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You can not regulate either of the above into existence. What good are rhetorical questions when they are nonsensical?

No. Money-grab incoming. Use forgejo.

The deletion request was completely unrelated. I just don’t like the interaction gamification. Thanks! I have not made a single personal swipe in this entire comment tree. I have s…

Can you, by any chance, delete my account? I have tried to do so before but it is not possible through the GUI. And I see you are associated with HN. Other than that let's be very …

The EU isn’t a state and has no military or police. As such the EU’s existence is an anecdotal answer to your question in itself: Reliance on (in particular maritime) trade. And ye…

Exactly. I am Norwegian myself, and I don’t even know how many wars we have had with Sweden and Denmark. If you are getting at the fact that it is sometimes beneficial for adversar…

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Nothing is more permanent in politics than temporary solution. As a Norwegian, for example, I am still paying a temporary 25% on all spending that was enacted as a "temporary" meas…

What are you saying here? It is true that VS Code is less bad in terms of responsiveness in comparison to Atom. Zed, however, is written in Rust (i.e., not Electron), and I would g…

This particular argument is a complete non-issue if we just do “nothing” and let the price mechanism work in the energy markets. There might be a long-term and permanent contractio…

Rights are not something you enumerate, i.e., they are not a “list.” The underlying idea of God-given rights is, simply put, that your freedom ends where mine begins and vice versa…

No. Normally I would, but you are either being lazy or just plain acting in bad faith. 1. My answer is not vague. You are refusing to look up the critical definition. 2. Everything…

This is a simple fallacy. Either you accept the definition of God-given rights, which is certainly not consistent with your opening statement. Or you don’t, at which point any foll…

God-given rights refers to a certain theory of rights that does not require theism. It is a well and widely understood term whose usage should not invite “correction”. Referring to…

No, but you seem to have failed in parsing my explanation as to why it was not a valid point. As guiding questions: What is the difference between negative and positive rights? And…

Irrelevant. I only bring up the stochastic element because of the implicit argument that people are being victimized by gambling against their will. Since you would be extremely of…

Right. In other words, no one's God-given, negative rights are being infringed upon.

It absolutely does account for that. Your entire comment is a strawman. If that is not intentional (which I suspect it is not, so no offense intended), then I believe a quick searc…

I addressed this in my original comment. What, exactly and explicitly, is your point?

It is your right as a human to waste your life away. It is also by definition immoral regardless of moral system (so long as 'waste your life away' is an accurate assessment within…

Two word refutation: Passive smoking. I’m sure there is an argument there somewhere, and I’d love to address that if you would care to give it another go.

Guilt by association: If, e.g., violence is a problem, then one needs to deal with the violence. In general, law-abiding citizens are—and should—be free to congregate and partake i…