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@coal
California's former bail model is a really excellent example. China's social credit score works in similar ways. Big data aggregators do similar things too.
1984 is now
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@zedvictor4
The cause is dumbass gun laws.
when did this "epidemic" of "school-shootings" start ?
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I believe there's spiritual value in practicing established religions, engaging in ritual, reading and living by religious text.
and i believe exactly the same thing, in fact, the more the merrier
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@oromagi
it not controversial to say that the U.S. and Russia militaries are observably far more Neo-NAZI then the Ukrainian miltary..
i don't disagree with you
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@oromagi
SInce you have changed the subject,
you're the one who mentioned "Ukrainians maintain a well-regulated militia"
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Because that faith is based in my personal experiences I don't expect anyone else to believe what I believe. And I don't expect anyone else to have the exact same experiences spiritually that I've had.
you sound like a gnostic
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@RationalMadman
EFF FTW
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@Vader
have you considered free public mental-healthcare ?
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@oromagi
overwhelming popular opposition
this is probably the critical factor
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@oromagi
Ukrainians maintain a well-regulated militia
During one recent news bulletin on BBC Radio 4, the correspondent referred to “Putin’s baseless claim that the Ukrainian state supports Nazis”. This is, itself, disinformation: it is an observable fact, which the BBC itself has previously reported on accurately and well, that the Ukrainian state has, since 2014, provided funding, weapons and other forms of support to extreme Right-wing militias, including neo-Nazi ones. This is not a new or controversial observation. [**]
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So if we don't get rid of cars because people die in cars because of some people's mistakes
raising the legal driving age to 25 would dramatically decrease automobile related deaths
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@secularmerlin
I think that the use of the male pronoun says more about the authors of the bible than about Yahweh (should that hypothetical being even exist).
great point
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@secularmerlin
What do you as a human think of this piece and indeed of the idea of computers producing original music?
His uncle, an engineer at Bell Labs, taught young Kurzweil the basics of computer science.[8] In 1963, at age 15, he wrote his first computer program.[9] He created pattern-recognition software that analyzed the works of classical composers, and then synthesized its own songs in similar styles. In 1965, he was invited to appear on the CBS television program I've Got a Secret,[10] where he performed a piano piece that was composed by a computer he also had built.[11] Later that year, he won first prize in the International Science Fair for the invention;[12]
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@FLRW
How many people can fit in heaven? - Only 144,000 as the bible states.
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@ILikePie5
And the safety of the mother’s life has always been an exception.
the "risk to a mother's life" is a sliding scale
the pro-life team wants to push that line all the way up to "eminent death"
for example
should a woman be forced to delay chemotherapy because of a pregnancy ?
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@oromagi
do you believe Ukrainian citizens own too many guns ?
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@zedvictor4
why does a youth untrained in the use and mental responsibilities of gun ownership, need two assault rifles.
everyone is focused on the symptoms
nobody seems to even be aware of the cause
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@zedvictor4
Old people die and old ideas gradually die with them.
and young people end up "reinventing the wheel" thinking it's a "new idea"
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@Greyparrot
Minarchist.
what do you believe is a "reasonable" military budget ?
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@zedvictor4
Faith and belief are both assumptions in the absence of factual data.
FAITH = BELIEF WITHOUT EVIDENCE (trust in yhwh based on hearsay)
SCIENCE = BELIEF WITH EVIDENCE
UNIFORM STANDARDS OF EVIDENCE ARE FUNDAMENTAL
EVIDENCE IS QUANTIFIED BY SIGMA (CONFIDENCE)
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@Greyparrot
Why stop there? Everything in DC can go. Pentagon can stay though.
would you describe yourself as an anarchist ?
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@imdancin
I don't believe someone can call themselves an atheist. At best they can be a skeptic/agnostic because they can't prove there isn't a god.
do you believe in bigfoot ?
can you prove the bigfoot "does not exist" ?
would you consider yourself a bigfoot "agnostic" ?
do you consider yourself "open-minded" regarding bigfoot ?
or are you pretty certain there is no direct or indirect impact on your core-value-system REGARDLESS of whether or not bigfoot exists ?
and as such, consider the question of bigfoot's hypothetical existence an utterly pointless conversation ?
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@Greyparrot
What would be your top pick of a government agency you would like to see dissolved?
the federal supreme court
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@Greyparrot
The mere fact that you have zero examples of Government agencies disbanding more than proves my point, as only a truly uneducated man would infer that no government dissolutions could only mean perfect competency of every government agency rather than the obvious perpetual subsidization of failing industries on a grand scale off the backs of hard working tax-payers.
i never made any claims of "perfect competency of every government agency"
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@Greyparrot
no Government program is allowed to go bankrupt
because "government" is not supposed to "make a profit"
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@Greyparrot
If that was the case, you would have a coherent response as to why theranos and enron and blockbuster and wework and delorean and lehman brothers exist(ed) in a free and fair society.
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@imdancin
Top 10 Countries with the Highest Percentage of Atheists - WIN-Gallup 2017:
- China - 91%
- Japan - 87%
- Sweden - 78%
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@imdancin
God has been stripped from our society
both sides of the Rwandan conflict were Christian
that didn't seem to stop them
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@Greyparrot
If that was the case, Amazon would not exist in a free and fair society. Or private schools.
you're cherry-picking
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@imdancin
There is no law against spanking a child or using, what the law calls, "reasonable discipline."
Parents have the right to use corporal punishment. There is no law against it.
The old doctrine of spare the rod, spoil the child has not been criminalized, as some people believe.
Spanking "crosses the line" only when the discipline would be considered unreasonable.
In short, there is no bright line test. These matters are decided on a case by case basis.
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@Greyparrot
there are building regulations in every single stateThank you for proving my point.
therefore, you are not "free" to construct any house you want
you are unable to be an "independent worker" in the field of law
does this make all lawyers "slaves" in your personal opinion ?
you are unable to be an "independent worker" in the field of medicine
does this make all doctors "slaves" in your personal opinion ?
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@Greyparrot
Corruption is always proportional to size.
nope
a city can easily be more corrupt than a county
a county can easily be more corrupt than a state
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@Greyparrot
There is no sound reason in a fair and free society for an independent worker to be prohibited from building an affordable house in ANY state in America.
there are building regulations in every single state
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But gun ownership is a right not a privilege and driving is a privilege and not a right.
bingo
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@Greyparrot
I'm simply pointing out the failures of the country to "progress" under the burden of a restrictive society run by a bloated government that fails in the most basic tasks because it is burdened with way too many menial tasks.
trying to compare "government" with "business" is beyond ludicrous
also, "business" is often MORE inefficient and almost always less reliable than "government"
i'm sure we agree that "government" is currently "broken" and should be "fixed"
and the likely consequence of that "fix" would result in "smaller government"
but it is critical to remember
that "smaller government" is not THE GOAL
a "better" (more fair, less corrupt) "government" is the goal
more clearly defining the scope and role of "government" is critical to achieving this goal
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@Greyparrot
Are you at all familiar with the inability to make such a railroad today in California with government enforced Labor Monopolies?
are you really advocating for returning to the labor policy of the 1860s ?
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@Greyparrot
A slave is not allowed to work as an independent worker.
what the hell do you mean by "independent worker"
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@Greyparrot
America grew and prospered without Labor monopolies.
are you at all familiar with the history of the american railroad industry ?
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@Greyparrot
government regulated slave labor restricting how an independent worker
not exactly "slave labor"
perhaps you might be kind enough to share your personally preferred definition of "slave" so we can figure out exactly where the "problem" lies
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@Greyparrot
If enforced labor monopolies become federal policy,
hypothetically speaking
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@Greyparrot
Sure they are, Worker monopolies support industry monopolies, They go hand in hand.
imagine a time before labor unions
would you prefer to live in that time ?
imagine a place where there are no labor unions
would you prefer to live in that place ?
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@Greyparrot
There are no options to "work elsewhere" in states with no right to work laws.
what are you talking about ?
there is no state in modern america where you are not allowed to quit and move to another state
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@Greyparrot
labor unions are not the primary source of government corruption
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@Greyparrot
Try building a house in California with independent workers. Controlled labor is slave labor.
labor that is paid a fair wage and has the option to quit and work somewhere else is not "slave labor"
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@Greyparrot
It does exist in states where labor monopolies have removed the right to work from independent workers with the full force of the government.
what specific example do you believe supports your hypothesis ?
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@Greyparrot
because the roman army was on permanent conquest elsewhereAt that time, defense for Rome was provided by Visigoths and not an army comprised of Romans. The State failed to provide for basic defense.but its grandeur may have also been its downfall. With such a vast territory to govern, the empire faced an administrative and logistical nightmare.Thank you for proving my point.
what "point" did you make ?
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@Greyparrot
Labor monopolies did not eliminate Triangle-shirtwaist. The evolution of Tort law did.
good thing sweatshops and de facto slave labor don't exist anywhere on planet earth today
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@Greyparrot
from your "source"
"Crime rates made a significant contribution to migration away from many central cities during the 1970's."
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