Controversial views

[Edwardo Piet]

I believe suicide is selfish in that it hurts those close to the person committing it but I also believe that anyone who would want someone to spend their whole life miserable just so they can see them are far more selfish. The reality is there is at least almost always hope as the suicidal person can recover. What feels like permanence isn't permanent. That's the nature of depression...

... But what I'm saying is hypothetically if anyone were to think something like "I want them to stay alive even if they are never happy again and they experience nothing but misery and suffering until they die" to themselves, then that's extremely selfish to me. To want someone to stay living because you want them to be happy and well is one thing, but to want them to stay living just because you'll miss them if they're gone and you don't actually care about their happiness is extremely fucking selfish IMO.

[Pat Mustard]

I agree with Napo.  It wasn't as much of a steaming pile as Phantom Menace, but it was no better than Episode III.  I think after enough time has passed people are going to look back and not think as kindly of Episode VII.

That's what you get when you put a corporate shill like Abrams who only looks out for himself in front of a long running franchise. What happened with Shit Trek 2009 and Shit Trek: Deeper int Slurry should have been a warning to Lucas and Disney (though with the prequels, Lucas' inner shill was already ascendant).

[ukatheist]

I'm not convinced that man-made climate change is a 'thing'.

[Excited Penguin]

I'm not convinced that man-made climate change is a 'thing'.

And your credentials are?

[Edwardo Piet]

It's a thing. Obviously it's not entirely man made but to think that 7 billion people and MULTIPLE HIGH INDUSTRY CIVILIZATIONS isn't going to have an effect on the climate... is a little deluded.

[Excited Penguin]

I believe most people are idiots.

I believe the world needs to be pressured into adapting to a world government.

I believe such a government should have unlimited powers over all of its citizens. I don't believe in equal political rights, but I do believe in an imperfect democracy in which political powers are delegated based on intellectual merit and popularity. I don't believe in representatives, at least not in the traditional sense. We already have the technology to allow for anyone to become a statesman. We only have to put our minds and hearts into using it.

I believe in the obliteration of the distinction between private and public. What I am advocating resurfaces as an instantaneous embodiment of both in their most extreme forms.


It's not a perfectly thought out view, but I will gladly take questions.

[Pat Mustard]

I'm not convinced that man-made climate change is a 'thing'.

I am. It's on the same evidential basis as evolution or the solar system. And if you look at those who oppose it, they all have a vested interes in pretending it doesn't exist. Most of those who accept it don't have similar biases affecting their judgements.

[ukatheist]

EP: I don't have any credentials nor do I pretend to. I'm just not fully convinced by the argument either for or against. I'd guess I'd say I was agnostic on this.

AH: I don't doubt that humankind has impacted the earth and continues to do so, and I personally do what I can to minimise my 'carbon footprint', I'm just not fully persuaded that the impact of mankind is as great as it is made out, and not more attributable to natural increases and decreases of the earths temperature.

TC: No doubt there are people pushing their own agendas, and the truth is I just don't have the credentials to filter the crap from the gold, hence my pascals-wager-esque approach.

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[Excited Penguin]

EP: I don't have any credentials nor do I pretend to. I'm just not fully convinced by the argument either for or against. I'd guess I'd say I was agnostic on this.

AH: I don't doubt that humankind has impacted the earth and continues to do so, and I personally do what I can to minimise my 'carbon footprint', I'm just not fully persuaded that the impact of mankind is as great as it is made out, and not more attributable to natural increases and decreases of the earths temperature.

TC: No doubt there are people pushing their own agendas, and the truth is I just don't have the credentials to filter the crap from the gold, hence my pascals-wager-esque approach.

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Science has spoken on the matter. It is caused by humans.

Try listening to scientists instead of to talk-show hosts. You'll notice what's what.

[ukatheist]

EP: And which talk show hosts do you presume I have been listening to?

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