Yeah, kleptocracy, over the years we drastically reduced the progressiveness of taxation because it would supposedly help the economy by motivating the wealthy to be more economically productive (as if that were true), but of course it didn't, and the wealthy's take didn't trickle down -- it just gushed off-shore.
I'm not debating the fact that a culture that promotes things like revenge or the existence of evil ends up with dysfunctional behaviors, what I'm suggesting is that a culture that promotes things like hate and revenge is shooting itself in the foot.
"Again, I am not calling for executing this person because of a deterrence effect. I am calling for this person's execution because of the real proven danger this person presents"
What is the "real proven danger" of someone in solitary confinement or in prison, and what evre that level of "real proven danger" there is no data to support your idea that he is more of of threat than other prison inmates.
You implied that intersex was the result of stuff "going wrong", and as you just alluded the expression "going wrong" is problematic because even though something "goes wrong" it doesn't mean it's approaching or will end in a wrong state.
"But this is beside the point which was that gender is inherently mental (in contradistinction to sex which is matter..."
Right, I didn't read the parenthetical. Thanks. Rephrasing
When you wrote "gender is inherently mental", first, what do you mean by mental, and what do you think is the nature of the relation, if any, between mental and matter (biological matter I assume) ?
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"If the parents are smart, they'd ..."
So you do agree with no-body.
That was definitely off topic, -1
This one too
Austerity empowers the rich to get richer still
Good point
"If you were not so left you wouldn't have had this mass killer."
Yeah, right. The USA is more left than Canada
I'm just focusing on the words "punitive and confiscatory", would you describe as such the taxation levels in 60% :
http://ritholtz.com/2011/04/us...
Why take it all from one group, or speak of one time transfers. It's not a good metric, and society is an ongoing affair.
Yeah, kleptocracy, over the years we drastically reduced the progressiveness of taxation because it would supposedly help the economy by motivating the wealthy to be more economically productive (as if that were true), but of course it didn't, and the wealthy's take didn't trickle down -- it just gushed off-shore.
I'm not debating the fact that a culture that promotes things like revenge or the existence of evil ends up with dysfunctional behaviors, what I'm suggesting is that a culture that promotes things like hate and revenge is shooting itself in the foot.
Yeah, it would be nice if he'd provided one
Of course I accept "we wrongly acquit/pardon/whatever"
But as far as I can tell Breivik won't be up for parole any time soon, if ever
Ha! maybe your right for someone who's rapt sheet looks more like Side Show Bob's
Excellent point.
"It's not only about deterrence"
Right deterrence doesn't work
"it's about appeasing the wronged"
That's part of the problem
"It's also about furthering the idea of a safe society which is essential to having a productive tax-paying society.
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A society that promotes the killing its members (or bogus logic) is a society that doesn't maximize safety or productivity for its tax-paying members
"Again, I am not calling for executing this person because of a deterrence effect. I am calling for this person's execution because of the real proven danger this person presents"
What is the "real proven danger" of someone in solitary confinement or in prison, and what evre that level of "real proven danger" there is no data to support your idea that he is more of of threat than other prison inmates.
robbing off you private front porch and robbing a non-human contraption on public property is quite a different affair
"Or maybe you meant something else again?"
You implied that intersex was the result of stuff "going wrong", and as you just alluded the expression "going wrong" is problematic because even though something "goes wrong" it doesn't mean it's approaching or will end in a wrong state.
"But this is beside the point which was that gender is inherently mental (in contradistinction to sex which is matter..."
Right, I didn't read the parenthetical. Thanks. Rephrasing
When you wrote "gender is inherently mental", first, what do you mean by mental, and what do you think is the nature of the relation, if any, between mental and matter (biological matter I assume) ?
So you mean the law is wrong and the majority agree?
"Yup in complex systems all sorts of things can go wrong"
Intersex, like biological variability in general, doesn't imply that variability is wrong
"gender is inherently mental"
What do you mean by mental, in relation to what?
"They buy a 16GB device because that's what they want to buy"
To quote you, "Bullshit"
What's Behind Apple's Epic Memory Markup :
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
"we will not allow any individual, group, or nation to ... undermine the integrity of fair competition in the operation of the free market"
What *are* they talking about
Yeah, it looks like that's how they'll get into the phone.
or went here
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free...
(possible because its a 5c not a 5s)
Oups, wrong story.
"That is all a guy cares about in a woman. Anyone who says otherwise is lying"
Anyone who says that is stupid.