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Yes, a willful misunderstanding of the point. Not a thing you mentioned was an example of "debauchery." So If I am to follow your reasoning, flowing water justifies molesting children? Some people would call sex without procreation in mind "debauchery". But yes, they're really examples of what some...

Yes, science is now making possible such debauchery as has never been tolerated by nature before. Indeed. We hardly need to walk long distances any more. We can watch machines do the work. We can fly, and even jump off the plane for fun. We don't need to go hunting any more, water flows into our ho...

You realize the deep flaw in your logic here? All of those things you mentioned have real life applications for which they are useful. The good is by far the dominant usage, and the bad is a very small component of the whole, and what bad there is is usually the result of an idiot or an @sshole mis...

I mean it is not the period of acceleration (which could be short) that makes the clocks do different things. It is the whole (different) spacetime trajectory that does this. Ok, let's add something to the experiment: Each twin has an extremely long spaceship. They meet tip to tip to synchronize cl...

It travelling at almost c anyway, so faster would be a no-no. Why? Because SR says so? Thought experiment: A. Senna is preparing to race in his relativistic car. He first marches along the track and measures its length L with a tape measure. Then he gets into his car, starts the engine, and acceler...

No in muon FOR the distance from generation to earth is much smaller than in earth FOR. (Sorry, I should have said this earlier). Instead of saying it travels a shortened distance, why exactly would we not say it's moving faster (or that earth isn't moving faster towards it)? I'm not sure Einsteins...

So in earth FOR the muon clock ticks more slowly and it reaches earth before decaying, whereas in muon FOR clocks on earth would appear to tick slowly and the muon decays before it reaches earth? What happens if you build a muon trap on earth that rapidly decelerates the muon? In earth FOR, would th...

Shame to let data rot like this for decades, no matter which direction it ultimately points to. I would suggest that we already have socialism, that it is failing, and that this kind of proposal might be the most capitalistic form of socialism that can be thought of - at least 70% capitalist that is...

Money. They didn't have any. China did, for awhile. Don't you remember how the opium wars started? China wanted nothing the Europeans had to sell. They would only accept Gold in exchange for their silks, jade, fine porcelain, etc. Europeans got tired of paying the Chinese in Gold, so they started s...

My argument is simple. When you legalize drugs, this is what happens. For half of that period opium was illegal in China. But the title of the graph gives a rather big hint on what it was really about: a (trade) war . Then how was China different from Us? If you can't explain why China went into a ...

Well, if you're having a private discussion with MSimon about unrestricted hard drugs, why put it in a public forum?

I'm just arguing exactly what I wrote, with no implied hidden context coming from other threads.

I don't know exactly which proposal you're referring to, but in my understanding "legal" doesn't mean unrestricted. Cannabis could probably be sold under similar rules as alcohol, while many other drugs could be treated as prescription drugs, as they have medical uses.

In my opinion the primary cause of the addiction in China was the widespread AVAILABILITY of the addicting substance. Availability clearly plays a role (as obviously with zero availability there would be no drug use), but it also clearly isn't the only relevant factor. Not to mention that opium pro...

By 1900 China had a MASSIVE addiction problem. If you cannot see this, and explain why the same thing wouldn't happen to us, I see no further point in beating on this horse. I am not denying that China had a massive addiction problem. What I'm asking you is to show evidence that this addiction prob...

I simply find your belief that legalization will not cause skyrocketing addiction to be baffling. We even have the real world example of China When did the legalization cause skyrocketing addiction in China? The Opium exports to china didn't seem to trend downward. Obviously there is something wron...