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Or the roads the Inca built as well.

It's remarkable to me how many seem to forget there is "morality" apart from "legality". Even if this does violate some treaty somewhere, we need not wring hands over the death of an objective dictator.

Defend your thesis

Well, there are other things you can look at. For one, Khamenei was dictator of a regime that abducts women and recently murdered 10s of thousands of protesters in the streets. I'd reckon most, including Iranians, would not judge the killing of such an individual immoral, unjust or uncivilized.

Not a skeptic, but I've seen these studies for a while. Do we have any idea what the mechanism could be?

Agreed. I see far too many people rationalizing piracy as a principled thing to do. Instead of finding ways to improve the market such that the control of content isn't siloed in monopolistic corporations, many celebrate Annas Archive which is itself a more or less monopolistic profit-interested entity. The major difference being that we don't have to pay directly. The cost continues to fall on the writers and artists and the industry suffers.

Do you have an injury? Knees over toes exercises can do wonders for rehab. From a form perspective, it also helps to avoid heel-striking.

I think it's more beneficial to think in terms of incentive structures. How we structure societies and industries can incentivize virtue, but it can also disincentivize fradulance and incentivize good clean work more directly.

And even minus the BS, researchers seem more comfortable with making minor incremental improvements in established science rather than taking risks.

Yeah, it's there in every industry, though it seems more prevalent in those that are heavily reliant on taxpayer money.

If the Chixulub asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit us today, humans would probably survive.

Even if over 99.99% are wiped out, that still leaves a decent number to figure it out.

It is estimated that human and human ancestor population has dropped as low as a few thousand in the past.

Life would be glum, but causing complete human extinction is not as easy as it sometimes appears.

And the war would have to carry on centuries to maintain the current rate. If there is a subtle insidious plot to erode the population of Gaza over time, it is a huge flop.

The first mistake would be Israel's unilateral withdraw from Gaza in 2005, ethnically cleansing its own citizens from the region to make way for the Palestinians.

The population of Gaza has increased by roughly a million since then, which I must say isn't great for the Zionist plot.

Exactly. From 1950-67 Jordan occupied the West Bank and Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip from 1959-67. At no point during this time was there any desire on part of the Palestinians to establish a Palestinian state.

The Palesinians don't want a state, they want no Israel.

I could on and on with historical examples, but it doesn't seem many here are interested in that sort of thing.