You’ve taken the biggest and most important first step: changing yourself. You have become the change you want to see in the world.

Others will follow. Thank you for doing your share.

One snowflake doesn’t make an avalanche, but if enough snowflakes fall, the mountainside is wiped away.

A macro reflection of the drug epidemic.

Typical gaslighting, everyone knows that it will never come back down, because they want everyone to take it up the rump for Trump by paying out their nose for everything.

This is how we get to a post-scarcity society, which is entirely possible in our lifetimes.

All countries and/or regions should have domestic renewable energy production, including battery storage.

So, somewhat like how Portugal gives people who have a substance dependency the choice of jail or participation in a treatment program.

No, I wanted to see if you practiced what you preached. You do, therefore you’re an active part of the solution, rather than part of the problem, which was the people who voted for him, or worse, didn’t vote at all.

I hope that more of the people as a whole in the US will participate in the May 1st general strike, and make it a sustained effort.

Incidentally, what are you currently doing to stop Donald Trump? I’m Canadian, so I’m divesting from anything US.

Community service is technically slavery as well.

Incidentally, what did you do to stop Donald Trump?

The way a people’s government is shaped and interpreted is a direct result of the collective experience of that culture, therefore what I am saying is relevant. Did you read the last sentence of my previous comment? That’s what I really think.

Edit to add that I agree that slavery is wrong. My original statement was about how things came to be, not to pass any particular judgement on it.

My wife and stepdaughter are from Africa, I understand the racism. Have you ever considered that I was mocking extreme moral relativism? My question is, why are you passing judgement on the South Koreans?

For the record, I think that the Scandinavian model of rehabilitation is the best way to work with most prisoners.

I’m not defending slavery at all. I’m just attempting to explain why it is. Attempting moral relativism, because South Korea has a unique history and people which led to the way they interpret their punishment system.

I interpret this as a nastier form of community service. He didn’t get the three year sentence, he got six months. He also partly brought this upon himself, as per the article when he was bragging online about how he wouldn’t serve a day in jail. They decided to make an example of him. Also, any South Koreans that I have met are unfailingly nice people, but in their core, they are a hard and pragmatic people.

The point I’m trying to make is that people should be free of prosecution if they are being aggressively harassed, both physical and verbal. It used to be, you ran your mouth, you would get a punch in the face to knock some sense back into you. Immediate consequences for stupidity.

In Soviet Russia, meat grinds you!

Yes, the EU should continue to expand their high speed rail service between cities to make up for the flights. They should also encourage WFH for anyone that can do it. Why use more transportation than is necessary?

The defence would be that they felt their lives were being threatened by the persistent harrassment.

Exactly. It’s just the natural consequences of a social experiment.