Comment Re:Also, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? & Bu (Score 1) 224
We love this one, too, although it's got some pro-communist roots we don't personally agree with.
We love this one, too, although it's got some pro-communist roots we don't personally agree with.
There's a reason I play this song to my kids a lot:
How many roads must a man walk down
Before they call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
How many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind.
How many years must a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?
How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
How many times can a man turn his head
and pretend that he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind.
How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
How many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind.
Very good point. I heartily agree.
He is British. To him allowing people to suffer from poor health when society can afford to treat them is aggressive libertarianism. Universal healthcare is actually the less aggressive, middle of the road option in Europe.
Great, by the same logic, we can outlaw abortion.
I think Hawking meant humanity's willingness to use violence and/or deadly force to get what one wants instead of reason and persuasion.
And yet I would suppose he supports the use of force against me if I'm not persuaded that paying my taxes is justified.
I see on Wikipedia that he supports funding universal healthcare by aggressive government action, though, as well as government aggression towards activities that are perceived to promote climate change. It's a shame he's not more rigorously consistent about this.
Yet I want you to give me a copy of the key and trust that it wont fall into the wrong hands or be used illegally against me. See how stupid that sounds Obama?
No, this will never be seen by governing officials. They want you to believe government will never do anything wrong, at least as long as you pick the right people in office. If anything wrong happens, it's because you didn't do the right thing in the last election.
It's basically a religious faith with no evidence.
Laws exist because the elected legislature passed the required laws to criminalise certain actions pertaining to certain drugs. To believe that this would be fixed by people finding someone not guilty of breaking those laws is simplistic at best.
To believe that the problem is just that I'm simplistic is also pretty simplistic, don't you think?
The laws need to be repealed
Not necessarily. I think salutary neglect is a great option.
He tried to have people killed. They need to lock him up for life.
If they want to lock him up for that, they need to have a trial for it.
Take a look at your average jury, do you really think it would be used most for the right or wrong reasons?
The point is that it's better to let ten guilty people go free than for one innocent to be convicted.
is the public supposed to read the transcripts of every criminal trial?
No, but if more of the public would refuse to find people guilty on drug charges, it would certainly help. I don't need to read a transcript to know that I wouldn't convict Ulbricht, or anyone else, of the charges brought against him.
Copyright terms should be max(author, spouse).
What about for polygamist authors, you insensitive clod?
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.