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• A reply on Conversation: In addition to increasing income, what else should poverty eradication include?

  Dec 19 2011: Yeah any politics that isn't based in philosophy and principles is worthless. Without morals we will fall.
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  A reply on Conversation: In addition to increasing income, what else should poverty eradication include?

  Dec 19 2011: Yes I am saying that. It is my goal in life to deregulate i.e. get government out of our schools because government is very inefficient, stifles innovation, and remove choice. It isn't big government that is bad it is any government that exploits one group of people to help another. Big government will naturally do that. If you read "The Law" you will understand that better. People with high morals regulate themselves better than government that has too much power does. Government has removed philosophy and morals from our schools so we have to educate people first. The best way to do that is get government out of our schools and people will naturally gravitate to forms of education that teach proper philosophy and morals because it is the food for the soul. Those good morals will become a compass for the people in helping them influence change in government That change will encourage productive growth in a country and thus build a stronger middle class and decrease gradually the gap between the rich and the poor, thus raising standards of living.

• A comment on Conversation: In addition to increasing income, what else should poverty eradication include?

  Dec 19 2011: Increasing income only causes inflation. It does not eradicate poverty.
  
  Read the book "The Law" by Federic Bastiat
  
  Steps,
  
  Improve Education and deregulate education
  
  Reign in our oversized government
  
  Then reestablish the constitution as the overseeing document and principles of federal government.
  
  After that the economy and free market will correct itself naturally, production and entrepreneurship will increase and demand for skill workers will arise education will grow to fill that need and poverty will diminish more and more over time.

• A comment on Conversation: What do you think each and every one of us can do to counter the impact and influence of porn as default sex education, everywhere?

  Dec 7 2011: I haven't but I have read many books that talk about the science of it. Yes sex is a wonderful thing. But it is much like a horse if bridled and trained, it can take us to great places and great heights. but if left wild and in control it can take us many places but probably none we really want to go to. It may be fun at first to ride that untrained horse until we want more control over our destination, speed, path etc. Suddenly we find ourselves unable to obtain the most precious things in life.

• A comment on Conversation: What do you think each and every one of us can do to counter the impact and influence of porn as default sex education, everywhere?

  Dec 7 2011: That is a really hard question. Because of the varying values and morals out there, can you really make one that fits all. I think you have to create things that fit what you believe. Here is what I believe:
  
  1. Porn is a drug.
  
  It has been found to be just as addictive as crack cocaine but be much cheaper and more accessible.
  
  2. Porn is just one form of sex addiction
  
  There are many sexual addictions. Others may include but not limited to sleeping around, strip clubs, prostitution, one night stands. Each are addictive.
  
  3. Porn destroys lives and relationships.
  
  Your brain easily forms pathways when pleasure is felt in an easy way. Though relationships can provide longer lasting forms of pleasure that also reach deeper and make people better, porn and other sexual addictions provide easy access to pleasure. Indulging in these outlets prevent people from building strong relationships because the high of temporary pleasure must be increased over time. This prevents healthy relationships from forming because the high is unachievable because the brain has been trained to be numb to such interaction.
  
  First people have to understand this before they can accept that porn is not good.

• A comment on Conversation: Why evolution could never solve aging?

  Nov 22 2011: Well I don't think there are any tricks to evolution. You either believe that God created things for a purpose without the use of evolution. Or you believe that God created all things with the use evolution for all or part of things. For both of those things the intelligence comes from God. Or you believe that evolution alone is cause of all development then you must believe that there is no intelligence in that development and then there are no tricks to evolution. Evolution unlike what people think is totally random but follows the rule of survival of the fittest. Those things that evolve in a direction that makes them fitter allows them to survive while those things that evolve to make them less fit or not as fit as others will die with their inadequate genes. It is a mistake though to assume that all mutations are improvements. I think also without an overseer of evolution there is no organization or intelligence to it besides the organization of chaos.

• A comment on Conversation: Why evolution could never solve aging?

  Nov 21 2011: Everybody seems to think evolution always goes in the good direction. Evolution is random. Second point is that evolution happens over millions of years. To evolve without technology to the point of being ageless would take millions of years.
  
  It is more like that we as humans will achieve immortality through technology either by manipulating our genes or by transferring our consciousness into a computer or by some other means. In some since of the word we are evolving faster through technology. Maybe even one day we will become multidimensional beings in addition to gaining immortality.

• A comment on Talk: Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies

  Oct 26 2011: The connections he makes are ludicris. It is assuming that the income gap is the cause and not the symptom of another larger looming problem. Next he ois nly consistently using 1 non'western country and he uses Israel and Singapore sometimes. Genetics and culture can play a part In addition almost all countries are 1st world countries. The gap is much larger in 3rd world countries and does it hold consistent.

• A reply on Conversation: Instead of narrow specialization, how can our educational system better train integrative, innovative, and adaptive problem solvers?

  Sep 21 2011: so what is more important schooling or education? What do you really get credit for?

• A comment on Conversation: Instead of narrow specialization, how can our educational system better train integrative, innovative, and adaptive problem solvers?

  Sep 21 2011: Let's get rid of the college/university model and adopt a quasi apprenticeship model.
  
  College should only be for academic pursuits and not job training pursuits. It is for research and academic study only.