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Be careful when trying to untangle correlation and causation: it may well be that poor people and criminals are more likely to turn to religion. After all, atheism is mainly found …

There are a ton of events which rival the Holocaust in horror. In fact, genocides are being committed as we speak.

It's too easy to claim that citizens are not involved in what the government is doing. One reason these agencies are so bold is because Americans themselves are completely dismissi…

Diversity isn't a magic pill that automatically improves everything. Students should be selected based on their merits. If this results in non-diverse samples, then so be it.

Sorry, if you are not putting your life on the line, you do not deserve to call yourself a "warrior" or any other term which implies duty and honor.

> they did not have the same chance to develop an ethic framework as adults had, because they had less years to learn. Many people die without ever having found an ethical framewor…

The reason "nihilists" aren't taken seriously is because they like to rely on an overly simplistic understanding of the world and ill-conceived metaphors.

There are a number of alarming studies (as some other poster said, take a look at N. Carr's book) that show that screen time, especially in our formative years can have dramaticall…

Not necessarily. If like at least half of users you spend your time watching videos, memes and your facebook feed, you aren't going to become more literate or understand anything.

People can choose things but that doesn't mean you should sometimes try to steer them in an other direction. That's the whole point of morality and other coercive measures which al…

If you are interested in such things, I suggest reading Transcend by R. Kurzweil. He takes the supplement craze up to 11.

It's named after Tom Cruise in Top Gun. Duh.

Obey the Musk!

They're just jealous of Bill Gates.

What he said.

1. Those are all allegations. In fact, the whole DSK mess is extremely unclear and the case presented against him is highly suspicious, although it is clear that he is a bit seedy.…

That's what scared me the most about that book: it's so plausible it's almost inevitable. Maybe in the future, true power will be the ability to escape monitoring?

Really suspicious looking site, bro.

There's a huge difference between being spied upon by your own government and being spied upon by some manifest-destiny-following foreigner.

Please don't apply american fundamentalist puritan standards to everyone, please.

It's true that most people don't care about most things since they operate inside a small, simple world without being concerned with the things outside of their immediate experienc…

You would want to be filmed at all times, and have that footage available to everyone? That's insane and I suggest reading Dave Egger's "The Circle".

Wow thanks a lot for indiscriminately lumping together Western Europe in a single, confusing category.

I have trouble taking psychology and psychiatry seriously. They are the softest of the sciences and mostly based on cultural norms anyway. Consider the fact that homosexuality was …

France isn't really that open minded about sex. Although most people are secular, you still have the whole judaeo-christian morals hanging around in the background, subtly changing…