i think as long as you are consistent with your view of what betterment is, the betterment of human civilizations has to equate to the betterment of humanity.

for example, if we define good as free. if the human civilization is more free, then humanity is more free.

the problem is that each individual has different views on betterment; bettering oneself is typically a personal, life long struggle; a civilization with a singular goal is going to go against vast sums of the population's views on what betterment is. you too strongly enforce specific views and everyone becomes very similar and bland, there's a lack of variety; you do the opposite and let people believe what they want and there's anarchy...

> Chris_Balsz wrote:

> the moderators are here to moderate the forum, so that the forum better serves the community.<<

this is your constant mistake. The fmod team is there to enforce authority upon you. It serves Authority not the community, so your regular appeals to Liberty, Fraternity and Equality totally fail.  As does your demand for a dialectical proof of the Justice behind the power of authority over the community.  It is the Community who serves Authority for the betterment of Authority. This is the truth behind all commercial websites.

i dont appeal for liberty, fraternity, and equality. i appeal for consistency, and the only consistency they provide is consistently being unable to be consistent.  and without consistency there can be no authority; because you cannot obey rules that constantly change.

for example, primo made the unrealistic attempt to establish precedence of being unable to disrespect any person on earth, past, present, or future; and i pointed out how unrealistic such a thing it is, and i am sure in the next month they will fail to consistently uphold that precedence...

you are also mistaken on the purpose of this forum and the fmods. this forum is a service. it is here for people to enjoy; no one comes here to be bullied. the fmods arent here because stefan thought that people need to be bullied in his forum. they are here to make sure the forum provides its service.

would you close a thread celebrating Guy Fawkes day?

the moderators are here to moderate the forum, so that the forum better serves the community. i think most people agree to this. but the moderators typically enforce the rule that you cant discuss moderation. if you can't discuss moderation in the forum, then the feedback that the moderators can get from the community they are supposed to be providing a service for, is very limited; but instead the moderators prefer to live in their own bubble, safe from criticisms where they get to believe they are doing a good job.

the moderators here often act like immature children lack concern over the consequences of their actions, they often show favoritism, they lack the intelligence to catch people that can intelligently derail a thread, they often close threads after their response so they can feel good about getting the last word on a topic, their actions are typically emotional and heavy-handed, and they are extremely inconsistent, one moderator will ban someone for one thing and the next day wont even warn someone else for doing the same thing.

there is no order in the forums; its a rag tag team of bullies terrorizing the playground, and just about everyone has left because they dont want to deal with the bullies anymore. when i think of the worse moderating i have ever experienced in all the forums i have visited, this forum easily takes the cake, even the ones that have very strict rules are at least consistent....

D.... mods are not concerned with enforcement of the rules... they have their own ideals on what the forums should be like and their try to enforce their ideals and ignore the rules written down...

the rules are not laws that you will be punished for breaking. they are guidelines for the posters in an effort to try to limit the content the moderators have to edit... Einstein's thread about byrd didnt break any forum rules that i am aware of, but it was closed by primo because personally he rather not have that thread open.

you can be banned for reporting too many violations of the rules because the mods dont enforce the rules, they dont care if someone breaks the rules, their goal is not to enforce the rules.  they have their own ideas of what is and is not acceptable that often does not correspond to the rules.

why do they choose refs from small countries?

> Commander Christ wrote:

> Long live the Mannschaft. It's true that England was robbed of a goal, but England couldn't match Germany. The English defence was too poor..

Germany's defense was pretty poor in the game too...

typically what happens is you give the hospital your insurance info, and then they will tell you if anything they want to do isnt covered before they do it; i dont see how they would do a treatment that wasnt covered by insurance that your friend wouldnt know isnt covered by his insurance before they did it...

lol, $150,000 for baby delivery.... lol at british propaganda....

if you are poor you can rack up millions of dollars of medical expenses and never have to pay a cent of it... and baby delivering with zero insurance would cost more like $5k in a hospital in the US, not $150,000.... also, baby delivery is pretty expected, you could have just gotten insurance before the birth and paid a fraction of that $5k...

umm.... i dont think anyone had england as favorites... sure, people gave england a chance, and some fanboys were thinking england would win... but england definitely were not favorites in this match, not after how they have played in the group stage... and yes, 2 bad games doesnt mean the team is bad, but 2 bad games with only a 1-0 win against slovenia between the horrible games and their game against germany, and chances are they still arent playing at the level they would need to, to beat germany...

its weird because in the last two world cups, im pretty sure the americans had good defense but shit offense, this time around, we score every game, but our defense is shit.