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This is called rent seeking. Just siphoning money from society without any benefit.
Re:Kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years on Friday August 02, 2019 @07:01AM (#20592034)
And I'm so happy I live in a country that permits Euthanasia. And the rules for it are clear: (some of them) 1. Intolerable suffering 2. No outlook on any improvement

There are cases where people recover after years being in coma. However, there are many, many, many more people in the same state who never recover, who are just plants.

Life is not sacred. Quality of life is.

Re:Kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years on Friday August 02, 2019 @06:58AM (#20592018)
death for sure.
Re:Kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years on Friday August 02, 2019 @06:56AM (#20592004)
I don't think that life in and of itself is valuable even under terrible conditions. Especially if there is no positive outlook, that things will be better, no reason to hang on.

I think only one thing really matters: QUALITY of life.

Life is not intrinsically sacred. QUALITY of life is to me.

As you know with security, it's very difficult to predict in advance how flaws/loopholes will be exploited.

So the key thing here is to setup a society and government that can quickly respond + adapt and fix loopholes.

Cities don't exist for rich people to exploit. They are the places where we live our lives, the focus is quality of life.

Not some theoretical discussions about 'markets'.

The key problem is the rich buying property for literal rent-seeking to become even richer.

This drives prices up for homes in the city to a point that only if you are in a relationship and over 30 you might be able to buy your first 'home'.

There may be downsides to the measures proposed, but the fun part of government is that you can learn, change and adapt. Because you write the rules, you can change and you can use this ability to create a better living environment for people, which is the ultimate end goal.

Re:Leaderless Debian on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:22AM (#19367833)
What whould be the case today anno 2019 to use Debian over CentOS, Ubuntu or one of the other distro's?