Well of course, there's no substitute for a highschool degree but he did do a bunch of heavy reading

Well yeah, they assassinated him

There are benefits to religion but *not nearly* as many as religious people claim and these benefits do *not* include morality

and that's not all, there are also far more disadvantages

Islam got people in the middle east to stop drinking alcohol for instance. This much is clear and undeniable

There are lots of studies that call into question the popular belief that religious people are more moral than atheists

You'd know what I'm talking about if you had religious christian parents who beat you in your childhood

I can also provide sources that corporal punishment has bad effects on children and is linked with increased levels of aggression

It just shows that the majority of big religions are outdated with lots of outdated prescriptions that don't align with modern morality

@Dima is a tree. You're a mess of contradictions

@Dima is a tree. with what?

Yes but that's beside the point

The point is you need to get your roles in order

Or have none like me

Wait a minute... "L1 Rookie"

NOOOo

I see,

In that case I was mistaken

Tell, me do your other selves talk to you? Do you hear their voices?

Do other people hear them?

Now listen, it's okay not to have *real* friends

I see, I see. Well, these are not good signs. I'm afraid it means you're going to die... unless

No no, it's too risky...

Ideally what you want is only the most qualified people voting but as soon as you defy the precedent of universal suffrage, you open up a lot of opportunities for corruption

The power to decide whose vote counts more and whose vote counts less is too dangerous in the wrong hands and the best way of keeping it out of the wrong hands is making sure it's never used

@!GoldenKingship! Actually diversity is conducive to the security of the nation. Immigrants are attracted to places where there is some presence of their ethnic group so having more diversity makes the country more attractive to immigrants.

and the labor they provide and businesses they start up stimulate the economy which helps the nation stay secure

Exactly

Except that on average immigrants are usually part of the working-age young male demographic

But the origin country gets the remittances so they're usually happy

Well in the context of the US the major immigrant groups that come in do send money back

I think some central asian country got like 40% of its income from remittances

eh, it depends

Because the US has technology that most countries don't so people in the US generally are more productive and make more money

Yeah, so it's better if they send money back while living in the US than in their own countries

Since they'll probably make a lot more

That depends

In some cases illegal immigrants contain a lot of people we don't want and in some cases they contain mostly people that we do want but that can't get through because of quotas

So I'm not just gonna make a blanket statement about all of them

Well ideally I'd want the system to be reformed so that it's easier for them to get through *if* they're good

It's the movement of resources and services

Yeah but adam smith also believed in the invisible hand

Adam smith couldn't compete with modern economists in a debate

inb4 externalities

It's not about more or less power. They each have their own separate roles

It's hard to answer. How do you measure economic power?

What's even the reasoning behind this "you should only learn the history of the country you live in"

History is highly-connected

To understand america's history you have to understand britain's history

and plus knowledge of world history can still be just as pertinent. World history shows us what systems, tactics and strategies fail and which ones succeed and it helps us better understand our enemies and those we have to compete with

@Deleted User Why?

@⭐ trunks ⭐ That sample size is too small. It'd be better if you looked at non-anecdotal evidence to draw conclusions from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics @Pelth The intertemporal choice section pretty much agrees with that

If they sped up progress there'd be lots of deflation

For example as technology has advanced phones have been getting smaller and cheaper

Yeah, there are some countries in europe that have completely outlawed corporal punishment in the home and at school I think

and their kids don't turn out all that bad

I wonder if we could get a psychology doctor or something to weigh in on this

Yeah but we're talking about disobedience with kids

not necessarily the focus of crime

which deals more with the way criminals tend to act

Yes but studying adult crime vs child crime is very different

and anyway this isn't even just about crimes anyway. It's more like child disobedience in general

Yes but what I'm saying is that we want to focus on specifically that area

@Techpriest He's saying the influence of temperature is accounted for

In his studies

@Techpriest "A confounding variable, accounted for in a multitude of studies". He is saying that

*Physioeconomics: The Basis for Long-Run Economic Growth*

This is an environmental possibilism book

and I would say based on it that, yes, it does

That's frankly not what the debate is about

The argument Cosby is making is that it's accounted for

Okay but that doesn't mean that the focus of the argument is whether crime and heat are related

but it can

scroll up @Boo

I see, but that kind of belongs more in <#518779466512596992>

Yes

You're talking about how temperature effects crime rates and there's a channel specifically talking just about the temperature of the climate

and you do realize this is <#523834972126052352> right?

Right but which channel it belongs it is determined by which area of knowledge something has to do with

People who know religion and philosophy don't know about crime rates and temperatures

People in the climate-debate would be more educated on the subject

Yes because it's closer to their area of knowledge

yes it is

Are you willing to bet that if I took a survey of philosophy courses vs climate courses I would see a lower percentage of the climate courses talk about the effect of temperature on crime rate than the philosophy ones?

wow, very convincing argument

Excellent rebuttal

@!GoldenKingship! Philosophy doesn't prove the existence of god

teleological argument, cosmological argument, the argument where god is supposedly proven by his definition etc these are all fallacious or otherwise based on false premises

@!GoldenKingship! This is actually a type of the argument I was referring to when I said "the argument where god is supposedly proven by his definition"

You see, the argument is fallacious because it uses the predicate of a subject to prove the existence of that subject

Some parts of the north could've been slave states if the balance of slave and free states didn't matter

I think william henry harrison wanted illinois to be a slave state

Yeah, and minimum wages are hard to enforce. Lots of times work that the workers do at home that they still get paid for (ie someone makes a presentation to present at work the next day) goes under the radar

That's what we have standard deviation for

I mean to account for random fluctuations in the climate

@Pelth https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earthtalks-volcanoes-or-humans/#targetText=According%20to%20the%20U.S.%20Geological,CO2%20emissions%20every%20year%20worldwide.

Well at least it decreases stress

stress has negative effects on IQ

and health