Unfortunately the principle of degressive proportionality of votes per country to population of country is enshrined in EU law. It's free to interpret that principle as it wishes but it can't do away with it. My favourite proposal got axed in the 2010s: it would have given citizens two votes, one for a national list and one for a transnational list - I think the idea was that 75% of seats would be filled by winners of national lists and 25% by those of transnational lists. Unfortunately it died along with many other proposed reforms.
Hey, so I looked it up again and you're not actually dumb. Grizzlys and Kodiaks are sub-species, so when I said they aren't species that was only half true.
However, only the first part is capitalised, so it's Grizzly bear and Kodiak bear, maybe because bear is the species and Grizzly/Kodiak isn't.
Yes, but before 2000 it was used sparsely and in a dramatically different context than today. I suggest reading the Wikipedia page for "Normie (slang)".
Well I don't think that's inherent to humanity or humanism. I agree though that humanity isn't a value in of itself, because if we accept that it is, stripping someone of that humanity is enough to denigrate and mistreat them. I also see the colonialist baggage that humanist philosophy continues to carry to this day. If we'd ever manage to establish contact with nonhumans, I'd definitely be on the lookout for anyone who suddenly starts talking about progressivism and "humanist values".
Well, I think that's kinda the point of the OOP. Species aren't supposed to be anything special. By capitalising the names of alien species we're elevating them to be synonymous with culture, even though it's impossible for any species to have a monoculture. We're monolithising a (fictional alien) species.
By the way, Grizzly bear and Kodiak bear aren't species either. They're both brown bears (ursos arctos).
idk about philosophically, but historically it's a term used by terminally online racist 4chan users to describe people who don't subscribe to their lifestyle. I've always disliked that it became a popular term because I always have that origin in mind.
Genau! War ein bisschen genervt als ich den Kommentar geschrieben habe aber ich finde den "keine Grenzen" Gedanken von Vogel/Fluss sehr cool und fänd eine Globusansicht oder sowas nice. 2007 hatten wir das Problem ja schonmal auf den Münzen
Been a while but since this post I've actually had to get a spare part and had no trouble, years after launch