Let's say I had a samurai sword, and I was swinging it wildly in public. If someone with no arms slowly walks into my blind spot and I injure them, am I more or less responsible than the other person? Note especially that this person can't harm me, while I can kill them without thinking.
Replace sword with car, and the armless walker with bicycle, and the moral argument is the exact same. It's the ethos of Spiderman: with greater power comes greater responsibility.
One thing is for certain: you gotta pay when somebody else was responsible. That's just how your betters and masters like it.
Hey, did you know that a threat to injustice anywhere is a threat to injustice everywhere?
Well, sort of... IBM ran into trouble competing against itself. When you're a monopoly in a consumer durable, your competition is... your previous products.
The crap that gets modded insightful around here... I'm not saying you're an idiot.... but, OK, I am saying it. You are an idiot.
Here's a reading comprehension test:
Africa's climate is different from Asia's climate is different from Europe's climate. They all have differing amounts of sunlight and rainfall and vegetation and animals, which lead, over time, to different evolutionary adaptations to maximize the organism's efficiency of living in THAT particular place.
Africans with dark skin (IN GENERAL) need more sunlight to manufacture Vitamin D than northern Europeans with light skin because... they usually got more based on where they live. That isn't why they have dark skin, but it is a consequence of having it. http://www.psoriasiscafe.org/vitamin-d.htm
Sickle cell anemia (also very prevalent in Africans) is an evolutionary adaptation to minimize the risks for the populace associated with malaria. http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/malaria_sickle.html
There are probably very similar changes that have happened in Northern Europeans and Asians in general to adapt to their particular environments, but I am unaware of them. I would be interested in knowing them, so please respond.
I know this is bitchy, but Jesus. You do NOT understand evolution.
Evolution happens. It happens on such a massive timescale that we cannot actually observe evolution in humans itself, but we can observe it in other species and infer from them what has happened to us. Even very minor differences over hundreds of thousands of years can result in observable changes in minor things like skin and hair colour.
I do not want to be construed as racist. I am definitely not. It is true that in general, individual humans have far more similarities than differences, but populaces separated by geography CAN have vast biological differences that affect them, and those differences that we see are just indicators of the ones we cannot.
It doesn't mean a thing at all in your day to day life, but it is real, and it is not magic.
Except... they do.
I think most cars in the US have the governor set at 140 km/h, well above the legal limit, but it is done. Not to poke holes in your analogy, it's a good one, but it conflicts with reality, badly.
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Let's do a thought experiment!
Let's say I had a samurai sword, and I was swinging it wildly in public. If someone with no arms slowly walks into my blind spot and I injure them, am I more or less responsible than the other person? Note especially that this person can't harm me, while I can kill them without thinking.
Replace sword with car, and the armless walker with bicycle, and the moral argument is the exact same. It's the ethos of Spiderman: with greater power comes greater responsibility.
One thing is for certain: you gotta pay when somebody else was responsible. That's just how your betters and masters like it. Hey, did you know that a threat to injustice anywhere is a threat to injustice everywhere?
Hey, buddy, in general I agree with you. It's mostly a cash grab spun really well. But. The water thing is real. We are messing with the fresh water cycle in a way that has, historically, ended civilizations. Overview: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2000/world_water_crisis/default.stm Most shocking to me are the Aral Sea and Mexico City. Aral Sea because it already happened, and Mexico City because if it destabilizes, well, North America gets a hell of a lot more interesting. Aral Sea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea Mexico City http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125270169029204249.html
They haven't even done anything yet you douche.
Well, sort of... IBM ran into trouble competing against itself. When you're a monopoly in a consumer durable, your competition is... your previous products.
The crap that gets modded insightful around here... I'm not saying you're an idiot.... but, OK, I am saying it. You are an idiot.
Here's a reading comprehension test:
Africa's climate is different from Asia's climate is different from Europe's climate. They all have differing amounts of sunlight and rainfall and vegetation and animals, which lead, over time, to different evolutionary adaptations to maximize the organism's efficiency of living in THAT particular place.
Africans with dark skin (IN GENERAL) need more sunlight to manufacture Vitamin D than northern Europeans with light skin because... they usually got more based on where they live. That isn't why they have dark skin, but it is a consequence of having it.
http://www.psoriasiscafe.org/vitamin-d.htm
Sickle cell anemia (also very prevalent in Africans) is an evolutionary adaptation to minimize the risks for the populace associated with malaria.
http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/malaria_sickle.html
There are probably very similar changes that have happened in Northern Europeans and Asians in general to adapt to their particular environments, but I am unaware of them. I would be interested in knowing them, so please respond.
I know this is bitchy, but Jesus. You do NOT understand evolution.
Evolution happens. It happens on such a massive timescale that we cannot actually observe evolution in humans itself, but we can observe it in other species and infer from them what has happened to us. Even very minor differences over hundreds of thousands of years can result in observable changes in minor things like skin and hair colour.
I do not want to be construed as racist. I am definitely not. It is true that in general, individual humans have far more similarities than differences, but populaces separated by geography CAN have vast biological differences that affect them, and those differences that we see are just indicators of the ones we cannot.
It doesn't mean a thing at all in your day to day life, but it is real, and it is not magic.
Except... they do. I think most cars in the US have the governor set at 140 km/h, well above the legal limit, but it is done. Not to poke holes in your analogy, it's a good one, but it conflicts with reality, badly. W