People want to bad mouth the police and yes their gov may have alot of problems... but it is the citizens themselves that are destroying their own city. I'm sorry but anyone who decides to torch their home doesn't deserve to live in mine.. and my home is the planet earth.

>> ^dag:

Exactly. It's a scourge. We're all citizens of planet Earth.>> ^blankfist:
Nationalism.



You and I agree on something. Would be a great world if the borders all went away.

>> ^dag:
Exactly. It's a scourge. We're all citizens of planet Earth.>> ^blankfist:
Nationalism
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And us green eyes must fight to ensure the blue eyes and brown eyes don't get what is rightfully ours.

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Exactly. It's a scourge. We're all citizens of planet Earth.>> ^blankfist:

Nationalism.

>> ^shinyblurry:

Never really liked this guy but it was sad to see him in such a state. He appears at least to be a bit more humble. I guess dying tends to put everything into perspective. His notion that life is a wager though..I don't agree with that at all. That is a trap of nihilism, which makes all propositions equally valid (because nihilism negates any inherent meaning). As if we are just betting on what we hope to be favorable, without any conviction, without any truth. I think it's the height of arrogance really to pop into the long history of the world at this late date and define life that way. There is a LOT at stake, say almost 7 billion human beings, let alone all the other amazing life on planet Earth. That is something irreducible to any calculation. There is meaning everywhere, in the hearts and minds of all that we share this place with. If you don't factor any of that in, it begs the question: how self-centered are you anyway?


It is impossible to look at Hitchens' life and accuse him of believing "all propositions equally valid". The singularly most defining aspect of his very public life was his vehemence in debating the merits and superiority of numerous propositions over others. Whether one agreed with his conclusions or not, you could hardly accuse him of not taking a stand, nor being willing to put his own stands to the test, personally.

He embarrassed Charleton Heston during the first Gulf war by famously asking him to name a country neighbouring the state he was so eager to attack, Heston couldn't name one. It was one of the most championed victories of the anti-war movement, and Hitchens was bearing the standard. He then promptly went to Iraq and lived among it's Kurdish people, who thoroughly persuaded him he had been wrong, and he came back as one of the strongest supporters for Saddam's removal.

Hitchens' single biggest life goal was the deconstruction of religion hoping to in essence rid the world of it's evils. Despite this goal, he deliberately took his own children to be taught about religions by their respective leaders and representatives, to avoid poisoning their opinions with his own bias. Still wanting them to be able to make a personal, honest and well informed decision of their own.

The man is an example to us all, no matter how much we may disagree with his conclusions his loss will be a loss to us all. Very few are left in the public sphere with his breadth of knowledge and willingness to vehemently promote and defend what they believe to be true and right.

The lack of conviction you speak of, the unwillingness to accept any "truth" as absolute is by definition the opposite of arrogance. How can anyone who -believes- in anything say to the "non-believer" that he's arrogant? A believer must be arrogant enough to say "I believe in this, I don't believe in that", a logical person simply says "I am not informed enough to decide what is true and what is not, I believe everything is possible". As far as I'm concerned, belief is the ultimate form of arrogance: a person allowing himself not to be completely objective...

>> ^shinyblurry:

Never really liked this guy but it was sad to see him in such a state. He appears at least to be a bit more humble. I guess dying tends to put everything into perspective. His notion that life is a wager though..I don't agree with that at all. That is a trap of nihilism, which makes all propositions equally valid (because nihilism negates any inherent meaning). As if we are just betting on what we hope to be favorable, without any conviction, without any truth. I think it's the height of arrogance really to pop into the long history of the world at this late date and define life that way. There is a LOT at stake, say almost 7 billion human beings, let alone all the other amazing life on planet Earth. That is something irreducible to any calculation. There is meaning everywhere, in the hearts and minds of all that we share this place with. If you don't factor any of that in, it begs the question: how self-centered are you anyway?

Never really liked this guy but it was sad to see him in such a state. He appears at least to be a bit more humble. I guess dying tends to put everything into perspective. His notion that life is a wager though..I don't agree with that at all. That is a trap of nihilism, which makes all propositions equally valid (because nihilism negates any inherent meaning). As if we are just betting on what we hope to be favorable, without any conviction, without any truth. I think it's the height of arrogance really to pop into the long history of the world at this late date and define life that way. There is a LOT at stake, say almost 7 billion human beings, let alone all the other amazing life on planet Earth. That is something irreducible to any calculation. There is meaning everywhere, in the hearts and minds of all that we share this place with. If you don't factor any of that in, it begs the question: how self-centered are you anyway?

>> ^Aniatario:
^ There was a sh tload of things they could've used. Tazers, pepperspray, rubber bullets, common fucking sense?


Unfortunately for the police and pretty much everyone else on planet Earth "Common Sense" is never standard issue.

Shout it from the rooftops - "There are enough humans on planet earth."

We need to be discussing openly in every community and every country, how we can support family planning for lower populations, and how we can collectively survive this century when human population will reach its peak.

*eco *humanitarian

Right, I understand that. What I am saying is DNA is just "A" condition of life, not necessarily "THE" condition of life. The sample size is small, only the planet earth, of which all life is supposedly related. Who says life has to exists as cells even, or matter? It is a huge universe, who knows what other possibilities are out there! Crystalline entity, I'm talking about you! *uhg, quote fail*

>> ^Ornthoron:

DNA is still very much a part of these bacteria. The difference is that some of the phosphates in the DNA have been replaced by arsenates. See Gallowflak's link above for a more detailed explanation.
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hahaha. But actually kinda interesting how most human tribes and neaderthals practiced cannibalism in the same way as these chimps.
>> ^ant:
But humans don't eat each other in wars.

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Wow, a *quality video... both educational and disturbing.

Sorry for the late reply. Thanks ever so much for your quality on this vid, I found it truly eye opening

>> ^ant:

But humans don't eat each other in wars.
<div><div style="margin: 10px; overflow: auto; width: 80%; float: left; position: relative;" class="convoPiece"> raverman said:<img style="margin: 4px 10px 10px; float: left; width: 40px;" src="http://static1.videosift.com/avatars/r/raverman-s.jpg" onerror="ph(this)"><div style="position: absolute; margin-left: 52px; padding-top: 1px; font-size: 10px;" class="commentarrow">◄</div><div style="padding: 8px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 2px; min-height: 30px;" class="nestedComment box">"give peace a chance"
Sorry, can't. Biological Primate Imperative.
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Yes they do. But maybe you're being sarcastic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes#Cannibalism.

>> ^raverman:

"give peace a chance"
Sorry, can't. Biological Primate Imperative.


But humans don't eat each other in wars.

>> ^kranzfakfa:

This is from the HOPE (Hackers from Planet Earth) conference in New York, back in July.
>> ^Yogi:
Why would this guy go in front of this audience? Also where the heck is this anyways?



Yeah I looked it up...watched the rest of it...read about how he was just diagnosed with Aspergers which is interesting. I don't know exactly what happened here but it's pretty clear he's keeping most everything from us, not an unreasonable position considering how upset the audience was with him.

I think there could be an interesting moral argument about this situation specifically, and I think because of the moderator and the general tone of the room in this setting it wasn't had.