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The Dark Arts
Iuri Guilherme30

I've recently traveled to a country area where I live in Brazil and I witnessed a politician in the television trying to explain a reporters' claim that there was a public perception that government didn't do everything in it's power to prevent loss of life and private property during several days of rain that would flood cities and cause major damage.

That politician then proceeded to explain that the main problem is that people don't trust the weather forecast anymore and they also don't trust the public service announcement when they warn everyone to lea... (read more)

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The Dark Arts
Iuri Guilherme10

I feel like the writer went to a great effort to re explain what sophistry is, expressing it's own hatred towards the phenomena while doing it.

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Resurrecting all humans ever lived as a technical problem
Iuri Guilherme70

From the top of my mind, Aleister Crowley formally and explicitly asked not to be resurrected, assuming the plausible possibility of that happening ahead of his time.

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I think it makes sense to resurrect him anyway. We don't know what exactly he has disliked in resurrection, and he didn't know what the future humanity can offer.  It's safe to assume that only people with a severe mental illness choose to die. This is true in any circumstances, regardless of how tragic they are.  So, if there is no mental illness in play, and Aleister understands what exactly he is losing, he may choose to die again. In the future where we can do technological resurrections of distant ancestors, the field of psychiatry will certainly be advanced enough to cure all or almost all suicidal patients (in many cases, the cause is as banal as a minor biochemical deficiency). Thus, such deaths will (almost) never happen.