Notices by 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 66

@realcaseyrollins Well the monkey would likely eat bannanas all day and scratch its butt, effectively doing nothing either way for the nation. This would be a significant improvement over Trumps tactics

@realcaseyrollins A poorly trained monkey would be better :)

@namark

Also the reason it isnt useless is it leads to the realization that being selfish and being altruistic are one in the same thing. As such one would realize that in being a truely skillful person at being selfish would mean also doing whats best for yourself.

This manifests in people realizing being rich means they can help more people with that money and resources than it would to give away so much money you keep yourself poor, in which case youd have far less to give in a lifetime.

@binsrc

@namark

The selfishness in an anonymous donation would be the feelings of pleasure, self-rightousness, avoison of guilt, and quite often even the abiity to either brag about it or see yourself as superior to others.

Some of these apply more to some people than others. But a truly selfless act would be one that brings no pleasure, and if it brought no pleasure people wouldnt do it.

@binsrc

@ThatNomadCouple Welcome to QOTO, I am one of the moderators here. How are you doing and do you have any questions?

@design_RG

I wish this was for handwritten letters....

@_lunawinters @Vishsai

@IntegralDuChemin For healthcare.. well there is a lot of nuance we would have to get into, but the big part would be co-op based insurance. Basically where the owners of the insurance company are the insurance holders themselves, but otherwise operate it as a free-market enterprise.

This eliminates the greed factor, so overpricing isnt an issue, but preserves free market pressures that drive quality up and ensure the policy holders have options.

@IntegralDuChemin Ahh I see

Generally i find all the forms of insurance we have today (or at least the ones we hear about) are horribly broken in one way or another.

Which is ashame, everyone is so big on socialized health insurance or free market health insurance no one is bothering to realize there are other choices that, at least in theory, would likely work much better.

@IntegralDuChemin Ahh yea thats fair, im only considering normal insurance not extra insurance

@IntegralDuChemin BTW germany is still one of the lowest on wait times. it is only 40% more common than in the usa its 4.8x more common to wait 2 months or more (1/3 of all patients)

@IntegralDuChemin To give you an idea of the numbers if you count all people in germany and the usa that neede3d to wait 2 months or more for a specialist the USAit is half as common as in germany, which is a huge difference

@IntegralDuChemin I cant speak to germany but I know statisically speaking the Netherlands has the shortest average wait time of any europan country. Not only is it much higher in europe but I live int he netherlands and had a spinal injury and my wait time was so long my condition degraded when a simple 5 minute treatment would have potentially saved me from surgery.

In the netherlands i have never had a wait time shorter than a month for seeing a specialist. I had to first see a GP (who cant do much) then they need to give a referral, then when you hear back you get an appointment in a month.

Are you sure you arent confusing wait time with a GP and wait time for specialists, surgeries, and other major needs?

@Curarpikt

Sex ed that is lacking I do hear quite often from americans, in my case it was mostly biological and STD based as well. They generally dont even touch on the moral responsibility of sex or why. I will say though they covered condom usage in my school.

In fact I grew up in the 80's (and early 90s for high school) and we were even given free condoms at school as part of our sex ed. They would just hand them out.

@IntegralDuChemin

@DavidBond Hey, how ya been?

@IntegralDuChemin Well for example wait times. In europe wait time, even when its critical to ones recovery, is astronomical (even in the countries with the lowest wait time, Netherlands).

America also tends to have more rigerous pre-emtptive tests that catch things like cancer. It is typical in america to get routine blood tests and other exams they dont tend to do as frequently if at all in europe.

America also tends to have better survivability rates on many diseases (but not all). For example when it comes to cancer treatment the survivability is highest in the USA.

@IntegralDuChemin I'm not saying your mistaken, just that what you hear doesnt reflect reality to well from media is all. For example while healthcare has issues there are many ways in which it is far superior to europe too, but you are unlikely to hear about that.

Polarization started after 911 and has largely been on the rise since then.

Abstinence being taught in schools isnt the norm. Im sure its taught in some schools but i never met anyone in america who was personally taught abstinence in school. So its not a common pattern at least.

@IntegralDuChemin

There is a lot to be disapointed about in the states. But there is also a lot of disinformation. It comes from the fact that its a polarized country and everything is political, where politics is involved so are lies.

Dont get me wrong there ARE huge issues in those areas int he USA (and in europe too actually), you are just going to have a hard time getting an accurate picture of what those are.

@IntegralDuChemin

The states is a nice place to visit but the people in europe are better IMO (well except the brits :) )

@stevenroose

@IntegralDuChemin

I can understand your view, but obviously disagree.

One needs to protect the decision not just of the mother, but of the unborn child, who doesnt have a voice. Ideally the rights of each should be preseved.

In my mind once a child develops a brain then it has a right to legal protection, within reason. That happens at about a month and a half to two months.

So for me the laws should be something like this

1) Abortion only legal in the first 2 months, after that there must be significant risk to the life of the mother to get an exception.

2) all legal abortions will be tax-payer funded, as well as condoms and birth control

3) PRegnancy tests will also be free and tax-payer funded.

Those three points are the only way I can see to preserve the right to life of all parties involved without creating unmitigated circumstances outside of the womans control, or denying her her right to abort.

@stevenroose

@IntegralDuChemin

I never met a creationist in america face to face either, not one who thinks the earth is literally 6000 years old. Yes they do exist but they are extremely rare.

@stevenroose