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Well, not if you choose to ignore the comparisons. "...psychologists ran a secret experiment in the 1960s and 1970s in which they separated twins and triplets from each other and adopted them out as singlets. The experiment, said to have been partly funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, came to light when three identical triplet brothers accidentally found each other in 1980. They had no idea they had siblings." "Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, the Japanese Imperial Army conducted biological warfare and medical testing on civilians, mostly in China." "In 1939, speech pathologists at the University of Iowa set out to prove their theory that stuttering was a learned behavior caused by a child's anxiety about speaking. Unfortunately, the way they chose to go about this was to try to induce stuttering in orphans by telling them they were doomed to start stuttering in the future." "Between 1946 and 1948, Reverby found, the U.S. and Guatemalan governments co-sponsored a study involving the deliberate infection of Guatemalan prisoners and mental asylum patients with syphilis." "The most famous lapse in medical ethics in the United States lasted for 40 years. In 1932, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Public Health Service launched a study on the health effects of untreated syphilis. Unfortunately for the unwitting participants, this study involved, well, not treating syphilis." "In 1971, Philip Zimbardo, now professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University, set out to test the "nature of human nature," to answer questions such as "What happens when you put good people in evil situations... Turns out, according to a report on Medium, a news publication, in June 2018, the guards didn't become aggressive on their own — Zimbardo encouraged the abusive behavior" https://www.livescience.com/13002-7-absolutely-evil-medical-experiments-tuskegee-syphilis.html In insane asylums you had forced isolations, forced medical procedures including lobotomies, forced imprisonment, and torture. "Mass starvation killed more than three million people in Stalin-era Ukraine in the 1930s and more than 18 million in China during Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early 1960s... Famine is a very specific political product of the way in which societies are run, wars are fought, governments are managed. The single overwhelming element in three-quarters of the famines and three-quarters of the famine deaths—is political agency." https://now.tufts.edu/articles/mass-starvation-political-weapon Who judges the behavior of doctors? Other doctors. Who judged Trump when he was accused of crimes? His politician cohorts. Do I really need to recap a list of atrocities business have inflicted on employees, customers, and the environment? I could come up with hundreds of examples with a simple Google search.

Not all that different from Business, Politics or Medicine. If you just pull out the worst examples you can find "psychological abuse" just about anywhere. What I remember of 12 years of Catholic school was church once a week, religion class, being taught to be respectful, participating in charitable works, lots of family activities, parents involved with their child's education, sports where everyone could participate regardless of ability, a tendency for there to be beer at just about any school event, and hundreds of other fond memories. I don't think I'd classify the actions of my parents and teachers when it came to religion as "psychological abuse". More like "loving care".

This one caught my attention. Can you please expand on this?

This is the JOKES thread so I won't take this more off topic, but if you wish to think critically, you shouldn't assume I am not a millionaire, that I claimed to be a millionaire, or that I am probably a liar. In other words, DON'T ASSUME.

What makes you think I'm not a millionaire?

Which is why religious people who do good science don't let the two realms collide. Whether you believe the universe to be infinitely old, to have begun just prior to the BB, or to have been created, the way you study Hellbender salamanders is unchanged.

I was wondering when the thought police would show up. I'm glad you have no real authority to ban people from doing real science just because you personally don't like a particular thought that is banging around in their head. Standing at a lab bench and trying to determine the role of a kinase in a cell shouldn't be off limits just because you think you are more enlightened than that person is. One of the fundamental principles of science is that a person's work is judged on its merits, not on what you think of the person who did the work.

Why did the chicken cross the basketball court? He heard the referee was blowing fouls.

Elephants have about 150,000 muscles in their trunks. They can pick up a peanut with their trunk, shell it, and then blow out the shell before eating the peanut. In American football there is a staff member called the "get-back coach". His job is to make sure the players on the sideline, and especially the head coach, get back behind the line so they don't get a penalty.

My wife grows okra in the garden, and while not my favorite it does taste good fried and in small doses like in a soup or stew. It is a staple in the Southern US but consumed less elsewhere in the country. One of the interesting things about okra is how it was introduced into the South. When slaves were taken in Africa, mothers would often braid okra seeds into their children's hair as a bit of security for their unknown future.

Welcome Hazard! Hope you enjoy the ride!

As I said, I'm not trying to justify any particular event that took place. My comment was about the overall situation, why it exists, and why people are acting in a way that they might not normally act. You can argue that a particular skirmish during WWII was not conducted by the allies in a moral manner, but that doesn't take away from the fact that the cause was just. If you conduct a nationwide movement that is standing up to corrupt authority then unfortunately bad acts will be committed on all sides. I dislike it as much as you do, but I understand why it is happening and recognize that on occasion innocent people will be harmed. Just because a peacefully protesting woman who showed up with her friends in support of BLM was shot in the face with a rubber bullet does not invalidate the efforts of the police to control the situation. But I agree with you that it doesn't make sense that just because a car was set on fire that these innocent people were attacked by the police.

We have a "contract" with those we choose to regulate us, whether it is government, police, or a youth soccer coach. We choose to give some people guns and the authority to use them, but the 'contract' says that in turn they will use their authority in the manner we expect, which includes fairness. In other words, "If you only use your guns and authority on those who are breaking the law, then the rest of us will abide by the law. If you break that contract by doing things like kneeling on someone's neck until they die, then we will no longer be bound by the terms of the contract that restrict us." In broad terms (and not looking at individual events) the police have broken the contract and now there is hell to pay. Today's events in the US are on a smaller scale but no different than the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, labor unions that violently fought against businesses and a million other events where those in charge oppressed those in their care. Eventually people have enough and fight back. And with my blessing. It is unfortunate that innocent people are harmed in the process but no authoritarian has given up their power because the people asked nicely.

The problem with Drakes' simplistic statement is that it seems to dismiss the complexity of this world and boil everything down to a cute little bumper sticker slogan. The law already recognizes that complexity. For example, two different people may kill another person by striking them in a pub. But if one did so because the fellow was of a different race, and the other did so because that person described how he was going to abuse the guy's children, their punishment will be different. And rightly so. If I steal because I am going through a psychotic episode due to a prescribed drug reaction, I obviously should not be held to the same standard as someone who steals because they are showing off for their friends. Where to draw the line is subjective, but at least our justice system is trying to be, well, just.

How do you know that?

Um, you mean like the police?

yes

I once heard someone say, "any moron can climb Mt. Everest. It is getting back alive that is the hard part." I suspect the same could be said about Mars.

I do. I just don't remember this part...

I don't remember this from the Bible. It sounds more like you are asking us to interpret your interpretation of a metaphor. Where is that going to lead us?

You're right. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt. I just couldn't believe you presented another straw man right after the notes from Phi. Sorry. I should have stayed out of it.

Why do you think that?

And don't forget the TikTok users and the K-pop fans! https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-tiktok-users-k-140409817.html

Candace is creating a straw man. "I am not going to accept the narrative that this (George Floyd) is the best that the black community has to offer." I have seen no one make that claim. Mourning him as a martyr is not the same as claiming he lived a great life. Given her background I am not surprised though. She is a racist's dream. A young, educated black woman who dislikes BLM and likes Hitler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA Here is what Wikipedia has to say about Turning Point USA, widely considered to be a racist organization, for whom Candace worked as their communications director. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA

Unbelievable. Those asshole cops deserve whatever punishment we can throw at them. WARNING: Vey disturbing.