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They need to make this drug available before the 2020 presidential election.



Evil and dumb can be manageable. Evil and intelligent is frightening


You should read the Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, which concludes in the fifth law that a stupid person is the most dangerous: http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidit...

However, while we can debate whether giving the drug to politicians would be a good idea, giving it to voters seems to have fewer downsides.


> frightening

I really don't know why people use this term. Nothing is frightening in the world of man.

It's like this:

Whatever can be made by man, can be destroyed by man.

Edit: So many frightened people...


Nothing is frightening because everything can be destroyed? That’s a new world view to me.


Here's some examples for your world view.

A man with a knife intent on doing harm, is stopped by one with a gun.

A man who develops a virus for a plague to kill people, is stopped by one who develops the cure.

A man who develops icbms to devastate a nation, is stopped by one intent to develop a missile defence shield.

There are many examples that I could continue with. The key takeaway here is that whatever some one does, in time there is an equal opposite reaction to counter it.

That's my world view. I personally don't fear anything. But then that's could be just how I'm built.


"A man who develops a world view to look badass on the internet"


What if the man with the knife stabs you in the stomach before the guy with the gun gets there?




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