Bill Nye's Solution For Defeating Bad Ideas

[hrdlr110]

Should climate change skeptics be jailed? "We'll see", says Billy Nye. What a shame. Turns out Bill is more Nazi than liberal. Watch the first minute of the video and ignore the rest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch

I'm pretty sure he's not referring to those that deny climate change is real, but rather, those in industry and politics that weild the weapons of power & influence.
Common folk can safely choose sides where the only consequence is being ostracized by fellow humans for holding an outdated, incoherent, and just outright wrong belief system.
Bill is on the right side of this, which ironically is to the left!

[chill98]

Are you a cunt and proud of it? You certainly seem that way.

ah, emotionally immature (if not a child) and adhd. 

Must be a bummer to be you; though I imagine the above is just a short list of your deficiencies.

[Mike Cl]

ah, emotionally immature (if not a child) and adhd. 

Must be a bummer to be you; though I imagine the above is just a short list of your deficiencies.

My, don't you sound positively xian--full of judgments and finger pointing. But that's not childish.

[GrinningYMIR]

ah, emotionally immature (if not a child) and adhd. 

Must be a bummer to be you; though I imagine the above is just a short list of your deficiencies.

Emotional immaturity is saying "lol u a fag" I am not saying that. I am saying I would very calmly and politely beat the respect my fellow forum members and myself deserve into your dense skull were you not protected by the anonymity of the Internet.

You can take your high and mighty views somewhere else, or you can continue to show everyone here you're that much of a cunt, a word I shall refer to you as. Because you are nothing save for a negative and irritating source.

[chill98]

My, don't you sound positively xian--full of judgments and finger pointing. But that's not childish.

My, don't you sound a bit limited in life experience.

You should research the topic better and see where the childish/finger pointing cascades from.

[chill98]

Emotional immaturity is saying "lol u a fag" I am not saying that. I am saying I would very calmly and politely beat the respect my fellow forum members and myself deserve into your dense skull were you not protected by the anonymity of the Internet.

Great. Now add violent tendencies/anonymous threats to the list of deficiencies.  You are oh so very brave from a distance!

Respect is earned.

You can take your high and mighty views somewhere else, or you can continue to show everyone here you're that much of a cunt, a word I shall refer to you as. Because you are nothing save for a negative and irritating source.

Ah, puppies and kittens is more your style!

You could choose to stay out of the grown up areas if you can't participate in mature conversations; and you can't [participate] likely due to those aforementioned deficiencies...

Was it nature or nurture that sent you on such a spiral? 

Regardless, blame mommy and daddy for your issues, not the rest of the world.

[Mike Cl]

My, don't you sound a bit limited in life experience.

You should research the topic better and see where the childish/finger pointing cascades from.

Okay, Chill, I'll bow out...............you two children carry on.

[FaithIsFilth]

Nye does not respond to this question rather he deflects, poorly I might add, to Enron (an example of someone breaking actual laws) and cigarette manufactures (of which, none went to jail).

That's the thing. These people are not actually breaking laws. The scientific consensus is clear that man made climate change is happening, yet so many politicians refuse to do anything about it. David Suzuki suggests maybe jailing the politicians who refuse to do anything about it, but that's obviously not going to happen.

[Baruch]

That's the thing. These people are not actually breaking laws. The scientific consensus is clear that man made climate change is happening, yet so many politicians refuse to do anything about it. David Suzuki suggests maybe jailing the politicians who refuse to do anything about it, but that's obviously not going to happen.

If you commit a little crime, you might get punished.  If you commit a big crime, you might get elected ;-(  The government is where the law breakers write the laws in their own favor.

[gentle_dissident]

If you commit a little crime, you might get punished.  If you commit a big crime, you might get elected ;-(  The government is where the law breakers write the laws in their own favor.

Thank you for saying what the government knows I'm thinking.

[chill98]

That's the thing. These people are not actually breaking laws. The scientific consensus is clear that man made climate change is happening, yet so many politicians refuse to do anything about it. David Suzuki suggests maybe jailing the politicians who refuse to do anything about it, but that's obviously not going to happen.

You're throwing a bunch of things together that do not align well. 

1.  These people are not  breaking laws. 
2. The scientific consensus is clear that man-made climate change is happening.
3. Many politicians refuse to do anything about it
4. Suzuki suggests jailing politicians
5. Thats not going to happen.

I guess the main point is these people are not breaking laws so they shouldn't go to jail.   That was the question posed to Nye.  Well part of the question. The other part was:

do you think some of the rhetoric on your side, as I'm sure both sides, do you think some of the rhetoric on your side gets too carried away..

I think the obvious answer is yes. The rhetoric gets too carried away.