I don’t want to derail the discussion, but Churches aren’t the only organisation attracting/raising child sexual abusers. Sports clubs are an example for secular organisations facing a similar problem.

Sports clubs on the other hand don’t have this kind of power and history as organised religion.

Sports clubs would simply be banned, but try to ban the Catholic Church in a place with a Catholic majority.

The moment when Spanish politicians seem like better antifascists for Germany than German politicians.

Parking fines follow the costs-by-cause principle. Thus, qualifying them makes their size dependent on their damage.

Parking in a fire department safety zone resulting in a delayed fire response can be costly, but even if no fire response was delayed, there’s an opportunity cost for the fire department, because they need to buy way-clearing devices or extended fire response tools, if there is high likelihood of blocked zones or passage.

There is a whole department of economic science dealing with this, the internalisation of external costs into economic activity (carbon tax is an example).

Can someone explain what ethical considerations are to be made here, except not to exclude proven treatments?

Applicable if your competition is about combinatorics.

Come on, we can do better than counting the ol’ in-and-out, competition-wise.

Spreading genes is so 2 mya

The way I see it, competitive casual sex works better when all parties know that there’s a competition.

Hitler was nothing without the NSDAP and the fascist movement.

There were 915,000 Germans in the Waffen-SS.

In case you don’t remember, what we’re talking about here:

“Lo, see ye her, all gleamin’ in her plate, like some manner of queen, sittin’ high in her gilded carriage, thinkin’ herself bettr’ than us 'cause of her fine metal and steed of silver.”

Fines above a certain level somehow become less than a slap on the wrist.