“Replicator networks,” Jason said, “are one of the things sentient civilizations tend to produce. Given the inherent difficulty of sublight-speed travel as a way of exploring the galaxy, most technological cultures eventually settle for an
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“People who admit that race-based “affirmative action” has been counterproductive, for example, nevertheless advocate affirmative action based on poverty or some other socioeconomic criteria.59 The fact that their policies have already inflicted decades of racial strife, polarization and lasting bitterness—among both the ostensible beneficiaries and those who resent the preferences given to the ostensible beneficiaries60—leaves those who orchestrated this policy undaunted in seeking to continue exercising their preemptive prerogatives. The boldness of their presumptions contrasts sharply with their suppression of relevant data61 and the silencing and demonizing of those with different views, instead of answering their arguments.”
― Discrimination and Disparities
― Discrimination and Disparities
“Well, your Honor, a person must perceive, and then truly believe, that diet and exercise are, instead, necessary blessings which have the power to keep brain cells alive.”
― Parkinsonian Democracy - Special Edition: A Legal Fiction Advocating Diet and Exercise for Parkinson's
― Parkinsonian Democracy - Special Edition: A Legal Fiction Advocating Diet and Exercise for Parkinson's
“In that vein, Counsel boldly asserts his method of using intense aerobic therapy, as a way of coping with Parkinson’s disease, by attempting to jump start and restore the electro-chemical life left in his remaining brain cells, can be likened to how he recharges the dying cells in a car battery.”
― Parkinsonian Democracy - Special Edition: A Legal Fiction Advocating Diet and Exercise for Parkinson's
― Parkinsonian Democracy - Special Edition: A Legal Fiction Advocating Diet and Exercise for Parkinson's
“Certainly there have been many examples of times and places where money or other physical wealth has been confiscated by governments or looted by mobs. But physical wealth is a product of human capital—the knowledge, skills, talents and other qualities that exist inside the heads of people—where it cannot be confiscated.”
― Discrimination and Disparities
― Discrimination and Disparities
“Much of what is said in the name of “social justice” implicitly assumes three things: (1) the seemingly invincible fallacy that various groups would be equally successful in the absence of biased treatment by others, (2) the cause of disparate outcomes can be determined by where statistics showing the unequal outcomes were collected, and (3) if the more fortunate people were not completely responsible for their own good fortune, then the government—politicians, bureaucrats and judges—will produce either efficiently better or morally superior outcomes by intervening.”
― Discrimination and Disparities
― Discrimination and Disparities
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