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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Any anti-vaxxers here? |
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Posted: 04 May 2020, 10:38 am
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Replies: 19
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| Hi, someone I know has recently started arguing that autism can be caused by vaccinations. I am skeptical, but I would like to hear the other side of the argument, either from people who have autism whose parents believe it was caused by a vaccination, or by anyone with autism who believes they got ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: US universal income proposal |
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Posted: 25 Mar 2019, 10:44 pm
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Replies: 74
Views: 2,236
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| Yea, pretty insane right? Abolish welfare by expanding welfare to everyone including people who don't need welfare. It will never work in a capitalist country, because who will pay for it? The rich? If so, they will just leave, then everyone will be universally dirt poor. What strike me as amazing ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2019, 2:34 pm
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Replies: 99
Views: 2,322
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| I think people don't want to give credit for success to successful people because it would force them to admit that personal success depends on personal effort and merit when they would rather blame their own failures on anything and anyone other than themselves. I think people want to ignore all t... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: US universal income proposal |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2019, 3:39 am
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Replies: 74
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| So an unemployed, abled-bodied 18 year old can live in an apartment his parents pay for and collect free money? That's what I did to get college grant money. :evil: I made myself look poor on paper to get the money This is part of why a UBI is considered better than a system where people who appear... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2019, 1:53 am
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Replies: 99
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| Milton Friedman asks how inheriting property is any different than inheriting intelligence, athletic ability or musical ability? He points out that people usually aren't opposed to the latter. If no one owns a factory who built it? Who pays for its maintenance? Who gets the factory goods from the f... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2019, 1:01 am
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| Growing up, I HAD to rely on my own merit. If I had relied on friends or wealth (or even "luck"), I would have died. I'm not saying that nepotism and bribery don't exist, nor am I saying that nobody uses them to get ahead. I am saying that for me, merit was the only option. Right, but you... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2019, 3:17 pm
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| Sure, but a certain degree of corruption and cronyism is inevitable as well. As I was saying before, society isn't completely based on merit either. Also, inheritance and private ownership of factories is a thing. Put these two together and you have to ask, if someone passively gains wealth just by ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: US universal income proposal |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2019, 3:25 am
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Replies: 74
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| Well, technically any UBI idea is just a rearrangement of how we do welfare, which is already being done. Part of the argument is that this way we wouldn't need the welfare sector, so ultimately we could end up paying fewer taxes rather than more, assuming of course that such people could find work ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2019, 2:39 am
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Replies: 99
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| Well, it should be obvious that both sides of the argument have a point. The world is partially based on merit, to what degree it's hard to say, but certainly not 100%, nor is it 0%. Bosses can and will give their friends and their children jobs to help them out, which often means the best person fo... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: The Cure |
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Posted: 09 Apr 2016, 12:00 am
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Replies: 20
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| The Kiss. That solo at the start is god-like. |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: antipsychiatry |
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Posted: 03 Oct 2011, 7:27 am
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Replies: 20
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| Do you actually think some one who is beyond oblivious to the scientific method and ignorant enough to hold irrational beliefs such as this thread displays, would actually take the time to read and understand a sincere eye opening and multi-vairable explanation? Imagine you take two objects of vary... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: The most depressing movies you've seen |
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Posted: 18 May 2008, 12:37 pm
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Replies: 184
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| K, one no one has mentioned is Jude the Obscure... brilliant movie (and book). The ending will just blow you away. |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Post a random horrible thing that's been said about you! |
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 8:40 pm
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Replies: 98
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| When I was in high school my family was sitting around the table having dinner and I was talking to some of my siblings while my dad was watching the news. My dad, trying get me to be quiet so he could hear the news, said "Maybe if you listened you'd do better at school." Firstly I'd like to point o... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Have you ever wanted to quit making friends? |
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 3:08 am
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Replies: 31
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| Several times in my life I've fantasized about running away from everyone I know and becoming a hermit. Other times when it's been difficult I've thought about not making any more effort to make friends or keep my current ones. But I'm a writer, so aside from the fact that I'd simply like to have fr... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Friendship Board - Age 19 Onwards |
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Posted: 10 May 2008, 1:45 am
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Replies: 1,210
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| Just recently self-diagnosed aspie... I'll change my status in my profile if that changes. my main interest/obsession is stories... anything that has a story in it can gain my attention in it. This means lots of books, especially novels, but also short stories, auto biographies, comics... you name i... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Telling People You're an Aspie |
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Posted: 10 May 2008, 12:51 am
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Replies: 17
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| So I'm wondering when people have told people that they're an aspie, and how this has affected their friendships/relationships. I've only just discovered AS, but I'm fairly certain I have it. I've sent an email to my best friend about it and will be talking to him tomorrow, I know he'll be cool, and... |
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