I'm not making up my words. I'm taking existing words and then using their general meaning as a reference to help extrapolate my ideas. If there is one thing that emotions can do that words cannot, it is truly communicate and understand an idea.

I can tell you that a tree is gray, but you wouldn't know what shade of gray. It is when we look at the tree and see what texture and shade of gray it is that we truly nurture an understanding for the tree and its color, its highly specific color.

The dictionary is highly victim to this plague. Prime example of the cancer it causes is with the definition of Feminism. For most, it's about treating women and men technically the same. But for others, it carries the connotation and idea of slaughtering men, advocating for feminine superiority etc.

It is much the same with some other words. For example, Republic and Democracy.

Much like the tree and its color, an understanding of idea is very different that the words surrounding it. Thus we have the purpose of communication and language and the importance of its clarity, precision and etc.

Smedley, where there is progress, there are always those who would rather see us regress.

No. No one is going to burn down your crops for absolutely no gain.

Yes. Yes they will. It's sheer human nature. You have something that they want. They might not burn the crops, but they might take them.

In psychology, there's a field called something like Ego Depletion. It centers around the idea that we can only resist so much temptation before we succumb. There's some evidence for and against it, but it is believed that we are looking at it the wrong way and there's likely reasons behind the ideas surrounding it that explain it, but the general idea is believed plausible.

If we were to apply this field, we'd find the temptation of stealing crops to far outweigh not stealing them, and instead walking along.

It's pure human nature. As hobbes would say, from my memory-ish, we're all a-holes by default. We see it in survival games such as Minecraft, Rust or Etc. All the time, because that is the reality of no restrictions.

There is no Animal Farm where all animals are equal. There is only chaos and ruin.

Frederick the Great would agree with Genghis, here.

One, you have to get a group of like-minded folk along.

Two, you have to get some guns.

Three, you have to get tools to harvest those crops.

Four, try repeating.

No one will sell a darn thing to you because you're stealing from their clients. This applies to buying ammunition, medical supplies and water. You would have private policing groups out , looking around for your band of raiders, who have the support of folk , and a much bigger base of assets.

Between having a unstable income that depends on putting yourself in a incredibly dangerous situation and having a easy way to just get by like a normal person, I think being a normal person is the logical route.

Frederick the Great

He was an awful man, way way too idolised, a dirty Austrian. Don't call him "the Great", call him "the womanhater", or the "pogromstarter", but not in any case, the Great.

Well then all you're doing is creating a government. People see the issues around them, agree to put aside minor differences and unify under an identity and pledge support for a greater cause and a self-governed society.

No, they're just not selling to that prick and letting a private company kill him.

Well where do they the get the money for the company? Aren't they. .. paying... taxes. ...

They're giving them money voluntarily (taxes are extortion) for services. Like a company.

And it isn't about deaths anyway. Potheads are incredibly stupid (I speak from experience), they don't care about anything; they do nothing but think about pot. Smokers may kill themselves, but at least they can function in society.

my dad is from the netherlands and occasionally he smokes a joint (cause its legal there) but he is very smart, he works as a lecturer and researcher in university

You can occasionally smoke one and be okay, but most people become more addicted and dedicate their lives to the next joint. It's like alcohol - in moderation, it can be fine. However, I find more people become dependent on weed than alcohol.

MGSB has a good heart but is deluded. Governments regardless of there negatives are here to stay.

NO TEXAS NO!

Austria? I didn't think Austria was a part of Prussia.

it wasn't darth darth hes an idiot

most people become more addicted and dedicate their lives to the next joint. It's like alcohol - in moderation, it can be fine. However, I find more people become dependent on weed than alcohol.

Who cares if it "functions to society"? They must, or else they'll die (in a decent system), and if they die, who cares? The goal is not to make society great, but to make everyone happy.

Most of the time they function to society anyways. Pot-heads have jobs, use their money for food, rent and other goods, and use some money for marijuana supplied to them from another bloke. That's perfectly functioning.

Really? No one on Earth died from smoking weed? I call bullshit.

And it isn't about deaths anyway. Potheads are incredibly stupid (I speak from experience), they don't care about anything; they do nothing but think about pot. Smokers may kill themselves, but at least they can function in society.

most people become more addicted and dedicate their lives to the next joint. It's like alcohol - in moderation, it can be fine. However, I find more people become dependent on weed than alcohol.

Gosh, aparently people here understand drugs as well as they understand politics.

Potheads are incredibly stupid

False. In my last school year, we had some 40 students divided in 2 classes. In the top 10 students, really smart, at least 7 smoked weed in a regular basis or smoked it at least once. They're all gonna go to great colleges, I assure you. For the 10 dumbest students, most didn't smoke weed and said that doing that would fry your brains; not smoking weed didn't make them any smarter trust me.

Smokers may kill themselves, but at least they can function in society.

I've met in a party a business man that is very successful and makes shitloads of money. He offered me cocaine, which I did refuse ;), and he told me his craziest stories with every kind of drug you can imagine. Using drugs require a good state of mind and personality, like drinking alchohol (a drug too btw) you must do it with responsability.

However, I find more people become dependent on weed than alcohol.

Again false. The rate of dependency in weed use is arround 1/16 or 6% for teens. If you start drinking in your teens the chance that you become an alcoholic is arround 16%. Also people see dependency in a wrong way. Any kind of dependency is usually a consequence of your social interactions and state of mind, and you can get away from dependency with adequate help. Drugs aren't for the weak, but only for the strong of mind.


About drug addiction and recovery, there's a very interesting experiment that was made on rats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park