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by sykick 7y ago
Yes, I understand that to be your point and I overall agree with it. However if all of those people tried to gain employment elsewhere there are side effects. A friend of mine with a Ph.D. in math and a Master's degree in electrical e
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by sykick 7y ago
I understand the gist of what you are saying but consider this. Are there enough pizza management positions to absorb the number of adjuncts? I don't think so and I know you were just using Dominos as an example. If the set of all u
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by sykick 7y ago
My intention was to point out that lending is a two party relationship and both parties have responsibilities. The tendency in my experience in these discussions is to put too much blame on the borrower and too often put very little blame
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by sykick 7y ago
My understanding of the situation is that German and French banks flooded Greece with easy credit. And as it always happens under such circumstances people/corporations/governments borrowed heavily and when the crisis hit in 2009
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by sykick 7y ago
It's not false because we don't know what the reaction would be if this happened today. The reaction of people 160 years ago is not at all predictive of what would happen today. Especially if the issue was not a moral one as it
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by sykick 7y ago
I didn’t say that Assad isn’t evil enough. I didn’t say that intervention in Syria is not warranted. I never said that it’s wrong to think in terms of good vs. evil. I never indicated any of the things you accuse me of. Where do you get
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by sykick 7y ago
Let me try to say my position in a different way. Clearly genocide is wrong and it would be great if it were stopped every time it happens. Humans are easily manipulated and in this era of Facebook we can see the result of this fact. Som
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by sykick 7y ago
I have not written anything to suggest that I advocate standing by while children are raped or that the U.S. should not have fought WWII. Indeed I specifically wrote that the U.S. should have fought WWII. How does one draw such wild and c
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by sykick 7y ago
You appear to be upset. I'm sorry that what I wrote made you think that I'm immoral and that I'm a piece of shit. This exchange exemplifies what started all these threads. That is, that it's better off for people to qu
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by sykick 7y ago
That's a pretty damning conclusion given the paucity of evidence to support it. Are you so sure you have enough facts to determine that I'm morally corrupt? What evidence do you have that I think there is no act so atrocious tha
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by sykick 7y ago
What makes it complicated? Unintended consequences. Exit conditions. Will it inflame passions in neighboring areas and cause greater harm? Suppose we overthrow Assad and Syrian Kurds breakaway from a weakened Syria and establish a nati
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by sykick 7y ago
There is a great danger with convincing Americans that “they are bad and we are good” is justification enough to invade, kill, or otherwise bring destruction on another nation. Such simplistic reasoning allows those in power to do whatever
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by sykick 7y ago
People need to understand that the situation there is complicated before deciding that Obama was an idiot or that Trump’s decisions have been stupid. I submit that the situation is so complicated there that any action, no matter how reason
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by sykick 7y ago
Why do you think those sources are nuanced or provide decent coverage of topics? Are you sure you're right? Here's one example among many that perhaps these are not good sources of information. https://www.mediamatters
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by sykick 7y ago
In the context of the article and the point OP made it’s working out great not being informed or voting. At least for me. I don’t stress or get worked up by stuff. I feel like I’m a lot happier these days. Deliberate ignorance is not for
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by sykick 7y ago
The problem as I see it is that it is almost impossible to be informed enough to hold people accountable. In the U.S. at least the news is almost always of the form: “ Person from party A (which you are a member of) destroys person from P
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by sykick 7y ago
When you say, "Debt is dumb" are you speaking in hyperbole? There are lots of examples where debt is not dumb and is in fact the prudent thing to do. If you aren't speaking in hyperbole you are wrong and if you are I sugges
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by sykick 7y ago
People running for office ought to care about all of the people in their voting district. Children can't and don't vote but their interests ought to be looked after by politicians. Wouldn't it be a sad state of affairs that
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by sykick 7y ago
One of the main benefits of being educated and one of the defining qualities to being considered educated is the ability to think in the abstract. What you suggest in your first paragraph is apt for vocational training.
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by sykick 7y ago
Do you mean that production costs (prices) go down with automation or that the selling price to consumers goes down? If you meant the latter this is wrong. The selling price depends on the pricing power that the producer has. Consider fo
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by sykick 7y ago
Iranians I've talked to say they have no problem with Judaism. Their issue is Zionism. The distinction is lost in the West but not in the Middle East. Arab Jews who were forced to leave their countries for Israel had a hard time int
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by sykick 7y ago
Do you believe that such a simple statement can possibly constitute a comprehensive list of rules for exactly when war is justified? By way of comparison consider the fact that just about everyone believes that murder is wrong and the lega
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by sykick 7y ago
There is quite a bit of gap between Grover Norquist style economic policy and central planning. Neither Sanders or Warren are advocating for central planning. George H.W. Bush famously called trickle down economics “voodoo economics”. Prio
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by sykick 7y ago
I think the words are not meant to be a comprehensive list of rules for exactly when war is justified. He's giving a broad overview of when he thinks it's justified. Of course one can get bogged down into particulars and wonder
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by sykick 7y ago
Perhaps your anecdote does not qualify as a suitable counter argument. Is yours a normative experience? It is easy to lose weight in the sense that the solution is easily stated. Just restrict calories enough and weight will be lost. I
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by sykick 7y ago
I understand and to some extent agree with your sentiment. I gather you are an American given this article is about an attack on U.S. troops. Assuming this is correct I venture to guess that you are a Christian. If so wouldn't it be
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by sykick 7y ago
There can be advantages for coalitions in a war. There are also disadvantages. However, this is not the point I made. The only point I made is that $x spent by say 15 countries on defense is not at all equivalent to $x spent by a single
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by sykick 7y ago
There are examples of a fragmented coalition winning a war. There are also examples of losing a war. I believe you view is antiquated and not rooted in the present reality of the world. There will be no conventional war with the EU. The
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by sykick 7y ago
I don't understand your response. It seems like we are saying, at least to some extent, the same thing. Does this mean that you agree that a straight monetary comparison of spending is not adequate to give an accurate portrayal of re
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by sykick 7y ago
Thank you for your perspective. I don't know much about that region of the world and used to view Ukrainian and Russian as basically the same people until I had a Ukranian professor in graduate school.

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