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841.
by perfmode 8y ago
Gregg isn’t a bad engineer. In fact, quite the opposite. Do yourself a favor and overlook the TLS on his read only blog.
842.
by perfmode 8y ago
Your rhetorical style undermines the arguably prescient content of your speech.
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by perfmode 8y ago
Suicide isn’t homicide.
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by perfmode 8y ago
As a black man in America, I really don’t want Facebook sending police to my home for any reason whatsoever.
845.
by perfmode 8y ago
The risk isn’t that we create something superior. It’s that we fail and subject babies/children/people to suffering that we can’t predict or imagine. Gene editing can go very wrong. You change one little thing and it produces myri
846.
by perfmode 8y ago
I suppose the person to whom you’re responding is struggling to process some aspects of their identity.
847.
by perfmode 8y ago
In my case, the systemic root cause was a lack of opportunity stemming from immigration status.
848.
by perfmode 8y ago
There are powerful and influential institutions in the United States which limit access to birth control, sex education, and access to abortion.
849.
by perfmode 8y ago
Totally. Health care and education can be preventative.
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by perfmode 8y ago
Don’t discount the weight of emotional trauma and the self-sabotaging habits it has the potential to engender. Most people are slaves to their limbic systems. Most people don’t have self-education or resources to seek the help they need to
851.
by perfmode 8y ago
Everyone wants to leave their stamp on the earth. - Perfmode’s aphorism
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by perfmode 8y ago
I wish more people on this site would refrain from chucking crap arguments against a wall hoping they’ll stick. It’s exhausting to have to constantly point out invalid arguments to people who can’t be bothered to take responsibility for the
853.
by perfmode 8y ago
Do we live in the same america?
854.
by perfmode 8y ago
one crab escapes the barrel.
855.
by perfmode 8y ago
remains "the" place? the number one determinant of future success in the US is the zip code in which you're born.
856.
by perfmode 8y ago
The US is one of the least egalitarian of developed nations.
857.
by perfmode 8y ago
I hated high school. Spent all of my time alone. Flunked. Repeated the tenth grade. Flunked again and dropped out. 5 years later, got e GED and went to a state school. Found a passion for math and CS. Got good grades for two years and trans
858.
by perfmode 8y ago
Altria is Phillip Morris. I see their rebranding effort has been successful on you.
859.
by perfmode 8y ago
ISIS is an Arab regime by most definitions.
860.
by perfmode 8y ago
Since I am an American citizen, I am particularly interested in this question with respect to my country of citizenship. Would you consider the United States an ethical nation? Which nations do you consider to be ethical when it comes to th
861.
by perfmode 8y ago
(Genuinely curious about how different people become confident in their moral and ethical convictions.) Weapons development is not immoral because we have always waged war?
862.
by perfmode 8y ago
One thing that video doesn’t address is why ISIS is successful, while others aren’t.
863.
by perfmode 8y ago
Phillip Morris owns Juul now, so it doesn’t surprise me that there might be efforts to throw smoking under the bus globally.
864.
by perfmode 8y ago
If I was a student right now, I’d be protesting with them.
865.
by perfmode 8y ago
Are you afraid of having your rights violated? How can you hold this position in a society?
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by perfmode 8y ago
Do you have any interest in how we structure our societal laws and standards? Or do you prefer the laissez fairy approach to morality? Edit: meant to say laissez-faire but I prefer fairy
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by perfmode 8y ago
See: substratism
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by perfmode 8y ago
Nah. > strong religious feeling or belief Religiosity
869.
by perfmode 8y ago
I’m curious. What is your basis for determining that it is okay to do this to pigs? Could we also do this to dogs? Dolphins? Elephants? Monkeys?
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by perfmode 8y ago
For what it’s worth, all of the arguments against your choices are inadequate and don’t really wrestle with the complexity of the domain. And I suspect the authors are not considering this as though they’d be the one responsible for making

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