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It won't even be fair.
But you'll have won, and the world will be a better place.
It does work, you can win.
True! I wonder if we are still worst if we look at prisoners as percent of population though.
Not saying that the US doesn't have a ton of work to do on that front.
No it's not. Are you saying I don't hold a super bleak life of the world just because I live somewhere nice?
because it's just that I don't accentuate the negatives
and because I know that for the most part, stuff happens that never gets in the news because it's boring old good stuff happening.
Let me tell you something about native Canadians...
But how do you know.
As far as I know, yes.
As long as you specify the rules in the OP
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Dudes have a pretty awkward history with the natives.
i should have probably just bat signaled everyone.
First nations whooo
So I just have to sacrifice my happiness for a significant percentage of my life.
As in most people on earth? I don't think that's necessarily true. Life has improved dramatically even for the utterly neglected homeless and mentally ill in first world nations, but there are lots of people still subsisting in quiet desperation.
oh I think total amount china is juuuuuust ahead of you
as percent of population? You're number one in the world.
I see what you did there.
:v:
why would they read the thread if they hadn't watched the episode
so they can read stuff like "man i thought it was interesting when [spoilers]"?
Canada practiced eugenics at one point.
Quebec's education laws completely gross and unfair.
Off the top of my head.
Because how people live their lives is of great interest to me.
The OP will just be SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE.
#FreeScheck
#FreeSKFM
Like do you want numbers because there aren't any. The fact most people aren't killing themselves or doped up on meds or generally showing signs of severe mental stress seems proof enough to me.
Cite the information you gathered and read due to this great interest you possess so that I might also read it and then change my mind.
My God... All those countries with criminals just walking free.
but hey if we had a 'putting a young black men in prison 'lympics' we would probably win gold
Discuss previous episodes, share views on character and story development, rep your ship.
Something "interesting" happened?
Way to spoil the ep, eddy.
worse than hitler.
#FreeScheck
#FreeSKFM
No. That would be everything ever.
Steven Pinker is the guy. He wrote a book called The Better Angels of Our Nature (he's also an evo psych guy but we will ignore that for now because the massive amount of data he uses is gathered together from a huge number of experts in their respective relevant fields, and makes a pretty compelling argument on its own even without Pinker trying to shoe-horn in a couple dubious evo psych conclusions as non-crucial corollaries).
But on a more day to day level, Canadians just don't have many sources of pride and have an inferiority complex compared to America. I'm not saying this is justified, just my experience of how Canadians see themselves.
for me it's ultimately a functionalism issue
an issue of
if something is immeasurable, if something is imperceptible, and in some heisenbergian way at a point becomes impossible to observe without interacting with it and defining it
does it matter anymore?
is it important?
what is it's functional value, at that point?
for me, it's a question of what is the virtue of a deterministic view? what does it bring to me, in what fashion does it enrich my life or positively impact my existence? does it have a value in a way that i, possessed only of my limited ability to sense and understand, can determine?
....not really?
that's the best answer i can manage
for me, i have no place in my life for beliefs and views i consider useless or without benefit. i see no benefit in determinism. even if it is an ultimate, objective truth. even if it is the most objectively true thing possible, because it is ultimately unknowable and has imperceptible function on my perceived existence i do not care about it
so i don't see the sense in believing in things that don't do anything for me to believe in them. i've never seen a belief in determinism as freeing, useful, or capacious in accommodating the existence i opt for myself.
a man who is blind could benefit from sight, but in a world of blindness no man benefits from knowing that there is a world that is impossible for anyone to see.
"Eh, fuck it" indeed, sir
Like most European colonizers their treatment of the native populations is not something to write home about.
Being so close to America probably makes it hard to love your own country.
1. it's not determinism - a stochastic universe has just as much free will
2. yep
I'm just saying in your life, you're probably exposed to a lot more -from other people's perspective at least- positives than negatives.
And that's cool, there's nothing wrong with that. In fact that's great, and I plan to eventually end up there (You can buy me a beer)
Other people, either by where they live, or just a roll of the dice, experience things that'll put them off the whole human race thing.
Personally, having to leave class early because you don't want to get set on fire kind of puts you off other people.
New Zealand's cool though. I'm glad I moved. Even their problems are cool.
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Dearest mother,
Boy did I oppress some dirty savages today and rape their women.