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  1. ​ @TheInfographicsShow  You literally quoted Huxley ... "Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." ... and then proceeded to ignore that he defined the agnostic position as covering belief. He was a scientist. His agnosticism is the basis of demarcation. No verifiable/falsifiable evidence = suspension of belief. He outright called it "immoral" to believe a claim without evidence. Huxley defined agnosticism, when the definition of "atheism" was athe-ism, the belief gods don't exist. It was 20th century "philosophers" who, while completely admitting they were doing so, pushed for the a-theism redefinition. One of them, George H Smith (not an actual philosopher), was actually an athe-ist (and a cowardly one) who seems to have just wanted to steal agnosticism's no burden of proof. And, to create a distinction between the new a-theism and agnosticism, he also pushed redefining the latter. He did what you did, in this video, quoted Huxley, and then totally butchered what Huxley actually defined. You also seem to have left out a position, at the start ... that of the a-theist who believes no gods exists, but doesn't claim to know. The redefinition of athe-ism to a-theism, has a-theism covering 3 positions, not 2. The a-theism redefinition creates this convoluted mess ... Gnostic theist Agnostic theist Agnostic weak/negative a-theist Agnostic strong/positive a-theist Gnostic strong/positive a-theist A "gnostic" is a knower, and an "ist" is a believer. The "ist" is actually redundant, if you're calling someone a "gnostic". You can replace the suffix. The former athe-ism definition makes things a lot less convoluted ... Theo-gnostic The-ist Agnost-ic Athe-ist Atheo-gnostic If we have a Schrodinger cat experiment, the agnostics would suspend belief, until the box is open. Some other people might believe the cat is alive, alive-ists. Some others may also believe the cat is dead, dead-ists. To group the agnostics together with the dead-ists, as non-aliveists, is nonsensical, since they are also non-deadists.
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  2. RCMP are federal. We've also got provincial police and city police. Also, Canada's population is about 10x less then the US. Both the cop killings and cop deaths should be adjusted for population, for a proper comparison. Being a cop is safer than being a garbage man, in the US. Guns, or not, there's no real justification for the amount of force US cops use. If they're that afraid, then they shouldn't be cops.
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