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by smhost 5y ago
It's also strange to compare two economies that have vastly different economic strategies, especially by measuring one of the areas where they diverge most strongly.
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by smhost 5y ago
It's an evolutionary argument. A society that produces the kind of people who value harmful or useless things is not tenable, so societies tend to produce the kinds of people who value helpful things. In the long run, this tendancy is
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by smhost 5y ago
Things have value because they help, or at least don't hinder, the reproduction of society.
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by smhost 5y ago
You've misunderstood your own sources. The Lutheran doctrine of two kingdoms, according to which the church is not a legal entity but which exists in the spiritual kingdom, was a way to protect the church from the law and other secul
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by smhost 5y ago
> Let us now consider what a church is. A church, then, I take to be a voluntary society of men, joining themselves together of their own accord in order to the public worshipping of God in such manner as they judge acceptable to Him, an
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by smhost 5y ago
You've contradicted yourself multiple times. You've used the legal categories of rape and child pornography to try to justify the motives of a legal entity. The entire basis of motivation that you yourself have presented is instan
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by smhost 5y ago
This is just a variation of the ontological argument. You say there's neither church nor state, but then you cite payment processors and legal consent, which are both constructs that are determined by the state. And the content that&#x
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by smhost 5y ago
By this logic, separation of church and state doesn't matter to you as long as you can construct some legitimate arguments in favor of theocracy.
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by smhost 5y ago
While you're gathering data for that counterfactual, you may want to look into how Japanese fascists used mindfulness to transform its army into perfect soldiers.
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by smhost 5y ago
Why is that funny? It's supposed to be a substitute, not something entirely different altogether.
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by smhost 5y ago
There's a difference between real charity and a charitable impulse. A charitable impulse is good and it's what's being measured here. Real charity as it exists in our world breeds horrible dependency issues and is responsible
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by smhost 5y ago
How many more dead bodies do you want to add to your tally for your Hollywood movie moment? They don't want a civil war. How is that not obvious to you?
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by smhost 5y ago
Have you noticed how quickly Americans discovered that they in fact care so deeply about Muslim lives and Filippino fishermen that they're willing to risk nuclear war and total destruction of its west coast? Ridiculous.
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by smhost 5y ago
> freedom and democracy Are you aware that one of the most cliché jokes told outside of the U.S. is some variation of "when an American says democracy, everyone ducks for cover"?
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by smhost 5y ago
> The only thing US soldiers left us europeans with are a massive influx of refugees Don't forget the military bases and the half-secret spy networks linked to terrorist attacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op
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by smhost 5y ago
U.S. could have not cynically installed the most pliant pro-American corrupt thugs to be in charge and told the people to obey, after having destroyed their homeland and treated them like idiot children for an entire generation.
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by smhost 5y ago
> Rejecting accepted definitions in discourse and propaganda has proven intellectually and politically dangerous in the past, even when the redefinition is made honestly and explicitly. Devastating when made dishonestly and opaquely. And
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by smhost 5y ago
> there seems to be lots of evidenxe that founders telling stories is valuable, and little evidence that it's not. Storytelling is common to successful startups and to the mass graveyard of failures. The question isn't whether
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by smhost 5y ago
Rejecting accepted definitions is fine if you have a purpose for doing it. The problem with Chapman is more that he's very sloppy with his langauge. If you read his blog, you might be left with the impression that Nietzsche is just som
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by smhost 5y ago
you didn't read the article. the author is not making a distinction between intangible value that's useful to the worker vs value that's useful to the customer. they're making a distinction along the axes of intangible&#
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by smhost 5y ago
What's funny is that the differences in pedagogy is probably a result of that "ideological corruption". Going through the American education system, it's clear to both professors and students alike that the system was de
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by smhost 5y ago
I'm not naturalizing organized violence, you are. I'm talking about the history of one institution and its forms of reproduction. How are you going to "deal" with today's prison system without understanding how it r
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by smhost 5y ago
There are no "lines of evolution" like carcinization for modern policing. They were caused by the same social and political necessities and they serve the same function.
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by smhost 5y ago
> The actual, intended purpose, in a functioning society, is to {serve fair punishments and rehabilitate, enhance quality of health, etc}. I'm not sure which history books you've been reading, but modern police were invented in
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by smhost 5y ago
Maybe these will help https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_quo_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation
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by smhost 5y ago
noise pollution laws already exist. why wouldn't drones be subject to them?
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by smhost 5y ago
they're saying it's a sit-in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-in
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by smhost 5y ago
if by "sort of thing" you mean anything related to industry, then maybe you're right. but this is a claim about a particular technology, not a claim about aggregate capacity. if you're using russia as a point of comparis
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by smhost 5y ago
yeah, the old clintonites, the sinemas, maybe you can toss mitt romney in there. they're the most powerful political bloc currently, if you're new to politics
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by smhost 5y ago
> In review, Foreign Policy covers news related to foreign affairs with minimal bias. Headlines are generally free from loaded words, though at times moderate such as this: Bernie Sanders Still Doesn’t Pass the Commander-in-Chief Test (a

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