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1. The world is dangerous and people get hurt. 2. The Red Cross helps these people. 3. Their symbol is a tool which improves Red Cross's ability to help. 4. Misuse or casual use of the symbol dilutes its utility. 5. Therefore, please c
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“[As an example of an increasingly unstable world,] … there have been 162 fatalities. [Therefore the value of the Red Cross symbol must be protected as it is desperately needed.]” …
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I will also add that in my experience a nicotine high only exists when consuming a large amount before you have developed a tolerance. I believe most addicts do not get real pleasure, either.
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As a nicotine addict I caution you against assuming addiction is not looming. In my experience the onset of nicotine addiction is sudden and consuming. For some time, perhaps, you smoke or vape merely socially, experimentally, after a whisk
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On the main but with caveats, I agree with your argument, assuming nuance even where you do not elaborate it. Our most important difference, I think, is around the significance and value of the hypocrisy of an ostensibly liberal system whic
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> No matter how you get around it, as long as you have property you are doomed to live a subordinate life unless you're very lucky. I would be curious to hear an elaboration this point.
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In your view, protest never leads to change in America? In your view, citizens of the US never visit or are visited by agents of some level of government? In your view, the US government is not the collection of disparate power bases we see
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The Western concept of “freedom” - more precisely, of rights unalienably reserved to individuals, families, and private societies, even at the expense of optimal outcomes for society at large - does not assume or require the sensible judgem
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This is not a nuanced historical analysis, and therefore unlikely to be correct or even useful as an abstraction. Some counter examples: 1861-1865, in which the Federal government raised an Army of the Republic to enforce its (just) will, g
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We absolutely can claim moral superiority, while being open to a critique of our hypocrisy - and to changing our ways based on this critique. To do otherwise than seek and claim moral superiority would be to concede to grim relativism; it w
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Do you know what the euphemistic justification was? “Cleanliness”? I cannot think of one that is not absurd to even the dimmest ethno-nationalist of my imagination.
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"All of this is for the very best end, for if there is a volcano at Lisbon, it could be in no other spot; for it is impossible but things should be as they are, for everything is for the best."
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It well-known that Cuba has an impressive healthcare system and does not particularly need to be cited unless specific claims are made. Cuba is famous, for instance, for exporting doctors to other nations. In any case, here is a short paper
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With respect, I think you rather missed his point. He is not making an argument that "Tracy Austin is really that boring," though he does set the reader up for this thought, so that he can playfully turn on it on the way to his co
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I am disappointed that this is a link to a YouTube video idly discussing a paper, when it could be a link to the paper. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.05300.pdf > The duration, depth and relative achromaticity of the di
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Man is made is god's image, or vice-versa, in either case religion is always about humans and their deeds. You've rather missed the point if you seek a religion not focused on humanity, because in every case religion is an explana
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My pops won't give it up. You laugh, as you open up vim.
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A pivotal moment in the Koran is known as "The Battle of the Trench."
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A language with no literature or culture has no business in the halls of state. Such a language is arguably not even a language in the real sense, but a code. A vernacular is needed - language must live and evolve.
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A very good set of questions. There will never be an objective consensus. You may only add your answers to a cacophony. You might like to start here, for philosophers: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics
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Hard questions that require philosophers or priests to answer competently, and every human to make an effort. I'm only asserting that law and ethics are not synonymous: lawful evil is a box in the meme.
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Does it follow that philanthropy does not equal ethical behavior? Ie: 1. Corruption cannot include legal behavior in which every ("reasonable") human partakes. [Implied: because it is legal] Therefore, 2. Ethical standards are enc
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If a horrible accident occurs, will the rate of descent of the wreckage exceed the rate of descent of Amazon’s stock price?
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All arguments of just war and the morality of self defense aside: this a disastrously foolish way to go about being a sentient species on a single planet.
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> But keep believing what you believe. It won't change the outcome. I'm happily considering your argument - holding up a "The End is Nigh" sign does not improve it.
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I'll eat my hat, Simon Black, if "the Zimbabwe scenario occurs" or Texas attempts to secede because we're all desperate for their oil to sell to - well, who? I asked the Texas question because it is a bad question - beca
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Drug prohibition is about changing addiction from being an easy choice backed by marketing (I'll take a pack of Marlboros, please) to a challenging choice that does not present itself in ordinary life. It may not stop the majority of p
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> One of the big warnings is that you should never take them if you took psychiatric medication last year or your family has a history of serious psychiatric problems. By legalizing the drug, don’t we expect the user to make these sort o
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Thanks for breaking it to me. I think my theory of mind is more considered, though.
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Do you find no place for ideology? Perestroika and the collapse of Soviet pieties as hypocrisies - these are mere effects of economic exhaustion, and America will experience precisely the same? What about the inefficiency of centrally plann

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