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by zarro 7y ago
To be an anti-totalitarianist is to acknowledge that even parents sometimes make mistakes, not to say that what the majority says is true is right. When people say something is “evil” what they mean is they don’t believe it’s in our long te
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by zarro 7y ago
Given that commercial activity affects my unalienable rights to life, liberty and property I would disagree that its not subject to the protection of the Constitution. I also find fault with the commerce clause of the constitution and think
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by zarro 7y ago
This is the best response that I have gotten which I think a majority of Chinese people agree with and epitomizes my exact point that it is counterproductive to villainize one another. Instead of letting contention escalate to coercion and
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by zarro 7y ago
I see lots of Anti-China sentiment. I would be very careful here into not falling into their deliberate trap of making "The West" China's "Enemy". China in its current totalitarian form needs an "Enemy" to
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by zarro 7y ago
The point of debate is not about self-censuring in order to get bankrolled, the point is about contesting using the law to actually coerce someone from creating what they want, which is what China does, and the potential influence of that m
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by zarro 7y ago
I don't see how its acceptable to use coercion to enforce an opinion of "duties that trump free speech rights" that don't involve force, fraud, or defamation.
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by zarro 7y ago
Totalitarian governments rely on distraction and misdirection of the populace in order to survive. Without it to use as ammunition to unify the people against a common "enemy", the very nature of its limiting rule forces the popul
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by zarro 7y ago
I see lots of Anti-China sentiment. I would be very careful here into not falling into the trap of making ourselves China's "Enemy". China in its current form needs an "Enemy" to survive, without it, it has to deal
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by zarro 7y ago
The ADA law actually doesn't make sense to me. I get they are trying to stop discrimination, but the means they take is misguided and an encroachment on peoples rights. If you have a business and are offering a service, you are doing s
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by zarro 7y ago
Before this episode I always wondered why they kept making those bad transformers movies, turns out China loves em. I think its fine if people want to make movies for the China market, but what I find alarming is copycat behavior trying to
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by zarro 7y ago
I think underground or overhead even for buses and trains makes more sense.
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by zarro 7y ago
High density and high traffic urban areas would be the first targets obviously.
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by zarro 7y ago
You presume boring will always be prohibitively expensive.
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by zarro 7y ago
In the future it seems completely logical that all surface level traffic would be by walking, scooter or electric bike, etc, and everything else would be subsurface.
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by zarro 7y ago
The question itself comes off as prejudiced because you seem to imply that the wealthy should pay more than those that are not wealthy, and discarding the fact that your discriminating against those that are wealthy by doing so.
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by zarro 7y ago
The argument is, all those services and much more could be provided for privately much more efficiently.
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by zarro 7y ago
Taxes that aren't flat and equal for everyone are discriminatory.
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by zarro 7y ago
I think this “vilify the rich minority” mentality that’s so popular these days is destructive in the fact that the people that popularize this, see it as a path of least resistance to getting subsidized at the expense of the rich, instead o
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by zarro 7y ago
I disagree with the proposition that performance and reliability are categorically mutually exclusive.
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by zarro 7y ago
I think the way that it works in America at least is that you have a minority of rich and healthy people and a majority that does not have much money and is not super healthy. Our democracy is suppose to be limited, in that the government i
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by zarro 7y ago
I don't see how you can justify without using a double standard the idea that its okay to use coercion to take advantage of a minority to enforce an idea of "acceptable" that they might not agree with.
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by zarro 7y ago
Contrarian argument regarding point 2: I find it weird and misguided how people think that using coercion to force people into buying healthcare is somehow acceptable. To those that think it will make the cost of healthcare more expensive f
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by zarro 7y ago
I think that is a lazy business model, selling cars at a very low margin just so that you could make money by planned obsolescence and high cost replacement parts. I would rather buy a car for more money that's engineered to the best p
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by zarro 7y ago
Although it not "Guaranteed" you can rest assured when you buy a Prius for instance, the probability of you having a catastrophic failure or expensive repair before 200k miles is very low - and if it happens, is usually covered by
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by zarro 7y ago
I'm not sure that the European version of outsourcing that responsibility to the government is the way to go for the same reason. Letting people set up private companies with competitive options I think would probably drive the best re
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by zarro 7y ago
They are wonderful cars and I have never heard anyone not loving the driving experience. The only concern that I think is preventing growth (Other than production of course) - is the concern about long term reliability. If you buy a camry o
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by zarro 7y ago
I really think that the sooner we can separate out pensions and healthcare from employers, the better. Businesses main area of expertise is not in pensions and healthcare, and they cannot provide these services as efficiently as if there we
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by zarro 7y ago
REPLY TO ALL: No one "picks" a universal language. Is spontaneous chosen when people adopt because it drives the most value for them. Its not the end-all that English is that language, but I think its fair to say that anywhere in
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by zarro 7y ago
Contrarian perspective here: English is not my first language, but I have come to deeply appreciate the idea of a common language that people share so that we can all work together regardless of where in the world we are. Knowing more than
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by zarro 7y ago
No Replay: People get salty because of subjectivity of person. Replay: People get salty because of subjectivity of technology/rules. Result: Some people will always be salty. Why: There is an underlying subjectivity in nature. Nature i

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