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That's why there was always a limited lifespan on those sorts of things. And why extending them was so bad.

Not really. It's stable. And, sometimes, that's really important. Besides, if you own a house you rent out, you deserve to get paid. You do own it. The main problem, like everything else, is excess. If there's too much, it stops most change, leading to everybody forming a stable setup...

Some interesting ideas. He can see the pendulum in Liberal ideas. I'm not sure he sees it the same way I do, but he can see how one idea led to the next, and how the extreme edge always pulled further down the indivdualist path. Liberty from slavery became liberty from tyranny, became...

Look at Africa. Look back at Poland. Are you really sure you want to go that way?

Well, he is the kinda crim who'd run around in a mask!

Sorry to tell you this, but there are actual variation of IQ variation on average in racial groups. Black does change the averages for IQ. Down, if you're wondering. Most folk really, really don't want to know that. Still true.

To boil it down...... If you wanted to allow abortions on the basis of specific genetic diseases, or other truly horrible conditions, that's something we could discuss. If you wanted to sterilize any murderer and/or pedo, that's also something to be discussed. I might well be in favor of that...

It's not quite that simple. The big problem with eugenics has always been our lack of understanding of genetics coupled with the nature of the person capable of putting it into practice. Genetics aren't a solved problem yet. That means, at best, we could kill millions and have a very minor...

Biology. It's thing. From that, come instincts. Religion came from those truths. They dress up the things that work. There's a reason why every single religion supports a similar set of values, in result, if not name. Men in charge. Women in men's charge. Marrage being man with woman. And...

Bullshit. Complete bullshit. I have no faith, I do not hold life as sacred, but I do accept the obvious. A baby, whether it's in clump of cells form, or later in it's development, is a baby. It's got it's own DNA. It's a different person. The mother chose to create it, or at the very least...

That's true, although a LOT of people really don't want to admit it. It's one of our bigger problems.

That happens to most of us. Australian here. Why, I wonder, did so many of us die in WW1? Why were we even in WW2? Vietnam? Iraq? There's a long list of things that we do to prove we're minions. I'm not fond of most of them.

We'll see. I certainly don't see things the same ways as the average. Comes from accepting what's real, like it or not.

Good. The current situation isn't sustainable.

A thousand worlds at 18th century tech level, where all tech beyond that is in the hands of the benvolent Comstar, who alone is aloud to travel the stars. Except their base, who simply want tech used to help and heal, not kill.

Ok. Now, that was funny!

I can honestly see Natasha Kerensky finding the whole thing hilarious. "That time I lost the Trial. The ONLY time I lost a Trial."

You'll have issues with me, same as I'll have issues with you. We're only human. Still, good conversation can help us learn. As for divorce, almost all places have some. The question is, how easy is it, and how much do people value their oath to family? In faithful societies, there's an...

It's the best way. If you try to screw with Reality, things never work.

Impressive. I hope it earned some respect from the Spanish. The moment it talked about "Post Truth" I stopped reading. Reality is. There cannot be a "Post Truth". Perhaps it has something worthwhile to say, but I doubt it. In a very real sense, a lot of current Japan is the result of a mix...