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>it is unconscionable that we support the literal mass murder and ill-treatment of billions of animals each year when there are alternatives that require no suffering and no death.…

*Psychology and psychiatry I meant to say

>Generally there is no harm in theorizing, but I consider psychology and psychotherapy to be too important to allow ourselves to consider untested information. Psychology and psych…

>Also there's no such thing as a negative emotion. Everything we feel is a necessary (or at least programmed) reaction to our experience. Have you ever met someone with emotional i…

>Activists would do quite a lot more good by demanding better from their own government. Easier said than done. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/10/mexican-activi...

>This actually is democracy working as designed - people being free to bullshit one another They aren't free to bullshit one another. Facebook, Google, and co. regularly censor the…

Ah, my mistake. I misread it as "many more people..."

Fair enough. Though my concern is not for myself, but rather for any potential great leader who could be silently neutralized/blackmailed/extorted by mass surveillance techniques. …

>the fact that many people are more worried about marketers than the NSA? How do you know this is a fact , was a global survey done? >I am more concerned about A than B" is not a c…

Dr. King was monitored by the NSA for "thought crimes". Is that "100% tinfoil hat mode"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.#NSA_mon...

When suing in a case like this, punitive damages would be paid out of the governments budget, rather than the personal assets of those personally responsible, correct?

Which is circular logic. To sue an entity which you fund is to indrectly sue yourself.

The terms "foreign" and "domestic" are meaningless in the context of the world wide web.

Neglecting to save millions of lives in order to make some extra money is okay , but killing a dog is not?

It's not perfect if your endpoints are compromised.

>You'd just make everyone's job easier. How is that a bad thing? 1,300,000 people die each year in car wrecks and another 20,000,000 - 50,000,000 more are injured and/or disabled. …

>sounded like there was a huge cop-out at the centrw of everything that people were trying to ignore. Yes, like that of the post which I was directing my response towards: >As a li…

>I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me ali…

"Modern science is based on the principle: ‘Give us one free miracle, and we’ll explain the rest.’ The one free miracle is the appearance of all the mass and energy in the universe…

"We are still looking at the computer as if it were a means of doing what we were already doing." -Marshall McLuhan

The income itself is what stabilizes the population, this phenomenon is known as the demographic-economic paradox. The real false assumption here is that increased standard of livi…

>There are two states in nature. You either grow or you shrink. There is also homeostasis. Perpetual growth is cancer.

>On one side, it's economically unsound Actually, it is more economically unsound to maintain poverty in the midst of plenty (i.e, in the US there lies ~6 empty homes for every hom…

>No. It's more effective to lobby your local member of parliament/congress to pass laws restricting what media organisations can or cannot do. No. Facebook has far more lobbying po…