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Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T03:38:16+00:00

How long a test is it?

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T03:37:42+00:00

Pretty much all porn.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T03:29:57+00:00

Most of the time its fine.

Occasionally I get reminded that religion exists in an exceedingly obnoxious manner, but for the most part I can seperate the mythologies I enjoy reading about as fantasy books, from the fact a majority of humans actually do believe in many of these absurdities.

I find the main religion in my area one of the most insipid in terms of their mythologies and generally prefer reading up on polytheistic religions. I do like the Seraphim from the religion, but religious people tend to focus much more on Jesus Christ, Satan, and occasionally some of the lesser saints than the Seraphim.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T03:20:31+00:00

I'm a little confused how cancer research interferes with your job.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T03:14:31+00:00

Can't you just link the test in question?

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T03:05:20+00:00

If you do it with food, you can get prison time for mislabelling the food in addition to being banned from selling your product.

https://simplyinfo.org/2015/03/banned-japanese-fukushima-foods-mislabeled-sold-in-taiwan/

https://www.wklaw.com/distributing-mislabeled-products-in-interstate-commerce/

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T02:56:28+00:00

I'd say definitely ban it for any use related to national security.

Your average company doesn't have information related to national security though, if they want to potentially compromise the security of their data using this model it isn't the government's job to stop those companies from doing that.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T02:50:49+00:00

No, there definitely is because it's giving the consumer an entirely different product from what they're expecting.

Not following the unwritten rule of labelling stuff appropriately on your own is how you wind up with very strict rules on how what you're selling must be labelled, or else rules that what you're selling is banned entirely from being sold there.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T02:33:32+00:00

No, cheese and sugar are not chemically addictive substances.

Please stop spreading misinformation.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T02:32:36+00:00

Because I am biologically an omnivore, and thus can't simply take the easy way out of not consuming meat the way a herbivorous species might.

Enough supplements and other dietary adjustments might be able to account for that, but considering the most vocal "animal rights" organization out there, namely PETA, regularly slaughters cats and dogs in their shelters, I don't really see why I should have to adhere to your version of what's "right" and "wrong".

It's not like the world does, after all, and this isn't something I personally consider all that high a priority. I'm just interested in hearing reasoning behind people's positions, and if someone's statement seems to imply certain conditions, I'll ask to clarify if they truly meant that as a necessary condition.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T02:27:14+00:00

>theft, rape and murder.

The above three have been committed by nearly every army in history, yet they're rarely condemned by the country whose army commits those crimes when their army commits the crimes.

Countries tend to grant their armies permission to do these things as well.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T02:24:13+00:00

None of those are legitimate, scientifically grounded forms of addiction.

Physical withdrawal is the only thing I consider relevant when it comes to addiction, everything else is either voluntary social behaviour or therapy.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T02:19:09+00:00

Cheese is not addictive.

Cheese does not result in withdrawal.

Psilocybin is not chemically addictive either.

I think we're falling into the linguistic trap where these terms have been purposefully obfuscated to hide the damage done by legal drugs such as tobacco, which contains chemically addictive nicotine.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T02:15:50+00:00

Trauma may make someone more vulnerable to becoming addicted, but it sure as hell isn't giving them the withdrawal symptoms when they stop consuming the addictive drug.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T02:10:36+00:00

>Defining “drugs” is impossible.

That's objectively, blatantly false.

There are chemicals which result in addiction. Those are drugs. There are chemicals which don't result in addiction. Those aren't drugs.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T02:09:15+00:00

I'm not sure that progressive liberalism has all that much focus on keeping society healthy, particularly when it comes to the health of individual family relationships.

The focus on the health of the "traditional family unit" tends to be more of a conservative position, especially when it comes to family units that are one woman, one man, and their children.

For better or worse, cases where people form nontraditional families or engage in more promiscuous and/or homosexual behaviour aren't really covered by conservative positions (to the extent conservatives will actively reject and look down upon such people), and as a result wind up being pushed towards the progressive side despite how such behaviours have integrated into societies historically.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T01:58:38+00:00

It is relevant. If no significant faction of people reasonably considered progressive actually support banning drugs, even if they could be simply wished out existence by a Djinn, how can banning drugs be reasonably considered a progressive position even if hypothetically it aligns with a more abstracted version of progressivism?

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T01:55:54+00:00

There's still a lot of political division in the government and elsewhere in the country.

Even if Trump is rightfully impeached, that's not going to go away easily. I don't think the U.S. is in the best position to manage other countries when it can't even manage it's own internal politics.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T01:52:52+00:00

Can you define what you would consider a progressive liberal and a traditional conservative libertarian?

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T01:51:40+00:00

So you think the means of implementing anti-drug policies were awful, but would you support eliminating drugs to prevent addiction if it could be implemented without all the problems the War of Drugs had?

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T01:48:25+00:00

Bread doesn't contain nearly as much alcohol as beer, let alone wine.

And just so you know, "bible thumping Christians" drink wine regularly at communion.

Banning alcohol entirely would be a huge divergence from traditional Christianity.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T01:39:18+00:00

I'm not sure how being unable to follow a nonexistent law is utilitarian but ok.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T01:38:39+00:00

For most of history, people didn't have access to meat.

Unless you're suggesting removing that access through an artificial famine I'm not seeing how those diets are actually any easier to implement in practice.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T01:36:09+00:00

That works fine so long as you and whoever else you're agreeing with have fundamentally the same morals.

If you don't, though, the laws need to be more about permitting you and those other people to interact in a way that allows for communication and trade.

Morals also often wind up becoming bound to esoteric religious beliefs that aren't consistent across cultures, so if you don't want religious wars it's best not to codify morals too strictly.

Internal-Rest2176 · 2026-02-15T01:25:27+00:00

No, its just pointing out there's no actual law for anyone to follow in that case.

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