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Robert Blinov

Utilitarianism breaches personal freedoms and leads to genocides. Even if its means were somehow justified, it puts too much trust in its operator; life cannot guarantee any certain outcome

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Robert Blinov

Socialism fails because of the tragedy of the commons—a kind of prisoner’s dilemma. The impossibility of foretelling others’ behavior leads to fellows putting short-term selfly benefits ahead of overall

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Robert Blinov

We are all unique and abnormal in some way or another. We all were not given something that most others were given

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Robert Blinov

Pursuing technology for the sake of technology leads to soulless artificiality

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Robert Blinov

The utmost truth cannot be put into words. God is incomprehensible

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Robert Blinov

Money is a go-between—a supposedly neutral tool that involved parties trust more than they trust each other

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Robert Blinov

Demons don’t possess a person suddenly—he lets them take over

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Robert Blinov

Political issues exist because of the immoral use of force. No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent

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Robert Blinov

Perhaps souls do indeed reïncarnate. If so, reïncarnation is way better than any material immortality, as it allows to live thru different upbringings in different bodies

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Robert Blinov

Beauty is the symbol of good, and nature is the greatest source of it. Beauty and truth are inescapably linked...

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Robert Blinov

Some tolerance is needed in society. It lets folk experiment and innovate—no problem was ever solved by applying a single technique in a uniform manner

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Robert Blinov

René Descartes: I think, therefore I am. Robert Blinov: I dreamt, therefore I slept

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Robert Blinov

Event organisers should not give the press any privileges above the common man; the press no longer represents the people when it becomes a class of its own

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Robert Blinov

Luck does not exist. Quoting Ron Swanson, luck is a concept invented by the weak to explain their failures

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Robert Blinov

Not only are simulated entities completely controlled by someone, they only exist in that someone’s world and cannot be conscious

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Robert Blinov

Ascetics are defined as people who pursue extreme self-denial and austerity

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Robert Blinov

If North Koreans genuinely believe that their life is okay, their life is okay. If Saudi women genuinely believe that they have enough rights, they have enough rights

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Robert Blinov

Life has no reason to make the best choices for you, so make your own

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Robert Blinov

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom