I was taking a jab at fundamentalist libertarians that think no government is somehow a solution.
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Life is pretty fucking miserable for a large part (perhaps even most) of the world on a daily basis. I doubt they'd share your can-do attitude on this subject.
Tinder might be the wrong place for that.
They are not committing their most secretive and effective tools on GitHub for Christ's sake.
Why is that a reason to trust them?
> They all seemed like they genuinely thought what they were doing was helping people.
The worst people in history all thought they were doing good too.
> As a an extra piece of information that I found interesting, they were pushing the diversity stuff hard
Diversity at the NSA doesn't factor whatsoever into whether I trust them or not. The damage they've done to secure communications and their cavalier attitude to dragnet surveillance is all I need to know about them.
Don't buy into the PR bullshit.
They are not staying in the US because it's 'freer'. Increasing numbers are leaving once they got what they came for.
If you limiting yourself to a single tool and refusing to learn anything else you are doing yourself a disservice.
People reproduce for the same reasons any other species reproduces though; they are a vehicle for their genetic code. That's what biological life is and we are not somehow separate or unique from the rest of nature in that regard.
To do that just because it is my biological imperative has never seemed like a very good justification to me. So my ancestors all reproduced over the cause of many millennia and that means I should also reproduce...why exactly? To continue the bloodline? For what purpose? I don't have any interest in being a part of that.
Your second point seems sensible though. Don't make things worse while you're here, leave it the same or better and try to live your life without causing harm to others.
I tend to believe that life is mostly suffering (and for most of the world it demonstrably is) sporadically dotted with short periods of joy or contentment. None of us have a choice in being born but the least we can do is try to make life easier for ourselves and everybody else as we struggle through this experience in quiet desperation.
Beyond that it all starts to sound like baseless ideology and narrow-minded religion pushed on us by people who desire to (with futility) control all the variables in their own subjective experience of this life.
Humanity will one day no longer exist and it will be as if we never existed at all. The universe is that massive and indifferent to our existence, and it too will come to an end.
I like how you're trying to make like the financial crash was no big deal because this 'oversight' worked in this narrow context.
I wonder if you'd claim that the banks lending out too much money didn't have absolutely catastrophic effects on the economy in general and by association, millions of people's livelihoods around the globe.
I'm not sure why you believe that. HR exists to protect the company from its staff. This just screams to me that they were in damage control mode.
Up until recently Disney had very very few, if any, original works, and yet they are the most extreme in their pursuit of copyright and its enforcement.
They are not the same thing.
You could potentially own property on the land but not the land itself.
I read history textbooks written by actual historians and on this particular subject, I speak with people who lived through it on a regular basis and spend time in former Soviet states; they are my extended family through my partner.
You, clearly, have spent no time in any former soviet states and I'd wager you've never spoken to an Eastern European native.
I have no wish to continue talking to someone who can't post anything substantial.
All the examples I gave were freely available even to the regular workers. I've spent enough time in Poland and Ukraine to know I'm getting this information from people who actually lived through this. Primary sources.
Most wouldn't go to university, sure, but that is also true of the west. Not everybody goes to university, some become labourers or take up a trade.
Free child care, free healthcare, free education. Even free psychiatric help (something we sorely need in he west). The quality of this varied greatly sure, but it was freely available. These are basic socialist principles that are practices even by enlightened western nations today (just not the US, obviously). These were pillars the USSR was built on.
The fact that it had colossal failings elsewhere does not detract from this.
> Can you give some specific examples?
I already did.
I'm not denying the system was highly corrupt and many people suffered, but you are denying even basic truisms that you could confirm yourself if you got out of your bubble or read some history books.
The things I am saying are not excusing the horrible things the system engaged in. It would be interesting if you held your own country to the same standards as well. It wouldn't come out as clean and shiny as you think.
You are arguing from the perspective of someone who thinks there was literally NOTHING positive about the system at all. You are deliberately ignoring what I am saying and your responses in this thread have been little more than "I disagree because the USSR was bad".
This is just pure fundamentalism and I'm not going to continue arguing with an ideologue. It's wasted effort.
I'm done.