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"But, that would require producing results that you can take to the bank." Is it conceivable that a study like this could establish usable market niches for specific types of looks and body types? I imagine that it's already done to find models for advertisements. While I understand your skepticism about evolutionary psychology, I find
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Perhaps the scientist could get a job doing market research for an escort agency.
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http://blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland/2011/04/15/capitalism-is-failing-the-middle-class/ Apparently because it isn't creating enough jobs. Or something.
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"(The FDA doesn't make or distribute drugs. They license capitalists to.... Any deaths caused by a drug company was caused by capitalists.)" The OP was talking about the drugs that were withheld from the market by the FDA. That would include drugs the FDA explicitly prohibited and those that weren't developed due to the FDA increasing
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"Have you read Hoppe, Democracy: the god that failed?" I haven't yet. I was riffing off the Winston Churchill quote.
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"What's the alternative to democracy?" Well, it's the best form of government that's been tried. Maybe we should look at alternatives to government.
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I may not understand the question, but part of it isn't accurate. The stipulation that A requires B (let's say cake requires an oven to exist) contains the premise: If cake (A) exists then an oven (B) exists, not that an oven requires cake.
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"Since rich people can only make money because society made it possible for them, it is only fair that they pay more taxes than those with less money." Money is society's way of giving back to them. We're square.
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"This isn't LRC, if you have feedback about LRC, email Lew. It is so tiresome to read all of these anonymous internet nobodies who want every website and every author to express their values, as though their values are any better than those of anyone else. If you don't like the content at LRC, stop donating. That assumes any of these axe
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"Humans are rational animals. Rationality includes free will and conscious knowledge, which are not scientific concepts. We can comprehend free will, but we can't define it. Humans are embodied spirits." While I think that rationality does require the ability to imagine possible futures and select among them, the brain relies on deterministic