The US: Democracy, or Plutocracy?

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Permalink Reply by Dogly on September 29, 2011 at 12:12am

Sassan, after reading that sentence, I must agree with you about the illiteracy.

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Permalink Reply by Sassan K. on September 28, 2011 at 11:28pm

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Permalink Reply by Dogly on September 29, 2011 at 12:16am

Michio Kaku is not white.

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Permalink Reply by Sassan K. on September 29, 2011 at 2:42am

lol! What does being white have to do with anything? How comical.

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Permalink Reply by Glen Rosenberg on September 29, 2011 at 8:34am

Damn, just wrote a long response to Sassan that went the way of the dodo. I wont write another That is the way I am.

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Permalink Reply by Glen Rosenberg on September 29, 2011 at 8:36am

Dogly,

You made a good point about animals.

On the other hand that issue is on a higher ethical plane. First humans have to eliminate religiously borne discrimination against humans in the form of sexism, racism etc.

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Permalink Reply by Dogly on September 29, 2011 at 9:24am

I thought we were talking about the creation of a more logic based, ethical society.  What, other than characteristic human selfishness, makes the mild religious discrimination I face, more urgent than the tortured lives and deaths that all other animals under our "dominion" face.  If it's just us, us, us, what will really be much different in our brave new world?

Also, why must solving other ethical issues always wait until "we get ours"?

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Permalink Reply by Sassan K. on September 29, 2011 at 2:50pm

I hope you don't find it "unethical" to run animals through scientific experiments which help benefit humanity.

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Permalink Reply by TNT666 on September 29, 2011 at 6:30pm

I wouldn't, weren't Homo sapiens in such surplus... But considering our outrageous outnumbering of all other large mammals, I see no valid justification in using them to create more of us. If there wer only a million of us and billions of them... yes

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Permalink Reply by Sassan K. on September 29, 2011 at 7:57pm

I see - you don't want science and humanity to advance. How enlightening.

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Permalink Reply by TNT666 on September 30, 2011 at 6:16pm

Really, if you insist on not even addressing what I say... I'll return the favour. A technocracy is no more palatable to me than a theocracy or a plutocracy.

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Permalink Reply by Natalie A Sera on September 30, 2011 at 11:54am

"all other animals"? I don't think your adorable dog and my beloved cats are suffering any torture, and when my cats have reached the end of their enjoyable lives, and there is no relief for their suffering, I have put them down as compassionately as possible. I AM in favor of compassionate farming of animals, but cannot be consistent if I oppose experimentation on animals as long as they are given compassionate treatment. If I did, I and millions of others wouldn't be alive today. Yes, I'm talking about insulin.

The compassionate answer to world overpopulation is prevention of excessive births, not abandoning efforts to ease the suffering of those already here. (Really over-used the word "compassionate!!!!)

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