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Inkscape has many good features but also many rough edges. Fixing the command palette (shortcut key ?) would go a long way. On Windows it takes around 5 seconds for the palette sea…

Thank you for creating this. Every small improvement counts :) I clicked through to add a request for a datestamp naming but happily someone had already posted that request https:/…

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> denying said universal healthcare to republicans How many do you claim hold that view? Can you cite some prominent examples? I want health care for all, including you. > hyperbol…

On the one hand ~1,000,000 deaths and on the other hand some people lost their jobs and you got a mean comment online? > lost their jobs ... which in US means ... slow, and without…

> These things are balancing out lately What measures and data do you base that claim on? https://www.cgdev.org/blog/update-lives-lost-usaid-cuts "lives lost based on the decline i…

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> a set of basic rights that aren't in conflict Do you have a reply to the arguments in these linked texts that property is inherently coercive? https://mattbruenig.com/2015/10/01/…

> it's impossible to use such reports to make general claims about what kind of government is better. Across 1000 years of history, yes. But as already noted in those cases objecti…

Hard to tell what those people would report if we had a time machine and could go and ask them. I sure as hell wouldn't want to switch position with them. Would you? On objective m…

> Are subjective. People's responses will be relative to what they're used to and what possibilities they see for their lives. People report how well they experience their lives as…

Legal rights can be seen as especially strong claims, with implications and interactions to be further specified in laws and regulation. What alternative do you think would be more…

> protecting the basic rights that everyone has to have to have a free, civil society, and stopping there. A government that has more power than that has too much power. What's you…

You say "childish" and "unrealistic" but such legal rights already exists. For example children have a right to education and the government has to see to it, in one way or other, …

The notion of moral rights can be seen as a form of value and as such is about as workable as other notions of value e.g. virtue, duties, obligation and the good.

Nussbaum's specific list of capabilities isn't anticipated by Mill, but that doesn't mean Mill dodges questions like what is human flourishing. Mill wrote a lot about politics and …

how the word "voluntary" is actually used by people is complex in interesting ways. People report (degrees and shades of) involuntariness and coercion in lots of different situatio…

Incorrect, it was founded with more goals than that. It also has the mechanism of democracy for updating over time, and such updates have added prosperity producing things like tax…

> As a utilitarian, Mill got to dodge questions like "what is human flourishing?" What do you mean? What is the thing that utilitarian founders like Mill wanted to promote in the w…

> Something can't be "taken" if it's not owned. Sure it can, someone can take land in the plain everyday sense that they occupy it and tell others to stay out. But that act, and an…

> If you have "collective efforts" you want funded or built, you're free to ask people voluntarily to put their lives, children, families etc. on hold for whatever cause you think …

Every claim to property over any parcel of land is fundamentally a coercive taking in that it tries to forbid everyone else, billions of people, from using that piece of land. Any …

> it leads to logical contradictions with other rights only if you assume that all rights are simple and absolute. But why think that? Rights as legal constructs come with various …

> Who’ve decided that the decision should be deferred to them and not me or someone else? The people through the process of democracy, where you also have a say as a voter and pote…