In case you hadn't noticed, Christianity is dying and yet conservatives remain. Also, Social Darwinism and Christianity are incompatible.
Among religious conservatives, it is religion with all its inherent flaws that has weakened the conservative argument. As religion fails, the conservative argument becomes stronger.
Liberals look at all human accomplishments with disdain and disgust. Each liberal knows that his own mind is depraved, and assumes that since his is everyone else's is also, and then just calls people he doesn't like depraved.
In many cases, European settlers bought land from the natives. In my hometown of Stamford, Connecticut, the land was purchased three times from the Shippan Indians -- the 2nd and 3rd times, the natives conveniently "forgot" they had already sold it.
Consider Manhattan Island, a case of Indian duplicity. The Indians who sold the island weren't the actual residents/owners, that was another tribe.
Many Indian tribes were nomadic. How can you steal the land of someone with "no fixed abode?" By the way, one reason some tribes were nomadic is that they had no proper sanitation systems. If they stayed in one place too long the water became polluted with human waste and deadly to drink.
Many areas were actually unpopulated. The Indian civilization (such as it was) reached a population peak about 3000 BC, and had been in decline for 4500 years when Columbus arrived. (This is best estimate based on scanty evidence.) Filling an empty land is not theft.
There were many cases hideous behavior by the arriving Europeans, and many by the natives.
Dodd-Frank should be repealed because of the problems it causes. There's an extremely heavy paperwork burden and unjust risk of criminal penalties. The result is that the burdens of the law hit small banks the hardest, which encourages consolidation into ever-larger "too big to fail" banks. The big banks get political power and tend to abuse small customers.
One problem a rapidly-growing company has is hiring large numbers of people without being able to adequately weed out incompetents, problem-makers, and assholes. It seems here that both the HR person and the ex-employee should never have been hired.
Consider yourself in the position of the ex-employee. If you're told your clothing is unsuitable to the workplace, do you wear different clothes or continue wearing objectionable clothing? If you have an ugly scar on your wrist do you wear a long-sleeved shirt to hide it or do you push it in people's faces? Undoubtedly this guy was complaining all the time, making other people unhappy with their jobs. Would you do that? If you're fired for cause, is your first consideration finding a new job or finding a lawyer and a publicist?
Brilliant! Google would benefit by being able to make better use of their data, people in general would benefit, and the rent-seekers in the video industry would be defeated. I don't think authors of fiction are getting much income 15 years after release anyway, so it's not as if any but a few authors of "modern classics" assigned in school will be worse off.
Social Security is a vote-buying scheme. That is never admitted, so S.S. is obviously deliberately fraudulent.
The long term inherent and unavoidable insolvency of S.S. was not a concern of its creators, who new that they'd be long gone when the bill came due. This is fully in the spirit of the evil John Maynard Keynes: "In the long run we are all dead”
For example, a parent who raises a child well to be a productive member of society has made a valuable contribution to society in the process, yet we don't pay them for their contribution. Although the United States provides a tax deduction for dependents (not sure what other countries do), this does not measure the effort and skill to raise the child well.
The view of human life that underpins your comment is staggeringly corrupt.
People do not bear and raise children for the purpose of benefiting society, although there are plenty of vile politicians who think that the purpose of people is to benefit their country (i.e. to benefit those politicians.) People who deliberately have children do it because they think it will make their own lives better. People who raise their children well gain pride from helping their children to live properly and well.
Downtown L.A. has the tallest buildings in the area, and it's one of the slummiest places. Walking the streets at night is scary. You couldn't pay me enough to live there.
A higher concentration of people inescapably means a higher concentration of criminals.
From wikipedia, Mensa is an international organization open to people in the top 2% of intelligence, with a membership of 134,000. 2% of 7.6 billion is 152 million, so fewer than 1 person in 1000 eligible actually joins. There are many countries where Mensa is practically unknown, so maybe that's not a very informative number.
For the U.S., 2% of 350 million is 7 million, of which 57 thousand, or fewer than 1%, are members.
The effective number is a bit higher, since it's not realistic to count pre-teens.
FWIW, in the U.S. Mensa is 2/3 male. (This blunts the hypothesis that Mensa is a dating service for smart guys.)
There is a cost, it takes energy to run a big brain.
Obviously, creatures less intelligent than humans survive, and not particularly intelligent humans survive. It's reasonable to think that intelligence is an evolutionary advantage, but that the evolutionary advantage of high intelligence isn't strong enough to push evolution more rapidly. Also, the evolutionary mechanism (selection by the survival of better random changes) is not a particularly efficient or rapid mechanism.
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That this a plain and simple lie.
How would a nuclear power plant have "benefits of ongoing major advances in computing" that would involve a computer controlling the power plant?
Hand waving and ignorance is no replacement for solid engineering.
Steve Martin.
There are even more examples of technology that has proven ineffective or downright bogus. Dean drive, for example.
Your argument would be a little more persuasive if you expressed it using correct English grammar.
In case you hadn't noticed, Christianity is dying and yet conservatives remain. Also, Social Darwinism and Christianity are incompatible.
Among religious conservatives, it is religion with all its inherent flaws that has weakened the conservative argument. As religion fails, the conservative argument becomes stronger.
Liberals look at all human accomplishments with disdain and disgust. Each liberal knows that his own mind is depraved, and assumes that since his is everyone else's is also, and then just calls people he doesn't like depraved.
In many cases, European settlers bought land from the natives. In my hometown of Stamford, Connecticut, the land was purchased three times from the Shippan Indians -- the 2nd and 3rd times, the natives conveniently "forgot" they had already sold it.
Consider Manhattan Island, a case of Indian duplicity. The Indians who sold the island weren't the actual residents/owners, that was another tribe.
Many Indian tribes were nomadic. How can you steal the land of someone with "no fixed abode?" By the way, one reason some tribes were nomadic is that they had no proper sanitation systems. If they stayed in one place too long the water became polluted with human waste and deadly to drink.
Many areas were actually unpopulated. The Indian civilization (such as it was) reached a population peak about 3000 BC, and had been in decline for 4500 years when Columbus arrived. (This is best estimate based on scanty evidence.) Filling an empty land is not theft.
There were many cases hideous behavior by the arriving Europeans, and many by the natives.
Dodd-Frank should be repealed because of the problems it causes. There's an extremely heavy paperwork burden and unjust risk of criminal penalties. The result is that the burdens of the law hit small banks the hardest, which encourages consolidation into ever-larger "too big to fail" banks. The big banks get political power and tend to abuse small customers.
At least 877 billion; my estimate is closer to 1 trillion, but I've had trouble finding good data.
In a manner of speaking, yes. HR is a part of Industrial Relations. http://colleges.startclass.com/d/o/Labor-and-Industrial-Relations
A family? Read the summary.
One problem a rapidly-growing company has is hiring large numbers of people without being able to adequately weed out incompetents, problem-makers, and assholes. It seems here that both the HR person and the ex-employee should never have been hired.
Consider yourself in the position of the ex-employee. If you're told your clothing is unsuitable to the workplace, do you wear different clothes or continue wearing objectionable clothing? If you have an ugly scar on your wrist do you wear a long-sleeved shirt to hide it or do you push it in people's faces? Undoubtedly this guy was complaining all the time, making other people unhappy with their jobs. Would you do that? If you're fired for cause, is your first consideration finding a new job or finding a lawyer and a publicist?
A curse on both their houses.
Brilliant! Google would benefit by being able to make better use of their data, people in general would benefit, and the rent-seekers in the video industry would be defeated. I don't think authors of fiction are getting much income 15 years after release anyway, so it's not as if any but a few authors of "modern classics" assigned in school will be worse off.
I am a three percenter.
Che Guevara. Al Capone. Josef Stalin. Josef Mengele.
Edwin Howard Armstrong. Alexander Fleming. Luther Burbank. Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Nope. No relation whatsoever.
Surfing. Problems all around and that dude wants to catch a wave.
Robosexuals?
I'm not happy about a future with robot pride parades and pressure groups demanding research into Robot Intellideficiency Virus.
Social Security is a vote-buying scheme. That is never admitted, so S.S. is obviously deliberately fraudulent.
The long term inherent and unavoidable insolvency of S.S. was not a concern of its creators, who new that they'd be long gone when the bill came due. This is fully in the spirit of the evil John Maynard Keynes: "In the long run we are all dead”
The view of human life that underpins your comment is staggeringly corrupt.
People do not bear and raise children for the purpose of benefiting society, although there are plenty of vile politicians who think that the purpose of people is to benefit their country (i.e. to benefit those politicians.) People who deliberately have children do it because they think it will make their own lives better. People who raise their children well gain pride from helping their children to live properly and well.
Downtown L.A. has the tallest buildings in the area, and it's one of the slummiest places. Walking the streets at night is scary. You couldn't pay me enough to live there.
A higher concentration of people inescapably means a higher concentration of criminals.
What would a similar study of Muslims find?
You can't trust Marx, he was trying to read inside a dog.
From wikipedia, Mensa is an international organization open to people in the top 2% of intelligence, with a membership of 134,000. 2% of 7.6 billion is 152 million, so fewer than 1 person in 1000 eligible actually joins. There are many countries where Mensa is practically unknown, so maybe that's not a very informative number.
For the U.S., 2% of 350 million is 7 million, of which 57 thousand, or fewer than 1%, are members.
The effective number is a bit higher, since it's not realistic to count pre-teens.
FWIW, in the U.S. Mensa is 2/3 male. (This blunts the hypothesis that Mensa is a dating service for smart guys.)
There is a cost, it takes energy to run a big brain.
Obviously, creatures less intelligent than humans survive, and not particularly intelligent humans survive. It's reasonable to think that intelligence is an evolutionary advantage, but that the evolutionary advantage of high intelligence isn't strong enough to push evolution more rapidly. Also, the evolutionary mechanism (selection by the survival of better random changes) is not a particularly efficient or rapid mechanism.
Here's the group for you: the A.A.M. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LBasxQ9Nyc