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Comment Re: Obviously! (Score 5, Insightful) 169

Can we reduce harm to zero? Possibly.
Is it desirable to do so? Not remotely.

Banning people whoâ(TM)ve stood near a smoker from entering a public place is a great way of getting no customers.

Smoking, like drinking, or driving, or running, or eating, or anything has both costs and benefits. At some point we almost certainly mitigated the costs through taxation and regulations. Further restrictions are cost without benefit.

Comment Re: So much goddamn bureaucracy. (Score 3, Insightful) 70

Wikipedia is a group endeavour, people on the left are more likely to seek community solutions, people on the right are more likely to work alone.

Once you've largely written your encyclopaedia, there's nothing for talented individuals to do, they don't want to spend all day arguing over conjunctions and which picture is best, so the only people left are the ones with bizarre ideas about consensus.

Comment Re: Humanities not science? (Score 1) 564

Except we can't analyse a book in the same way we analyse a boson, or a molecule in the way we analyse a song.

Differences between even Chemistry and Physics are so great that if you want to go back to the old terms, literary analysis is science, it uses peer reviewed evidence based thinking, just like all of our fields of study.

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