No, he isn't a hero.

Depends upon your priorities.

"It's unclear how much of this is sincere, how much is coerced, and how much is just keeping up with appearances,"

The thing is that voting is better over the long term than anything else we've come up with so far. Everybody wants to be World Supreme Dictator Immortal, because they know what's best... unfortunately, most other people tend to disagree. I know if I were making the decisions by myself, an awful lot of people would be …

"Did the Durban climate change talks actually accomplish anything?"

Yeah, things like this are basically useless, as there is no real enforcement regime. It's like signing an anti-product-piracy treaty with the PRC.

Not really.

"How should Christians feel about Transhumanism?"

Yeah, didn't we already know this? Life is resilient.

Yeah, exactly.

Look, he is an old man. Throw him a bone.

Meh.

Even the EU's numbers don't say die from cancer, they say "develop cancer".

I'm 45, I think all my friends have some degree of hearing loss. I know I'm pretty deaf.

Nah, you misunderstand.

"Perhaps we'll have to change our definition of intelligence before we finally realize we discovered non-human intelligent life long ago."

"Even if you found the final season of BSG confounding, as I did, you have to admire what Moore did in previous years."

I contend that if you only do something once, it is difficult to tell how good you are at it. Also, many of them are not paid, and are thus amateurs.

In this case, not maintaining people in this condition becomes not just pragmatic, but a mercy.

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