OK, here goes. I could probably produce a list of things that all y’all’d disagree with, though I’m pleased to see that routine neonatal circumcision = bad isn’t among them. But I’ll just go for the jugular:
Flush toilets are the greatest evil in the world.
Edit: OK, so why the downvote? Presumably not because you disagree.
The justification was the tremendous economic potential needed local, independent government given the constraints of communication and transport at the time. That’s what they taught me in high school History, anyway. Also, that about 1⁄3 of colonists supported the revolution, 1⁄3 the crown, and 1⁄3 weren’t aware it was going on.
By the way: I’m new here, and I notice there’s no way to neutralvote once you’ve already voted. e.g. I voted you up and then changed my mind, but don’t want to vote you down. So you get a freebie.
I agree. But even though feminists (and other women exposed to the rhetoric) may say they want gender “equality” to increase their happiness, it is not necessarily the real reason. Once it becomes possible for women to enter the workplace (for any reason), competition will force other women to follow suit. Elizabeth Warren’s research shows, for instance, that positional goods (housing, education) have experienced tremendous inflation since the ’70s. The quality of these goods hasn’t improved commensurately.
There are a lot of persistent sources of harm in the world. Some of it is down to game-theoretic limitations (Arrow’s paradox, prisoner’s dilemma, etc.). Most of it is down to stupidity.
I agree in principle. The problem is kids in the workplace. When you’re gardening and making necklaces, the children can float around among the adults, learn by observation, and from one another. When both parents are sitting in front of a computer all day...
Thanks. I thought I was doing that, but I must have been switching to the other link because the score was incrementing by 2.