Smaller territories, with homogeneous - at least in basic world-view - populations would make more sense, inspire deeper loyalty and be more coherentl...
How? Is that happening right now? If so, where? And how successfully? IOW - how long do you think it will take? Not reform - abolish. Not combine; bre...
Right. So, business, conflict, persecution, economic exploitation as usual, until the climate puts an end to us - or our super weapons do. Fair enough...
Cannot be the same be said of nations, democracy and civilization? Nothing humans do will ever work as we hope and plan. But we keep trying things any...
I think the UN Declaration of Human Rights serves individual liberty better than the legal codes of many - ?most - sovereign nations. A federation doe...
I'm not seeing Bill Nye's role in the attack. I get that miracles contravene the rules of physics, chemistry and biology. Jesus had nothing to do with...
A pathological aversion to pissing anyone off. (PS I know the question wasn't addressed to me, or probably even applied to my country... but it's pand...
Not at all. I'm not telling the majority what they should do. I'm not telling any minority what they should do. I'm not telling anyone how they should...
I don't have either. Why do you? It means you don't know, the parents don't know, the GP doesn't know, the psychiatrist doesn't know, the cleric doesn...
Could be. Nature is imperfect; reproduction is chancy; genetic errors are not unusual. Only the person living inside a body can really know how living...
The factors for increased policing seem (from historical evidence) to be: population numbers, social stratification, complexity and diversity. Say a s...
Unethical, criminal and unlawful are not interchangeable words. Much unethical activity is perfectly legal; in fact, it's sometimes committed by the v...
I suspect it's because the rules are sensible and there isn't a big backlash against gender-nonconformism in general. I guess it must be the same in C...
And with all the deterrents, we do not have a safe society. When drawing and quartering was on the books; when people had their hands chopped off for ...
Okay. Unfortunately, the Manitoba Implementation of justice Committee submitted this report in 1999. Perhaps they should have called the report First ...
Here is a different perspective. ABORIGINAL CONCEPTS OF JUSTICE There is a huge gap between tribal justice and city-state law-enforcement, because the...
It wasn't. These are important questions. All that harm is being done by a few thousand people being surgically altered? Interesting opinion, and I ha...
It was in Leviticus - a whole list of compensations to the victim's family for manslaughter, plus guilt offerings to God. Farming and herding societie...
Where was that? I recall wanting to weigh the harms against the benefits; not denying that people are harmed by other people, but asking in each case:...
No, but if that gives you satisfaction, you are better off than they are. Restraint may have other motivations than a feeling of moral superiority. It...
OTOH, more people would try to eat your pony than your bicycle. But then, more people would try to eat and the dog, as well. It's going to be rough ou...
You usually don't do it in order to be 'better'; you do it either because you're angry (automatic emotional response) or in order to let them know the...
You're not. Far from it! How should I know all the fuck-ups of your health care system? There may be lots of bad apples misconducting themselves all o...
Apparently, high school is one of the most common anxiety dreams. They really did a number on us, didn't they! I practiced lucid dreaming for a while ...
It comes from my own recurring dream of entering an unfamiliar classroom and having a test placed in front of me. After the dread of "But that was 60 ...
I don't think I should be required to prove my belief and disbelief to you, even if that were possible to do. And, no, I will not attempt to prove tha...
It doesn't need forming. The UN already exists and its agencies carry out a good many functions of government much better than most current government...
It wasn't, until you introduced it. The argument, apparently, was that the state of womanhood is in danger from males transitioning to female. I do no...
I don't take it as an attack. I can see how the use of language is changing in public and political and economic discourse. As long as somebody unders...
Sounds OK... except that with the post-whatever-happens situation, you can't be at all sure of global communication, or even finding out who survived....
Unless they found out his reason for going out in the rain on that particular occasion. We do lots of things we hate for lots of reasons - some of the...
What we have now is a monopoly of unaccountable, unopposed, infinitely mobile global wealth. What external entity can critique it with authority? What...
Suppose it's an arm's length administrative structure, with diversified home rule, but no standing armies? Regional representation, like a senate, onl...
No. What I replied to your fear of the "erasure" of women due to the breakdown of stereotypes was that I don't feel threatened with erasure. No again....
That's only because i don't understand how I can be outside of something, not know it's fabricated and also escape it. Guess I just don't get how "the...
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