And save everyone else the burden of taking care of you. In a case of protracted terminal illness, especially when accompanied by great pain, suicide ...
That's my optimistic version of "after", yes. I just can't see any way of stopping the juggernaut short of waiting for it to crash, thereby crushing t...
It also depends on their capacity, degree of autonomy and range of available options. According to 's ethical code, a veteran with two missing limbs a...
It didn't, really. Jesus (or whoever invented him) attempted to reform an old, hard, punitive religion into a benign and generous one. That creator-go...
That 'threat' is ever present. Unless you are a hermit in a remote cave, people will judge whatever actions you take or fail to take or refuse to take...
Morality is not coerced, unless specific aspects of it are enacted as law. E.g. driving a car on public roads, only if competent to do so; keeping one...
I've seen examples of such Christianity during my life, lived and practiced by persons of different denominations in different capacities. It was thei...
Why are you looking to growth? Isn't that - production, distribution, marketing and consumption of goods and services, investment, borrowing, populati...
OK, here's one by a fairly bright feminist Stiffed Yes, that's why it's taught in grades of increasingly specialized complexity and application. But i...
There no practical reason that the study of math can't be applied in science, home economics and civics courses - wherein the first includes the biolo...
That's only the US. Other countries are having problems with the democratic system, as well. Each country's problems can be identified with some facti...
It's a generalized label for Euro-American, capitalist, industrial and nominally democratic nations, which often, though by no means always, co-operat...
That would be unprecedented, but interesting. Voting has very little effect on the social and economic structure. It fractures due to design flaws, no...
As in 1929, they seem to neglect a few salient facts. Like: The effects of climate change and its concomitant population displacements, pandemics, pol...
That's because of your mind-set, instilled by a culture in which men were alienated from their families, very much to the detriment of men, families a...
So did Rome. It does, rather. It's usually boo'd and jeered. Maybe less nigh, maybe more. Sometime. Whenever it happens, there will be a rearguard of ...
Of course they won't allow it. If God's in his heaven and all the stars are aligned correctly, it will just take over without their consent. Probably ...
Allow what, the collapse of their house of cards? They're not in control: like all psychopaths, money has its own logic. So does technology. The popul...
I collected them for a few years... That's part of our culture, isn't it? But I got too old to walk around wearing slogans. I still have a few souveni...
If you feel that obligation, it does mean that. If you don't, you'd probably resent anyone trying to impose it on you. This is true of all moral stric...
Yup. The second-class, if not actually chattel, idea has been kicking around for quite a while. Read it in the Bible. There was no great value placed ...
The RCC, when it had a monopoly on charitable collecting, had that covered. Tithes were set according the parishioner's income and the current cause w...
They both intend to destroy designated targets. They know their weapons kill. They know that collateral civilian damage (schools, weddings, etc) invar...
I agree - it should not. Individually and in small groups, humans can work out all kinds of problems. In large numbers, we're crazy and it so often do...
Isn't that how the killing usually begins? Lots of people object to living together with certain other people. Everyone seems to be failing in Africa,...
So should every boy along with every girl. I resented the hell out of not being allowed to take shop. Men need to budget, clothe and nourish themselve...
Who? How? With what available instrument? Military occupation and colonial governance? Redrawing the borders and patrolling the new ones with peacekee...
After a longish post-collapse dark age, tribal communities will probably establish a new civilization, or many, in different regions, They may be diff...
On what basis? No 'nation' present in Africa, the Americas or Oceania is a natural society: all the borders have been drawn around displaced and dispo...
No, but it can be a powerful motivation. It can also blind people to long-term goals or derail their original, reasoned intentions. I realize that's n...
Neither is killing people on an industrial scale. But we don't seem anywhere close to discontinuing the practice. Nearly all aerial attacks do that. E...
I did pose that as a factor in arriving at a judgment. The OP comparison was as flawed as the argument about red historical herrings. Soldiers in all ...
In retrospect from a given angle. Never beforehand from inside either faction's ideology. How we now evaluate past conflicts between people with whom ...
When a group of people wants something badly enough to kill and die for, that is what they do. The methods employed depend on their relative position....
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