Phi for All

Maybe a tad, but the opening post is a tad naive as well. It's like saying "Everybody should respect their parents", until you hear about parents that should be put in jail for what they've done to their children. Respect? I'm with Genady, it should be earned, not expected.

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That's demonstrably false, but makes a snappy sound byte. Most religions place their deity at the top, and then rank all the pious in order of worthiness, with church leaders high on the totem pole, church patrons below them, regular church members below them, members of false religions are further down, atheists are down there too, and everyone else in the world they don't like somewhere below that. Why should anyone respect a hierarchy that judges them disrespectfully, that doesn't take their humanity into account but instead berates them for it, using humanity as a synonym for "flawed" and "weak" and "sinful"? Or lack thereof.

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The software can't display both scores, just the total. Sorry. For what it's worth, we don't get that many posts where there's a lot of up and down votes.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-really-use-only-10/ This was a myth before the internet. Before TV even. We use the whole brain, but not all at once, unless we're having a seizure.

If the software is capable of displaying the breakdown, that's where you would see it. I'll check with an Administrator.

This is my stance as well, on all points. I've gone out of my way to do things I didn't even want to do just because someone told me I couldn't. Orneriness should be taken into consideration. The only way I quit smoking was to remind myself daily how much better off I was. Saving money, no more stink, better stamina, less cleaning up, and a better overall feeling were reasonable outcomes to quitting. If the gov had passed a law, It would have taken me a LOT longer to quit.

If you click on someone's rep score for a single post, does it break it down into + and - scores, but without names?

It would probably make Genady feel better informed, and with less condescension. I'm not sure the software can display both votes, but I think it would be interesting to know how the + and - breaks down (without knowing who voted which way). Seeing a post that has a +2 score doesn't tell you the interesting fact that 16 people voted it down and 18 voted it up.

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I think changing the mindset is crucial no matter what we decide to do. So much of the trash generated is convenience-oriented packaging that has to go from manufacturer to distributor to supplier to consumer, then sit on our shelves for a short amount of time. Nobody but the consumer is interested in making products last in the package once you've gotten it home and opened it (see any Ziplock bags inside a cereal box?). I reuse all good plastic and glass containers, over and over if I can. I have a whole collection downstairs that I use to store other stuff, mix a small amount of paint or oil in, fill with water to use as a weight, or any other job where you need a jug or can with a cap or lid. And I keep hoping the laws will change and I can start taking my old containers to fill them up with bulk rice or flour or sugar. Didn't I see a headline a while back about a bacteria that eats plastic and poops out something better for the environment? I'd seriously be willing to get rid of my back yard and turn it into a mulch for little plastic piranha bugs. I'm so sick of wasting resources on a lawn in a high altitude desert. I agree, there's no single fix. It has to be a compound effort. I'm sure the US campaign from the 60s was accompanied by stiff fines for littering, but the message got to me. My family was big on camping when I was growing up, and we always packed out our trash. Keep America Beautiful resonated with me, and as an adult, if there's no trash can I stuff my refuse in a pocket and throw it away later. I know if I toss something on the ground, I'm creating both an eyesore and extra work for someone. Taking care of my own litter taught me not to take my problems and make them other people's problems.

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Lady Byrd Johnson used her platform as FLOTUS to support the Keep America Beautiful campaign back in the 60's, and that worked exceedingly well to place trash bins in many places, and more importantly call attention to the need to be responsible with our trash. That ad of the Native American crying at the pollution of the time had a real impact (I'm seriously not sure if I could ever throw trash on the ground to this day). So I would say do something similar but modern, like get all the social media influencers to help show that you have to be a moron to trash your own environment.

This should have priority, imo. In the US, Capitalists want workers to revere working hard, not reaching their intellectual potential. I can't even imagine the money that's been poured over the years into campaigns and laws that emphasize this bootstrap mentality where sweating is preferable to thinking. There were an awful lot of free colleges and universities in the US before Ronald Reagan (as gov of CA) started charging for tuition in California, to keep out "undesirables". Much of the reason why there are so many poorly educated white people is because folks like Reagan didn't want smart black people taking over. Perhaps forty years later we can overlook our fear of PoC and decide smarter is better.

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It's a FOX News perspective that ignores the centuries when those folks were being actively suppressed. It focuses instead on how unfair it seems to do more than simply remove the suppression. This perspective complains that "extra privilege" to correct the problem is unfair. I've never understood the stance. I've been on enough boats to know that if you're off course, it's not enough to simply return to center. You need to overcompensate, steer hard to port for a while before coming back to center, because you were headed too far to starboard.

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Our skulls wouldn't have had the room if our jaws hadn't shrunk due to eating cooked meat. You'd have to define "smart" and "keen" first. Also carnivore usually refers to obligate carnivores, which are different from animals that can eat meat. Humans are omnivores, not carnivores, and we can be pretty smart and keen, by my definitions.

Except when they don't, which is most of the Gospels and Letters. Those accounts are all over the place.