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== Science is not about truth: it is about honesty. == | == Science is not about truth: it is about honesty. == | ||
Science is not about truth, the way philosophy and religion often claim to be. Instead it is about honesty: the humble claim that the evidence and reasoning can be confirmed by anyone through observation and experiment and supports a preferred model better than the other models. That's why scientific notation has basic ideas such as significant figures, and statistics has confidence intervals. Opponents of science often accuse scientists of pride, but it is actually about being humble enough to not lie. (Beware of different meanings of truth here.) | Science is not about truth, the way philosophy and religion often claim to be. Instead it is about honesty: the humble claim that the evidence and reasoning can be confirmed by anyone through observation and experiment and supports a preferred model better than the other models. That's why scientific notation has basic ideas such as significant figures, and statistics has confidence intervals. Opponents of science often accuse scientists of pride, but it is actually about being humble enough to not lie. (Beware of different meanings of truth here.) | ||
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| + | == British Enclosures were an early Cultural Genocide == | ||
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| + | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure#Parliamentary_enclosure_and_open_fields The 18th and 19th century Parliamentary enclosures in Britain] dispossessed an entire class of independent farmers, forcing them into wage labor for the new owners of enclosed land and into factory labor. This destroyed an entire culture of independent farming in the lowest classes. This does not yet seem to be recognized as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_genocide cultural genocide], but all the elements are there. Search these for "cultural" and "enclosure": | ||
| + | * [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248982744_Cultural_Genocide_and_The_Rhetoric_of_Sustainable_Mining_in_East_India Cultural Genocide and The Rhetoric of Sustainable Mining in East India] | ||
| + | * [http://repository.essex.ac.uk/23005/1/RIS%20version%20Crook%20et%20al.%20--%20Ecocide%20Genocide%20Capitalism%20and%20Colonialism.pdf Ecocide, Genocide, Capitalism and Colonialism: Consequences for indigenous peoples and glocal ecosystems environments] | ||
| + | * [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13642987.2017.1397631 Ecocide, Genocide And The Disregard Of Alternative Life-systems], Tim Lindgren | ||
== Homicide through the market. == | == Homicide through the market. == | ||
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There doesn't seem to be a term for harms and deaths due to corporate/market mechanisms, even though this is a very common and large phenomenon. Start with the toxic industries: tobacco, opioids, lead, etc. This indicates to me that there is a need for the term to bring an accounting for the millions hurt and killed, which exceed those of well-known genocides. This sounds like a good subject for a PhD thesis, to assemble together the diverse harms and see their true scope. | There doesn't seem to be a term for harms and deaths due to corporate/market mechanisms, even though this is a very common and large phenomenon. Start with the toxic industries: tobacco, opioids, lead, etc. This indicates to me that there is a need for the term to bring an accounting for the millions hurt and killed, which exceed those of well-known genocides. This sounds like a good subject for a PhD thesis, to assemble together the diverse harms and see their true scope. | ||
| − | Killing through markets, commerce, and other indirect and distributed methods. Voluntary participation by customers | + | Killing through markets, commerce, and other indirect and distributed methods is common in our society. Voluntary participation by customers does not exclude deaths or responsibility from this category. |
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| + | Included are: | ||
| + | * less formal entrepreneurial propaganda efforts such as anti-vax | ||
| + | * deaths due to sale of illegal and legal drugs where addiction plays a part | ||
| + | * deaths due to suppression of risk information | ||
| + | * deaths due to insufficient regulation (guns for example) | ||
| + | * deaths due to pollution | ||
| + | * deaths with distributed responsibility, as in corporations and racketeering organizations | ||
I looked for this in Wikipedia, and they have a list of different types of homicide. None correspond to cases such as the Sackler's opioid deaths. Instead we use a passive term "epidemic" that doesn't implicate anyone, let alone corporations and their owners who are the direct cause. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_manslaughter Industrial manslaughter] approaches this idea, but is not nearly inclusive enough. | I looked for this in Wikipedia, and they have a list of different types of homicide. None correspond to cases such as the Sackler's opioid deaths. Instead we use a passive term "epidemic" that doesn't implicate anyone, let alone corporations and their owners who are the direct cause. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_manslaughter Industrial manslaughter] approaches this idea, but is not nearly inclusive enough. | ||
| − | Not having a term probably makes it much more difficult to legislate or prosecute. | + | Not having a term probably makes it much more difficult to legislate or prosecute these moral crimes. |
Possible names: mercaticide, mercatanoxa. | Possible names: mercaticide, mercatanoxa. | ||
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| + | Alternatively, this could also be considered homicide through toxic freedom. | ||
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| + | Possible name: libricide. | ||
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| + | Or homicide for profit. | ||
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| + | Possible names: prodicide, lucricide. | ||
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| + | Kevin Carson (C4SS) has suggested that I expand the definition of "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide democide]", removing the Rummel limitation to state action. Rummel's original meaning could be changed to communistaricide, since his major purpose was anti-communist propaganda. Or more neutrally, imperiacide or regnacide for government action. | ||
== Civic Fundamentalism == | == Civic Fundamentalism == | ||
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# MYOB, and let others mind theirs. However, do mind public business. | # MYOB, and let others mind theirs. However, do mind public business. | ||
# Government policies should serve the common interest: directly, as insurer of last resort, and where the market fails. (This needs to be cleaned up.) | # Government policies should serve the common interest: directly, as insurer of last resort, and where the market fails. (This needs to be cleaned up.) | ||
| − | # Vote your family's pocketbook: not your politics, not your religion, not the latest propaganda. | + | # Vote your family's pocketbook: not your emotions, not your politics, not your religion, not the latest propaganda. Otherwise you will be manipulated by these. |
| − | # Continue to enlarge civil rights. | + | # Continue to enlarge civil rights and individual freedoms that are valuable. |
| − | # Admit tradeoffs, seek compromise: polarizing issues are created by those who would defraud you. | + | # Admit tradeoffs, seek compromise: polarizing issues are created by those who would manipulate and defraud you. |
| − | # Honor your government and those who serve in it; yea even unto the taxman. | + | # Honor your government and those who serve in it; yea even unto the taxman. Judge your government when it deserves it. |
# Respect information and science, shun poseurs. | # Respect information and science, shun poseurs. | ||
# Workers and families should be served before corporations or the wealthy. | # Workers and families should be served before corporations or the wealthy. | ||
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* Ability to present both formula and results of a cell simultaneously (a feature missing in most spreadsheets.) | * Ability to present both formula and results of a cell simultaneously (a feature missing in most spreadsheets.) | ||
* Ability to graphically organize calculations outside of the constraints of rectangular arrays of cells. | * Ability to graphically organize calculations outside of the constraints of rectangular arrays of cells. | ||
| − | * Create groups of cells (maybe ranges) that all use the same calculation, without copying the formula for the calculation to each cell. | + | * Create groups of cells (maybe ranges) that all use the same calculation and/or formats, without copying the formula for the calculation or formats to each cell. |
* Ability to extend the list of functions beyond those of a spreadsheet. | * Ability to extend the list of functions beyond those of a spreadsheet. | ||
* Ability to preserve the view of the results of calculations or graphing for checking by teachers. | * Ability to preserve the view of the results of calculations or graphing for checking by teachers. | ||
