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There are no 'bad people', only people with stronger delusions.

Everyone has Buddha-nature, and additionally everyone (except the awakened) has ignorance.

What you are calling 'bad people' are people who you've seen habitually act under the influence of delusions like anger, grasping, jealousy, wrath, etc.

If you believe in beginningless time, those same people have acted benevolently countless times in the past, as well as harmfully countless times.

So much for 'bad people', now how should Buddhists react to death? Death comes to us all and the only thing that persists after death is the karma. If someone has acted under strong delusions in this life, then they have karma that will carry them into an unpleasant rebirth. For a Buddhist, it's always bad when beings suffer; there's no such thing as "good! they deserved it!". So it's regrettable for someone to die with a lifetime of bad karma to carry them into a hellish rebirth.

If you think "they deserved it!" just think about how suffering feels bad. Like when you have a toothache, that feels bad. Why do you want inherently bad mental states to exist anywhere? An ignorant person will say, "Because this person is 'bad' and bad people should get suffering!" but that shows that you are reasoning from the (deluded) view of separate individual existences. Ideally nobody should get suffering. The delight in the suffering of others is itself a nasty delusion that will create bad karma for you.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=kKwZM8TDEa0

Are there downsides that arent realy known?

That is not known.

enough poo = black hole

The article is basically correct: everyone's got a better life than their grandparents.

However, a few notes:

• He over-relies on Fintan O'Toole, who is a centrist tool. You can't read one book about a country (any country) and repeat it as gospel, that's poor journalism.
• Things appear better on paper than they are. Even using modified GNI gives a bloated number compared to how wealthy real/normal people are. By AIC [actual individual consumption] we are comparable to Estonia or Portugal.
• We are completely completely incapable of building infrastructure. Our political system can't act decisively and go build a railroad or a Children's Hospital.

And a positive he missed: we are arguably the best welfare state in the world, measured by taxing the rich and redistributing to the poor.

what is it?

the most ethical diet is eating the rich

lol

Isolate Israel

Pity he was banned. I was curious to see what his specific points were.

There's some interesting discussions to be had of Marx's writings on electoralism, revolution, and republics.

What thinking did he criticise so literally?

What's that im reference to?

Saying "the West" is becoming more and more cringe

Wait is the title a typo and should say 28 million?

564 258 deaths per year for fifty years?

Where does the paper say 38 million?

So much in this conversation that I've been thinking about in my own way –

• Around 4:00 to 5:00: In addition to political and economic imperialism, we are subject to intellectual imperialism. Indigenous perspectives are silenced by ways of thinking from the imperialists. And although we supposedly has decolonisation in the 20th century, intellectual imperialism persists.

It's like with Irish leftism.... we have our own leftism we've been doing for centuries.... it's called Republican Socialism.... now we're supposed to kowtow to the shite leftism that American academics (who've no revolutionary chops) have come up with in the past 10 years..... their notions displacing our indigenous perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_level_of_military_equipment

Even in the US of A a (proportionally) smaller amount of total wealth is controlled by the 1%.

citation: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/wealth-share-richest-1-percent?globe=1&globeRotation=60.53%2C-170.27&globeZoom=3.97

The bourgeoisie are the main threat to Europe.