I wouldn't. That's why I asked. I have not been able to discover exactly what was meant by a "prohibited topic". Neither have many of the publishers. ...
Rather than what? What is it that would be harmful in a math book that meets the educational standard? How is a math book, or a short story collection...
What does that mean, precisely? One size of what, fits all of whom? Where and by whom was it suggested that this should be the case? Which is why I su...
Does that mean the state/church should dictate what children under - what age? 12, 13, 14? - cannot know about? What happens when they catch their fir...
By 'the family unit', I imagine you mean some kind of collective decision-making mechanism. In real life, it's usually one person with all the power t...
No, it isn't. That's why I would leave it to the librarians in each community, rather than have a state-wide ban on any literature that contradicts th...
A much stronger political motivator is a POV that doesn't fit the far right's alternate history, alternate America, parallel universe. They came to pr...
For me, there are many. I would not let young children read anything I had not previously vetted for horror, violence and sadism - a lesson I learned ...
I know it's off topic, but as an SF aficionado, I have to defend the Star Trek personnel. Starfleet is a military organization, with a chain of comman...
I wouldn't bother too much about the mechanisms whereby money is moved around and hidden away: they change almost daily, to stay ahead of internationa...
The Seventh Day Adventists and some other despised sects managed to balance both. So, oddly enough, have some Catholic monastic orders. In relatively ...
I did mention the world's debt-load - with three links to graphs illustrating it. That's what will break the capitalist system. It runs on the expecta...
I did. My conclusion was a little more conclusive, is all. Yes. So when I asked "For whom? To what end? What motivates AI?" That is what I was asking....
Not so much forget as discount. As much as people want to do. For whom? To what end? What motivates AI to do that? For the sheer joy and satisfaction ...
Non-work is not the same as non-job. As mentioned earlier, people can work for their families their communities, the environment, the future, the prot...
FTR - All assertions and assumptions regarding my state of mind are incorrect. I do not read other people's thoughts and emotions; I simply answer the...
I know that. Also the other way around. There are very powerful forces pitted against public and democratic education in the US right now, and they've...
Wonderful idea! How? Who are "we" and where do "we" get the power to take decision-making out of the hands of corporate boards? Before anything positi...
There was no "proposition". You found an exception to translations, and that's lovely; I'm sure there is a similar one in Wales and Ireland and Euskal...
It might also be a little disorienting, seeing as how you'd be sneaking around the wrong country. Not exactly - plot hiccup. What I want to happen nex...
All the same, though, "better brain than brawn". The heroic dead inspire a lot more death, and the Klingons will sing many ugly songs.... but they don...
All I ever had was a .22 and I didn't keep that very long. Like I said, I'm not combative by nature, aptitude or inclination. Yeah... that's the thing...
This is not a cause-effect relationship. The rebellious slaves were wasted manpower. That's what I don't support. John Brown made his point in the chu...
Still about a king, though. Even the sainted Stephen was a monarch first and foremost. The whole post-Roman Christian pyramid social structure with lo...
So did I, only to find out much later that they were not really Hungarian, most of them. They were Grimm and Anderson and translated from German - sor...
What?? I ain't into guilt or shame, baby! Of course not. The one thing has no bearing on the other, as far I'm concerned. You told me to move, after I...
I didn't think it was about personal life-satisfaction. I have no complaint in that department. This is a very good place to live. The air is clean, t...
All he ever did about was rant and vote. Insofar as I am able, in a redneck riding that's just returned the conservative incumbent who, every election...
I had a friend - he's been dead for some years now, so he can't get into trouble - who planned out his one-man revolution with a 12 guage and a rusty ...
Somebody makes a great effort, a great sacrifice, and nobody gets cursed. I like that part - not that poor Beaver died... but in some stories, the one...
I know more about dogs than I do about behaviourists, and like them a lot more. Whatever is not a good method for humans, is no good for dogs, either....
I don't think it's about rightness and wrongness in most primitive creation stories. It's more about loss - something we had: a connection with nature...
We have lots of ways - have had for thousands of years: wind, rivers, tides, sun, ground-heat. Not wasting so much of it would be a good start. Maybe ...
Fortunately, many endangered and even lost cultures have their advocates in academia. Campbell may have had his detractors, but he did an excellent jo...
Oh, dear, you do seem to lead a star-crossed life! I'm afraid the only way to cope is write it all down, thinly disguised as fiction. Do, please, chan...
I don't know that one! Can you remember which tribe tells that story? One of the things I like about Native folklore is that it's malleable, adaptable...
Personally, I find both the world-views and ethical systems of pre-urban peoples more to my taste than the legal edifices of civilized societies. The ...
So the founding principle of that system would be "The only good is survival of one's own kind" or "The ultimate good is survival of one's own genetic...
Of course not. I'm asking why you would need a new generalization in the first place. I'm describing a premise from which a practical, mundane chain o...
Why can't we suppose that much of the reasoning we do every day begins, not with a generalization generated by the thinker, but by a 'given' circumsta...
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