Why is there so much hate, and why is the country (US) so divided?

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  1. a better world

    a better world Well-Known Member

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    Widespread government advertising of contact numbers ...and threat of police intervention with higher penalties for offenders would greatly reduce the present level of harm.
     
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    How does this mean that women can just simply UP and LEAVE and go to a refuge?
     
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    My vision...and that of one of America's Constitutional founders.

    A pipe dream? No, it's quite simple: civic education, which was the basis of the Enlightenment, as educated men began questioning the old customs and beliefs, so can this knowledge now reach the ordinary man .....if the self-interested ideologues are exposed.

    Apparently not.

    Like I said, Britain was able to develop an iron age economy without money,
    by employing the available real resources (including brain power).

    Which is not to deny that money is a convenient facilitator of exchange, (and a means of establishing (tax) sovereignty over a population, often overlooked).
     
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    Already discussed, though time is of the essence, as they say

    .....without the necessary machinery ie a UNSC without veto, to back its rulings.....

    (You need to study MMT, then you will know the answers to all your questions).

    I already mentioned sales taxes on specified products/services; in fact, in MMT, taxation functions to destroy money, ie, decrease the money supply, if necessary.... to control resource consumption, inter alia.

    But you should be telling me what a great idea MMT is, since the sovereign currency-issuing government won't be bothering you with an annual income- tax bill.
     
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    Nope, you continuously DANCED around the issue, without saying if you would restrict the road in this way. It is clear that you think that personal cars should NOT be taken off the road right now, but you don't want to admit it!
     
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    It's a very different world now compared to back in Thomas Paines' time. He would laugh at the idea today.

    Would religion be eradicated?
     
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    Some won't make it, but harm minimisation ought to be a clear function of government.

    Meanwhile, eradicating poverty and the low self esteem which goes with it, will also produce much-needed, better social outcomes. (We have had all these arguments before....your desperation to support your paranoid claim for individual sovereignty above government management, is showing...)

    I see another question we have already traversed eg, in my comments re Pompeo's fundamentalist beliefs.

    Humanity's relationship to God is ....always changing...the view that ANY extant scripture is the actual 'Word of God' is no longer tenable.
     
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    You seem to be totally clueless as to the effects of lockdown, but you want a lockdown which is stronger than any Democrat in the country has implemented! Even THEY would call you NUTS!
     
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    Yes, well the Dems aren't the CCP (governing a comparable size country) who do want to save lives....and have succeeded.
     
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    You believe the death numbers from China? :roflol:
     

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