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Chickens are decent people.

And yet it still exists. Non cogito, et tamen sum

Some are. Some are not. Correct

That’s the apple of the earth right there. There’s a spot for that, it’s available, I swear.

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You appear to be experiencing a comprehension problem. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-our-tendency-to-experi/#:~:text=The specific form that fear,has a clear genetic component.

Not everything you read on the internet is true What similarities do you see between fear of snakes and fear of who those snakes happen to love and find sexually appealing?

I’m not aware of any studies confirming this, but anecdotal feedback strongly suggests those latter redundancies seem to reduce for approximately 18 years after successful parturition. This will still allow a tyranny of the majority to win out, for (while it’s not always zero sum) sometimes benefit to one party must come at the expense of another. I liked how swansont said this recently: There is no equality in the choice of what to have for dinner if 3 of those voting are wolves and 1 is a sheep. Systems must be in place to minimize this and agreements between parties require governance for enforcement.

Not everything you read on the internet is true. That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

As I already stated myself. And this is why I neg repped you. Whatever happened to disagreeing without being disagreeable? Not every post needs to be full of barbs and trolls.

It's also not fast enough to address the problems we're facing (as Ken pointed out above)

No trolling, just trying to point out the obvious. Whenever the subject of overpopulation comes up, there is a chorus of people suggesting the need for population control. Control is a very specific word. It implies removing life or preventing it from starting. We all support education, eradication of poverty, destruction of patriarchal rules forcing women into motherhood, etc., but those are different things. They are NOT population control. They are progress accelerators with a side benefit of reduced birth rates. So, just say that. "I support progress accelerators that bring the side benefit of reduced births," not "part of the solution here must include population CONTROL." /pedant

Me either, but we need to stop saying it’ll be part of the solution until we figure it out. Until then, it’s similar to saying we need to migrate to other star systems… ok, sure, but how?

Who gets to decide which potential parents get sterilized and by what method their genetic line terminates with them?

Who gets to decide which people die and by what method their life terminates? His position also ignores the cost of externalities and how often new costs get imposed on society by businesses who won’t ever pay them.

Noted. Thx

The number of humans is far less relevant than the way we use and exploit resources in aggregate

Please don’t invite him to infect yet another thread with off-topic conjectures from that one book he read that one time from that one author about shame

One can be an agnostic theist or an agnostic atheist, but not just agnostic. As Genady rightly mentioned, agnosticism is about knowledge whereas theism/atheism is about belief. Agnostic theist. Agnostic atheist. Agnostic by itself is an orphan misplaced. I find that people who call themselves agnostic tend mostly to lack the courage of their convictions and rather often just fear the social consequences of openly sharing with others that they lack belief in the mass delusion about a bearded cloud surfer who cares if you masturbate or “nature as magical wizard” more broadly.

There’s also an absence of evidence of an invisible dragon sleeping beneath my chair right now and an absence of evidence that pink unicorns gain the power of flight by collecting concentrated leprechaun farts. In this scenario, there is more than “only one correct conclusion” regarding existence or just validity, and it’s not “we simply don’t know.” The god conjecture is no different in this regard, regardless of which god you mean among the millions we’ve invented across the millennia and which now lay dead in the graveyard of human mythology.

Not playing golf is not a sport. Not collecting stamps is not a hobby. Not believing in god(s) is not a belief system, nor a religion.

That makes sense and I’m glad you clarified, but even the idea of a book being “wrong” is just like… one opinion, man. /thedude

Georgia officials finally crack long-open hamburglar case. All abducted children previously ensnared to alphabetize stolen confidential documents have been safely returned to their families. This story and more tonight on Dateline.

It takes a ridiculous amount of engineering and resources to 1) reach other planets and then 2) make them habitable for us for more than a few years that we’d likely realize a far higher return for a much lower expenditure simply by focusing those same energies and resources here on Earth fixing the things which made us wish to flee terra firma in the first place.

Or they were deemed to be so ridiculous as to not warrant wasting time responding.