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Do you find the burdens placed on the healthcare system by obesity, smoking, etc. -- do you find them acceptable? I know that "we" do? What about you?...

As is the burden on you of just getting the jab or the good you might do Africa by not getting the jab. If I understand you correctly, there is almost...

So eventually everyone will be exposed to the virus -- this is the becoming-endemic outcome I understand is becoming the consensus now among folks tha...

Missed this one -- So if we follow Sir Andrew Pollard and ditch herd immunity as a goal, then we'd want to know what he thinks the utility of vaccinat...

If you can only soundproof your walls to a certain level, because of technical or financial limitations, beyond that level turning down the music is y...

Then I was on the right track before... I think I'm starting to get a sense of what's going on here, so I'm going to throw this out there before it's ...

Hmmm. This is not what I understood you to be arguing. If I'm to take you at your word here, your claim is not just that you're under no moral obligat...

Not selfish, but meaningful to you, something that makes sense to you, is reasonable to you. You're the one making the choice, what else could your re...

Well it must be more something you don't like, or you'd just do it, right?

Good lord, Isaac, that's not the point. I need six guys to move some furniture; you volunteer to be one of the guys who doesn't. The point is that cou...

Well, in a rationing situation, volunteering to go without is generally considered praiseworthy, within limits. You've got that part covered. But say ...

Dimes to donuts it isn't epidemiologists. My money's on physicists, but really any hard science outside the actual field at issue. You know how those ...

Hmmmm. Trouble is, you really do need some people, a lot as a matter of fact, specifically to get vaccinated. It wouldn't do for everyone to make alte...

Sorry, yes, there's been a misunderstanding. I'm not interested in what you gain by posting here, etc. I'm also not making the case that you benefit b...

I didn't think the point was all that subtle: you explicitly support your community's goal of reaching herd immunity; you just aren't willing to help ...

I've emphasized the word I take to indicate uncertainty, and I endorse your uncertainty. None of us can be certain. But, as you might expect from me, ...

And 0.2% of the world's population would be roughly 15.4 million dead. 0.2% of a large number is a large number.

What position is this argument in support of? "We should have behaved differently in the past" is not a policy, not even a public health policy. Wheth...

"Caused" is a fun word. Our world has people in it with conditions that, should they contract the virus, will kill them -- not the virus, but the "co-...

Having read through your exchange with @"Michael" now, this is what bothers me: Yes, there are other things people do that put their health at greater...

My interest was different: early on I had some hope this could be an inflection point. The fundamental problem with climate change, for instance, is o...

I don't think infringement is the right idea here at all. The social contract is not a matter of what infringement of your rights you're willing to pu...

So your position is that there are things worse than guns, plus guns might or might not guarantee our liberty.

Why not be a little less cryptic? Go ahead and make your point. I'll listen.

It's just that, a belief is a bit like a wager: there are stakes and there are payouts. Maybe our guns do stave off tyranny, or would if they had to. ...

So no thoughts on how they've managed to avoid falling into tyranny without an armed population to prevent it?

No, no. Just nice to get a take from someone who's looked at some research. I've only dug into the culture war part of it, which ... <sigh>. Thanks fo...

Btw, what do you think about other developed countries that have not succumbed to tyranny despite not having high rates of gun ownership? How is it th...

Is this argument important to you? I mean, in theory you're explaining to me why your right to bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution. It shouldn'...

Sure. But that's cold comfort to police officers for whom almost any interaction could turn fatal. Pardon my French, but big fucking deal. If Bundy's ...

There's a lot of work being done there by "can" right? (I'm asking because you're better with the science and have clearly done more research than I h...

Perhaps it had something to do with the rule of law. Imperfectly though the law is applied, I don't recall groups of BLM or Antifa activists being mow...

My phone thought I had said enough there, but I could add: no idea. Using this forum is not an effective way of broadcasting your opinions, though I a...

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Cool. That and the rest of your post makes sense. I'm not here much anymore. Looked in and couldn't quite figure out what axe you were grinding.

Is this what you're on about? Persuasion? (Btw, "flag-waiving" should totally be a thing.) Why? There is a sliver of the population that is well-educa...

In the United States at least, yes we can. The Supreme Court ruled on that issue over a hundred years ago. It is vaguely within the doctrine usually r...

Doubtful.

I'm wondering, does my behavior show what I do not doubt, or what I cannot doubt? Take any of the usual examples you like -- object permanence seems a...

Yes. Nice overview. I want to say that there will be points where the science diverges from common sense, as it will, but also points where the scienc...

In not drawing a sharp distinction there, you join both the pro-life movement and @"schopenhauer1", who are comfortable extending concepts like "right...

Right, that's the sort of thing we want to do. Point being, whatever analysis we find convincing, it's just not the same thing as logical analysis, an...

"Grammar" is a sort of generalization of logic, a bit like the operational logic of early AI and cybernetics research. For instance, in a logical or m...

This Be The Verse BY PHILIP LARKIN They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And a...

I'm familiar with the, let's face it, abstract argument. I know the analogies. But you want to tell typical folks considering having a child that they...

Around the edges, I'm not sure what to say. Cruelty is dead center, certainly. And there is a sort of genuine and committed callousness that's practic...

Maybe I shouldn't have made this sound like such a sharp dichotomy. We can all agree on "Don't be cruel" -- don't deliberately hurt people when you kn...

This is about the parents then, right? When you say, "a violation has occurred", you mean someone has violated this principle. They hurt someone when ...

I'm sorry, the English there seems a little garbled. Do you mean something like, "Don't hurt people if you don't have to" -- where "have to" is a pret...

A violation of what?