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We already had mandates that children must receive certain vaccines before they can attend school. The required vaccines are for dangerous childhood diseases. Unless the child is immunocompromised, Covid is a mild, non-deadly disease. The side effects of vaccination may be a greater risk than the d...

Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 30, 2021 2:18 am So do you have any feelings about this, OP?

Just appreciating the oxymoronic situation of being required to take a life protected treatment in order to have yourself killed.

No, you can have too much. People very high in agreeableness suffer greatly from having too much and the world needs unemphatic people who have the callous drive to push to get things done. Life takes all kinds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits That might have been the case...

German euthanasia clinic group will not assist the unvaccinated in suicide. "As European countries battle to limit the spread of the virus, Verein Sterbehilfe – the German Euthanasia Association – has issued a new directive, declaring it will now only help those who have been vaccinated or recovered...

Rittenhouse killed two people who were nonviolent except in their defense against his heinous evil ass. His defense is he, the armed man, was "defending himself" against people who he killed that were unarmed. The one person who did have a gun DIDN'T fire. What would have happened if Rittenhouse ha...

Rittenhouse is a killer I believe the thing is question is weather or not said killing was JUSTIFIED... And the attempt by the US Justice system to question whether or not it was justified is also under questioning in this thread. And that Rittenhouse is a killer and did kill his victims may be nec...

I guess it's a real great thing that SF writers have the power they have influencing public policy. -- Seriously, this is hardly a new idea. There was the same kind of paternalism with Coherent Extrapolated Volition in the AI futurist community about a decade ago. The author of the article was lame...

So the population will not accept the technocrat's orders to save the world. The answer to some SF writers is to literally change how people think. Not by persuasion, but by mucking about with everyone's brains. https://www.tor.com/2021/11/23/sci-fi-vs-science-how-authors-view-the-greatest-scientifi...

I always found a lot of aspects of the premise of this episode to be kinda stupid. What's the goal of the war? What needs to happen for one side to declare victory? If it's just to destroy the enemy, then why would you care if their culture can thrive? It all makes no sense. The Goal: To avoid loss...

The purpose of war? There is no single purpose. There are as many possible purposes as those engaging in warfare can have in mind. This is the actual point that is missing from the deliberations on this situation. The assessment that The goal of a military at war is to break the enemy's ability to ...