no faction of “ban smoking in the bathtub” zealots getting ready to bully, intimidate, and otherwise coerce the people who want to smoke in the bathtub. Like it or not
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by guscost 6y ago
The principle is simply: It is important to exercise our rights . In a different circumstance, I would probably only get it for convenience, because I don’t really believe in messing with peoples’ immune systems without a much clearer bene
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by guscost 6y ago
Everyone has the inalienable right to decline the vaccine for any reason, including: - They think it will be bad for their health or public health - They think it is some UN microchip plot - They have a moral objection to how it was develop
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by guscost 6y ago
I won’t be getting it, on principle. But the vaccine itself probably won’t hurt, if you don’t care about the context.
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by guscost 6y ago
Actual war is a completely different scenario. It won’t be a lone crazy person, and it won’t happen before all other options are exhausted (thankfully, this means there is still a chance to avoid it).
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by guscost 6y ago
YouTube staff is a gang of bullies, and they are pushing our country toward civil war. “The First Amendment is first for a reason. Second Amendment is just in case the First one doesn’t work out.” - Dave Chappelle
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by guscost 6y ago
Still unconstitutional, and unfair to poor people, but NY takes so much in taxes already, so maybe they would get away with that.
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NY bill A11179 has a provision for mandatory Covid vaccination(nysenate.gov)
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by guscost 6y ago
“Radioactive water” in this context means “normal water with trace amounts of tritium, which emits radiation that is less harmful than sunlight”.
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by guscost 6y ago
What you see as “risking killing” we see as “living a free life”. Same problem as with CO2 and global warming, we will only ever respond to negotiation and persuasion, you will never be able to walk over us like we are doormats. It doesn’t
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by guscost 6y ago
Forced to do things, HUGE difference. They made it a political issue by enforcing it with government, I didn’t want this fight at all. In the absence of coercion, I would have no problem with measures that have even a slight chance of helpi
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by guscost 6y ago
> Non-maleficence, which is derived from the maxim, is one of the principal precepts of bioethics that all students in healthcare are taught in school and is a fundamental principle throughout the world. https://en.m.wikipedia
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by guscost 6y ago
This is Berlin: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/world-nation/st...
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by guscost 6y ago
Corruption? In my republic? It’s more common than you think.
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by guscost 6y ago
I will never understand the perspective that “more corruption among gun owners” is somehow better than “more gun owners”.
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by guscost 6y ago
> What other possible explanations are there? Corruption. Individual journalists may not have the active intent to do harm with every editorial decision, but there is no way the pattern of things that are “amplified” or “remembered” vs “
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by guscost 6y ago
Again, an interesting question. You will find out that a concept like “death toll” does not fit neatly into linear or trivially-nonlinear equations.
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by guscost 6y ago
As a young and healthy challenge trial volunteer, who is now watching the panic metastasize into an existential threat to free civilization, no they were not. Blocking these trials is the worst miscarriage of ethics that I have ever seen.
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by guscost 6y ago
> How you raise a topic like this is by far the biggest influence on whether the conversation develops curiously. An influence surely, but in my experience not at all the biggest. Curiosity is a two-way street, and there are some topics
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by guscost 6y ago
If you think of e.g. string theory as the “discovery phase” of anything other than a ponzi scheme, we’re not going to come to agreement here.
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by guscost 6y ago
Flu deaths are estimated, not counted. Often victims are not tested for it at all. > And fascinatingly, you don't worry at all about people who died without test missing from statistics. Actually “presumed COVID deaths” are included
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by guscost 6y ago
That’s an interesting question. Officially the answer is “no”, but what if someone with AIDS contracts COVID-19 and dies? Does that person count toward both statistics? How many statistics can one death count towards? Now try “diabetes and
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by guscost 6y ago
To the extent that epidemiology is an applied science, it does not on its own “herald the end of science.” But even in that field, ludicrously simple and narrow-minded theories that are “tested” by running computer games, and then memory-ho
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by guscost 6y ago
That’s a good suggestion, thanks.
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by guscost 6y ago
It’s a fine, fine line. I’ve been on the receiving end of much more insulting personal attacks here, many times. And note that my comment says nothing about the person I’m arguing with, it just pre-empts a common response and calls the res

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