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There is a 3rd option: Involuntary dismissal from the community

Pretty much everything you just said is wrong

Please elaborate

Why?

I presume you mean the observable universe, which is 93 Billion light years in diameter, as the spatial size of the entire universe is unknown

Which one?

I sincerely hope the validity of this view persists even in the face of the attrition that’s coming soon with winter, driven mostly through critical resources like energy and food, both of which Russia can clamp down upon rather fiercely if they feel backed into a corner.

Thank you for sharing. Now, will you please address the request for supporting evidence for the claim you DID make and not continue evading by asking me for evidence of claims I did NOT make?

It may be hidden amidst all the self righteousness and moral outrage so maybe I just missed it, but I see nothing there which addresses the point I made. Yes, and I notice you have still failed to provide a citation for that despite a direct request to please do so.

What are the main bullet points in your outline?

He’s using a very loose definition of racism in an attempt to conflate an infants ability to distinguish colors and patterns to be the same as “racist”

This realization of Huxleys world seems seems neither new nor brave.

Nobody (worth our time or attention) argues that a person with increased melanin content in their skin cannot be racist. That’s a man made of straw from the outset.

And those “experts” are either ignorant, lying, or both. Money and willful ignorance.

Yes. Wondered if you’d expand and elaborate a bit. Maybe offer more color and texture for that aforementioned “should” part. I’m seeking illumination and asking you for a light.

No better than a broken bot, then. Sad state that

Right, but what does that look like in practice? This issue is embedded in culture itself. It’s not going away any time soon. Encourage you to set this quixotic quest for universal unwavering equity somewhere in a parking lot for now and resist aiming your arrow at good ideas for failing to be perfect. Perfection is not the goal. Kaizen is. Using what mechanism?

Good question, probably worthy of exploration in another thread, but seems OT here. This is closer to what I’m hoping to explore here in THIS thread. Do you have an opinion on how the weights do/should adjust? How might we minimize this and related cronyism were we attempting to create/describe the functioning of a more ideal democracy?

Intriguing

Prescient Some people know them as Amazon (kidding, not kidding) A bit like ensuring every ion is accounted for when determining the overall positive or negative charge of a system. If only Maxwell had written about proper governance of great hordes. The need here IMO centers around user authentication. What is the confidence interval we have that this one vote is coming from the this one person and is not being spoofed by a 3rd party. I’m envisioning the scales of justice. Invariably the scales will tip one way or the other as items get added and removed from each side… the weights will adjust and the height will change. I posit there will always be displacement of resources in any system of governance. The objective on which we must recurrently return our collective focus IMO is balance. Maybe democracy is the framework by which we’re most likely to achieve balanced outcomes? Whatever that means…

I’ll put you down as more technocrat than democrat, then. You’d prefer control be given to the capable competent cool “other,” so long as that definitely would not be you.

All of the above, and then some. We’re speaking of human wants and desires, not practical realizable aims. I said total, not sole.

What we call it is less important to me than how it looks and functions, especially as pertains to the choices we’re given and how those are chosen. We should seek to minimize those.

I think people would prefer to have total control all by themselves, and if that can’t happen then they want the person they personally prefer to have total control and phenomenal power. Is THAT democracy? Anyone feel free to opine.

I’m just dropping a rock into the lake to see where the ripples radiate. And just to add: Asking bc these conversations are happening everywhere across the globe right now as humans figure out who we want to be… whether we want authoritarian strongmen or governance based on the voice of the masses. Why should people prefer democracy? What is it that they are preferring, and what are the appropriate guardrails once this path of democracy is chosen?