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Bottle feeding infants is a tragedy as it deprives them of an essential emotional experience they are intended to receive. Also, breast milk has miraculous healing properties and immune support functions.
While we're on the topic, breast milk can be squirted on wounds or irritated tissues for instant relief.
Drug dealers huh...interesting terminology there
Look at those pictures. Shame on all who are involved in non-human research. These beings belong in the rain forest, not a plastic box inside a laboratory!
Biologically dead? A foolhardy assertion for anyone to make. Nature is nothing if not robust! I have no doubt that at the minimum microbial life has been flourishing throughout, with many other beings likely hiding from view.
New laws mean forcing others to conform to our expectations of their behavior. This is only acceptable when there is a broad social consensus about the necessity of the law. There is no such consensus regarding how social media should operate.
Whole plant foods with plenty of living greens, my friends. We can do it!
Great idea!
It's never a good sign when the government mandates the destruction (or abandonment) of usable goods.
Another shameful footnote in the war on drugs.
Putting what we choose into our own body is a basic human right. Mutually consentual exchanges of goods or services is a basic human right. All victims of these actions are victims of human rights abuses. Part of the global awakening is recognizing this, and rejecting the so-called government's authority to imprison people participating in voluntary exchanges.
If we are concerned about the nature of the goods or services being exchanged, we need to remember that our right to impose on others' freedom comes about only when they engage in direct violence.
Why is this a problem? Why are we trying to manipulate Facebook's hiring practices? We may not like it, but they should be free to hire whomever they please.
This person's experience is not universal and mostly applies to the least desirable tier of programming jobs. A proper list would contain a mention of the physical effects of long term computer use, artificial lighting, plastic-y environments, and the like.
"Facebook does not moderate content in a way that I approve of" is a long way off from "incriminating"
What can be done by the government? Or by individuals taking responsibility for their families?
This is the same story as every other large government initiative. Wasteful and often counterproductive to the stated goal. Trees plant themselves, ya'll! If we stop cutting them down they'll do fine.
Conscious beings must not be subject to these cruel experiments, or any experiments we wouldn't ourselves submit to.
Here's my proposal for taxes. Completely eliminate income tax and every other form of currently existing tax for individuals and businesses. Replace it with a small tax on all electronic transfers, like 1-2%. Compliance is offloaded to private institutions and the entire headache of preparing and filing taxes is eliminated, along with the thousands of pages of laws about and what is and isn't taxed and how much.
This should also result in a significant decrease in federal revenue, which is an important part of the plan as well. I would cut the federal budget about about 90%.
Mass murder of non-humans is not environmentally friendly. Nor is it healthful.
So they can lord over us forever!
The plight of miners is one of the obvious go-tos when we try to explain why government must act to regulate industry. One day a friend pointed out something interesting - that those jobs were taken on by the free choice of the individuals working them.
What should be done when an individual or group offers a job with poor conditions and wages? Presumably if the job is so bad that noone wants it, noone will take it. If someone does want it, and the two parties mutually agree to the conditions, it is not our business to intervene, other than to keep the peace.
It is not the role of government to dictate working conditions or any other terms of employment that are mutually agreed upon by those involved. If there is a disagreement, the interested parties should seek an agreement, and if none can be reached, part ways. Physical violence may not be used to pressure either side to capitulate to the desires of the other. Employers, as with anyone, are to be held accountable for injuries or death resulting from their negligence or misconduct.
Government must give neither labor nor employers special rules or treatment. Employers, as individuals, must be free to hire or release anyone they choose. Individual workers must be free act collectively - or not - and to offer their labor under any terms they choose. Neither side may use physical violence to achieve their ends.
It is indeed true that mining jobs were and are often disrespectful to the human dignity and wellbeing of the workers. Yet, workers seek out these jobs and offer their labor voluntarily. Consentual agreements are not exploitation. If a person is dissatisfied with their job, it is their responsibility to remove themselves from it.
It is also true that poor people are under more economic pressure to take on bad jobs. What should be done? Can we mandate that only safe and well-paying jobs will be offered? We could try, and that choice would inevitably exascerbate the poverty of those people by reducing the availability of employment to them. Further, they would be exposed to even more dangerous and low-paying illegal work.
In the end, the principle of human freedom offers reliable guidance.