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by nmyk 12y ago
Here is a good reddit thread that addresses your question: http://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1js239/why_do...
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by nmyk 12y ago
I'm considering doing exactly this sometime next year, and I have a lot of questions, if you're interested in having an American pen pal! Let me know and I'll give you my email.
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by nmyk 12y ago
That's true, but it's unempathetic, and if everyone stopped thinking there, no one would help each other. Imagine a depressed person who commits suicide. You could say, well, this person clearly wanted to die, and so she killed he
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by nmyk 12y ago
You and washadjeffmad both make very important points. Thank you!
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by nmyk 12y ago
You seem to be assuming the government wants people to break its laws, so it gets to punish people. It costs the government money to put people in prison; not only the cost of their food, shelter, supervision, etc. but also the cost of remo
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by nmyk 12y ago
E.E. Cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. One of Cummings's short poems that I enjoy: should this fool die let someone fond of living lay in his left hand a flower whose glory by no mind ever w
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by nmyk 12y ago
Ah. Yeah, I agree with you that the more efficiently people can be hired for grunt work and nothing more, the less valuable the work will be. If you need something difficult, you still hire a full time person, but now if you need something
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by nmyk 12y ago
You're right, I misunderstood. Could you explain what you mean when you say these marketplaces tend to get parasitical? I'm not sure I understand what that process entails.
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by nmyk 12y ago
Something I don't think a lot of people realize is that "programmer" is a working class profession. The ability to code is a commodity. By working class, I mean "not the capitalist class." There is still a big diffe
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I'm not sure what you mean by "sophisticated". Languages in the 16th century were just as complex as they always have been. The vocabularies might be bigger or smaller compared to today. Certainly no one was saying "bae&
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It is definitely more lenient. But one of the points in the Foucault book jMyles mentioned is that the leniency of imprisonment didn't come about because we're somehow morally superior than earlier societies, it's because it&
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You might start with Discipline and Punish , a history of the western (in particular, the French) penal system, drawing many parallels to educational, military, and medical institutions as they are all facets of an overarching technology
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I don't know... what you're talking about is something like how Netflix used their data to motivate shows like House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, which they "knew" in some sense would have mass appeal. The masse