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Perfect 10 | 18 | 33.33% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 20 | 37.04% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 12 | 22.22% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 3 | 5.56% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 1 | 1.85% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
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2012-12-09, 10:30 | Link #81 | |
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This is admittedly a weird analogy, but I think that the Sibyl System might be a little bit like Asbestos. Asbestos took off in a big way during the Industrial Revolution. During the 1900s it was used for all sorts of things. People thought it was great. It had a lot of clear benefits. But it also had toxic problems. These unfortunately took some time to become obvious. And by the time they became obvious, asbestos was entrenched enough in society that it became hard to dispense with it (even now, in Canada, it is sometimes the topic of political debate). I think that the Sibyl System is somewhat similar. It has some clear, obvious benefits. But it also causes health problems, both for society and for certain individuals. It's entrenched, and it might be hard to dispense with (or reform).
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2012-12-09, 10:47 | Link #83 | ||
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Statistics is a tricky business that requires extensive knowledge of math, impartiality and common sense...being insane pretentious artsy fartsy philosophical serial killers, Makishima and his latent criminal buddies probably aren't remotely inclined to objectively evaluate the figures they're citing. Especially when they have a "SHEEPLE SHEEPLE SHEEPLE!" axe to grind.
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2012-12-09, 11:40 | Link #84 | ||
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2012-12-09, 11:56 | Link #85 | |
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And despite what you may have heard, smoking isn't an immediate death sentence either. It shaves a few years off your life expectancy, and increases your chance of cancer, but it pointedly doesn't kill you before you reach 40 very often.
Besides, not everyone smokes, which further dilutes the epidemic. Again, if everyone croaked before they reached 40, it'd be very noticeable. It'd leave a huge hole in the workforce, and what's left would have to learn to take care of all the orphans that would suddenly exist. Heck, that's 90+% of the leading politicians, dead. Quote:
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2012-12-09, 12:38 | Link #86 | |
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Really. Humans are tool using predators. So we use tools to hunt animals. Predators don't STRICTLY hunt only when they're hungry (keep a domesticated cat well fed, but if you let it out side it's still gonna hunt for fun). So it doesn't really look like there's any kind of natural law that suggests recreational hunting is abnormal. And really. Considering the scale at which the food industry(A VERY high tech apparatus) slaughters animals to gratify people with more meat than they need nutritionally...signaling out hunters for being abnormal sociopaths seems quite arbitrary.
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2012-12-09, 12:43 | Link #87 |
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So Roger, you don't think that the falling human life expectancy is something to be concerned about? You don't think it's something to fault the Sibyl system for?
Sure, statistics don't paint the full picture, but obviously there's some real bad news in a falling life expectancy (even if it is due to high infant mortality, that's bad news in its own ways). Honestly, your arguments make me think of someone making light out of high unemployment figures. No matter how exactly you arrive at those figures, they're still bad news and worrisome indicators.
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2012-12-09, 13:01 | Link #88 | |
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At what age (and from what) people are dying off at is important, because it changes how you should prioritize fixing things. If your average life expectancy is significantly down because of high infant mortality, then throwing medical resources across the entire population isn't the optimal way to help raise it. What you try to do is focus it on infant mortality. Similarly in the Sybill system, the problem facing them is very different depending on where the early onset death is happening. If this declining life expectancy is across the board, then that suggests the Sybil system is fundamentally broken. If it's only a minority of people who are suffering from this however, it suggests the system needs to improve the way it treats certain segments of the population.
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2013-01-26, 10:56 | Link #89 |
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The interview part was the best scene in the whole series so far for me, he was like a psychotic murderer version of Ray Kurzweil. Excellent arguments there. It's a big shame that he's a psychopath, would make an excellent long-term character without the whole Washizu "I feast on humans to keep young" MO.
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