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they cost too much, ya?
Yes. And they give too little back.
they cost too much, ya?
I'm not there yet, but I'm reaching for it.
That's not the first time I have heard that from a member...just sayin'.
Yes, but you do have more experience with members than most of us.
this guy in another thread said that instead of developing alternative energy technologies we should lower speed limits to reduce our energy use.
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i have come to the conclusion that most people are not conscious most of the time.
every day i feel less and less motivated to argue with people because i see that they are ultimately not capable of understanding anything.
question is - should i feel sorry for or try to help people who as far as i am concerned do not intellectually exist ?
i mean if you are attacked by a rabid dog - do you feel sorry for the dog ? do you argue with it ? or do you shoot it ?
i mean there is a dfiference between makign a mistake, being incapacitated by drugs and/or alcohol and simply not having a brain.
if you make a mistake i feel sorry for you. if you are drunk maybe ill catch up with you when you're in better shape. but if if you are just physically incapable of understanding ANYTHING, EVER, AT ALL ... how am i supposed to feel about a person like that ? this is most people mind you.
I do not believe I have ever met a person who was not sentient. Of course, that does not prevent me from feeling sorry for those whose ability to communicate via the written word is extremely marginal at best.
That's not the first time I have heard that from a member...just sayin'.
I have argued briefly with the OP writer about the speed limit. It became clear that he is not in the least bid educated on energy issues, much like too many of our politicians.:2razz:
http://www.debatepolitics.com/alternative-energy/48421-energy-sources-comparison-2.html
He starts at post 12, and clearly he does not understand technology related to energy issues, but he wants a say anyway.
I have argued briefly with the OP writer about the speed limit. It became clear that he is not in the least bid educated on energy issues, much like too many of our politicians.:2razz:
http://www.debatepolitics.com/alternative-energy/48421-energy-sources-comparison-2.html
He starts at post 12, and clearly he does not understand technology related to energy issues, but he wants a say anyway.
The point made was not to stop developing alternatives, which are in the future, but to make use of existing methods and technology to conserve what it is we want alternatives for...
We "parallel path" our efforts. Stop wasting the energy sources we have while at the same time look for TRUE ALTERNATIVES....
Judging by the first post and from other debates I have observed NEUROSPORT in, I believe he tends to regard anyone who disagrees with him as non-sentient or at least stupid and/or willfully ignorant. His opinions, apparently, are the only rational conclusions that any self-aware and thinking being can reach using logical reasoning.
I am not normally inclined to pity, except for my own vice of self-pity which I have not yet broken, but I hate to see people going around feeling miserable and put upon by the world when the world itself is exactly as it should be.
I personally think that the majority of the people in this world would not come across as stupid if they didn't have either a lack of information or a lack of desire to access information and think about it.
do being that are not sentient deserve moral treatment
yes there are many ways to be stupid and few to be intelligent.
That’s the entire problem.
People who cannot capitalize properly, nor handle plural forms of words should not exist.
Is there a solution?
no
evolution used to favor intelligence but it no longer does as even the stupidest person is able to make more than 2.1 kids and the state will take care of them.
So there is a solution: A new form of "state", which does not do that which you accuse our current one of.
right. you just need to convince people that they are the problem and that its in their own best interests to become extinct
Or a less controversial option: Educate themselves.