Lol ba boom! ching!

If nuclear was so brilliant the private sector would have done it already. They haven’t because the cost far outweighs the benefit.

And as far taxpayer intervention goes to prop it up I just don’t see any compelling evidence to suggest investment in nuclear will give you better bang for your buck than renewables.

In some countries without much wind, sun and waves nuclear might make sense provided they could cheaply get uranium and dispose waste cheaply. That’s not Australia and we have options.

Luck does have a part to play, but so do the choices you make.

If you are not already wealthy, every time to you choose to have a child you erode your financial standing to some degree, that’s just a fact. Do this seven times and you are going to have some issues.

To compound matters, one or more of her kids have some kind of disability, and disabilities are not a cheap thing to manage in this country. I don’t know if it’s the first child or the last child, but unless it was the last I definitely would have stopped after that knowing the enormous amount of resources it would require to support the child.

To put her entire situation down to luck only really comes across as denying personal responsibility.

Whatever your starting point in life, every choice you make will move you closer to your goals or further away from them. The article no doubt is missing a lot of information, since the journalist failed to analyze the situation critically, but it really does seem a lot of choices were made that would have compounded financial problems.

Super is not the short term relief you are looking for though… More people floating around with more money would just push up the prices even more, offsetting any benefit from withdrawing super.

Now if we started talking about increasing supply perhaps, that would be a different story.

I think the point is if you are trying to fix housing early withdrawal of super is not the answer for all the reasons given.

There are other solutions and it would take multiple policies working in tandom.

Silence peasant! We need more slaves!

Silly grandstanding and empty threats from the greens. If you are serious about the supermarket duopoly then work with labour to force them to divest. Another gab fest senate inquiry not going to do jack shit.

In any case, the RBA tut tutting will change precisely nothing.

With all of these streaming services upping prices piracy will become more rampant than ever.

The bigger question is how free to air still survives.

Ok. But if you’re ideological believe is that all can be reformed without a shadow of a doubt and you turn out to be wrong, that has some devastating consequences for many potential victims.

My point of view is, you can try reform some of the less severe cases, but when it comes to people like the one in the article, you need to lock them up and throw away key for the good of society.

Well going back to your question, you asked whether people are born evil. The question was framed incorrectly. Which is why I responded with some people really are born with certain disposition.

You believe this can be overridden in all circumstances. I do not. You can try but it’s very dangerous to believe without a doubt this is true.

I don’t mean to sound disrespectful, I just think it’s naive to think that early intervention is the magic bullet in all cases.

It’s like saying all paedophiles can be reformed.

If you can point to concrete empirical evidence that proves this, I would like to see it. I’ve not seen or heard of any myself.

Evil is a subjective term, but I believe traits of a psychopath are heritable and studies do support this.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/can-people-have-a-genetic-predisposition-towards-being-evil

I haven’t made one. My point still stands. This level of premeditated violence that was not done under duress (i.e. literal or metaphorical gun point) was an act of complete free will and are the actions of a psychopath.

Short of a lobotomy or extremely strong psychiatric drugs some people are beyond reform.

It’s amusing that you come across as directing your hostility to me on the Internet, which I’m sure you will deny. I’m not the one burning people here while their kids watch.

I know what they meant. I just disagree. Some people are just inherently fucked and intervention won’t always work. There are bad seeds out there unfortunately and ignoring this fact with wishful thinking won’t make it to away.

Uh huh. You know absolutely nothing about my life and what I’ve been through so if I were you I’d be very careful about making assumptions.

I’m sorry but the level of violence in this article goes beyond someone losing their temper because of life circumstances . These were premeditated actions, and suggests to me a psychopath beyond reform.

Penny Wong dressed down the ambassador. Lol like China gives a fuck.

What do you think makes up an institution ? It’s a grouping of people…a collection of individuals. So it seems you’re not getting it.

So yes, it’s still punishing individuals for what other individuals within an institution does.

You seem to be supportive of these paint attacks. That’s worrying because one day it’s paint, what else is next? Physical violence?