By what or whose over-riding authority is life meant to be enjoyed? God? Satan? Jack Sneed? Jesus, Mary and Joseph? Fate? The Big Bang? The Positive P...
Well, you say it doesn't deter crime. According to the Mises Institute of Austria... https://68.media.tumblr.com/068d437a3e8b8e2cfb3cd1c5dfe9893f/tumb...
There are two reasons why capital punishment has little deterrent effect: First, many murders are committed in a fit of more or less insane anger, jea...
Well, certainly the courts are not the place to do it. Prisons? I don't see any problem with teaching morality in prisons. But really, morality needs ...
People have a right to be who they are. Some people are resilient, happy (or at least cheerful), calm, at peace, whether the details of their lives ju...
Absolutely, we have a right to be unhappy. That's one right that is probably secure into the distant future. But, unhappy people are a drag to be arou...
Capital punishment is an admission of defeat and incapacity on the part of society to redeem criminals. In itself capital punishment is immoral, and i...
I agree that punishment should always be fair, proportionate, and humane. I would add that it should also be "effective" -- that is, it should fulfill...
All of life -- the biosphere. I think it is logical; you may disagree, but that doesn't make it illogical. Humans are late arrivals in the biosphere. ...
Most people, if questioned closely, probably would agree with Woody Allen: "I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens." D...
The wave of life, traveling along for the last 3 billion years or so, is its own motivation. In the case of humans, who have the power of despondent n...
Your English seems to be good enough. You employed the slang term "sucks" properly, but "Jeah" is mis-spelled. Are you a native German or Scandinavian...
I voted for grades being moral and salary being immoral. They are not the same thing. Grades are measures of effort and accomplishment by students. St...
Scientific American ran an article quite a few years ago about profit vs. non-profit hospitals and outcomes. They showed that for-profit hospitals (Hu...
I agree with you that economic is the study of behaviors connected with producing and consuming (GDPs, CPIs, inflation, deflation, money supply, all t...
Interesting. But what is a non-profit these days? Just going on the hospitals in the Minneapolis metropolitan area, the nature of "non-profit" seems t...
We spend more money on medicine as health declines. But the issue of money needs to be separated from the incidence of disease and treatment. American...
It isn't terrible that we spend 20% of GNP on health care -- it's terrible that we spend that much without getting better results. Look, I agree that ...
Well some cancers are preventable. Lung cancer is mostly preventable. People who don't smoke usually don't get lung cancer. Ditto skin cancers: people...
2.6 million Americans die every year. Prescription drugs do, actually, kill quite a few people. Hundreds of thousands people die in hospitals -- but t...
The purpose of health care is actually not to prevent death. Everybody is going to die. Roughly a third will die from heart disease, roughly a third f...
That's a good request. I don't have a nice succinct resource. A lot of the reporting on health care is not helpful. There are some questions, however,...
The rectangular key board is the Father Board, ejaculating text from the Mind of God into the Ever Virgin Mother Board. The mouse represents spermatoz...
A good many post graduate degree programs (MA in Public Administration, MA in Educational Psychology, etc.) are nothing but credentialing mills, even ...
Education has, periodically, been rethought -- lock, stock, and barrel. The American public school was a rethinking (probably with big European contri...
I like a lot of different stuff, but let me put in a plug for some of my favorite oratorio/choral works: 1. Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. Day, night an...
Reversing day and night isn't a big problem AS LONG AS you are actually getting enough quality sleep during the day. People really do need around 8 ho...
Leaders need to find kernels of common vital interest in their constituent and opposition groups. That's how leaders get around those divisive labels....
Leadership IS a critical issue, absolutely, and there are a fair number of skilled leaders out there -- in the school boards, universities, and so on ...
Right. It wouldn't be on mine either. I don't even buy the patriarchy vs. matriarchy crap. But some people can really get into this issue because ther...
If political views matter -- I think that they do -- and if there is anything at stake -- there is -- then conservatives and progressives, statists an...
You could say they are two sides of one coin; that's one way of putting it. Another way of putting it is that they are quite close on the continuum of...
What you have here is a self-fulfilling prophecy. "I am am unhappy and am in therapy, but it isn't working." "Why isn't it working?" "Why, therapy jus...
Some problems get better with age because one's circumstances change, and better circumstances make people feel better. I have no idea what that chang...
Well, that's true, but there is a pent up demand for single-family homes, and many of the people who took those loans were financially illiterate (whi...
I can answer these two questions for you: IF you depend on a wage (payment that you have to work for to receive) then you are, by definition, working ...
I got Dietrich Buxtehude right away, but why not Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf? Some people just like saying the name all by itself. https://68.media.t...
When it comes to police violence, you are right -- blacks and whites are not in the same boat. Here's a link to a Vanity Fair article that quotes a nu...
Some good books have been published just recently and over the last few decades, documenting how the federal government, banks, and real estate intere...
Everything you said here is true. Lots of people have been saying the same thing for a long time. All problems usually have aspects which can be addre...
All right, but the very act of challenging foundational assumptions takes place in the present by someone in particular, and they need to understand w...
Absolutely. Some of the ideas lodged in various minds that need to be attacked: Only minorities are oppressed. Poor people are inherently lazy, shiftl...
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it. Karl Marx Is it philosophy that is lacking, or ...
A memorable reformation in the sect of the far-seeing, boundary observing Apollo Sun God, if I remember correctly, which I, of course, do. We studied ...
Well, there are a few science haters and evolution deniers here -- far less than in the population as a whole. But getting back to a sub-topic of your...
By that definition, your insistence that the planets are derived from the sun is trollish. Michael Ossipoff, au contraire, it wasn't my astro-history,...
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