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90% of those cancer kills are elderly. The elderly indirectly kill many people and ruin society because they keep voting after their brains turn to mush.

Did the Golden Rule apply to women, gays, and slaves over the last 3000 years?

The definition of moral imperative is "an ethical principle, rule, or action that is strongly felt, urgent, and required because it is morally right." The Golden Rule is clearly not a strongly felt part of the human condition, or it would not be so ignored over ages and continents.

> It's an incredible engineering achievement to build in massive fans and rocket engines into a high performance car. It's truly wild.

It's not a high performance car. It's a shell of a car.

Surprised to find anti-intellectualism like this on HN.

The majority of the affordability crisis stems from car dependency and excessive need for infrastructure due to bad zoning policy.

That falls under deceptive advertising.

The pay for doctors does not matter for recruiting more doctors when the bottleneck is residencies.

The probability of it becoming a catastrophe was infinitesimally low with the existence of TCAS.

It's basically a benevolent dictatorship due to one party being in charge for the last 67 years.

The difference between you and Amazon is hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations and lobbying. Amazon certainly has the political connections to make defense of its datacenters a national security priority of the strongest military on earth if it made it a priority.

Excluding war as force majeure in the Middle East is the same as excluding high tide as force majeure building a sandcastle at low tide.

Braess's/Pigou's Paradox that more car lanes cause more traffic was found in the 1920's. We massively overbuilt for the car regardless and keep getting worse traffic to this day.

What democratically established laws? This is America. Policy is determined 95% by monied interests over the preference of voters at large.