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Government pressure on scientists not to scare the public
Yeah cause such skittish creatures are sure to panic!
Paternalism at its mind numbing worst.Should they simply present the public and the politicians with the pros and cons, the available evidence, then step away from the decision making process?
I know its a rhetorical question but NO.
This the worst thing they could do. Public conversations are by nature messy, full of misconceptions, badly informed ideas and conclusions. If facts are getting in the way of an agenda, ditch the agenda.
Please. Our futures depend on it. Individually and en masse the dialogue needs to go much... deeper? (dont know if thats the right way to describe it)
The way I look at it now is we either start cleaning up our mess or we ignore it, go extinct, and leave nature the long task of cleaning up after us. And its govt and business that needs to lead the way, not just with exhortations to eat better. Look a bit harder will you! at the machinery.the machinery of business and a compliant state
Marc C you'll get us all labelled "commies" or anti business or some such nonsense.;-|
Such entities take it personally when they think their surgically attached bank balance or carefully constructed image is under attack. Fuck 'em -
people on each side of these kinds of debates are so ideologically opposed to each other that they can’t respect each other as people let alone as intellectuals.
Could this be the disease reaching epidemic proportions in the western world?
Pigheadedness.“paternalistic” regulations or “policies to protect people from themselves” should be questioned as threats to liberty. The foreword states: “until recently the assumption still remained that in principle, at least, consumers should be free to choose for themselves.
This is, well to me, the contradiction that lies at the heart of this mindset. The market is put on a god-like pedestal as the final arbiter of "good" or "bad" . Yet these people are busily manipulating this god-like entity- so easily manipulated- to their benefit.
I have yet to come across anyone or anything that will "protect people from themselves"
And any discussion about freewill is more informative if neuroscientists are taking part. If lobby groups are bringing it up, Beware! -
Polity: Lady luck smiles more than we think, in reply to llew40,
enable us to offer our kids a better chance of being able to get their own foothold in the Auckland property market
Your assuming thats what they want. Or do you know for sure?
There are other ways to consider future generations you knowmost MPs seem to be property investors themselves
As well as arseholes?
Anyway I just came back to add music C ya -
good helpings of dumb, blind luck.
can come over my way now… pretty please…
I aint got the “accident of birth”, workin’ for me.
But dont ask me to put on those ridiculously lensed specs.
I prefers me beersie gogglesHA nearly wrote google then
Dont matter anyhow… these would-be attendees to any 80’s “prosperity seminar”
as well as being short sighted and greedy and lucking fucky
will never admit to being wrong
Well, not while it could make a difference
worth pointing out tho’ again and again and again and again…
might sink in one day ; )) -
Hard News: The place where things happen…, in reply to BenWilson,
I suggest that it’s how a whole lot of people think.
You, anyone can never know that, for sure. Unless you have the paper work on hand? But surveys are often a blunt instrument, too often.
Introspection should never be about what others are thinking tho, examining oneself, when drunk maybe. Prejudices, attitudes reflected in one’s thoughts, words and action.
And admitting when your wrong, now thats a biggie.
Going for the ‘well a lot of people think like me’ Even if your blessing something positive. kinda blows ...chillax -
Hard News: The place where things happen…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Maybe only individuals can conceive those goods because those goods are individual.
Interesting point, and seeing as we're generalizing(cause thats what ya do at conferences, unless someones got something earthshattering to say on a subject).
All people and animals, yes, will experience something a high?
But seeing as we're talking 'umans here that general something is where understanding it runs into individuals.Perhaps we could all have a smoke and talk about it, yes all of us. Figure out a lot of stuff thats going Kablooey. Buckle up for the next few centuries as this GW thing runs through our planet. Dont know where that word worm "navel gazing is boring" came about. When in certain states of mind...
Oh thats right! we've got all those fats cats that need supporting.
What was I thinking... -
Obama ---- when he rolls up
Sorry couldnt resist ;))
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Up Front: Cui bono?, in reply to Emma Hart,
Excellent post.
It's the system itself.
Its predicated on thinking the worst of other people, and having an angelic view of ones self. Ego protection on a grand scale, it sucks!
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Hard News: Labour's medical cannabis…, in reply to BenWilson,
flaccid
Yeah well lets not mock old men vicariously but I kinda meant behaviours, as in mental straitjackets of behaviour.
If you've ever seen a person who has never had acid take it and try and keep control of everything, even when the walls and floor start going all wavy and everything rotates and turns into a colour spectrum.
Its a sight.;-)
but anyhoo
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/11/lsd-impact-brain-revealed-groundbreaking-images -
Hard News: Labour's medical cannabis…, in reply to linger,
proposed use of psilocybin
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, psychedelics have the potential for use in breaking down the pathologically rigid behaviours
Yeah give it to the pathologically rigid, take your pick...