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Yes, that’s it. How did you know?

Because you’re not worth the time And there’s the sense of bad faith included with several of your posts.

But we really cannot since the binary categorization is itself flawed. There is a spectrum. There are thresholds, but clearly there are more than two categories. It's as if you're asking us to describe a rainbow using just white and black. We're never going to agree if that's your approach because your framing of the issue is fundamentally flawed. Because there are more than 2. Pot. Kettle. Black.

The most plausible explanations I've encountered involve using these laws to specifically target black and brown people. Arrests and jail time were asymmetrically applied and enforcement occurred more heavily against these populations relative to their white peers. White residents who used the same drugs in the same amounts did not, however, experience the same criminal "justice" response.

Happy to oblige. Feel free to use the Bat-signal next time you need me

Different body shapes would likely have been selected and hominids may never even have come into the picture.

Pretty much every modern vehicle sold by every major manufacturer today automatically calculates distance to empty based on total fuel in tank, charge remaining in battery, and past behavior of the driver. Given this complexity has already been solved, comparing the DTE number to current distance to destination (plus distance from there to the nearest refueling stop) is rather straight forward. You’re presenting it as an obstacle, but it’s one that got solved many years ago already. Then they’ll have to walk to get more fuel exactly like today when people who get diverted waited too long to refuel.

Then you’re reading/listening/reviewing the wrong ones

Of course they are, in MANY locations

This is the key point for me: well-being, mental and otherwise. Many people turn to alcohol. That often brings obvious social problems along with it. Drugs of various types, especially and primarily recreational or medical marijuana, can often lead to better results and fewer negative outcomes for the patient and society more broadly. There’s also been great work treating resistant depression with MDMA and and Ketamine, but I see that as requiring physician guidance much like blood pressure or diabetes medicine. Respite from being too smart or too intelligent, however? That’s a need not enough of our fellow citizens seem to exhibit.

Thank you for sharing. I’m obv new here and will surely benefit from your helpful guidance

This isn’t your blog

No thank you

Agreed

Yes

By acknowledging it’s a war we can’t win and will never end, decriminalizing essentially all drugs, and replacing investments in private prisons with investments in rehabilitation centers, low cost housing, food programs, and vocational training. What would happen if we did this? The lives of many tens of millions of people would be better, including those in no way associated with modern day addicts. Sell it to the left by speaking of its morality and humanity. Sell it to the right by speaking of its direct connection to personal freedom and autonomy. Sell it to the middle by speaking of its higher ROI across metrics.

In other words, no reason to exclude people based on their plumbing or expressed gender identity

Lack of self control?

You don’t know what I mean when I say that people are being good and helpful and kind toward one another at all times across all days and in essentially every place across earth? To be clear, I’m not saying all acts and all people are 100% good, only that it’s several orders of magnitude easier to find than the evil in human nature you suggested via an earlier post eclipses it.

I’m picturing a skinny pimply pale red headed kid with a goodwill jewel buttoned bright and brown plaid cowboy shirt and coke bottle glasses snorting snot bubbles and with a high pitched voice choking out, ”Haha… snorfle… how about if I win you let me touch your boob… snorfle snorfle… and if you win I’ll let you touch my wiener… snorfle halunk… it’s win-win, wouldn’t you say? Snorfle snottle snorfle.”

We don’t call those men. We call them insecure twat waffles. And I, for one, don’t recommend rejecting trans athletes from competing in elite sports due to all those “boys can’t lose to girls” delicate sensibilities folks out there having twisted panties about it.

No, at least not yet. We can’t. How does this matter? The goodness of the deed is determined by the deed itself, not by the motivations of the doer, is it not? Is the impact of the positive act of goodness somehow altered by the doers motivation? An argument can be made that all actions are selfish, even altruistic one’s (bc of the nice little dopamine and oxytocin dose they hit us with). Again though, what does it matter to the drowning child if the neighbor pulling them from the frozen lake is only doing it for selfish reasons?

That’s only one side of the coin. Teaching can help shape a child’s predispositions, but the clay being molded there is largely genetic. That then gets amplified by how those genes interact with the environment (including nutrition, stress, sleep, physical attachments, experiences, etc.) across time. Just look at Annikan skywalker. The lack of shame in so many of todays politics is a large part of why everything feels so dysfunctional lately. Without trust in each other or our institutions, chaos ensues and anarchy expands. Fascism and nationalism are strong tools in building those outcomes. Kindness and respect and the medicines which cure the illnesses they bring.

Interesting. Thanks. I’d say shame is not specific to humans. On another note, you should be ashamed for thinking that answers my question. Here it is again: How many examples of human goodness would it take for you to change your mind about human nature being fundamentally bad? I disagree with that. Bring me over to your view, or clarify what would bring you over to mine.

Here’s another that was hard programmed for improved experience many years ago: https://www.scienceforums.net/discover/15/