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I hope that as the bacteria glows, it arranges itself into numbers indicating how many mines are nearby. It should making identifying the mined locations a simple matter of elimination.

On a similar note, I just rolled through a stop sign to do my part in saving the environment.

Sheesh, how long are people in your restaurant? You're not going to catch cancer from an hour long dinner at a smoke-filled establishment. You'd have to be in there a very significant amount of time to damage your lungs. Besides, if you were a restaurant owner, you can say up front, "This is a smoking establishment." As long as you aren't taking customers in at gunpoint and forcing them to stay in the smoke, it's not your problem.

Even in the case of food, though, the value is determined by people's want/need, not anything inherent in the object itself. To a starving man, food is likely more important than anything in the world to him. Therefore, the value is much higher than gold. On the other hand, your typical first worlder could probably skip a meal with no real issues. It is a much lower value to him. A suicidal man may even find food worthless.

Gold has emerged over thousands of years a good medium of exchange due to many people wanting something they could trade easily for other goods. Gold fit the bill. It may happen that we find another object in the future that meets people's demands for money even better than gold, in which case we would probably see the price of gold go way down and this other element increase in price until it found a relatively stable value compared to the people's demand for it.

I'm trying to buy gold, too, but it has no "inherent" value. No object in the world has inherent value, just the subjective values due to people's wants. Gold has historically functioned very well as money, is fairly rare (though common enough that anyone could get a bit), and is durable. It is not easily counterfeited either. Thus, people assign a great deal of value to it as a medium of exchange or something to store value. It's not because we all believe it is magical or something, it's because it has emerged over time as the best available option for money. That's the market process at work.

Thanks. Although I will argue the attack was unwarranted no matter what, you are correct in that my original point was that Japan is not Germany.

Did you ask every last Japanese? Every man, woman, and child who died there? Again, in my view, even one death of someone who was against the attacks/war on the US was a criminal offense. I find it hard to believe every last civilian there was united behind the attacks started by their government.

I admit I had never heard of this before, so I did a quick search. From the first sentence: The Nanking massacre "was a genocidal war crime committed by the Japanese military in Nanjing (Nanking)" (emphasis mine).

Tell me again how nuking thousands of civilians is justified here?

How many of those civilians supported that decision? In my view, if even one of those thousands of civilians was against attacking the US, the bombing was not worth it.

I have no problem with defense. If someone attacks, by all means fight back. But when you retaliate a sneak attack on a military base with an attack that causes more than 100x as many deaths, many of them civilians, then you've overstepped your right. That's a criminal act.

How does nuking thousands of Japanese civilians un-nazi the world?

Also, I'm pretty* sure it wasn't a Trident missile that was used.


*100%

Yeah! Come on NASA, buy a new spaceship! Stop being selfish and stimulate the shrinking spaceship industry! Do you know how many workers you're hurting buy not buying new stuff?!

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