If someone does something psychotic a lot, does that make it ethical for someone-else to do it even once?

"should [be] emulated" or "should [have been immo]lated"?

LA county is the 2nd biggest oil producer in California, California is 12th biggest oil producer in the USA, the USA is the biggest oil producer in the world.

Face, meet leopard.

Kumbh Mela deaths:

• 1820 = 430 deaths, 1000+ injured
• 1840 = 50+ deaths, 100+ injured
• 1906 = 50+ deaths, 100+ injured
• 1954 = 800-1000 deaths
• 1986 = 200+ deaths
• 2003 = 39+ deaths, 100+ injured
• 2010 = 7 deaths, 17 injured
• 2013 = 42 deaths, 45 injured
• 2025 = 39+ deaths, 200+ injured

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/maha-kumbh-mela-stampede-up-prayagraj-stampede-injury-2671695-2025-01-29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_stampedes_in_Hindu_temples

That's just Kumbh Mela. Last year at Hathras

• = 121 deaths, 28+ injured https://www.dw.com/en/india-over-100-killed-in-stampede-at-religious-gathering/a-69538722

• "1234" makes up about 10% of all PINS.
• "1111", "0000" and others where the same number's repeated 4 times.
• "1342" and other combinations of 1234 like "4321".
• "1212" and other doubles duplicated, e.g. "1010".
• "1122".
• "1986" and other years of birth.
• "2580" and other straight lines on keypads.
• "2468".
• Birth dates like "2512" or "1225" aka 12 December.

When I did a search for "what happens after death" with double quotes at google.com and at google.co.in, the 1st 2 sentences at the top of the page was a quote from an article at Psychology Today mentioning the superstitious idea of heaven:

"Key points. A common view is that after death, the soul ascends to heaven."

I like silly puns, but wouldn't say it to someone like a waiter who's time I might be wasting and who may feel the need to pretend to like the joke because they need tips.

It's possible the waiter might enjoy it, since it's a job that attracts extraverts, but I couldn't be sure because in some places they're supposed to kiss even the asshole customers' asses. Same reason I ask friends not to flirt with servers - because they're usually not allowed to tell the flirter to stop, and some depend on tips.

84% of Pakistanis wanted Sharia to be the law of the land, and of those 76% wanted the death penalty for anyone who leaves Islam (Pew 2013).

It's a death cult.

16. Vote for parties making Norway the 4th biggest exporter of natural gas, and 8th biggest exporter of oil - because causing a mass extinction and killing billions of people via anthropogenic climate change is worth it for the petrodollars.

More likely to be local phenomena than stars, because non-polar stars won't stay in view of a stationary telescope due to diurnal motion.

Please elide the emojis, they're jarring.