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  1. Ruby

    Why are almost all of TCOD liberal socialist atheists? (serious thread this time)

    Under capitalism, everyone is allocated random sums of money at birth and then throughout their lives. That's how it works. So no, even if you cut their neighbour's welfare money, the situation wouldn't be any fairer than it was before.
  2. Ruby

    Watch this video (or some of it) with the sound turned off. The editing and camera angles are...

    Watch this video (or some of it) with the sound turned off. The editing and camera angles are completely surreal. I wanted to watch it with a straight face and I couldn't. It's like they were deliberately trying to distract him.
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  3. Ruby

    Nuclear Weapons

    There are a number of points you've made that I could reply to, but some of them (like the one about everything eventually happening) will distract from the debate and not add to it. I'm just going to ask a couple of questions. If it is "monumentally unlikely" that anyone will ever fire a...
  4. Ruby

    Nuclear Weapons

    Look, Pwnemon and Teh Ebil Snorlax, here's the answer to the probability question. If I drive to work every day for a year, the chances of my having a car crash are one thing. If I drive to work every day for fifty years, the chances are higher. Edit. Of course. But we're talking about the...
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    Nuclear Weapons

    opal has clarified my argument very well and I have nothing to add, except one thing. When talking about these massive spans of time, like thousands of years, don't overlook how radically the world has changed even in the last, say, five hundred years. It is a mistake to think that the...
  6. Ruby

    Nuclear Weapons

    Yes, sorry, I'm no good at explaining things. What I was getting at in that post is that trying to maintain mutually assured destruction for the rest of history isn't going to work. The probability of an accident, or a preemptive strike caused by a false alarm, or the rise of a mad or...
  7. Ruby

    Nuclear Weapons

    Well, I think I have dealt with that idea in my most recent reply to Pwnemon. It seems much more likely that they would blackmail us or invade than nuke us.
  8. Ruby

    Nuclear Weapons

    But then why do they pay twenty times more than me :(
  9. Ruby

    Nuclear Weapons

    And then the American brats and other overseas people pay most of our tuition fees for us.
  10. Ruby

    Nuclear Weapons

    Any talk of the "current situation" is irrelevant. Even if North Korea and Iran get rid of their nuclear weapons, we can't be sure that other nuclear enemies won't arise in the future. That means, no matter how long we wait, we can never know that all threats have passed. Given this, your...
  11. Ruby

    Nuclear Weapons

    I hate those North Korean Muslims as much as anybody - I really do - but at least oppression can be overthrown, given enough time. Nuclear war is irreversible, and potentially deadly for the entire species.
  12. Ruby

    Nuclear Weapons

    But would you rather be blown up? - or in any case have large areas of the world destroyed and irradiated?
  13. Ruby

    Nuclear Weapons

    Even if disarming means being invaded by North Korea and Iran, which I doubt, would that not still be preferable to nuclear war?
  14. Ruby

    What does it mean to be open minded?

    I agree that it's necessary to "know how to be wrong," in a sense. But for me the most important part of being open-minded is to be able to think about your own opinions in the first place.
  15. Ruby

    What does it mean to be open minded?

    In an argument, I think it's mostly to do with being able to imagine what it is like to be someone who doesn't agree with you.
  16. Ruby

    Likin' your new userpic and title.

    Likin' your new userpic and title.
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  17. Ruby

    "Those are the headlines. Happy now?"

    "Those are the headlines. Happy now?"
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  18. Ruby

    "The millionaire owner of the Segway upright scooter company has died in a freak accident after...

    "The millionaire owner of the Segway upright scooter company has died in a freak accident after riding one of the machines off a cliff into a river."
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  19. Ruby

    Communism?

    I take it you're not Turbo.
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