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I dont mean this to be political, just crazy, because this is a
site for crazy ideas, but Im reading a book right now where
they talk about the right of return for Jews to Israel,
because
Jews have been ostracized all over the world. The Romani
people have also been ostracized all over the
world, so what
about a right of return for the Romani people, to Rome?
Barring that the Romani people didn't come from Rome, this
would have the advantage that it would give Italy another
chance at world domination and be a controversial but
beneficent sort of hard-to-argue-against Catholic sort of
thing
to do. They could start by taking over the Vatican, the new
liberal pope could disband the centralized Catholic Church
and
distribute all of the top tier Catholics around the world to
missionary feet-washing positions and allow the Vatican to
become the worldwide Romani headquarters. Then the
Romani could launch a movement to get everyone else to
renounce ownership and start travelling, thus ending the
centralized rental hierarchy of land ownership that is
providing us with the bad model that all of the online
companies are following, and introducing a little chaos into
the world order that might fall out as a more distributed
model.
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India. They come from India |
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Great ideA. If we were all hunter-gatherers, the world might be able to support a population of several million people. |
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I take it you assume you would be one of them*, and that you never liked the other seven billion very much anyway. |
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*I like to call this the Carly Simon effect, with reference to the song "you're so vain". It's a sort of opposite of Rawlsian ethics, and is important for understanding the enduring popularity of occultism, pyramid sales and Abraham Maslow. |
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If you let the Romani run Rome, then you'll end up with a situation similar to having the French run France, and look at the mess that made. |
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Can't be worse than letting the English try to run England. |
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Yes it could be. It could be like letting the French try to run France. |
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Likewise, we should give Australia to the Austrians |
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// Likewise, we should give Australia to the Austrians// |
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There's about 2 square kilometres of Australia where the
heat stroke wouldn't be promptly lethal to an Austrian, but
only for about 4 months out of the year where the sun isn't
too close. |
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They could always go to Canberra ... |
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" It's a sort of opposite of Rawlsian ethics " |
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//They could always go to Canberra ...// |
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...Aren't there specific stipulations in the Geneva
convention about cruel and unnecessary treatment? |
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Most Australians prefer to go about their lives pretending
Canberra doesn't exist. The others go about their lives
wishing they didn't live in or near Canberra. |
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No, that's just a plug for someone. |
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The proposition that one can arrive at a principle of justice
best from a position of complete ignorance of one's position
in a society in which that principle is to operate. |
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Likewise, we should give Poland to the Polari |
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They wouldn't want it. Really, they wouldn't. Even the welsh don't want it. |
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