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He would have lost early on. The public is done with the status quo. We are throwing the bums out so to speak. https://www.quora.com/How-would-Donald-Trump-have-acted-and-reacted-in-this-campaign-if-he-were-calmer-and-more-reasonable

The 14th and 15th were disasters that were as bad or worse than the war itself.The 60’s legislation implemented reverse discrimination.Societies work when you just use rule of law and leave people alone to sort the way they want to. Both were catastrophes https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-does-the-voter-rights-act-and-the-civil-rights-act-contain-that-the-14th-and-15th-amendments-didnt-cover

It’s an ‘average’ income for an individual and below average for a family. Bellevue is among the top three cities in America to live in – in part because it never had an industrial center, and no black (or other underclass) immigration. So you pay for it. The prices in the ‘green zone’ keep the…

THE CORRECT ANSWER(Answers to this question show the tragedy of a late 20th century education.) Necessary (Correct) Definitions: Right: a contractual obligation by another party to perform some actions, and refrain from other actions Negative Right: a contractual obligation by another party to refrain from actions: to forgo opportunities for gains. Positive Right: a contractual…

The articles 21–28 were added to appease the communists who at that time in history still held enough political power to demand it or prevent universal declaration. (Although 24 is arguably nonsensical the way its stated.) Otherwise the declaration is nothing more than a list of property rights: all of which are negative rights. https://www.quora.com/Which-articles-of-the-Universal-Declaration-of-Human-Rights-are-positive-rights

Any question in English, stated that poorly, is a poor investment in one’s time, since the answer will not be understood. No more bots. https://www.quora.com/What-is-liberal-political-theory

June 25 · Religion spread with farming and literacy. Law with money and trade. Rationalism with print and industry. Pseudoscience with academy and fiat money. Propaganda with media and student loans So why not spread Truth-telling and science with education?

Why? Conservatism is a eugenic social order. And the ‘good’ families are dwarfed in number by the ‘not good’ families. Western success is due in no small part to its adoption of eugenic institutions and policies in every walk of life. Puritan american was an attempt to create a eugenic civilization. But America, like every…

Humans evolved on a spectrum from the more animal to the more human to the more super-human. And that just as animals cannot reason, some men can reason only a little and are dominated by animal impulse, some men find a balance between reason and animal impulse, and some men rely exclusively upon reason and…

0 – Ignorance 1 – Error 2 – Bias 3 – Wishful Thinking 4 – Suggestion, Loading and Framing 5 – Obscurantism, Pseudorationalism, Pseudoscience 6 – Overloading, Saturation, and Propaganda 7 – Deceit

(I will get hate mail over this rather grand deflowering) http://www.scientificamerican.com/…/how-2-pro-nazi-nobelis…/ Some of us have to clean up history a bit: (1) There is nothing strange about a popular political movement generating crackpots, and the state not shutting down the crackpots. I mean, world academia is full of them. We don’t even have to get…

LETTER TO A PHILOSOPHICAL EXCUSE-MAKER You see, you can build whatever contraption you want for your own use. You can practice whatever hobby that you want in your own home. You can say anything you want in your own living room. You can satisfy anyone willing in your bedroom. But you cannot sell a product…

(probably a distant relative) A well intended, reasonably intelligent fellow, who does have a grasp of what he speaks. I didn’t quite catch his meaning the first time through or I would have addressed it sooner and more directly. And that is, that CREATIVITY(free association for the purpose of opportunity discovery) and DECIDABILITY(truth for the…

Every man must act in a way that produces the consequences he desires. There is no need for god in that question other than to give one excuses for having taken actions that others disagree with. What you mean is that a man must provide his own moral authority. In other words, one needs justification…

Nietzche had little understanding of law(dispute resolution), and less understanding if not no understanding of its opposite: economics (cooperation). When he says ‘morality’ he means ‘convention’. and in that sense, convention may or may not survive moral scrutiny. That does not mean that there are no moral statements. It’s easy to define them. The question…

We can make use of whatever free associations our unobservable minds give us. That says nothing about the truth of anything. it says only about the utility of randomly generated meaningful ideas. So personal philosophy(religion) can be constructed of such nonsense. Because people need to act in a way that they can feel confident in…

You see, I only have to testify to what I can know, and I only CAN testify to what I can know. So if I can’t know something I can’t testify to it. I can only say “I don’t know’. And in the tradeoff between “i don’t know ‘but’, and ‘I just don’t know so…

One of Jay Dyer’s New-Pseudoscientific Christian-Fundamentalists stopped by to annoy me today on the grounds that I am arrogant, and smart but apparently not wise. Well, you know, one who acts as a prosecutor of falsehoods in defense of the informational commons, is not the same as a partner with whom you fantasize by engaging…