Yeah fair point. Maybe I mean meaningful effect, or mechanical effect. Like it doesn't do anything to my post and I can completely ignore it without any ill effects.
I just don't really think there's a need to regulate something that has no effect or impact.
If I get a couple down votes 🤷 someone disagrees, or is an idiot. If I get more than a couple it's a good opportunity to think about how I could be clearer or how I might be out of step with popular opinion.
calling antisemitism “a vile and disgusting form of bigotry that has done unspeakable harm to many millions of people”.
“But, please, do not insult the intelligence of the American people by attempting to distract us from the immoral and illegal war policies of your extremist and racist government. Do not use antisemitism to deflect attention from the criminal indictment you are facing in the Israeli courts. It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable for your actions,”
People with poor risk management skills probably serve some useful purpose because we still have them, but they are not the cause of all human progress.
Specifically:
We’d still be living naked in the savanna if it weren’t for people like this.
Processing skins of kills has nothing to do with risk taking behavior, nor do the host of incremental adjustments that lead from skinning to tailored clothing.
Similarly our expansion into areas beyond the savannah has nothing to do with unnecessary risk taking, it's just the result of favourable conditions that increased the birth rate.
floated off to sea... They settled lands
Permanent human settlements aren't founded by rugged loners washing up on a new shore. It takes at minimum 20 people and new sites are scouted well in advance to make sure they have sufficient resources to support a growing population.
Monsanto spent decades knowingly murdering customers, spent millions hiding their murders, and to this day they won't even accept responsibility for their murder spree - let alone show remorse.
People have suffered the agony of botched executions for far less than that. There are determined committers of genocide with lower body-counts than monsanto executives.
You can be a strong proponent of free speech and support stronger regulation and penalties for legitimately dangerous speech.
I don't see a lot of left wingers coming out against free speech, but I see a lot of right wingers dehumanizing others and directly calling for violence, then trying to pretend that's free speech.
It's physically impossible for a human being to stay awake while watching sport, you can't expect anyone to stay awake while reading a rant about sport.
It’s a disgrace to the Ancient Greek tradition that the Olympics are attempting to continue.
JUST BECAUSE IT WAS DONE BEFORE DOESN’T MEAN IT SHOULD BE DONE NOW.
That's a contradiction. Also, the ancient greeks didn't have the concept of sport were super into dancing - spartans especially - so this whole argument is void.
I'm sorry that something you say you enjoy (the olympics) makes you so angry.
Civilization is one of those great words (like Innovation) where if you're using it, you're definitely using it wrong.
When you say civilization, do you mean: The State, Justified Violence, Official Oppression, Bureaucracy, A Standing Army, Cultures you Agree with, or just Table Manners?
For those who are truly into etiquette, we understand that it is a gift we give to others and hope they will choose to return in kind.
What well-wrought words!
I feel like there's a picture of etiquette where it's always stuffy and exists only to reinforce unjust hierarchies. Etiquette as a gift given freely with hope but no expectation of return is a great alternate model.
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