All this was part of my 1957-1965 routine public school education in Toronto. Plus domestic skills, health and hygiene, math, grammar, literature, his...
I wouldn't bring the ego into it, either. I think it's more a question of information, memory and imagination. If you are aware of all that can go wro...
That depends on their motivation and circumstances. Both actions result in indiscriminate deaths, but there are significant differences in the scenari...
Getting the mannerisms down pat shouldn't be a problem. I imagine we're all doing it now, since Microsoft keeps throwing that stupid screen overlay in...
It's wiki, and speculative. No quantity or proportion specified. That was not in question. The "huge quantities" - as compared to modern westerners - ...
If Trump had body doubles, they would be standing in three or four different docks in three or four different courts at the same time. But maybe he's ...
Reality is not always pleasant. Sometimes it's so unpleasant that people are desperate to escape it, even for a short time. (If it gets any worse, the...
Because everyone needs nourishment. Reindeer probably would do quite poorly in Africa. Those people will have to make do with wildebeest and zebras. I...
That's more true of the present generations. Before the last century, few people anywhere in the world were rich enough to have meat every day and in ...
As there are not enough reindeer for everyone, I suppose all the native wild herbivores of every continent will have to be domesticated, herded and ea...
I concur. of all the books that have passed through my hands in the last 20 years, it's the only one I've kept. Paid $2 for it at a library sale. For ...
That opinion appears to me not based in documented fact. That is the subject matter of the book I cited. There is a short video on the same theme. You...
100%. Assuming, of course, that the future is a straight line in what we used to call enlightened social values. (That's not a given: we may be headed...
Of course it's cheating. So is going to a private clinic instead of the NHS. So is the use of a dog walker or nanny. Money makes life easier for peopl...
I the remark was addressed solely to the ability of humans to control their natural impulses for the sake of social cohesion. What you infer is outsid...
In the way I indicated. It was about how we, humans in societies, have learned to suppress the impulse for personal revenge and defer to socially cons...
Religious nationalists and greedy capitalists. How you characterize groups of people depends on which side you're on and what you believe the fight is...
That is what economic disparity does, yes. The point of ending economic disparity is to make it so for all the people. If that is not sufficient for y...
A foreign Catholic in a dress? I should think so! Anyway, there's only one Religion and that's not it. Well then, that's another word we can throw awa...
I was asked for an opinion and I gave it. What moral indignation? If you do not yet understand that making life healthier and happier and more secure ...
I could not. A national consensus, or at least overwhelming majority, has to make provisions in its peace-keeping and law-enforcement agencies to prev...
Living. If you want something different, ask someone else who, if they have different values from yours, are either naive or lying, so you'll never ge...
Yes, very often, though obviously not always. You have to distinguish between a single act of terror, or threat of violence, and a long-term, consiste...
Therefore, no relation to the GOP since Nixon. That's what confused me. Now I see. The response of the conservatives to Johnson's reforms prompted the...
Yes, that's what I used to think liberalism was. It did rise for a little while, c. 1960-1980. But what's that got to do with the conservatives' downh...
Don't forget its rich and lucrative Black, Native and French culture. Gods know the antebellum aristocracy, in slavish imitation of English gentry, di...
No, thank you. I don't even keep all my socks in one drawer; a single source of unreliable information would be worse than having to rely on experienc...
I don't know what that means. I can look up the definition of each word, but that doesn't help to decipher the sentence. Would all those guns and deat...
We have our home-grown malcontents, wingnuts and tearers-down. But the splash-over doesn't help. (At least we got some pretty good new citizens throug...
The Trump anomaly is a symptom, not the disease or the cause. All he, as a deeply disturbed individual, wants is attention - all of it, all the time, ...
I keep floating that one, with little success. People insist on anthropomorphizing abstract ideas; insisting that religion "says" or science "does" so...
Yes, if the words they contain actually convey the meaning which is both intended and apprehended. This is why I'm particular about the use of large, ...
Truth and knowledge are very large concepts that can be subdivided into an infinite number of smaller parts that also have the same word attached to t...
Science does nothing at all. Science is the acquisition, verification and organization of facts regarding properties of the material world. (And I dou...
Yes, often. But not regions, as a rule. What makes you think that? Yes, you often speak of that, too. But I don't think it sits on an American board o...
It's nothing to do with my energy level. When the structural elements are riddled with dry rot, I don't waste my time plastering the walls. Sure. Aspi...
As have I and many others before us. It sounds good, and then it is either snuffed in infancy or else corrupted in its early youth. So far. Maybe next...
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