jimmyk

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by jimmyk 9y ago
I don't think he was suggesting it would be a good idea to start unloading into the mob, only that it would be very effective in reducing the mob's numbers compared to other situations where the mob is more free to move around. &g
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by jimmyk 9y ago
young richies driving drunk Why are you singling out rich people that drive drunk? By your reasoning, we should give less value to their lives. How might we act on that lower valuation? We might demonstrate that we don't value a mu
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by jimmyk 9y ago
It's estimated that guns are used defensively (not necessarily fired) by private individuals hundreds of thousands of times per year in the US, and yet we don't see an epidemic of innocent bystanders being accidentally shot. Why d
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by jimmyk 9y ago
Your iPhone 7 is totally worth a teen's life - or hell, 4 or 5 of them - especially if they're black, right? On the other hand, they're threatening the lives of random innocent people over something as trivial as a phone, s
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by jimmyk 9y ago
Successfully competing for a slice of the rock means not getting wiped out. Billions of people are currently competing in this fashion.
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by jimmyk 9y ago
It may certainly be a massive resource waste compared to an idealized system where everyone chooses to selflessly cooperate. But what is going to happen to the people in your scenario who choose not to compete for control over a slice of th
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by jimmyk 9y ago
Could you expand on that?
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by jimmyk 9y ago
What do you expect out of creatures that were molded by billions of years of evolution? If their ancestors hadn't been willing to fight over pieces of that rock, whether that willingness came from genetics or culture, they wouldn'
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by jimmyk 9y ago
then surely it must also include valuing their lives Valuing them above what? There are probably not very many people on this planet that can truly claim to value all human life equally and above everything else.
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by jimmyk 9y ago
I have showdead on, which is why I was able to see the comment. There's advocating genocide, and shooting people on sight in an older comment. I understand you're not the person that killed the comment, but could the commenter h
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by jimmyk 9y ago
It makes me a bit sad that this comment was killed. I've never before been exposed to the point of view expressed within it, which seems to be genuinely held by the commenter, and it makes me wonder how many other genuinely held points
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by jimmyk 9y ago
but WW1 doesn't feature any clear cut good-vs-evil simplification Not for any lack of trying on the part of allied propagandists.
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by jimmyk 9y ago
German conduct in the war was far crueler then the Allies Even if we grant that the German Empire was more cruel in waging war, which I am by no means prepared to do, the war did not take place in a vacuum. If the purpose of America enter
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by jimmyk 9y ago
And it meant that there was a precedence for taking up arms for equality and freedom...for a war that would, "make the world safe for democracy," as President Woodrow Wilson put it in 1917 when he requested a declaration of war o
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by jimmyk 10y ago
What did he say that was wrong? He didn't say all parts of the Islamic world are brutal to apostates, he just said much of the Islamic world is. And that's absolutely the case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ap
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by jimmyk 10y ago
So the claim then is that there is greater diversity in thought about whether or not a deity exists among an ethnic group than among a group for which membership is contingent on thinking a deity exists? I don't think that conveys very
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by jimmyk 10y ago
as though that were a useful group descriptor when it comes to behaviors. I found it to be useful. In combination with some other comments, it gave me a particular idea about what the article was about.
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by jimmyk 10y ago
quite a diverse bunch really In comparison to who?
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by jimmyk 10y ago
IBM and Intel have centralized planning on an immense scale. It's a bit of a different situation. Giant companies can still look to prices on the market to make decisions about how to use their resources. Central economic planning, a
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by jimmyk 10y ago
dog That's racist.
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by jimmyk 10y ago
not evidence that anti-racism is irrational I haven't argued that it is evidence of such. I've argued that your particular chosen method of combating racism is irrational under a few specific conditions: A) your position is reas
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by jimmyk 10y ago
Teachers spend most of schoolday not discussing racism. OK, but we're still not talking about a remotely even amount of time. Not to mention that teachers are authority figures, have an extremely captive audience, can punish incorrec
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by jimmyk 10y ago
Does that sound about right? No, not quite. It's the way in which you react, which is to silence the opposition. If you believed your ideas would win reasonable minds on their merits, and you believed the minds in question were reaso
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by jimmyk 10y ago
I don't think it matters whether the silent majority agrees with the vocal minority or not, as far as this discussion goes (and of course it is a vocal minority that is going after these youtubers -- the media is a small subset of the
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by jimmyk 10y ago
and I think it is reasonable to assume that is a process that begins in childhood, when their minds are malleable Is there some defect in human minds which makes them extremely susceptible in childhood to "racist bullshit" in pa
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by jimmyk 10y ago
We're not exactly spending hundreds of billions each year on asteroid mitigation programs. From what I can tell, the total spending at least in the US is at most in the hundreds of millions annually. If the odds of an impact were vastl
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by jimmyk 10y ago
If you convince children that it is right to attack members of race x, then other kids of race x will end up attacked. OK, but we're not discussing a scenario in which stormfront members have total control over what the children are
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by jimmyk 10y ago
Why are you worried that your children will be threatened for their heritage in a world where children can be exposed to a diversity of opinion, including those you don't approve of? Do you think you'll lose the war of ideas to &q
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by jimmyk 10y ago
If you believe being mad and outraged is an effective means of ensuring your own chosen words find their way into impressionable, insecure minds, then sure, you should be mad, Mr. Katz.
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by jimmyk 10y ago
Define 'Western values'. Let's just use this as an example, from the website you linked to above: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yOvi_Hupn0M/VA34gNyV1DI/AAAAAAAA8R... Do you think that kind of thing wa

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