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It would help if voucher programs were more flexible. E.g. if a $1000 voucher is available for an apartment, why not a $500 one for a relative's room?

I hope Mr. Tetraheder remembers to make any accounts permanent regardless of the wishes of the members - nothing like a permanent asset.

I think they're assuming the representative democracies actually exist. In the U.S. (from what I've seen - I'm envious of those with commanding knowledge of the situation) there ar…

I don't feel like this is a fair representation of my viewpoint, it certainly makes me a little angry. I'm afraid I'll have to discontinue this discussion.

But how about the coercion of our own bodies? Is our will free if we're (for example) free to consume all we want, even if that consumption makes us feel worse in the long run and …

Our will is not free, it belongs to us!

I believe the real evil is in the conceit of knowledge, and that the gross inequalities of material wealth are actually only symptoms of this. Roughly 2,500 years ago two giants of…

We need to bravely search for the truth in all matters.

The Satyricon

I've recently read 19th century theologian and scholar Benjamin Jowett's introduction to Plato's Laws , where (I believe) he observes that humankind is merely in the "dawn of polit…

The cravings are most involuntary however, I assure you.

There's plenty of"public poisoning" going around - sure you haven't profited from some of it yourself? When will the sanctimonious get off of their high-horse?

No. (edit - but let me amend my original statement and then I'm leaving it at that: "I may add that I would guess the product probably wouldn't be so harmful if people kept their c…

I really don't, but this is my belief as someone who has extensive experience with cigarette culture and has thought about it. You are free to disregard my opinion based on this fa…

So they're exceptional in producing unhealthy, but profitable products?

Yes, because they're primed for it. People make the bad choices they're constantly encouraged to make.

I agree mostly with your last paragraph. I'm surely not trying to encourage a habit I'm grateful to have been able to give up, but I believe 1-4 would significantly reduce the risk…

A larger pattern of assuming the virtue of the product according to its profit value.

Have not read the article, but I think "Big Tobacco" is something of a scapegoat for a larger pattern, and basically they were just unlucky enough to produce one of the most harmfu…

It's telling that "white men" has become a byword, but to speak this way in intellectual terms is to subvert the very tradition that has struggled against what made it that way. (N…