"As if?"

I think the problem there is that this plan would require said billionaire to be concerned with improving the world, as opposed to endlessly hoarding resources in a fruitless quest to fill the gaping hole in their soul.

I am so glad I'm not the only one who's been having this thought.

They’ve been actively working to remove child labor laws wherever they can throughout the country.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

I have to hand it to you, that is a really great snail.

Okay, fair enough. Send me a message and we'll talk about it.

Okay this conversation is getting too complex to carry on in a public microblogging forum. I believe there may be some sort of direct messaging system on here that we could use?

Yeah, I'm just hearing about that controversy now, and it does trouble me. But what I'm a little confused about is that from what I can see WordPress.com is also committed to a basically laissez-faire freedom of speech policy (i.e. wordpress.com/freedom-of-s...). Is there a difference I'm missing?

We can only hope.

I've actually been doing some research into practical kabbalah lately. It's interesting stuff!

This may not be the only area where we need to go to poetry to supplement the incomplete moral vision of the halachic system.

I think this is an area where the only way forward is to look beyond the halachic framework and begin interrogating poetry for values. In biblical poetry, where the trees and the mountains sing praises to God, nature does not appear simply as a resource to be preserved for humanity.