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So in an age of smartphones and cheap televisions. Why ban any book? How many of the kids go to the library to read? Are these board members trying for the Streisand effect? Or are they that stupid? I think it's a way to appeal to their Nazi voter base. It's a way of showing they support them and t...

One of the sillier objections is that the bad behavior by the Nazi sympathetic characters in the story teaches the students that making threats towards other people is acceptable. This does not seem to indicate that the objections are based on Nazis are not bad. Some of the other objections are less...

I wish Oma wasn't a Caucasian woman. Granted they have to get actors as they can, and they shoot in Vancouver, but it would have been a nice touch. Sela Ward was a fairly well known actress from the early to mid nineties. The Stargate showrunners likely thought it was a coup to have her play a recu...

Or teach the kid to say "My mom and dad are dead, and they're from [different part of planet name]" and nobody would ever know, and thus continue to treat him exactly like everyone else. This is why I say that Franklin wasn't wrong in what he did, he was wrong in not finding out about the consequen...

Parents killing their child in the name of their religion still gets the parents into prison though. Would that even fall into Earthforce's jurisdiction, especially on a station that's basically the UN building in space? I'm sure prosecuting parents murdering their child on foreign soul would be va...

While we aren't post scarcity, we are at a doubt where most of the scarcity is artificial in nature. My need to eat, sleep and invest my literal lifetime to afford even my most basic needs isn't artificial. Your need to invest your literal lifetime to afford anything is very much artificial. There'...

While we aren't post scarcity, we are at a doubt where most of the scarcity is artificial in nature. My need to eat, sleep and invest my literal lifetime to afford even my most basic needs isn't artificial. Your need to invest your literal lifetime to afford anything is very much artificial. There'...

Private property is abolished, private possessions are not. There's a difference between having to share your toothbrush and having to share a mansion you don't even live in. Private ownership is also not a built-in feature of democracy. Private ownership must be a built in feature of a society tha...

Good to see another of Elon's bad ideas failing. Shame it was propped up with so much government money though. As opposed to what, NASA? SpaceX was a private vanity project propped up by government fundings. NASA is a government project our entire society reaps the rewards from. Because an enterpri...

Humanity survived such a genetic bottleneck in the past, with possibly as few as 3000 surviving individuals and we certainly didn't march in lockstep at the time or instituted strict breeding regimes. At that point, we talking about humans who's societal structure is probably more like chimps or go...