Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
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Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
1mo ago
Maybe he was using a SEP field?
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
What if the Gros Michel banana specifically contained some protein that could have cured malaria
Like the Cinchona tree?
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
So you consider it fair for Bob, if he cannot swallow his pride, to be publicly humiliated, without any way of avoiding the situation beforehand, but not right for Alice, if she is incapable of swallowing her pride, to be expected to pursue a different career?
he can grumble about how “this is bullshit”
And, in your view, is it a violation of his rights for him to suffer any consequences for grumbling and complaining while complying?
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
Obviously I am not saying that nobody ever gets pulled over despite not actually being guilty of the suspected offense.
Alice suspects Bob has done something wrong. Bob hasn't. If the onus is placed on Alice, she can avoid it by pursuing a different career. If it is placed on Bob, and Bob is not capable of stifling his indignation, is there some way for Bob to avoid being attacked in your proposed system?
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
"Generally speaking" isn't good enough. In this example, Bob didn't do anything wrong.
Denying that individual human beings matter, rather than the 'general' state of the community, is another path lined with skulls.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
How exactly do you propose that a society of subsistence farmers build WMDs?
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
When Officer Alice interacts with ordinary citizen Bob, Alice could have opted out of the situation by pursuing a different career. Unless there is a similar way for Bob to opt out of the interaction, imposing on Alice a requirement, which not everyone is capable of fulfilling, is fairer than imposing the same requirement on Bob, as the former case allows those who cannot fulfil said requirement to exist in some other societal role, while the latter does not allow them to exist at all.
Admittedly this argument is dependent on the proposition that There Is No Such Thing As A Human Being Who Is Unworthy Of Life; however, societies which reject this axiom tend to feature piles of skulls.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
Why is it the responsibility of the officers to be calm and gentle
Because if they can't, they have the option of pursuing a different career.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
Even assuming that today's inhabitants of the Global South are "dysgenic", how certain are we that, a hundred years hence, their descendants will be?
If the poor outcomes among certain ethnic groups are caused by genetic factors, we will soon be able to identify, repair, and possibly improve them beyond what has appeared naturally.
Concerns about "dysgenics" could be regarded by the people of the 26th century as we now look at the predictions of Malthus, or the horse-manure crisis!
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
...what worked for the past 5,000 years.
Worked for whom?
I think a lot of women would dispute that it worked for them!
(But the soul is still oracular; amid the market’s din
List the ominous stern whisper, from the Delphic cave within
They enslave their children’s children who make compromise with sin.)
(“It’s not a ‘compromise with sin’, per se, just denying the humanity of half the world.”)
(…)
(“Okay, fine, whatever, maybe it’s kind of a compromise with sin.”)
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
it is their ... opinion that your needs don't matter
It is my opinion that if you ever find yourself telling someone this, you should take a long look in the mirror (assuming that you show up in one).
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
· Edited 2mo ago
I can't imagine tolerating this
I have revised downward my priors for your having had children.
Edit: Missed the part where you mention "My oldest". I have now revised substantially upward.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
if you're looking at it from a "pure safety perspective" you ... should probably just stay home.
I thought an alarmingly large percentage of accidents happen in or near the home....
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
G. K. Chesterton made a similar point a century ago.
If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
Until they figure out how to clone organs, and transgender individuals start getting new reproductive systems installed....
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
I believe this is known as the Violinist Argument.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
Trying to force changes in consumer behavior that don't adequately meet the demands of the consumer doesn't usually work well.
even if they could use the exercise, you can’t expect people to walk 15 blocks just to go out to eat.
This is an example of Squareallworthy's Law of Societal Change.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo ago
train every citizen into a reserve officer.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
I wonder if film will make a comeback. ("I'll believe it when I see the negatives.")
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
Eliminate the minimum wage...eliminate welfare....
I'm going to invoke Chesterton's fence on this one (although there are some possibilities for different fences).
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
told stories of Mohammedans trying to vote for their wives.
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a loooong time.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
3mo ago
I suppose that depends on how much progress we make in genetic engineering.
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