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1. War is conflict organised with lethal intent. One of its characteristics is that the active participants do not stand to gain anything from their participation. At best, they will get to go home to a diminished asset.
2. Religion is inherently a Bad Thing: it demeans the human intellect and promotes sexual perverts and fraudsters to positions of unwarranted authority. Science doesn't.
Politics replaces logical government with a pointless and wasteful team sport. Representation by mandated delegates is better.
If it's inherently bad, what made it survive and thrive so far?
Isn't a logical government a form of politics?
Have you heard about Mongolian conquest? Or Russian conquest?
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 14/10/2023 06:05:16If it's inherently bad, what made it survive and thrive so far?Crime pays. That's why people do it.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 14/10/2023 06:06:10Isn't a logical government a form of politics?Only in the minds of those who profit from party politics. Here's the difference:We are running a business with limited resources. I want to do A and you want to do B, but we can't do both. So logically we discuss the merits of both actions and make a mutual decision, or compromise with C. Politically, Party X says vote for us and we will deliver A, K, and R. Party Y says vote for us and we will deliver B, J and Q.But I would prefer A and Q, I find R morally repugnant, and K/J only affects lefthanded Scots, so who do I vote for?
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 14/10/2023 06:03:06Have you heard about Mongolian conquest? Or Russian conquest?The means by which the surviving warriors might just get to farm (but not own) a different bit of land and pay more tax to the emperor, whilst being hated by the natives.
Representative democracies were created due to the bottleneck in communications among citizens to vote for every public policies.
short-termism
Rules and standards do not apply to governments: they make and adjust the rules and standards as required to get re-elected. Like committing to spend unlimited amounts of your money on an unnecessary railway, then cancelling the useful bit and apologising for not being able to bring the remaining part (the vanity project) all the way into London.
A large part of engineering involves a tug-of-war between cost and safety.Comparing costs and safety is an enormous challenge. On one side, you have dollars, and on the other, you have people. Sometimes you need a conversion factor. It sounds morbid, but it?s necessary for good decision-making to put a dollar price on the value of a human life.
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