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yeahiknow3

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  • Teen creates memecoin, dumps it, earns $50,000

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  • No one forces you to accept an IOU, but that’s how “money” is created.

    If you want a beer and have nothing suitable to offer in exchange, you might give me an IOU, which I then hand off to someone else in exchange for goods and services, until one day someone asks you for goods and services in exchange for the same IOU that you had used to buy a beer months ago.

    These things actually happened^

  • does it rule?

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  • I guarantee you that if the shooter had the power to do that then he would have

    You don’t know that. Killing the rich is ethical; torturing them is not. And since the shooter has better ethics than you do, I doubt he’d violate such a basic principle.

  • does it rule?

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  • You’re the epitome of the cautionary adage that all it takes for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

    As for your claim that an eye-for-an-eye is somehow bad? Tit-for-tat is an excellent strategy for maintaining successful cooperation.

    Lastly, there’s no coherent normative theory according to which killing is bad categorically. That’s simply ridiculous.

  • UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting latest: Suspect's backpack had Monopoly money: Sources

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  • Who writes these articles, AI?

  • Teen creates memecoin, dumps it, earns $50,000

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  • That’s not how money works. Fiat currency is just IOU’s, literally, which are discharged when the promissory note returns to its originator (in the case of dollars, the US treasury). Check out Debt the First 5000 Years for an anthropological look at the origins of money.

    Whereas I would prefer to live in a moneyless (i.e., debtless) post-scarcity anarchist society, which is how small tribes and communities were organized for tens of thousands of years before the rise of nations, fiat currencies are used to maintain the modern (unimaginably huge) marketplace, whose ostensible purpose is to allocate scarce resources.

    1. Personal debt is risky. If I issue an IOU, I might die before I can fulfill that promise. Governments are more permanent, which removes the speculative aspect of currency (at least for most purposes, though Forex trading is a thing).
    2. A central bank can balance inflation and employment numbers to ameliorate the natural volatility of the market (with good regulation lol).
    3. Fiat currency can be synchronized with economic productivity, avoiding the deflationary pressure that is anathema to any currency.

    Dollars represent faith in the power of the US government to extract taxes from its population. Crypto represents nothing. It stands for nothing. “Coins” come and go, and if you’re the last one standing in the zero-sum game of musical chairs, you lose your savings. For that to happen with dollars, the US government would have to implode, which is unlikely.

    Crypto is, quite possibly, the purest form of speculative trading (gambling) we have ever concocted. The only reason I don’t think it should be illegal is that I have no interest in saving people from their own cupidity and greed.

  • Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?

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  • Thanks for the reply. This is a genuinely tricky question, because most of us acknowledge that revenge under some circumstances isn’t just permissible but desirable, yet the devil is in the details. Consider revenge

    1. For practical reasons such as a deterrent to future transgressors. Or
    2. To ameliorate some tiny fraction of the hurt inflicted by the transgressor.

    For instance, it would be devastating to lose a loved one, but it would hurt even more if those who killed her were out there enjoying themselves consequence free.

  • Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?

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  • Well, you have my respect! I’m willing to have my mind changed. Why don’t you think we should kill evil people? I don’t get it.

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  • Killing is a fast and easy solution… being able to look beyond killing is one of the few privileges our intelligence gives us

    Sure.

    We are all animals (some more than others). And we have learned the hard way that to instantiate more of the transcendental values that humans occasionally exhibit as rational creatures — to bring more courage, wisdom, and meaning into this world — we should preserve life whenever possible. But there’s nothing fundamentally sacred about life… We kill all the time. Literally non-stop. Billions of animals, just like us, sentient and desperate to live, butchered for your use and pleasure. So unless you’re a vegan, you do not get to discuss “the sanctity of life.” It’s gibberish.

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  • From an ethical perspective, killing is often justifiable. We’ve been trained like monkeys in a cage to respond aversely to death, but that reaction is grounded in a social contract that is only conditionally valid.

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  • Not quite. The reason we reject vigilantism is not that it is always unjust, but only usually. In this case, however, the outcome was in line with any reasonable objective standard of justice, as far as I can tell.

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  • Fun fact, murder means “illegal killing,” not an immoral one. There are plenty of unethical but legal killings, and vice versa. So to clarify, murder isn’t always “bad” by definition.

  • Bullets used to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO had words written on them, law enforcement official says

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  • 3D-printed sunglasses

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  • When you discard a piece of plastic, it will leech EDC’s into the environment, methane and ethylene into the atmosphere, and microplastics into the soil, from where it enters the water cycle as microplastic particulates that are currently accruing in every tissue of your body. Unless of course… magic.

  • 3D-printed sunglasses

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  • Isn’t that the argument for the existence for every other piece of plastic out there? You also have to consider the cost. And the cost of your 3d printing hobby is plastic in everyone’s brains.

  • 3D-printed sunglasses

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  • If only people had thought of that before 0.5% of their brain mass was microplastic trash

  • 3D-printed sunglasses

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  • Ergo we have every right to print plastic trash.

  • 3D-printed sunglasses

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  • New SCOTUS Leak Reveals Who Didn’t Want Ethics Rules Enforced

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  • President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden

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  • Biden could literally dress up like Commando and slaughter the Supreme Court on live tv without “undermining the judicial process.” Can’t undermine something if it doesn’t exist.