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Comment: Re:Not necessiarly (Score 1) 448

by Memroid (#39742845) Attached to: Neal Stephenson Takes Blame For Innovation Failure

Also note that culture can be influenced by many different directions. Hideo Kojima, whom some of you may know, appears to have felt a similar burden:
"If our children today don't have any dreams, we creators are guilty for not giving them dreams. We are culpable. We must create a dream to leave behind for the sake of our children."
-Hideo Kojima-

Comment: This does not leave room for freedom (Score 1) 114

by Memroid (#39195247) Attached to: The Internet Blueprint Wants You To Crowdsource Digital Laws

Unless these laws only specify rights, and not restrictions, then creating laws will only create further restrictions on freedom.

Let freedom be access to all values in a set. Let a law define a subset of freedom. Laws do not define additional freedom, but rather restrict it. If laws are added continuously, without removing laws, you are left with the intersection of all of these laws, which will get narrower and narrower (smaller subset). Advocating the creation of laws should be frowned upon. We should advocate the removal of laws and addition of rights.

Comment: Re:WTF Just Not Enough (Score 1) 1237

by Memroid (#39133005) Attached to: Santorum Calls Democrats 'Anti-Science'

First off, Kennedy did not look 66 prior to death and Obama has said "My grandfather was gray by the time he was 29 [...] So I figured it was going to come. It just happened to coincide with the presidency." Perhaps you are the one who is "morally bankrupt and personally repugnant" for discriminating based on age and looks. I am in my twenties and care more about a candidate's political beliefs than appearance. I am not trying to elect a movie star and I hope that enough voters will side with me on that.

Comment: Preventing behavior (Score 1) 345

by Memroid (#38418602) Attached to: SOPA Creator In TV/Film/Music Industry's Pocket

Why are campaign contributions allowed? Would it be possible to ban these? If not, due to the people 'in power', it seems like our system needs better checks and balances in this respect to better enforce the will of the people. Are people just voting in bad apples or is the entire political system corrupt? Does a majority of the people really believe in the things that are occurring, or has control been taken away from those in the general public?

Comment: Overuse of laws (Score 1) 289

by Memroid (#38379472) Attached to: US Bans Loud Commercials

Should the legal system really be messing with things like this? Sure, it is annoying, but I don't think that laws should be created because some dude doesn't feel like turning his volume down during commercials. Laws should only maintain peace, if anything, and I don't think that this issue is causing many deaths.

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