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Yeah, he actually did argue that Russia was a potential threat to Ukraine, at least back in the 1990s. Russia loves to cite his work in regards to NAT...

I wish that Light didn't make himself so exposed to L by killing Raye Pember.

Well, it's probably not the whole story since there is the occasional non-homicidal black or Hispanic country such as Chile or Ghana.

And Portugal, which can be labelled Hispanic since it was also a part of the Roman province of Hispania.

Frankly, I like L's cleverness and seductive voice most of all.

https://archive.ph/Dk1Wc

Quite interesting that the most violent countries are primarily black and Hispanic.

Certainly, government power is weaker in Latin America--or in 1990s Russia--relative to the West. For that matter, Western government power was likely...

WWI was very useful for redrawing the map of Europe in a more ethnic manner. The problem, of course, is that this involved a very high cost, for every...

There's suffering but there's also a lot of joy. A lot of people consider the suffering to be worth it due to the joy. And are a lot of anti-natalists...

The allegation is that surrogacy, while consensual, is exploitative. I don't fully subscribe to that logic because, like organ donation, it can signif...

Had Serbia accepted Austria-Hungary's ultimatum towards them, it's possible that Austria-Hungary would not have invaded Serbia in 1914.

Sure, when our ancestors were cavemen, things were much more violent, presumably. AFAIK, even Europe in the Middle Ages was much, much more homicidal ...

I'm not saying that, but some people are. Richard Hanania, for instance, IIRC, was previously making an argument along these lines. Specifically that ...

I actually do think that WBGD is likely to be ethical. After all, surrogacy is extremely expensive. If this can significantly reduce the costs of surr...

Yep. :(

Question about Jesus: They say that he was lifted up to Heaven after his Resurrection, right? Yet we've already been above the clouds (with airplanes)...

It's based in terms of probabilities, IIRC. So, the simplest hypothesis is not guaranteed to be true, but it is more likely to be true. In other words...

I mean Jerry Seinfeld. The man himself.

Wouldn't the 90s and 00s have consisted of your early adulthood, then? Seinfeld is around your age, if not even a little bit older, I think.

I don't think that heavily white or East Asian countries would be very homicidal even with very relaxed gun laws. Those demographics, on average, just...

If getting the lamp isn't guaranteed, then I certainly wouldn't be willing to kill anyone. Really, the answer to the question as to whether the ends j...

Frankly, anti-natalism for high-IQ people has struck me as being rather stupid since this would only contribute to dysgenics for future generations. I...

Focus on things that you enjoy in life. Good food, good movies/TV shows, good books, et cetera. Try deriving as much joy from these things as possible...

Ever watched King of Queens? And/or Seinfeld?

What do you think of the anime Death Note?

I hope so as well. If it's not from Hunter Biden's laptop, though, then I wonder where exactly that photo came from. Is there something that the autho...

Strange that Twitter won't remove this Tweet even after I complained at least twice about it to them. :( Do you think that this photo really did come ...

:) Do you believe that this photo really did come from Hunter Biden's laptop, though? I mean the child bikini photo.

Yeah, posting it might not have been the smartest move on my own part. I do wonder if that child bikini photo really did come from Hunter Biden's lapt...

Thanks; will learn from my mistake in the future!

He's wrong if one believes that what distinguishes revolutions from coups is massive popular participation. Well, why exactly can't Ukraine tell them:...

Referring to the events of 2014 in Ukraine as a coup is rather misguided since it was a popular movement. "Revolution" seems much more fitting. And Ye...

Mearsheimer also said that Ukraine should have its own nuclear deterrent: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/1993-06-01/case-ukrainian-nu...

Boston isn't that poor by global standards, but in a relative sense, in comparison to Cleveland, Yes, though the case would be much more compelling if...

Yep, very possibly. Denying child sex dolls and child sex robots to minor-attracted people, for instance. Some or even many people appear to be cool w...

Well, Yeah, that's fleeing poverty and misery in their home countries.

There is an easy way to get more black mathematicians. Specifically provide huge incentives for black mathematicians and other extremely smart black p...

This is why I personally believe that people should be judged by the standards of their times and not by the standards of other times. This is why, fo...

"You say "A state is choosing new residents and eventually citizens on the basis of desirable traits, with those who fail to qualify often being conde...

And having less poor people (as a percentage of the total population) in future generations would be beneficial for future generations of poor people ...

To elaborate: I don't see a cardinal difference between saying these two things: "We want more people coming here who can contribute and who are not g...

There would be no grounds to criminalize such artwork. Unless of course one believes that such artwork makes minor-attracted people more likely to har...

Yes, I know. People can sometimes use safe, harm-free outlets as an alternative to engaging in a harmful real-life activity. For instance, engaging in...

By that logic, though, should sex with childlike adults be criminalized? Or at least criminalized specifically for minor-attracted people?

Perhaps a more apt analogy would be criminalizing photos and videos of white people wearing blackface? There's nothing inherently offensive about whit...

I know that this is a very morbid question, BTW. But still, I hope that it's OK for a Philosophy forum.

Do you have a specific argument to counter the argument from parturition?

Isn't any ideology a social construct--not just eugenics?

Sure, one can say that grouping human beings into races is more arbitrary. I'm not really going to challenge that. But isn't the genetic distance betw...