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Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 22/07/2023 07:36:22Where do you get that assumption from?It would be illogical to single out any one disease, surely? Therefore the assumption must be that we have a right of cure from all of them.
Where do you get that assumption from?
Because we have changed the environment, not adapted to it!
Their family members can make the additional efforts for them.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 22/07/2023 23:22:46Their family members can make the additional efforts for them.So we should all have lots of children in the hope that they will keep us alive? The objective, presumably, being an unsustainable population supporting its useless ancestors.
One fairly common goal is to bequeath your children a better life than you have had. Unfortunately the government imposes an inheritance tax on the middle classes (neither the poor nor the rich pay it) and whatever your bequest, whether it be land or money, obviously the more children you have, the poorer each will be as a result.
People behaviors are affected by their expectation.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 25/07/2023 08:18:22People behaviors are affected by their expectation. But surely more strongly affected by opportunity and ability? We all expect to get sick and die, but some have the opportunity to live better than others in the meantime.
So expectation depends on opportunity. No cliff, no reason to jump. Why rob a newspaper seller (easy, but scant reward) when you could rob the bank next door? Or, if you are a politician, tax the newspaper seller and give his money to your banker brother, in the expectation of becoming a director when you are voted out in disgrace.
even if you have the real opportunity, you won't take it if you don't expect it to bring you success.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 25/07/2023 12:38:53even if you have the real opportunity, you won't take it if you don't expect it to bring you success.Circular, surely? How else could you define opportunity?
?You Wanna Talk About MORALS?!? Neil deGrasse Tyson vs Vegan Activist
He thinks that it's an immoral action if you don't want others to do it to him.
He dismissed right away the possibility that plants might have their own ways to express those feelings, and equates them with rocks.
I'd agree with him - we discussed this several pages ago!
Way back in Biology 101 we were taught the differences between plants and animals: animals cannot synthesise protein from simpler chemicals, and must therefore eat something that was previously alive. Some animals can eat mostly plants, others eat mostly animals, and apes, pigs and dogs eat a mixture.