Mns wrote:
Why do you ask such stupid questions?
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Are the hyphens supposed to make you look smarter?
I had a teacher, in highschool, who was by far the best teacher I ever had. There was something he always said.
Question everything, especially authority.
He encouraged us to question even what he was teaching - which was physics in this particular case.
When someone would ask what the rest of the class thought was a stupid question, he would bring up the old adage: There is no such thing as a stupid question.
The hyphens were simply to break up a large set. To categorize questions with questions on similar topics.
Mns wrote:
Serious Question: Have you ever had a job, Weena?
Yes. I've had a number of them.
I have even worked for less than minimum wage at an actual job (as opposed to a charity).
I've worked for charity too.
Dvergar wrote:
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What's wrong with having a researcher look for investment or donations to fund their research?
Why fund the curing of a disease when you can keep people on your pills until they die. Private investment leads to 5 different erectile pills and no cure for the diseases of the poor. If you fundamentalists are so anti-government that you can't see the benefit of taxpayer-funded medical research I don't think there's any point in having a discussion at all.
Maybe those five erectile pills are a step to the cure? It seems logical to me. In the pursuit for a cure for cancer, we have come up with many treatments and no cure.
In a practical argument:
A free market strives to provide people with what they want. People want cures for diseases. That's the plain version.
To be more precise, people with their own interests (remember, people are interested in curing disease), who are allowed to pursue those interests more fully (by taking less from them) will come to the conclusion (in this case, the conclusion is a cure) with better efficiency. In a worse case scenario, they come to the conclusion with equal efficiency to a public sector centered approach.
In a philosophical argument:
Is it right to force a lesbian to fund research for the cure of erectile dysfunction?
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Sorry Non-white, non-chrisitans, it's totally ok for a state to legally discriminate against you in any way they choose. But don't worry, you can work four a couple dollars an hour for the new super-conglomerate. Without regulations it didn't take long for competition to go out the window (gotta love that free market). But don't worry, the news station is reporting that the super-conglomerate is full of super swell people that really care about you and everything they're dumping into the air and water is totally safe, those epa regulations were just made by meanies (what you won't be told is that the news station is a subsidiary of super-conglomerate). The news even has scientific reports from top researchers (also working for super-conglomerate)! Oh and those few dollars an hour are company script, so you can only use them in super-conglomerate stores. Isn't all this liberty just grand?!?!
This is just hogwash.
