I've always felt it unethical to use the products of a company that makes money from advertising https://www.youtube.com/watch?... but this finding has really woken me up - this kind of behavior is why I started to boycott Microsoft decades ago
Replacing GMail is gonna be a hassle and take a long time because I'm not using an independent domain. Weaning myself off YouTube is gonna super difficult.
> Disease, starvation or war. Overpopulation will sort itself out one way or another.
Indeed, but human overpopulation is causing the anthropocene mass extinction event, so we're currently taking out most complex species along with us.
Bioweapons are not the solution to the biosphere destroying problem of human overpopulation, because people will just go quiverfull to not let them there scientists tell them what to do.
The only solution to human overpopulation I can see is if something like the anthropogenic climate change induced collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet suddenly kills several billion people, which might make people realize that human overpopulation caused problems like anthropogenic climate change, the anthropocene mass extinction event, habitat degradation and destruction, factory farms, industrial fishing, etc. is a real problem, and that massively reducing our unsustainable overpopulation is the only thing that can fix it (except possibly for super general AI, which is more likely to be an existential risk rather than a solution).
Don't worry, it's okay to enslave, break, torture, and slaughter creatures capable of feeling pain and suffering - as long as they're not from the same species as you.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com...
The Ds who seem to think it would've been better for the Greens to have voted for Gore rather than Nader, probably saw Nader slightly to the left of Gore, and both of thoe miles from Bush; while the people who voted for Nader saw it very differently: http://www.politicalcompass.org/images/USelection2004.gif (that's 2004, not 2000, but the positions are close).
Nader voters realized that Gore was slightly closer to what they wanted than Bush, but that slight difference didn't matter considering how far away these voters were from the two plutocratic sociopaths.
Given the choice between unpopular Gandhi, and the much more popular candidates Stalin and Hitler; Greens would vote for Gandhi. It's an ethical thing: it's better to do the right thing by voting for what you consider good and then be defeated, than it is to vote for the slightly lesser evil and help that evil win.
8) Stop voting for the members of corporatocratic parties (for this and many other good reasons), voting instead for people who will reduce the $749 trillion military budget, and spending it instead on preventing ill people from being bankrupted by medical bills. You know, like in other developed countries.
Vegetables and fruit can't feel pain. Some people think causing unnecessary pain and suffering is unethical, and should be avoided. Some Jains take it further and feel it's wrong to kill anything, including insects and root vegetables.
In a PSA Paul McCartney said that "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian." The idea was that if someone actually saw the way animals are enslaved, tortured, and slaughtered by the billions (birds and mammals) and trillions (sea food) every year, that they'd become vegetarians or vegans. This turns out not to be true: some people manage to somehow forget when told the truth about where their food comes from and what unfathomable harm is done to get it cheap. Some people simply don't care - enslavement, torture, and slaughter just doesn't bother them if it's not done directly to them - they don't even care about what world they're leaving their overpopulating offspring.
Think about the Holocene extinction event and anthropogenic climate change - they make the Tohoku and 2004 tsunamis, Haiti earthquake, and wars look like small potatoes.
the real reason why it's sinful to the Church is that it denies the life-giving aspect of sexuality entirely
Is it also sinful for postmenopausal women or sterile people to have sex? Or people who realize that human overpopulation is the root cause of almost every catastrophe facing the biosphere?
From the largest perspective, for better or worse, a military is a necessary function for a country to survive. Show me a single country with a history longer than 1 year that survived without any form of military service at all...it just doesn't happen.
"Standing armies [are] inconsistent with [a people's] freedom and subversive of their quiet." --Thomas Jefferson: Reply to Lord North's Proposition, 1775. Papers 1:231
Humans in large groups are violent, greedy, and persnickety about others taking the things they own...meaning other groups of violent, greedy, and persnickety humans.
One solution could be to not join such large groups unless temporarily such large groups are required to do something good, e.g. work together to build a barn or dam. I've lived in a commune where nobody was violent or greedy, and while many people are violent and greedy, that doesn't mean that armies (which are almost exclusively used to start violence, and further greed) are wanted or needed by everyone.
I suppose there are "good" wars and "bad" wars as the AC's post seems to claim, but it doesn't mean that the guys doing the fighting, killing, and dying are at fault or are evil in some way.
There are many people who think that causing pain to creatures that can feel pain is unethical, and successfully refrain from it. We think that killing is almost always wrong (self defense has almost nothing to do with modern wars), and that volunteering to be trained to become a paid killer is even worse - in modern warfare about 90% of the people killed are innocent civilians.
We (humans, that is) dehumanize the enemy; everyone does.
See Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect for examples of how not everyone is unethical and not everyone dehumanizes others.
The old quote "My country. May she ever be right, but right or wrong, my country!" (Stephen Decatur) doesn't just apply to the US...every citizen of every nation should take up that attitude...and try to fix the things that are wrong.
"Citizenship? We have none! In place of it we teach patriotism which Samuel Johnson said a hundred and forty or a hundred and fifty years ago was the last refuge of the scoundrel -- and I believe that he was right. I remember when I was a boy and I heard repeated time and time again the phrase, 'My country, right or wrong, my country!' How absolutely absurd is such an idea. How absolutely absurd to teach this idea to the youth of the country." -- Mark Twain True Citizenship at the Children's Theater, 1907
I got 32 out of 33 correctly -- 96.97 % (got #11 wrong) and I live in a third world country (South Africa) and I've never even been to the USA. What officials did they give the quiz to: primary school hall monitors (prefects)?
No, it just means its not notable enough to have reliable, published, third party sources which is required for it to have an article in a tertiary source like an encyclopedia.
Since when did governments have ethics? Maybe when some governments started spending money on including ethics as a subject in schools, and those school kids became old enough to vote?
Anyone remember CDDB? There are other examples. I've seen some recent positive press for Wikipedia in the recent announcement that the code will be GPL.... it's another step in the right direction.
CDDB's software was GPL, but the volunteer donated content was not free.
Wikipedia's volunteer contributed text has always been GFDL.[1] What's happening now is that the FSF is making the new GFDL compatible with the new Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license so that Wikipedia's content under the new FSF GFDL can play nice with CCSA 3.5.[2]
If there really are Wikipedia administrators using their black helicopters to shoot non vandal editors (possible, tho I haven't seen the cites), and the millions of good people editing aren't stopping the bad administrators; the GFDL license allows anyone to fork Wikipedia content and then prevent the evil administrators from joining that project.
What stops the US from having viable third parties is our election method (plurality voting).
The British House of Commons also uses first past the post.[1].
In 2005 in Britain, Labour won 356 seats and the Conservatives 198. The Liberal democrats, a "3rd" party, won 62. Nine other parties won seats.[2]
While first past the post is indeed a horrible system, the problem in the USA is more that the psychotic voters keep voting for the the Republicans and Democrats.
Right... taking various quotes completely out of context and then interpreting them incorrectly for a comic makes that 100% believable!
Am I also misinterpreting Mark 10:21's "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." to mean Jesus was a communist?
Am I also misinterpreting Luke 6:27-28's "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you." to mean Jesus was a pacifist?
Where is the context making these commands actually mean one should be a capitalist war-monger?
My referral link (I'll get a free month with every time to sign up). You don't need to buy premium membership to play, that only gives you unlimited number of games instead of the normal 4 limit.
A player can take 24 hours to play, so it's great in that you only have to check in once a day. There are however 5 minutes a player speed games.
There are 57 maps (space and France are my favorites), there are single, doubles and triple team games, terminator games where you get points for every ellimination, and assassin games where every player has a secret target. You can play freestyle or sequentially. You can play with no cards, escalating cards, or a flat rate. Fortifications can be chained (1 go), adjacent (1 go), or unlimited. There's a new fog of war option that allows to you hide reserves.
The problem with "Do unto others as you would have them do to you" is that that says sadomasochists should inflict physical or psychological harm on others because the sadomasochists want that done unto them. It also says people who want to be converted into believing in a zombie and an invisible friend who created a place called hell; should try to convert others who do not want to converted.
I think a much better personal philosophy is "Don't do things you wouldn't want to have done to you".
Slashdot Mirror
https://restoreprivacy.com/goo...
I've always felt it unethical to use the products of a company that makes money from advertising https://www.youtube.com/watch?... but this finding has really woken me up - this kind of behavior is why I started to boycott Microsoft decades ago
Replacing GMail is gonna be a hassle and take a long time because I'm not using an independent domain. Weaning myself off YouTube is gonna super difficult.
> Disease, starvation or war. Overpopulation will sort itself out one way or another.
Indeed, but human overpopulation is causing the anthropocene mass extinction event, so we're currently taking out most complex species along with us.
Bioweapons are not the solution to the biosphere destroying problem of human overpopulation, because people will just go quiverfull to not let them there scientists tell them what to do.
The only solution to human overpopulation I can see is if something like the anthropogenic climate change induced collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet suddenly kills several billion people, which might make people realize that human overpopulation caused problems like anthropogenic climate change, the anthropocene mass extinction event, habitat degradation and destruction, factory farms, industrial fishing, etc. is a real problem, and that massively reducing our unsustainable overpopulation is the only thing that can fix it (except possibly for super general AI, which is more likely to be an existential risk rather than a solution).
Don't worry, it's okay to enslave, break, torture, and slaughter creatures capable of feeling pain and suffering - as long as they're not from the same species as you. http://topdocumentaryfilms.com...
The Ds who seem to think it would've been better for the Greens to have voted for Gore rather than Nader, probably saw Nader slightly to the left of Gore, and both of thoe miles from Bush; while the people who voted for Nader saw it very differently: http://www.politicalcompass.org/images/USelection2004.gif (that's 2004, not 2000, but the positions are close).
Nader voters realized that Gore was slightly closer to what they wanted than Bush, but that slight difference didn't matter considering how far away these voters were from the two plutocratic sociopaths.
Given the choice between unpopular Gandhi, and the much more popular candidates Stalin and Hitler; Greens would vote for Gandhi. It's an ethical thing: it's better to do the right thing by voting for what you consider good and then be defeated, than it is to vote for the slightly lesser evil and help that evil win.
Three more words: Anthropogenic climate change.
Bazinga.
8) Stop voting for the members of corporatocratic parties (for this and many other good reasons), voting instead for people who will reduce the $749 trillion military budget, and spending it instead on preventing ill people from being bankrupted by medical bills. You know, like in other developed countries.
Vegetables and fruit can't feel pain. Some people think causing unnecessary pain and suffering is unethical, and should be avoided. Some Jains take it further and feel it's wrong to kill anything, including insects and root vegetables.
In a PSA Paul McCartney said that "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian." The idea was that if someone actually saw the way animals are enslaved, tortured, and slaughtered by the billions (birds and mammals) and trillions (sea food) every year, that they'd become vegetarians or vegans. This turns out not to be true: some people manage to somehow forget when told the truth about where their food comes from and what unfathomable harm is done to get it cheap. Some people simply don't care - enslavement, torture, and slaughter just doesn't bother them if it's not done directly to them - they don't even care about what world they're leaving their overpopulating offspring.
Think about the Holocene extinction event and anthropogenic climate change - they make the Tohoku and 2004 tsunamis, Haiti earthquake, and wars look like small potatoes.
the real reason why it's sinful to the Church is that it denies the life-giving aspect of sexuality entirely
Is it also sinful for postmenopausal women or sterile people to have sex? Or people who realize that human overpopulation is the root cause of almost every catastrophe facing the biosphere?
The Costa Rican standing army was abolished in 1948. See elespiritudel48 (translation) and US department of state articles.
See also List of countries without armed forces.
"Standing armies [are] inconsistent with [a people's] freedom and subversive of their quiet." --Thomas Jefferson: Reply to Lord North's Proposition, 1775. Papers 1:231
"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service." -- Albert Einstein
One solution could be to not join such large groups unless temporarily such large groups are required to do something good, e.g. work together to build a barn or dam. I've lived in a commune where nobody was violent or greedy, and while many people are violent and greedy, that doesn't mean that armies (which are almost exclusively used to start violence, and further greed) are wanted or needed by everyone.
There are many people who think that causing pain to creatures that can feel pain is unethical, and successfully refrain from it. We think that killing is almost always wrong (self defense has almost nothing to do with modern wars), and that volunteering to be trained to become a paid killer is even worse - in modern warfare about 90% of the people killed are innocent civilians.
See Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect for examples of how not everyone is unethical and not everyone dehumanizes others.
"Citizenship? We have none! In place of it we teach patriotism which Samuel Johnson said a hundred and forty or a hundred and fifty years ago was the last refuge of the scoundrel -- and I believe that he was right. I remember when I was a boy and I heard repeated time and time again the phrase, 'My country, right or wrong, my country!' How absolutely absurd is such an idea. How absolutely absurd to teach this idea to the youth of the country." -- Mark Twain True Citizenship at the Children's Theater, 1907
I got 32 out of 33 correctly -- 96.97 % (got #11 wrong) and I live in a third world country (South Africa) and I've never even been to the USA. What officials did they give the quiz to: primary school hall monitors (prefects)?
No, it just means its not notable enough to have reliable, published, third party sources which is required for it to have an article in a tertiary source like an encyclopedia.
Helicopter simulation.
Was the bread at least real?
Compare the core principles of Green parties worldwide to modern applied ethics.
Wikipedia's volunteer contributed text has always been GFDL.[1] What's happening now is that the FSF is making the new GFDL compatible with the new Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license so that Wikipedia's content under the new FSF GFDL can play nice with CCSA 3.5.[2]
If there really are Wikipedia administrators using their black helicopters to shoot non vandal editors (possible, tho I haven't seen the cites), and the millions of good people editing aren't stopping the bad administrators; the GFDL license allows anyone to fork Wikipedia content and then prevent the evil administrators from joining that project.
I deleted my friends and groups, joined a boycott unethical companies group, and changed my face photo to a Boycott unethical companies = boycott Microsoft = boycott Facebook. image. Feel free to use that image.
In 2005 in Britain, Labour won 356 seats and the Conservatives 198. The Liberal democrats, a "3rd" party, won 62. Nine other parties won seats.[2]
While first past the post is indeed a horrible system, the problem in the USA is more that the psychotic voters keep voting for the the Republicans and Democrats.
Am I also misinterpreting Mark 10:21's "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." to mean Jesus was a communist?
Am I also misinterpreting Luke 6:27-28's "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you." to mean Jesus was a pacifist?
Where is the context making these commands actually mean one should be a capitalist war-monger?
MAD magazine's Bush vs. Jesus ad.
My referral link (I'll get a free month with every time to sign up). You don't need to buy premium membership to play, that only gives you unlimited number of games instead of the normal 4 limit.
A player can take 24 hours to play, so it's great in that you only have to check in once a day. There are however 5 minutes a player speed games.
There are 57 maps (space and France are my favorites), there are single, doubles and triple team games, terminator games where you get points for every ellimination, and assassin games where every player has a secret target. You can play freestyle or sequentially. You can play with no cards, escalating cards, or a flat rate. Fortifications can be chained (1 go), adjacent (1 go), or unlimited. There's a new fog of war option that allows to you hide reserves.
I think a much better personal philosophy is "Don't do things you wouldn't want to have done to you".
Here's a link to that article via Google for Libertarians who don't want to register. Greens can click the "Print" link for the ads free version.
Well, that's better than vandalizing the Good Will Hunting wikiquote page.