Chaos_Descending wrote:
Ok, so Kylaer, you basically are saying there are universal things that should be wrong. I agree in general. I think that the American way is wrong. Short term and self destructive really. Cutting down trees instead of harvesting Hemp, just so it can line the pockets of a few men.
Trees, hemp, it's all biomass, planted and harvested. You would still have to annihilate forestland in order to make room to grow the hemp. And you're deluding yourself if you think switching over to hemp would stop "a few men from lining their pockets;" the same people who make money off tree farms would, in a heartbeat, switch over to hemp farms if it were legal and they could make more money by doing so. The free market > your dreams that marijuana will save the world.
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Having 90% of the wealth in the hands of 4% of the people. That's just wrong.
Your figures are also wrong, considering that the top 10% of the population controlled 71% of the wealth as of 1998 (most recent stats I could find in a quick search). And, to be honest, I don't see what is the big issue people have with this; the rich are rich, as they always are, but in the modern U.S.
the poor are also rich, compared with the poor (or even the average people) of virtually any other time and place in the history of the planet.
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Now, the Aztecs. They would do well in this situation. Overpopulation wouldn't be a problem. Many people would volunteer for the honour of being a sacrifice to their god.
Except that voluntary sacrifice accounted for only a tiny fraction of those killed. The vast majority of them were slaves, taken as prisoners of war and executed at their masters' whim.
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Slavery can work if done properly. I think it is better that there is a system where an owner looks after a person. Gives them room and board, clothes in return for labour. You wouldn't see any homeless people freezing to death on the streets.
Now there are short sighted things that I could argue against, but it all comes down to truth. I am against racism, but if there was a world with purple people and orange people. And the Purple people were stronger and smarter then the orange people. I would support the Purple people rising above the Oranges.
That saying about if you follow the left and right ends of the political spectrum far enough, they wrap around and meet each other...well, looks like it's true.
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Now on to the actual debate.
I am against a universal culture because it would lead to social stagnation. I'll say this the short way. Multiple cultural evolutions are better then one giant culture evolving. (Assuming that such a culture could STAY as one culture for more then a year, and that’s a bid if) When there are many different cultural evolutions, they start to interact. Do you think we would have jazz if the blacks weren’t brought here as slaves. Jazz was brought on by an intermingling of two cultures, the African and American. Jazz mixed with Gospel (another Black music) and something else (I cant remember) to create rock, witch eventually lead to... well I give high odds that at least one of your favourite songs was influenced by an intermingling of cultures.
The definition of synergy is that more then one thing is present. Kill multi-cultural ways and you kill that synergy.
This is all reasonable. I think at this point you're talking about cosmetic cultural differences (different music, food, etc.) whereas from the beginning I've been talking about core cultural differences (equality under law vs. racial supremacy, etc.)
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Two say there are two sets of clones. Each set is made of a Male and Female. They just switched the genetic markers, that's all. Female clone A hooks up with Male clone B and vis versa. Are the children identical? No. Both are unique.
Always remember. Nothing is perfect, and when your talking about perfection, it is binary. 1 or 0. Therefore a law abiding man is the same as a mass murderer.
And, umm, no clue what you're trying to say with this bit.
I am honestly shocked by some of the things I've read in this thread. Support for slavery, support for human sacrifice and cannibalism, support for murder, support for the
Holocaust of all things.