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by jedimind 6y ago
> Calling cocaine a ‘hard drug’ is just programming from 50+ years of the War on Drugs. And whilst it’s not the safest drug ever, the vast majority of people who do it are not dying, or have any real long term negative effects. Of course
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You managed to enumerate the potential happy path benefits without mentioning how the consumption of such hard drugs could potentially disrupt/destroy those 'potential benefits'. How will the (cocaine) tourism and local &
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Quite the convenient cop-out, not even surprised. You failed to deliver any arguments (valid or invalid) for your 'morality' and resorted to name-calling. See that makes your 'moral assessment' as worthless as your infan
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by jedimind 6y ago
That's not even the point. You are throwing around with the word 'moral' around a lot and it seems to me that you don't even understand the basics of moral philosophy. Your usage of 'moral' seems to be merely a
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Your argument is convoluted and confused, the worth of the individual has nothing to do with the action/event being 'right' or 'wrong'. Furthermore what relevance does it even have when something is 'deeply imm
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> I contend that it would be wrong, i.e. immoral. If you disagree with that, we can try to have an argument about that. Read again what you have formulated above. You just asserted that it's 'immoral' without giving any a
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> This is moral relativism. You can't build anything on moral relativism. So what exactly makes your morality absolute? Can you provide any evidence for it? Most people give hand wavy answers to this question, mumbling something al
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> Some of my comments are grayed out because people are angry with Apple and like you, some people perceive me to be defending Apple, largely because I’m not joining in with the condemnation. Quite the convenient narrative you have there
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> It’s only a tautology if you believe that ethics have a subjective dimension. Utter nonsense, it's a tautology either way, it being derived from a subjective or objective source has no effect on it. > Simply vilifying them just
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by jedimind 6y ago
> What makes you think I’m defending Apple there? That quoted statement is obviously true. It's a tautology and a miserable attempt at defending Apple. Like reacting to a victim's complaint by saying "Well animals also ste
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by jedimind 6y ago
> Can you quote a single comment from this thread in which I defend Apple? "Obviously they make their own ethical judgements when enforcing their own rules, as do we all." - It would have been more difficult to find comments fr
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> There is nothing twisted about my interpretations, and I’m not defending Apple. I stopped reading there. It's as false as it is shameless to make such a claim after all the comments you spammed across the whole thread.
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You are all over this thread trying to protect Apple by hook or by crook, jumping into any statement and twisting and forcing your interpretations. Sagaarjha’s statement is still essentially saying the same as mine, so it's absolute no
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Can you elaborate on how that is substantially different from my statement?
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Apple is basically saying: "Even if our rules are unethical, we still want you to take the blame for it. Don't even dare to explain to the consumer that you're merely following Apple's guidelines."
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by jedimind 6y ago
> It was sanctioned sanction /ˈsaŋ(k)ʃ(ə)n/ Learn to pronounce give official permission or approval for (an action). "the scheme was sanctioned by the court" The article states that they have been arrested, so it was
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If everything has to come from somewhere, then the first cause of all other things must be an uncaused thing, otherwise we have an infinite recursion of things and thus nothing existing at all.
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On a related notion, I can only recommend "The Courage to Create" by Rollo May. It's a fantastic work on the nature of creativity.
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That's fantastic of him. I wish more people would support Assange and realise that this sort of treatment is unacceptable.
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This is a excellent project, you should also make support via github possible for those who don't want to use patreon.
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"where sodomy is allowed when it occurs in private?" - Don't you see the absurdity in this question? They don't have to 'allow' anything when it is in PRIVATE to begin with. There is nothing revisionist about t
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Can you specify them? How do they measure an individual's feeling who doesn't publicly act upon their urges? Seems to be a rather absurd claim.
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>For context, I'm gay, so my very existence is against many religious systems laws. Not really, there are no punitive consequences for merely being attracted to the same sex, but there are for acting upon it publicly. Furthermore th
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I meant productivity enhancers, but your contribution is also very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
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Ask HN: What is your favourite Emacs hack?
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“Apple’s app review is often ambiguous, subjective and irrational,” said Makoto Shoji, founder of PrimeTheory Inc., which provides the rejection service. “Apple’s response to developers is often curt and boilerplate, but even with that, you
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That's extremely disturbing how can they justify banning tik tok for inciting ethnic violence yet give facebook a free pass?
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Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic This is a critical consideration in these 30% store fees. They come off the top, before funding any developer costs. As a result, Apple and Google make more profit from most developers' games than the develo
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> the words "natural", "logical" and "conclusion" (and certainly the phrase "common sense") have no meaning in a theological context. Nitpicking semantics is not a substitute for an argument and ma
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> I'm not trying to be merely argumentative or dismissive. Then try harder I guess, because that's exactly what you are doing. > I understand the words that you've written; I'm saying that there's no real poin

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