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antirealist

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    Comment #48627045

    I think there are two parts of this issue. One is does the vaccine work. The other is should the govt prevent people from having it. Scepticism is healthy, and I don't begrudge you…

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    Comment #48317219

    I read through all of this too. It just seems that 1. why would the consignor decline? 2. if he did decline, especially "in writing", then why not post proof? As you suggest, maybe…

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    Comment #48234680

    Murder is directly and non-consentually harming another person. Having a traditional family or using social media are choices you can, in our current world, make or not make for yo…

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    Comment #48232605

    Society shares in the value because - insofar as the company is now worth say $X - that's because they have some way to create value that justifies a price of $Y per year for N peo…

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    Comment #48232507

    I think this is essentially correct. I'm sorry you're getting downvoted. I think there seems to be a prevailing attitude here (and in the world in general) that making money is 0 s…

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    Comment #48231007

    Yeah the 'not being able to turn off shorts' is such a brazen, anti-user form of enshitification. Alongside not being able to hide threads in Instragram (can only hide for 30 days)…

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    Comment #48190421

    So I agree that "check things that destroy society and make everyone worse off except for a select few if left unchecked" might indeed pass as a valid categorical imperitive. Putti…

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    Comment #48176194

    I wholeheartedly disagree. When we consider a policy, it's not enough that the narrow outcome is good . What also matters are the broad outcomes and whether or not the policy is pr…

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    Comment #47672332

    Hi Ronan. TCatK is a phenomenal book, not only in exposing the wrongdoing of powerful people, but also in presenting the meta-issue of how hard it was to get the word out, and you …