There is not a slippery slope in every place you suspect it. Any such law would need to be quite clear (and very limited in scope), but it is not as if a single politician can just decide which speec… (View Post)

You missed phase-based combat, one of my favorite systems. It is similar to turn-based (e.g. not real time), but you have to decide the action for you all your characters at the same time and then th… (View Post)

I am a statistican and the cancer survival rates are not a good indicator. It increases by detecting and treating cancers that would never have killed the patient anyway (prostate in old men) and by … (View Post)

Are you talking about subjectivity or arbitrariness? Those are different things. If you are talking about arbitrariness, this can be applied to just about any policy, e.g. why is the top tax rate 40%… (View Post)

My bad. I should have said straight white instead. Look, I am not one of those claiming we already live in a post-racial society. There are moments where it matters - not because being white makes yo… (View Post)