@david_parker Most of the world envies the life of Canadians. This bubble-wrapped entitlement to want to leave when the going gets tough is the result of being too insulated from how the rest of the world lives to appreciate what you have. You're a poster child for selfishness and cowardice.
@GadSaad@sapinker Intellectuals like @sapinker don't respect pseudo-intellectuals like @GadSaad because they don't care to persuade people they diagree with. They only preach in echo chambers to feed their egos. @GadSaad isn't the only one, he's just the clearest example of this behavior.
@clairlemon Gad Saad is a cover band. A marauding pseudo-intellectual, only interested in persuasion insofar as it feeds his own ego. He's the PZ Myers of the right.
@clairlemon The Divided States of America loses war after war and then gets upset when much wiser educated countries - that so many Americans like to disrespect - don't join them in their failures.
@cohler True, but if you don't know enough about a subject, the best you can do is to follow the consensus of experts when there is one. They could be wrong. But as a matter of probability, you're more likely to be closer to the truth. Those who think otherwise are dismissed as arrogant
@Noahpinion "All the leftists."
Hitchens razor:
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence"
Noah suffers from the Tyranny of the Dichotomous Mind"
@reporterchris Matthew Tkachuck is incapable of making such a decision. Ask Kyle Connor. It's ridiculous that he even wears a letter for the Divided States of America.
@CBCOlympics@TeamHoman@BRPglobal Does the entire team get a medal or just Homan? It's hard to tell when sports journalism seems to focus more on the skip with their headlines than is warranted.
@mattwridley Yup. Many people around the world were quite silent as Hitler began his rise to power. They shouldn't have been. Yet we still see the same silent behavior today - even by those drawing attention to this fact. Tribalism can turn even smart people very stupid.
@annakaharris@bigthink I think we need to ask ourselves why we assume consciousness is so special. Rare? Maybe. But maybe it's no more special than a Quasar.
@coldxman Why would it be bad if all of Earth's life were somehow wiped out in a painless instant, without warning, by something inanimate and without intention? Good luck.