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Political Spectrum Thoughts Pleasant Gecko 09/04/21 (Sat) 22:18:56 No.9764 [Reply]

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Have you felt that the one dimensional division between political ideologies is a problem and craved 2D and 3D based analysis? This is a thread for you.

If you have found a particular perspective on the political spectrum that you want to signal-boost, please link it here. Or if you've a particularly popular spectrum thing that you've come across that you want to criticize, feel free to do that as well.

Myself, I'm pretty sympathetic to this cube-based model. I'll call myself socially moderate left leaning and economically moderate right leaning while being way off in the side of limited government. Where would you be?

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Pleasant Gecko 09/05/21 (Sun) 22:11:46 No.9778

For those curious of where the OP image came from and the context, please see: https://www.quora.com/Is-anarchism-right-wing-or-left-wing-Explain-your-answer

Loving Zebra 09/05/21 (Sun) 23:48:23 No.9781

>>9764
>I suppose the core question between 'economic left' and 'economic right' is more along the lines of "Who controls the means of physical production and determines physical consumption?", with the choice being powerful non-state actors such as mega-corporations versus the state versus small, independent actors deciding for themselves.

Ok, I think I get that. I'm not quite sure which is right and which is left, but I imagine in a cross-section of your cube where social is the same.

You have corners:

1) Total government control
2) Total government control
3) Individual/small business control
4) Non-state large corporation control

Pleasant Gecko 09/06/21 (Mon) 03:35:56 No.9784

>>9781
I believe that that I'm trying to conceptualize things like that, yes.

Admittedly, I'm not the best at three dimensional mathematical thinking even in the most generous circumstances.

Intelligence Lively Grasshopper 08/31/21 (Tue) 01:24:35 No.9706 [Reply]

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Maybe there was a time when strength was premium, before poor John Henry lost to mechanized muscle. But now [at least while AI is still taking baby steps], the name of the game is intelligence.

Intelligence + education = success

Although I feel like a lot of my life has been trying to figure out what this equation is suppose to mean, exactly, and coming to terms with domains where the idea seems to lack validity. Overall I don't know whether it's been a helpful model or not.

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Beautiful Cat 09/04/21 (Sat) 02:58:11 No.9751

>>9750
Yeah, Greene seems like a special case. High on her own supply.

Shy Frog 09/04/21 (Sat) 14:38:03 No.9758

I can't really think of many domains where intelligence factors in success. The only ones where it does are ones where the actual barrier for entry is education or training, but even in academia there usually isn't any reward for being smarter than the next person or more educated than the job requires. Intelligence and education are less the recipe for success and more the minimum requirements for entry that once met are mostly irrelevant. If you are outside of academia once you've worked a job nobody cares what your education is. Nobody is going to give you a senior position for being really smart, and frankly nobody is going to give you a senior position for being good at your job. You can certainly leverage those things in trying to secure benefits or promotion, but they are by no means the only parts of the puzzle and you can secure advancement without them.

Since managing other people is the most important job in our system to be successful being charismatic and punctual are more important to success than anything else.

Lively Grasshopper 09/04/21 (Sat) 20:41:05 No.9759

>>9758
That sounds mostly accurate. Being good with people is a more lucrative skill in the long run than anything technical.

Entitlement Clever Zebra 08/23/21 (Mon) 20:51:08 No.9677 [Reply]

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Lackadaisical Spider 08/29/21 (Sun) 22:10:40 No.9699

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>>9698
Ok.

Elated Deer 08/30/21 (Mon) 20:03:05 No.9704

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HxPQKDqrFcBNGuTec/entitlement-covert-contracts-social-libertarianism-and

Thankful Mouse 09/01/21 (Wed) 02:35:02 No.9726

>>9698
Not them, but I personally enjoy about Finland the combination of:

>(a)Gun rights.
>(b)Reasonable understanding that if you use guns to commit violent crimes you'll get caught and punished severely.

Most countries seem to either do neither, just (a), or just (b), I guess? The U.S. is a great example of only (a) and never (b). Would prefer both by far.

Student Loan Crisis Solutions? Brave Caterpillar 08/19/21 (Thu) 20:21:07 No.9610 [Reply]

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In a surprise move, the Biden administration's Department of Education seeks to forgive something like $6 billion dollars in student loan debt for individuals in a specific working situation.

Story: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/student-loan-forgiveness-disabled-borrowers-150036471.html

The U.S. student loan crisis is an interesting problem. While I've got more opinions on different issues than I can manage, really, I'm on the fence when it comes to this. Should the government keep going through situations piecemeal? Should all student debt just be ended? If so, what about the economic consequences... isn't there a kind of ethical dilemma when it comes to those who did pay things off?

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Adorable Horse 08/27/21 (Fri) 06:37:46 No.9692

>>9691
They can make that argument if they want to but don't pretend it's for my sake.

Thankful Dove 08/27/21 (Fri) 15:22:53 No.9695

>>9686
This.

College, in general, is worthless. Yet every institution insists, if you do not go, you will be a failure.

It's not as hard to pay your debts as some make it out, but it's also not necessarily hard to pay a con artist.

Given the state itself is the one pushing you into this debt more often than not, it's on them as much as the colleges themselves.

Whimsical Crab 08/27/21 (Fri) 21:07:02 No.9696

>>9695
>Yet every institution insists, if you do not go, you will be a failure.
Not every, but things nominally taught at state-accredited college or university will be skills, other abilities will not be. [Possibly some trade schools may teach a few skills as well.]

View-harm Sparkling Otter 08/18/21 (Wed) 19:35:10 No.9601 [Reply]

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View-harm, I will define, is the psychological harm done to another when they view a body or a photograph of a body. Some parts of the body are especially potent, therefore laws require covering those parts in public and standards forbid showing those parts on many websites. But people may be offended by any part of any body (eyes, nose, teeth, hair), or offended by the fashion of bodily display (hair style, make-up). I don't believe in objective beauty or ugliness, so there is no, I suppose, defense against view-harm there. A good person must not use their power to hurt those around them.

I think, though, fursonas or pony-sonas help defend against view-harm. Perhaps we can share other ideas for keeping those around us safe.

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Chill Pegasus 08/25/21 (Wed) 02:23:36 No.9683

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>>9682
Have you heard of the term 'overfitting'?

Information hazard Chill Pegasus 08/25/21 (Wed) 04:17:55 No.9684

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_hazard

Sparkling Otter 08/25/21 (Wed) 11:47:33 No.9687

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>>9683
Yes, when inferences are made from accidental patterns that don't do well at predicting what's being modeled.

That's bad, I guess, but I'm not sure it's psychologically damaging.

>>9684
Interesting. View-harm might be a class of information hazard. I suppose you could say it's really information gained in a view that does the mental damage, although exactly what information is hard to say.

Human Survival Courageous Spider 07/27/21 (Tue) 01:05:48 No.9507 [Reply]

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If I understand correctly, one of Elon Musk's main motivations for Mars is to establish a self-sustaining settlement on the planet to prevent Human extinction in the event the Earth's population is wiped out. We are in a pandemic so you can imagine a scenario where millions of miles of space make a good quarantine, for example. I guess the other reasons to go to mars are: it's cool/inspiring, and (science!). It's not really an economic move of any kind.

I'm seeing negativity about billionaires touring space while others struggle for necessities. So, what are your opinions on pushing to make humans a two-planet species?

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Shy Raccoon 08/19/21 (Thu) 20:28:53 No.9611

>>9555
>>9556
>Elon Musk almost seems more completely okay with sacrificing if not the environment of Earth

In fairness to Musk, he's not only advocated in public for pro-environmental measures but has actually, at least according to him, tried to work with the Biden administration on them.

See: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/12/elon-musk-reducing-greenhouse-gas-emissions-with-a-carbon-tax.html

I believe that Musk is one of those wealthy individuals who, akin to Bill Gates, believes that relatively green technologies represent the future of energy specifically and big business generally and thus want to get a leg up compared to competitors.

Clever Ferret 08/23/21 (Mon) 21:48:49 No.9678

>>9555
>at least for the long foreseeable future, any terraformed Mars is going to be a terrible place compared to a preserved Earth.

Right. That's why I think the best argument for Mars as an insurance policy involves catastrophic destruction of Earth or the human population.

>okay with sacrificing if not the environment of Earth, then at least sacrificing a bunch of people on Earth, in order to make this dream of Mars happen.

Yeah, I mean, the resources to go to Mars could always be used terrestrially. I take that you either don't buy the necessity of Mars or don't think Musk is doing it correctly.

Helpful Yak 08/25/21 (Wed) 07:32:38 No.9685

>>9611
https://insideevs.com/news/438345/tesla-428-million-carbon-credits-q2-2020/

Civil unrest Cuddly Emu 08/16/21 (Mon) 08:59:10 No.9564 [Reply]

If today a decision by local or federal government spurns massive protests/riots, do you see yourself taking up arms against the government?

Is there any line for you that the government can tread that would make you join a violent uprising?

If you get caught up in civil unrest in your neighbourhood, would you be prompted to take up arms and get involved, or would you try and stay out of it?

Would you be willing now to take someone's life to stand up for your principles?

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Deep Duck 08/23/21 (Mon) 03:37:14 No.9672

>>9671
>To the extent that people make bad decisions (given their available knowledge), it is a failure of rationality.
Or they have a system of ethics that we disagree with (e.g., the Nazis).

Eager Griffon 08/23/21 (Mon) 03:38:28 No.9673

>>9671
>>9672
Yes, I understand, and I guess that further discussion likely is pointless if you've got the entirely wrong definition of "rationality" from my perspective.

I do regret being so emotionally negative, though. Wish this could've been less critical in tone.

Deep Duck 08/23/21 (Mon) 03:51:54 No.9674

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>>9673
>got the entirely wrong definition of "rationality" from my perspective.
Definitions fundamentally aren't right or wrong; they're just social convention. We can make up new words, like "rationality_duck" and "rationality_griffon" to denote what each of us means. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "rationality". I have been using "rationality" in the LessWrong sense, as expounded in the following webpages:
https://www.lesswrong.com/lw/nc/newcombs_problem_and_regret_of_rationality/
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ARtkT3EYox3THYjF/rationality-is-systematized-winning
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nEgXQkewAnvX6mYd7/rationality-and-winning

But in any event, I'm going to bed soon. Goodnight, Eager Griffon!

Suomi phone 08/16/21 (Mon) 06:36:10 No.9566 [Reply]

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"""
Dr. Helen Chu, a doctor in Seattle who was running a study on flu prevalence back in February 2020, ... realized that she could test her flu samples for coronavirus, did it, and sure enough discovered that COVID had reached the US. The FDA sprung into action, awarded her a medal for her initiative, and - haha, no, they shut her down because they hadn’t approved her lab for coronavirus testing. She was trying to hand them a test-and-trace program all ready to go on a silver platter, they shut her down, and we had no idea whether/how/where the coronavirus was spreading on the US West Coast for several more weeks.

Although the FDA did kill thousands of people by unnecessarily delaying COVID tests, at least it also killed thousands of people by unnecessarily delaying COVID vaccines. ...

Every single thing the FDA does is like this. Every single hour of every single day the FDA does things exactly this stupid and destructive, and the only reason you never hear about the others is because they’re about some disease with a name like Schmoe’s Syndrome and a few hundred cases nationwide instead of something big and media-worthy like coronavirus. I am a doctor and sometimes I have to deal with the Schmoe’s Syndromes of the world and every f@$king time there is some story about the FDA doing something exactly this awful and counterproductive.
"""
Quoted from: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/adumbrations-of-aducanumab

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Suomi phone 08/22/21 (Sun) 17:07:08 No.9636

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>>9629
>Can fluvoxamine be taken when you catch the disease?
Yes. It is administered orally as a pill.

>Or is it also only used when you are in the ICU?
The results of this study are that fluvoxamine reduced the need to even go the hospital in the first place.

>I have to say, googling fluvoxamine at least doesn't land on a bunch of pages saying that it is not advised.
Fluvoxamine is an SSRI that is routinely used by psychiatrists as a first-line treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder and social anxiety disorder. Other SSRIs (e.g., fluoxetine) also showed promising results in observational studies but AFAIK haven't been tested in RCTs yet.

>>9630
Hmm, you seem to know a lot more about this than I know, so I'll defer to your judgment.

Encouraging Flamingo 08/22/21 (Sun) 17:39:14 No.9637

>>9636
I do not know anything. I am the guy who puts the frozen plasma in the plasma thawer when the doctor calls. If you're reading studies that's more than me. But I do encourage learning the details of the immune system.

Tender Gazelle 08/22/21 (Sun) 20:35:26 No.9639

>>9637
As an addendum...

What I'm seeing a lot of lately, especially in our younger covid patients who have expired, is signs of DIC and other coagulopathies. I've been doing this for 4 years and I've given out more cryoprecipitate plasma (a concentration of coagulation proteins) over the past week than over my career combined. DIC is pretty well known medically as something that modern birthing practices prevents. In the disease blood starts clotting in the veins. In addition to the risk of pulmonary emboli, clotting factors in blood are in limited supply and get consumed so that the patients lose the ability to repair microscopic damage to the vessels and they start bleeding out into their body compartments. Cryo was made to treat factor 8 deficiencies like in hemophilia, but it's also packed with factor 2 so it's the best option for DIC when combined with heparin. It's still a very dangerous condition to treat even with modern medicine since it involves giving blood thinners to a person who is bleeding out, and then giving fresh plasma which in addition to Factor 2 contains Factor 7, the antidote to heparin treatment, so dosing is an absolute bitch.

Furthermore, nobody has much cryo on hand. It's use is very niche in treating fringe coagulopathies associated with shake bites and amateur midwives. Cryo is the most complicated blood product to handle due to very strict temperature and time requirements and producing it involves wasting 10 units of precious plasma to produce one bag of cryo.

Radio-activity Energetic Squid 08/01/21 (Sun) 00:31:08 No.9533 [Reply]

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So it's been a month now carrying a Geiger counter everywhere I go.

I might be picking up some smoke alarm Americium, past that...background. When the parts come, I'll build a more sensitive model, if I can keep the size reasonable.

Suppose I need to debate something. I live equidistant between two Nuclear power plants (sadly neither of which have tours or bus service.) You can talk about nuclear power, if you like. Nuclear waste storage is controversial, if nothing else.

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Endearing Starfish 08/05/21 (Thu) 22:19:30 No.9549

>>9548
Oh, not actually banned, just that this board feels more appropriate. Talking to mods seems like talking to cops, best to be avoided if you don't want punishment.

Handsome Snake 08/06/21 (Fri) 01:21:20 No.9550

>>9549
>Talking to mods seems like talking to cops, best to be avoided if you don't want punishment.
In most places, you'd probably be right, but Ponyville.us is blessed with an excellent moderation team. You can talk to them without fear.

Marginally related: Scott Aaronson's recent post on blankfaces: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5675

Excited Parrot 08/07/21 (Sat) 10:10:59 No.9551

>>9550
Perhaps I should go to this /pony and recruit for /townhall. Certainly some desire respectful discussions on important topics (and some fun threads, too), but want an invitation.

Equestria Quarterly Delightful Cheetah 08/14/21 (Sat) 19:09:06 No.9561 [Reply]

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Is there a place that sorta catalogs what's going on in the MLP fandom at a level detail of months?

Basically a busy person's Equestria Daily?

Zany Grasshopper 08/15/21 (Sun) 00:00:19 No.9562

this still exists

Genetically-engineered squidgirls Courageous Whale 08/08/21 (Sun) 04:00:40 No.9552 [Reply]

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Hot take: Most professional bioethicists are worse at their job than a random STEM major off the street would be. They retard the progress of science and make humanity worse off than it would be without them.

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Talented Swan 08/11/21 (Wed) 23:48:17 No.9558

>>9557
When you say professional, my mind goes to the salary that is the most important thing about professionalism. I then associate ranking or goodness with money.

>potential negatives and discount the potential benefits

Most are risk adverse, and going back to professionalism probably the more a bio-ethicist regulates, the more important they are and the more they might get paid (provided they don't go so far as to collapse the field). Their reward for benefits is probably not very direct. But these are just guesses, I know no professional bio-ethicists who have chosen to identity to me, anyway.

>refusing to let prisoners participate
I did not know that. Many seem to want some prisoners to be forced into tests, but others will think about the Nazi government's use of prisoners and try to get distance from the policy.

Is the problem that prisoners are subjugated in some way that makes them incapable of consent? Something like how children and mentally ill can not necessarily consent?

Courageous Whale 08/12/21 (Thu) 02:24:35 No.9559

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>>9558
>others will think about the Nazi government's use of prisoners
Yes, it is an over-reaction to this. Like if a driver swerves too hard to avoid hitting a deer and loses control of the car and crashes.

>Something like how children and mentally ill can not necessarily consent?
And yet, children and the mentally ill are often subjected to medical treatment without regard to whether they consent. Really gets the noggin' joggin'...

Talented Swan 08/14/21 (Sat) 18:54:04 No.9560

>>9559
>without regard to whether they consent
My understanding is they can't consent, but a combination of guardian consent, child assent, and authorities regarding the treatment as safe is enough. With a prisoner, I assume the state does not consent, so the prisoner's assent is insufficient.

General Character of Politics Joyous Porpoise 07/20/21 (Tue) 12:20:31 No.9468 [Reply]

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What is the political fight (in America)? Suppose it's hard to find general rules, because it must be a fight -- anything for which people aren't willing to fight over is not going to surface as a concern. And so issues will come and issues will go. But I will list what I think of as general trends.

The Right: Free Market; Freedom of Speech; Freedom of Religion; Freedoms are most notably won through Military Force

The Left: Equality of Outcome for people of different Gender, Race, and Sexuality; Concern over Climate Change; Freedoms won through protest

The Left sees the Right: Rich Racists (or those duped by them); Religious Fanatics; Colonizers

The Right sees the Left: Lazy Folks who want to steal from Hard Working Americans; Anarchists; Rioters who would rather destroy than build.

Questions for you:

1) Is that basically correct? Do you have things to add?

2) Do you expect anything to change over the years, especially the level of hatred or empathy for the opposing political party? (In your experience has it been different in the past?)
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Agreeable Turtle 07/29/21 (Thu) 05:07:16 No.9527

>>9524
>The Red Tribe loves radical, utopian social change. Their very project to turn American into a white Christian nation under strict white Christian values
Only a very small number of extremists want that. By far, the vast majority of the red tribe rejects ethnic cleansing and white supremacy. They also strongly value religious freedom and would oppose any laws that would prevent Jews from practicing their religion freely.

Loving Flamingo 08/05/21 (Thu) 03:43:56 No.9546

>>9477
>I'm not sure what authority makes these definitions formal. Normally 'formal' is an appeal to state power, but I don't think the state defines what goals the two political parties need to have.

Authority doesn't come from the state here, what's "formal" here is within the realm of academia, these terms specifically having their origin in modern European academic political discussion after the french revolution of 1790.

The terms are what's collectively agreed upon by political and social philosophers.

The spurce of the colloquial understanding of the terms are rooted in rhetoric, that and propoganda. The reason anyone in America belives one party is on the left is a relic of the cold war and the other party exploiting fears of the soviet union and leftism to accuse the other party of being leftist, it's literally a product of demagoguery, and it's been taken to the point that many in America don't even know what the origin of the terms left-wing and right-wing actually meant when first used or how they are still used everywhere else in the world.

>Do we have something like a class system and neither party wants to dismantle it?

Pretty much. yeah. We have social classes but not an officially enforced caste system. We (ostensibly) have a more centrist system of social classes with social mobility. The differences between the parties (ostensibly) is how much they believe the state has to intervene to maintain/ensure that social mobility. In many ways, one party denies that any intervention is necessary and denies that social stratification happens and the other party believes that intervention is necessary to prevent stratification.

Of course, again, your average American rarely thonks of this as rhe fundamental distinction between right and left as popular understanding gets further confused by the popular discourse.

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Contemplative Swan 08/05/21 (Thu) 13:22:06 No.9547

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>>9546
>[meanings from] political discussion after the french revolution of 1790
OK. I don't know then if I'm formally central or left. I think people's right to create and enforce a class system ends where my business begins. People can have them in their science institutions, as long as I can make my own institutions if I want. That probably makes me center.

>exploiting fears of the soviet union
Oh, yes, communism is very bad. For Americans, anyway. That's what I hear, anyway.

>one party denies that any intervention is necessary
Aside from force to keep order, of course. Poor stealing from the rich would be anti-class system (if there were a class system), the state will be asked to prevent that.

>intervention is necessary to prevent stratification
Yes, the left wants helps for poor people more than the right. Or, the right believes the proper help for the poor is punishment until the poor develop skills and industry to escape the punishment.
>product of what strategies were/are necessary to win elections and accomplish goals as a logical consequence of our first-past-the-post electoral process (see video).

That makes sense. A two-party system is stable in a winner-takes-all voting system, then. Seems to fit the American experience, anyway. If any party wants to stay relevant, they have to be about as popular as the other parties, and once it's down to two parties, each has to be about 1/2 popular, whatever that takes. Suppose someone could say that's good in that it keeps parties from veering too far from the center of their respective mode, but neither can be too ideological if political sentiments shift.
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Animal Welfare Dashing Falcon 07/27/21 (Tue) 16:48:24 No.9511 [Reply]

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Should all pets have laws that protect them in a similar way to how animal control can be called on an owner for leaving their dogs out in the sun, with no water or shelter?

For example: If you want to keep a betta fish (chinese fighting fish), should there be laws demanding that owners give them an adequate amount of space, and a heater+filter? Rather than putting them into vases like is so often seen?

Cheeky Lizard 07/27/21 (Tue) 17:00:06 No.9512

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>>9511
No. There are already too many laws and regulations. And the justice system doesn't work very well. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

Cute Giraffe 07/29/21 (Thu) 00:45:08 No.9522

>>9511
Probably. I've been struck before by the patchwork nature of Animal Cruelty laws -- lab rats vs. field mice, etc..

Like C. Lizard, I'm not a big fan of state power, but if there must be state power, I'd like law to be as simple as possible. Presumably the idea is being cruel to animals that are something like conscious is bad.

Moral Relativism Wonderful Eagle 07/13/21 (Tue) 11:34:53 No.9453 [Reply]

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Do you ever wonder if there's something that's common and appropriate today that will be considered a horrible evil in 100 or 200 years? (Guess I'm thinking about slavery in early America, projecting forward.)

Or do you think we're past that level of moral change, and only small things will change from here forward -- that people will look back at this time and say, "They could have tuned some things, but folks were mostly good to each other."

If you think morality will change in the future, what things do you think will become very evil?

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Cuddly Cheetah 07/25/21 (Sun) 19:40:21 No.9500

>>9467
Have you heard of the lead-crime hypothesis? It's quite fascinating. Recommended reading for everyone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis

Elated Fox 07/26/21 (Mon) 13:01:58 No.9505

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>>9500
Crime is so bad I can't even get a number for how many Americans are criminals -- maybe 30%. Prison population may be a proxy.

Anyway, I've heard similar about abortion -- effects trickling down to (types of) crime. I think that was a chapter in Freakonomics.

Cuddly Cheetah 07/26/21 (Mon) 20:12:57 No.9506

>>9505
Yes, if I could, I'd like everybody to research the lead-crime hypothesis as well as the legalized-abortion-crime hypothesis. Understanding both is very helpful in terms of seeing how history has changed.

Lighthearted Deer 06/06/21 (Sun) 05:24:20 No.9372 [Reply]

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