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by tnzn 9y ago
That's why there's peer review.
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by tnzn 9y ago
The argument "point out where societiries based on your ideals have worked" is extremely fallacious. You could say the same at the begining of Republics.
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by tnzn 9y ago
Short term thinking is the hallmark of humans.
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by tnzn 9y ago
Gender equality means more women can have a job, so more people to go work, more cars, more carbon footprint. For instance.
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by tnzn 9y ago
"socialists are lazy" tired argument...
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by tnzn 9y ago
It's most probably a mix of both.
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by tnzn 9y ago
Is that because the government redistributes the wealth, or because the powerful ones make it so that redistributing the wealth doesn't work ? (ie tax evasion)
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by tnzn 9y ago
Just wanted to point out that "You'll always have a mathematically top 20%" is only if we stay in the same system, which is kind of arguing in a circle... Plus if there's a huge gap between the bottom 10 and top 90%, thi
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by tnzn 9y ago
Our dear President Macron seems to have his mind in this echo chamber though
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by tnzn 9y ago
Why would it be ? And don't give me that bs "if a guy comes into your home" analogy because a country is not a home.
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by tnzn 9y ago
Yet several studies have shown multicultural policies are better than assimilation ones when it comes to integration. And saying most of them want a free ride is just nonsense.
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by tnzn 9y ago
A failed concept (though in that specific case it might be on point)
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by tnzn 9y ago
Almost like, yeah. Much like white-collar crimes are punished way lighter in comparision with same-scale crimes of other sorts, even in the law itself.
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by tnzn 9y ago
GATTACA
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by tnzn 9y ago
minors can't enter into a contract as for now.
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by tnzn 9y ago
I donate to Médecins Sans Frontières but more than half my money goes to a company that makes profit off recruiting donators, sooo.
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by tnzn 9y ago
Non-profit, charities and NGO often is a actually a lucrative business when it comes to helping the poor there. Also, it may be that the westerners who work there are paid Western wages and live in countries in which life is cheaper.
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by tnzn 9y ago
over the course of only one month at a famous european fast food restaurant during summer, I've experienced : * Minimum wage violations: Paying workers less than the legal minimum wage * Overtime violations: Failing to pay nonexempt em
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by tnzn 9y ago
Enacting anyone ?
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by tnzn 9y ago
You're probably talking to some libertarian who believes freedom is "doing whatever the fuck I think is best for myself"
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by tnzn 9y ago
That's the case when you're in real time situation and stuff like that. When you're actually thinking through a whole politics, you should be able to think past that.
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by tnzn 10y ago
There's still a strong myth that there is a causal effect between how well you can write, and how well you can think, conduct a logical reasoning or w/e... And of course most people who say that believe to know better than linguis
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by tnzn 10y ago
B-but, it's their choice to be enlsaved ! /s
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by tnzn 10y ago
No, it's not Darwinism. Social Darwinism has nothing to do with Darwinism except for its name. Jesus when I see how you dare look down on people who lack basic needs and discard their opinion, yet in another comment state such bullshit
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by tnzn 10y ago
Starting with not saying things about subjects he does not understand like they are the absolute truth would be a starter
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by tnzn 10y ago
I'm surprised you haven't been called a pedophile/pedophile supporter yet. Every time I tried to have that argument, it happened (tho not in HN).
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by tnzn 10y ago
Heck in countries like France, scientists are paid like shit (I mean, by US standards) and still do unpaid overtime without being forced to.
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by tnzn 10y ago
It's not about being a puritan, it's about sexism as well as manipulation (using things mankind is naturally fond of to sell stuff) which itself is morally debatable.
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by tnzn 10y ago
Except Casinos design the distribution of gains so that you're manipulated into believing it'll be worth, even though you rationnaly know that it's no true.
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by tnzn 10y ago
Nope, it's a high logico-mathematics IQ game (no shit ?), Which is only part of IQ.

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