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>>alwill+(OP)
The amount of censorship, especially among the qualified scientific community in just about every facet of this disease is alarming. Even if the origins were accidental or lab-born or whatnot, the response has been so politicized worldwide that pure science has been largely thrown out the window. Every possibility should be analyzed & tested, even if it goes against the interests of a ruling party and all parties are guilty of exploiting this.

>>dogsbo+O8
As someone mentioned on Twitter: "When you mix Science with Politics you end up with Politics"

>>indy+Ka
Anything + Politics = Politics

>>simonh+rh
religion + politics = religion (?) eg. Aztec empire

edit: the Aztec empire is an example for this. The religion was politically enforced and thus the political system became part of the religion.

So the question is, isn't religion a case that refutes the parent's hypothessis.

>>Torwal+2j
religion is a way to coalesce and exert power on large groups of people. religion is politics.

>>clairi+Hm1
That’s a political view of religion, most religious I know are simply asking ‘why something instead of nothing?’

>>menset+5I1
but that's like looking at a function and defining it by its initial value. a function has meaning and importance beyond the 0th-order. and it's a philosophical view moreso than a political one (a political view posits how to use religion in the service of power).