Doing it on TV he should have been arrested immediately after and maybe allowed to negotiate a low jail term and fine.
Against a well-funded defense? More likely, the law would have been ruled unconstitutional.
I don't know why you are so convinced that something can't matter just because the data is missing
Data is not "missing". It just is of a slightly lesser quality than you would like.
Is Thiel planning to have a navy as well?
Sounds like he'll lean on some developed world navies. But if he's planning to go it alone, yes. They could always just not put these things right off the coast of Somalia or North Korea. Pirates aren't found everywhere. Don't put them next to poor people or authoritarian states. That leaves a lot of ocean.
Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
So what? You could always just not do that.
People with that much money store it at the bank and the money just lies there.
Right. What's the interest rate of a bank account again? And even if they really do dump it in a bank, what does the bank do with that money again?
Ah, the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" myth. Who knows -- perhaps once the majority of Africans have overthrown brutal despots, eradicated malaria and other diseases, and found reliable clean water they'll be able to start working on that.
Well, there we go. Another Slashdot solution. What's the next problem in the queue?
But it is basing this decision because of the religious beliefs of another group; ie, the religion of making more money out of nothing.
Looks more like their "religion" is making money by selling copper mined from the ground. That's a bit more than "nothing".
Just because you assert that people stopping spreading measles could not account for a drastic decrease in reported cases
Yes. Because it's quite clear that people didn't stop spreading measles. The parts of the world that don't have universal immunizations still have serious problems with the disease.
We require evidence on this to make an informed decision.
And we have that information. You insist on a particular testing ritual which is not justified in this case due the strength of the observation.
Meanwhile this "heavy-handed authority" is soon going to allow copper mining in a forest sacred to the natives of the region.
Because raping mother Earth for profit really shows off their light touch?
I wouldn't call cutting out a group of cancer cells a cure even though it means you no longer have that cancer.
I would.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to work.
