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benny

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  1. When a virus mutes or changes (not evolves), it puts the evolution of life in limbo. Science wants to stop any changes that our human subjectivity would not be able to stand.
  2. We don't need paternalism from governments, we need to deliberate together to get a Social Contract running. People who are already doing this deliberation seem to agree that a society should have in mind, first and foremost, the weakest when it wants to evaluate the goodness of any change in law.
  3. Only a child at his lowest moral development stage cannot yet understand that to keep and have fun in his sandbox, he has to share it with others out of goodwill, not out of obvious self-interest.
  4. To be loved for having been fearless in past battles.
  5. That pot costs money should be enough to prevent most people to go too deep into some altered mental states. But for the weakest, it is the amount of money and the way it is spent by the government that can prevent the worst from happening.
  6. The most fundamental element in a definition of "monarchy" is: a people very scared about the transition from one ruler to the next.
  7. Saudi Arabia is a monarchy and a rentier state way too generous with Westerners.
  8. This thread seems to be about a subject matter too fundamental for you.
  9. Constructions in Saudi Arabia are made and paid for by the heirs of the Saudi founding family.
  10. By very few Arab families rather (including Bin Laden's own family).
  11. No element can be more essential than a package of nucleic acids. For us humans, a virus is not evolving more than a factory or a photocopier. We can empty its content and put in it whatever we want to construct new life forms. So, it is all about our subjective tastes and God is the subjective being par excellence.
  12. Bin Laden is on tapes saying Middle East oil belongs to the Muslim world (not to a few western Majors).
  13. Ownership of a plot of land comes with social responsibilities. You have to sell it when your income is not high enough to pay the tax/fine.
  14. A state is a security agency and as such it needs domestic cooperation mostly when international cooperation towards peace is deficient.
  15. Al Qaeda members want mainly to show western globalization is unfair and they prove their case by moving into other countries to mess things up.
  16. A virus is a package of nucleic acid just enough to synthesize what it needs to penetrate living organisms and replicate itself from them.
  17. With its immigration policy, a state should not try to simply serve organizations. Organizations are mainly competitive devices and communication is mainly a cooperative device. We have to think at immigration criteria where international competition is replaced by more and more international cooperation.
  18. Organule: Google it!
  19. It is even more basic than that: one needs to be an adult who has had a sound childhood to process information correctly.
  20. He had certainly access to satellite communications; the American soldiers (and some mercenaries) discover him through them.
  21. Will they stay there or will they go? Human subjectivity will decide if needed.
  22. This link doesn't work.
  23. Virus is more an organule than an organism.
  24. If imported goods can increase our welfare so is immigration.
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