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I agree. But then on the other hand, there is a wide variety of ways that can be brought to bear to "encourage" humans to change their minds.

Alternatively, we could [1] consider waking up for even a short period of time and put some mental effort into considering whether our most sacred operating system may not actually be what it is advertised (and thus: believed) to be.

Is it not rather funny that thousands of incredibly smart programmers, systems analysts, etc are not able to even consider whether the system that controls our lives and well being, not to mention the literal continued existence of many thousands of innocent people throughout the world could maybe be substantially improved?

Day after day we engage in the pointing of fingers, funny how the fingers never get pointed at ourselves.

[1] Well, I am speaking a bit loosely: the laws of physics in this environment support it, but that does not guarantee that it is completely supported.



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