Quam valde stultus est.

…you seem to be vacillating between anti-science and science-literate positions.

The meaning of “planet” has changed greatly over the centuries as our understanding improved. It originally meant “wanderer” and referred to the five naked-eye planets known since antiquity plus the sun and moon, but NOT the Earth.

As astronomers and astrophysicists learned more about them, it became clear that classifying all stellar objects as the same category was unworkable. Earth was reclassified as a planet, the moon as a moon, and the sun as a star.

Likewise, Pluto was reclassified because the old classification made little sense.

It is the only correct answer.

You can easily find examples with a simple Google search. For example,

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11848611/PETER-HITCHENS-End-crude-smear-against-conservatives.html

https://c2cjournal.ca/2022/01/left-wing-fascism-and-its-war-against-conservatives/

https://paulhjossey.medium.com/the-nazis-were-leftists-deal-with-it-b7f12cc53b6f

Even Snopes has an article on debunking this very commonly made claim: https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/

There are also a number of books on Amazon, but I won’t link to them.

Please first explain why you think it’s a strawman.

Don’t be a jerk.

they don’t exist

They die. They succumb to death. They cease to be. They expire and go to meet their maker. They run up the curtain and join the choir invisible. They become ex-animals.

If you understood then your previous characterization of what I’ve been saying was willfully dishonest.

Going extinct means that they die. Dying results in death.

Because they would die even faster.

I’m pointing out why that would backfire.

The OP is about the death of these animals, is it not?

Domesticated species are selectively bred by humans to enhance characteristics we find desirable. Many of these characteristic would be weeded out by natural selection within one generation. Cultivated banana trees, for example, cannot reproduce; and Dairy cows can die if not milked regularly.

That’s a big part of what makes them “domesticated”.

This strongly suggests that you already understood me perfectly well, and never needed clarification.

That historic examples such as the Nazis, the Japanese-American internment, and the Rwanda genocide should guide us when deciding what sorts of large-scale demographic data harvesting we as a society want to allow in the first place. That the “right to privacy” in this case is not about personal privacy but of collective privacy.

Which is why even people who “have nothing to hide” should care about privacy rights.

The French Revolution is way more complex and nuanced than that, and saying the people protested against the power of the king per se is really missing the point.

A better example would have been King Charles I and the English civil war.

Most food animals would go extinct if humans stopped raising them for food. A number of food plants too.

That is not a fair or accurate characterization of what I have been saying.

It doesn’t have to be inevitable in order to serve as an example of what can happen when even seemingly innocuous information falls into the wrong hands. It’s happened before, and the consequences were horrifying. It will happen again, particularly if people refuse to learn from the examples of history.

Information is knowledge. Knowledge is power. And power in the wrong hands is dangerous.

I don’t think so. Examples of it happening demonstrate that it can happen. OTHO, examples of it not happening does not demonstrate that it cannot happen.

The US government used Census Bureau information to identify Japanese-Americans.

Cite historical examples of seemingly innocuous and public information falling into the wrong hands.

e.g. The Nazis used demographic records (marriages, births, christenings, etc.) in conquered lands to ID Jews and other “undesirables”.

What kind of respectable people support a “fucked up” platform?

If they’re respectable, why are they still voluntarily supporting such a fucked up platform?

You can’t have it both ways.

Don’t worry, the grownups understand.

While radical militant librarians kick us around, true terrorists benefit from OIPR’s failure to let us use the tools given to us, this should be an OIPR priority!!!

Unidentified FBI Agent, 2005

boring-ass polo shirt and khakis

I feel attacked.