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
[I] called him a leftist and a [D]emocrat
In 1865, the Democrats were the right-wing party.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
1mo ago
Modest proposal: Automate the ports, but keep paying the longshore-men until they reach retirement age, and then just don't hire any more to replace them.
We'll get the efficiency benefits right away, the financial benefits over the next 47 years, but no-one will find themselves suddenly struggling to put food on their families.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
1mo ago
Linda, 52, six years of experience; Louise, 52, hobby triathlon runner, six years of experience, applies for an admin position. Which do you pick, no other information?
If I can't get more information?
Heads, I hire Linda; tails, I hire Louise.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
1mo ago
I am suspicious of a theory that happens to be embraced mostly by fat acceptance activists.
I am suspicious of any hypothesis which allows people to think their cruellest instincts justifiable.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
1mo ago
A British citizen living in the US is substantially affected by political goings-on in the United States. Should [if RAND < 0.5 print "he" else print "she"] be entitled to vote in US elections?
(This isn't entirely intended as a 'gotcha' question, by the way. I can see the argument that people should vote where they live currently; I reject the notion that there are certain kinds of people who don't deserve any voice anywhere.)
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
1mo ago
Why do you think some people are able to lose weight, then?
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
1mo ago
Why do UK residents need to vote in Montana?
Because they're not British citizens and can not vote in British elections.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
1mo ago
Do you think we're going to get to a world where elected officials say "HBD is true actually and that's why blacks underperform"[?]
I suppose that depends on how much progress we make in genetic engineering.
Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 All human beings are equal, **even when they aren't.**
2mo 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.
A War-of-Southern-Treason-era Unitedstatesian being both a leftist and a Democrat would be as incongruous
anas a current-year Unitedstatesian being both a leftist and a Republican. (Also, Booth was a Know-Nothing, not a Democrat. The Know-Nothings were right-wing on their loudest issue (immigration) but also had some left-wing positions.)More options
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