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It's not a hunch. You already stated people should isolate and get tested regularly. The kids escaping is an obvious example that quarantine centers a...

First off, as expected you didn't answer the question. This is plain wrong. First, there's a probability of being a vector from the moment you've been...

You obviously don't need to commit a crime to be sequestered. We also lock up crazy people when they haven't committed a crime. And in this case, bein...

A hero or a martyr to the right depending on the verdict. Lose-lose I suppose.

If you already have 1.4 billion people to exploit, you don't really have to look beyond your borders I guess.

A forum has rules. Just stick to the rules. Just like a game. You wouldn't allow people to cheat, you ban them from the game.

Expressed views do influence the interpretation of the outward manifestation of someone's state of mind.

Hmmm... Not sure yet how I feel about that but definitely interesting news. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

My analogy was clear, manchild.

wow. So incredibly profound. My alternative to a shitty world is one that isn't. Go back to kindergarten you manchild.

I never said he's psychotic, I said he's a racist and he went out of his way to travel to an area nobody asked him to defend, in the hopes of catching...

Jesus man. The kid is a fucking racist. Just like all the Proud Boys and Boogaloo dicks he's been hanging with before and after.

I'm sure Rittenhouse was very sad about that fact.

I started reading up a bit more and just stopped. Rittenhouse was acquitted from carrying an AR. Noice! Minors are prohibited from possessing firearms...

Acting wantonly requires the defendant to be aware of and consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk. Presumably, he should then have...

States aren't perfect but they sure as hell protect human rights better than any other situation we have seen. You have no argument because you have n...

Oh. I'm sorry. Are the logical consequences of your idiocy too difficult to grasp? Instead of denying it flat out, why don't you paint s picture of ho...

My take, but that's informed by Dutch law, is that he put himself in a position where the likelihood of him shooting someone greatly increased by trav...

Because you're pretending something like that exists when you refuse to accept the fundamental rule governments play in upholding human rights. You ca...

nope. The challenge is to demonstrate there is or was a society without a centralised government that had an excellent human rights record. It doesn't...

bullshit "Noble savage" ideas. Without enforcement and centralised government no society or organisation has managed to protect human rights. Your "me...

Nope, but I like the use.

Your naive human rights theories are disproved by the fact that lawless areas in the world have worse human rights records. As usual you have nothing ...

It's not a view, it's factual. The human rights regime allows for laws to suspend human rights. The necessity for this is obvious. You are now also ar...

I agree the probability isn't very high but at the same time there's no scientific proof available, that I know of, that it couldn't have been enginee...

I don't think I agree. If it is a lab leak and how China dealt with that then I'd like my 45 billion EUR spend on Covid measures back. And we'd probab...

Human rights are not absolute or inherent but granted, in any case, by states and really just exists in wealthy counties that can afford it. Inequalit...

I never denied the possibility of a lab leak, in fact, I've openly changed my mind on the likelihood of that being true in this very thread. But I am ...

Yes, I think that's clear for those examples but the Collatz sequence goes all over the place. The intuition would be that as long as you don't end up...

If there are infinite numbers in the stack and the sequence generates infinite new numbers (so it's not stuck in a loop), I would think it's bound to ...

That's it. I'm not contributing this time.

Why doesn't it make a difference that it's a sequence? So yes, not every single number hits the stack but as long as the sequence continuously generat...

Oh god, that's the video that prompted my question. What did I miss? EDIT: I guess my question is what constitutes mathematical proof. And why does my...

I wasn't aware it was still in doubt such research was done there. So nothing new to me at least. The second part I'll ignore at the useless speculati...

clickbait.

Sorry, on my phone and it autocorrected and I didn't double check. I meant, what did you think of that book?

What suits you think of this?

I think there's an important difference between Regular Joe making an idiotic video and another member of parliament, senate, house or what have you, ...

What I was getting at is that these lawmakers pass laws where this behaviour between colleagues is grounds for termination and considered harassment. ...

Should we add a theme? It being Christmas and all?

And we again have nothing. Carbon offsetting is a tool to allow polluting countries to continue to pollute instead of cutting emissions. What a surpri...

The Republic is a good starting point for philosophy in general. You don't need to read the pre-socratics per se. My philosophy professor swore by Eri...

Not seconded! It's precisely because Plato is more prosaic it stimulates more to think and wonder about it by yourself. What does he mean? What do you...

Jesus, I'm talking to a lawyer who doesn't even understand the doctrine of consideration while being raised in an Anglo-Saxon country. I'm done.

For the umpteenth time. Other jurisdictions don't require consideration for a valid and enforceable contract - yes, that's not a contract under Anglo-...

Wow, you're a terrible lawyer who can't read and apparently doesn't know how it's works in your own jurisdiction. I didn't say there was a unilateral ...

By Anglo-Saxon definitions. If I accept a gift, there was a gift offered and accepted, which results in a valid contract under Dutch law and every oth...

a gift can be refused, so there's offer and acceptance, which makes it a contract. And no, the doctrine of consideration did not exist before 1500.

I guess it's hard for a US citizen to imagine things can and do work differently elsewhere. We have a different definition of contract that doesn't re...

Yes, let's argue with a qualified Dutch lawyer whether Dutch contract require consideration. :lol: We don't, never have and never will. I don't know t...