Morgan Kane

@mriana, i fully agree with you, anti vaxs are mad people, especially those against Covid vax.

the matter is why ?

I would say lack of trust, lack of education, and fear. And i would not forget susceptibility to fake news.

Nice news

Mriana Do I sound like I care? I don’t even believe trade unions will be dumb enough to cave into not getting vaccinated against COVID-19, especially after what happened to the meat packers, who BTW are getting vaccinated, if they aren’t already.

SUD, a French trade union is calling health workers to go on strike to protest against com…[Read more]

 Religion comes from within us, not from outside intervention.  Take responsibility for yourself.

It sums ut nicely the whole for me, and justly.

Know thyself, complets it.

As long as humanity does not know itself it will be limited in its progress.

Reason and rationality are way to see the world. Logic is an intellectual tool.

One can use logic to an irrational view of the world.

@Mrmhead

Like any common consultant knows, the correct answer is always It Depends.

If the appropriation is for exploitation – just for money, fame, etc – then, Yes it is wrong.

If it’s simply for interest or admiration, “Imitation is the best compliment” … or something like that.

Something in between?  It depends.

I have a summer outfit in wa…[Read more]

We get the same trouble in France.

I am fully vaccinated, so is my wife, so are most members of our families.

Why do people resolutely don’t want to be vaccinated ?

Misinformation, fear, lack of trust in government, science and ” main stream media”, underplaying the disease form a very powerful mix.

An exemple: in France, in hospital, half of…[Read more]

Not sure where to post this:

I have much enjoyed our exchanges theses last months.

I will be off net from to day up to the 5th of august.

See you

An exemple about the way religious fanatics see reality :

https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0046

I have practiced table top role playing game since 1980 and i have never practiced witchcraft.

Before the Bols was the Tzar. Now there is  a dictatorship for you!

For me, no thanks !

Russian democratic history is very poor, let’s say that neither Tsarism, Bolchevism  or Putin tempt me.

My utopia would be anarchism…..

For those interested, i advise them to read “the left hand of darkness “, from Ursula K. Leguin.

Decentralization is one thing, Feudalism is another one !

If you break the global states in autonomous entity, each having its own money, you give power to local rulers and big corporations. In such a schema, democracy is a loser.

In France, administrative decentralization was set by a leftist government in 1982. The results are not convincing…[Read more]

The Catholic Church probably accelerated progress in the Middle Ages by preserving and transmitting certain scientific and technological knowledge inherited from antiquity (it can be argued that Islam did it more, in particular for mathematics, medicine, or architecture).

After that, the Catholic Church and its conservative dogmas arguably…[Read more]

I say this here because I think society as we know is corrupted in ways we can see and understand and the ways to fix it are available to us.

I cannot answer for Lausten, i can answer for me.

Society is corrupted by money, by capitalism, by individualism, by fanaticism and by egotism.

The four are linked.

The way to repair our society…[Read more]

Fanatics are fanatics:

For them a miscarriage is an abortion.

This would make me cry:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/miscarriages-abortion-jail-el-salvador/

USA are not immune …

ttps://www.businessinsider.com/women-30-years-prison-miscarriage-georgia-abortion-2019-5?IR=T

Europe e…[Read more]

Life is very resilient. I think that our civilisation will collapse and that milliards of people will die before we extinct life.

Congratulations for your English, @write4u

Some joke is needed sometimes

But the original question was about the passengers of the Titanic. And both answers are right: the passengers could have prepared themselves to survive, but it would not have prevented the ship to hit the iceberg. In fact, at this time, it was too late for that, as the passengers had no reason to take mesures to…[Read more]

In France, the killing of a fœtus is not an homicide.

The Court of Cassation, the highest French court for civil and penal law,  decided that in 2001, in its most solennel formation.

The fœtus had been killed in a car accident and the mother wanted that the man responsable of the accident be condemned for homicide.

To sum up the case, the qu…[Read more]

I think that unborn children are not babies before the 14th week of pregnancy.

I think that abortion is a right of the woman who needs it.

But that’s becoming circular.

I will agree that abortion is not a miracle solution and that the best solution is to prevent pregnancy.

@dad1, if you are against abortion, which is your right, you should…[Read more]

Planting is an exemple of something simple to do, not only as creating carbon sinks but also as fighting heat and desertification, enhancing biodiversity and so.

I agree that even needed, it will not be enough.

One priority is to reduce our wasting of natural ressources and pollution of oceans and air. And that means rebuilding our whole way to…[Read more]