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Victim Mentality versus The Village

Victim Mentality versus The Village

So let's imagine that we are all part of a small village in the jungle. One of us keeps licking toads, and every time has to be tended to hand and foot for a few days until the poison wears off. Relatives

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Gratuitous Suffering

Gratuitous Suffering

A recent post I read made me start thinking about the effectiveness of public protesting as a means to change society, and if society isn't better off by spending time solving their own problems instead

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Vaccines -- choice or required?

Vaccines -- choice or required?

So I noticed a recent post about vaccine injury that I thought was great, but also noted that most of the comments were anti-vaccine -- which was surprising (and heartwarming) to me. And I was wondering

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Sanctuary cities and Marijuana

Sanctuary cities and Marijuana

Our society is currently thrashing its way through many complicated subjects. In the end though, a lot of what these discussions boil down to is local versus central control. Organization from the bottom

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Collectivism as Prion

Collectivism as Prion

Mad Cow Disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is thought to be a problem with protein folding, caused by an original mis-folded protein called a "prion." (This is still theoretical, by the

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Alph, beta, gamma, delta, omega

Alph, beta, gamma, delta, omega

Richq11 posted a good article about the dolphin personality type worth reading: It reminded me of the "Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, omega" school of thought about personality types. I spent a little

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Sisyphus and the Drug War

Sisyphus and the Drug War

Sisyphus in Greek mythology was a king who believed that his craftiness surpassed that of the gods. As punishment in the afterlife by the gods, he was given the task of rolling a heavy boulder up a hill,

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Vegans versus Carnivores -- but isn't there a third way?

Vegans versus Carnivores -- but isn't there a third way?

So Kyriacos had a good post ( how vegetarianism isn't a logically consistent viewpoint. Much of the discussion boiled down to vegans and vegetarians talking about how horrible the meat industry is, with

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Linear versus Cyclical political thinking

Linear versus Cyclical political thinking

The older I get, the more I see that humanity tends to act in predictable ways, and the more I see that how a system is set up, the rules by which it functions, are what determines the outcomes for a society.

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All for One or One for All?

All for One or One for All?

I recently watched "The Martian", Ridley Scott's space flick about a Mars exploration team that accidentally abandons an astronaut on the surface of Mars. Early in the movie, the mission commander