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Re: Open Letter to GMaxwell and Sincere Rational Core Devs
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traincarswreck
on 03/03/2017, 08:11:10 UTC
You win, mentaltrainwreck. We're all stupid and you're the only one in the whole world who has it all figured out. Bye.
No scientist would cry like a baby like you are. 

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On Perpetuating Dualities

It can be, and often is, that we are generally caught in the trap, habit, and pattern of framing our understanding, observations, and arguments such that we are simply and only perpetuating a duality that needn’t otherwise “exist”.

Such a perpetual duality might be the gun control debate, abortion, the role or place of religion in education or politics, immigration policy, left versus right, conservative versus liberal, climate change debate, or capitalism versus socialism.

But we might rather take the stance that such dualities are a signal that we cannot over come these problems without a necessary evolution, especially, and basically in the form of technology (ie debate cannot solve them).

As an example consider a debate about whether or not an immigrant arriving to a “free country” wants to take their oath WITH their, face covering religious, clothing on (“After all,” they argue, “it IS a free country in regard to religious beliefs).

Some argue, that you cannot properly ID the person, that this would be an issue if you cannot see their face, and therefore they should have to hold up to OUR standards and take their covering off.

The interesting point, being that this was argued in Canada, and the immigrant won, which suggests it is Canada’s standard to uphold such a freedom of religious expression, and to force them to take off their covering for their oath is actually NON-Canadian.

What is important to note, is that the Muslim (to be blunt), or the immigrant, seemed to understand the laws and constitutional framework of Canada better than many Canadians, and the supreme court agrees with that statement.

Now if we introduce the technology of a retina scanner, then the anti-freedom anti-religious argument has no legs and is seen to be UNNECESSARILY arguing a moot point.

To understand this, is to understand that to debate for ANY side of such a duality is simply to participate in the religious belief of unnecessarily perpetuating conflict.