The most important occupation

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  1. HereWeGoAgain

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    But it's an endless web of connections. If you can't drink, you die. We need fresh water. If you can't eat, you die. We need food. So farmers? What about the fuel the farmers need to produce food? So then oil workers? But if oil workers don't eat, they can't produce oil. Doctors? What can a doctor do without electrical power or drugs? Etc etc etc

    You can't really nail it down to one most important job because we all depend on each other in order to survive.
     
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    No.

    And that's the last time you get a response from me to a post formatted like that. If, when I hit reply, I get a pair of tags enclosing no text, the conversation is over.
     
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    Plenty of people don't do their jobs as parents. They leave it up to public schools and the internet. Other's like the trumps send their kids off to military school. So you can farm out the parent job.
     
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    the guy that installed the safety systems (failsafe) on our nukes... everyone else is a close 2nd...
     
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    I like that answer, but what about the people who control deadly plagues and agents for biological warfare?
     
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    To be sure - which is why we elected Clinton and Obama twice, and why this country is rotting away from within.
     
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    We wouldn't have these problems if you guys all lived in the woods and survived on nuts and berries like I do.
     
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    What do you mean?
     
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    Try hitting "reply" on post #20, maybe you'll get the idea.
     
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    I was just kidding, mimicking your feigned uncertainty as to the meaning of HWGA's post about parenting, but it's all your fault anyway for quoting several different users in one post.

    My posts are so great that they merit individual consideration.
     
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    Farmers for sure but back then there were very few people and they could move around so the buildup of garbage or waste was not a problem. Once cities were built then the problems started.
     
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    Seeing there was nothing feigned about it, obviously I can be forgiven for not getting the joke.
     
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    I only know that the most unimportant jobs are lawyer and congressman. :)
     
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    If you could re-write the constitution, would there be room for congressmen?

    It's a dilemma. I could go for a king with strong executive powers. But he's have to rotate out every 2 years. And he'd need to be me.

    Well, somebody's gotta do it!
     
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    I don't know that there was any waste at all. Didn't everything get reabsorbed into the Earth?
     
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    Not all of us ... hookers, pimps, thieves, drug addicts, drug pushers .....
     
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    i'd counter that with, the guy that installed the safety systems (clean rooms) that store that sh*t... still a close 2nd, behind the guy that installed those failsafes on our 'launch systems'...
     
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    How about the guy who created and designed them?

    Maybe, How many times have the failsafes prevented a launch?
     
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    the creaters arent nearly as important as those that secure them from society

    the question is, do you wanna trust them without those failsafes in place?
     
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    Basically yes.
     
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    We have way too elaborate of a system to name any one profession as the most important.
     
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    Teachers!
     
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    by teacher you meant indoctrinator, correct?
    they're only important to a small faction, radicals at that...
     
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    My high school physics teacher made all the difference in my life - much more than my father. He helped to INSPIRE and perpetuate my love of math and science. He then became my best friend for the next 25 years or so, until he died.

    Getting an education is not indoctrination. If more people possessed critical thinking skills, trump would have never been elected. But that has nothing to do with indoctrination. It is based on logic and the ability to reason.
     
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    Well good, because we have to bring Trump in to every thread, right?
     

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