I'd accept that part. But the references to money, fireplace and jumping off a bridge, coffee and vinegar are either wholly out of place or deliberate...
History. Written, oral, artistic depictions, and fossil record. Also the number of human currently alive, the percent of those currently endangered, a...
Only, he can't. The notion that he could comes from assuming the alternate identity; he thinks the motor memory is all the musical knowledge he needs....
Then why are so many acts performed in private considered immoral by so many people? Why would they expect you to confess - make known at least to God...
Were they debating in a society where the law requires adults to take responsibility for their actions, then it was something they all agreed on befor...
What you provided was evidence that people who disapprove of assisted suicide disapprove of it and don't discuss it with people who do approve of it. ...
We have a pretty good indication of how well governments and societies do that in the way the Covid pandemic has been and is being handled. We also ha...
Yeah. Like helium and carbon monoxide. But as I recall, those people I cited who took your recommended exit, didn't count because they were in favour ...
Everything relates to everything else in some way. Therefore, nothing and nobody has any identity at all; it's just one big jiggly-wobbly mass of vibr...
That's where we came in. Old people in reasonable health are killing themselves long before they need to die, and in unnecessarily painful and messy w...
That was my guess, or an unprepared transmigration, or like that movie where people borrow each other's bodies. I really liked the sound effects and t...
You could have been drawn to jump off a bridge without any help from me. Are you going to make bridges illegal - just in case? And buses. Outlaw buses...
That's true, I guess: Believing - in the absence of any evidence - that someone who created humans will solve the human condition. Believing - contrar...
I liked the description and the mood. Obviously, nobody would take much notice of a woman screaming once or twice in a haunted house or ride... except...
I think he wasn't much into nature, except as an abstract. We had to analyze The Snake in school, and even at 17 I could see that his grasp of wildnes...
If they are actual ducks, we know nothing more about their identities. Are they live ducks, drakes, wild ducks, white Pekins, dead ducks, wooden decoy...
Yes. They are transactions between two or more separate personal identities. Who said a person doesn't relate to the world? But something actual has t...
The only real difference is optimism vs pessimism. I think we'll run out of time, resources and options before the insignificant matter of suicide, as...
Yes. Its roots are in DNA and cultural heritage and grows on the individual like the rings of a tree, through life experience, interactions and memory...
Not everyone has an accommodating Germany next door. And what, when all the well-prepared nations need the capacity for their own critically ill - who...
Okay. Only eight viable patients, then? Same moral principle: she's not really alive, but she's not technically dead, so we didn't make her suffer and...
"The good" is not a concept I consult for my decisions. In fact, I doubt such a thing exists or can be defined. I see an injustice, I object to it. Ju...
Like this? vs Texas and Florida have the most guns and the highest suicide rates. Both forbid assisted dying. Texas is second in executions; Florida i...
Hardly. Which politician orders up a flood or a snowstorm or a pandemic? Those are realities with which real, live, present-on-the-scene health care, ...
What about them? Almost everything in human history attests to a species not valuing human life. As I've mentioned before, live has value in proportio...
What made him a reader of avian minds? You never see wild things feeling sorry for themselves, because you never see a wild thing at all, except in gl...
That's the ideal, and many good people have been striving to do so. But privileged elites have always, everywhere, been indifferent to the condition o...
I'll take care of that right away! Also put some m,ore hot water in the feral cats' drinking pan. I didn't like it for much the same reason. There doe...
Laws are necessarily made in the abstract. But they're also made within a political and economic framework of what is possible. In a culture strongly ...
What lawmakers and many citizens so often fail - or refuse - to distinguish is the line between personal and civic behaviour. It is necessary for gove...
I liked it right up to the last line, too. Married cardinals are rarely more than a few yards apart, except when incubating eggs. And they don't know ...
My teeth hurt from biting bullets - wish you'd brought toast instead. My problem with felt account is: where would such a feeling and commitment origi...
The trick is discerning which others give useful constructive criticism, and which are harmful to our self-esteem. It's not always easy, because well-...
I think you may be confusing different things here. Identity is who you feel yourself to be. It may be necessary to conceal or disguise it, or you may...
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