tom sarbeck

 Is it ethically wrong to join a religion you don’t really believe?

No I don’t think so. People join social groups they think little of, even volunteer for causes they don’t care about, play on the teams for sports they don’t like and so on. There are all sorts of reasons people join groups for reasons other than doing the activities the group is…[Read more]

Any chance one could just put their toe in the water and let on that it’s just temporary, until oneself and kid can get back on their feet?

I suppose it helps to look at it by comparing it with similar exercises:

Imagine you live in the UK and you decide to join and actively participate in the Labour Party, the Conservative Party, the Lib-Dems, the Greens, the Communists, the far right-racist ones, the Official Monster Raving Loony Party all at once and participate in them equally.…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
But for 1500 will they be willing to risk zombieism?

Sign me up!

Covid response will look a whole lot different next year, with some federal backbone added to it, and I think attitudes will change… except maybe of course in Cult45 members, in which case I say let the cards fall where they will. The kind of Darwinism we see…[Read more]

Canada is considering a wealth tax. Their biggest concern are the extreme steps the wealthy would inevitably take to avoid paying wealth tax including sending their capital out of the country. If it were introduced it would have to be done VERY intelligently and thoroughly working hard to avoid as many loop holes as possible. I would say…[Read more]

A handful of communal programs do work out well when they are democratically put in to play. Universal health care is one of them. Ontario, Canada has a centralised milk board in which almost all milk production is regulated by the province (of course you still have private actors running the farms but they have to sell their milk to the province…[Read more]

Robert I think it’s much less about cooperation than simply providing needed social services. It’s not as though a tax payer cooperates with the homeless, the disabled, someone who needs medical attention or someone temporarily in a bind. They are willing to part with their tax dollars to limit suffering AND also enjoy the clear benefits of living…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
It may in fact be illusory, but we experience it as free will.

Oh, the irony, God invisibly forcing us to believe in free will. 🙂