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Well, the CDC is an office and they are probably used to apply standard terminology as defined by their superiors. In a lot of cases they will do better by describing exactly what they want to say. For example "science-based" - what's that? Is the assertion confirmed by experiments or is i...

Well, compassion will ask: Is the recipient more content/happy now than he was before my intervention?
And if he is, everything is okay. He may be ungrateful - gratefulness is a rare gift -, but why should this bother me?

We are worldly if we are looking for goods like fame, wealth and power, as they are spent by this world. (What's about entertainment?)

bootstrap -
I didn't claim to give legal expertise in American Constitutional Law.
As for Popper, he enjoyed a thorough liberal Protestant upbringing. He thought that "minimal pain for all" was just what Jesus would have wanted - and I am inclined to think that he was right.

haithabu -
btw thanks for the excellent florilegium of Orwell quotations.

haithabu - " I think the underlying problem is that there is no longer a media establishment which enjoys the trust of both sides." Do you really believe that there was ever in history a media establishment which deserved the trust of both sides? It was in 1971 when Edith Efron wrote her g...

As for BDS, 1.I don't like any kind of Social Justice Warriorism, enforcing one's own moral convictions on others, not even in the form of boycotts or divestments (and of course not at all in the form of "sanctions"). 2. I am convinced that everyone must have the right to avoid taking part...

We must see here that the developement in north-west Germany was belated. And when the reform movement against the Catholic Church finally began, theologians tended to blend Reformed and Anabaptist ideas they had found in earlier books. A lot of the Munsterite ideas are, in hindsight, more Reformed ...

I pray that a rule will be established which protects just that party that has more to lose. This can be the one or the other party depending on the situation. If there is only one hostel in town and they refuse to give the homosexual couple a bed, the couple has more to lose. But if a baker is at ...

I pray that a rule will be established which protects just that party that has more to lose. This can be the one or the other party depending on the situation. If there is only one hostel in town and they refuse to give the homosexual couple a bed, the couple has more to lose. But if a baker is at r...