5.07.2006

Let's agree to disagree

Science ain't faith-based, friend. Walk across a bridge. It doesn't matter what your faith is... how faithless, ignorant, or antiauthoritarian you are. The bridge stands, the bridge spans, and you get across. Physics works regardless of what you think of it (or feel or believe).

Same for, e.g., your heart or brain- it's not just math, engineering, and the raw physical sciences which work independent of your faith, or lack thereof. I'll just state this now and I'll provide further arguments later if you want.

Even medicine can be independent of, well, you and your faith. The placebo effect is probably closest to what you're talking about, but still- the placebo effect is grounded in good, solid science. Placebo effects can be blocked by treatment with naloxone (sort of the opposite of morphine).

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I think it's absolutely, literally crazy to be communist. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is against biology, strictly against neurobiology, and thus by operational definition, 'crazy'. By this I mean that people in general expect to be rewarded for working hard, and enjoy doing whatever they please with their reward. If you're rewarded only according to need, and not ability, there's no incentive, no drive, no real motivation to work hard. Right? Not sure how you motivate people without a basically capitalistic system, except with guns, which is historically what seems to have been in place. Can't motivate with guns for long- it's not self-sustainable, which again is what historically what seems to have been shown.

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