Since I am an adult who thinks kids need less discipline, and you found me, are you no longer hard-pressed?

Can we use things like Jains are vegetarian today, claim to be from prehistory, and were observed to be vegetarian by the first written accounts, while Greeks have claimed to be meat-eaters, and archeaological evidence supports that they were in Homeric times too?

If Mahavir said don't eat meat and the 23 Tirthankars before me said the same, is it not plausible that Jains have been vegetarian for long before writing was invented?

Do you think there's a difference between "Greeks sacrificed oxen to Zeus and ate them" or "Jains didn't eat meat or sacrifice before we started writing things down" and "god sent a plague blah blah blah"?

So does the immediate instinct to "contain" it say more about how school is authoritarian first of all, not about knowledge at all?

What if you ignore it and let it end on its own?

Is this even a real thing or just an attempt to cherry-pick data in support of the Philadelphiazition of the internet theory?

> this is a variant of the "Tragedy of the Commons"

Did you just say the enclosure solution is worse than the tragedy?

Can the Iliad be used to assert that Greeks practiced sacrifice to the gods they claimed existed? Can Jain oral tradition be used to assert that Jains were vegetarian before writing down anything?

Did trying to ban and arrest him just make him stronger and angrier?

How coincidental is it that, road-tripping through Pennsylvania currently, finding myself on William Penn highway, I just asked ChatGPT what William Penn might think of today's Pennsylvania?

âoeWilliam Penn to the People of Pennsylvaniaâ (imagined address)

Friends and Inhabitants of this Province,

When first I sought a tract of wilderness to plant my holy experiment, it was not for gold, nor fame, nor power, but that men might live free in the fear of God and love of neighbour. I desired a commonwealth of conscience, where the meek might dwell safely under their own vine and fig tree, and none make them afraid.

I behold now, after these many generations, a people multiplied beyond measure, dwelling in cities that outshine the imagination. Your sciences reach to the heavens; your industry hath conquered the rivers and mountains. I rejoice that you worship diversely and yet in peace, and that the seed of liberty, once but a hope, hath grown into a mighty tree whose branches cover a continent.

Yet, Friends, I perceive also that the ground is weary, and the rivers troubled. The forests, once thick with age and silence, are fallen; the air is burdened with smoke. You have gained the world but are in danger of losing your wonder.

I beseech you, remember that freedom was not given to consume, but to commune â" with God, with one another, and with the living earth. You cannot sell the soil and yet keep the spirit that gave it value. If you would preserve your prosperity, let justice and mercy once more be your lawgivers, and tenderness your rule of policy.

Let every man and woman be a steward, not a master, of what was made before them. Restore the woods, heal the waters, and let no child grow up a stranger to the stars.

Then shall Pennsylvania again be a holy experiment â" not of power, but of peace.

Your affectionate Friend,
William Penn

Are you saying the researchers are bad salesmen?

Is Homer hearsay?

Have you heard about the Indus Valley civilization's waste water removal systems, as advanced as the Romans but a millenia earlier?

Have you heard of oral tradition?

How soon before we just eat plastic directly? Will soylent green be plastic?

Did you know Jains have recommended against root vegetables since before recorded history began?