A lot of stuff can be made a lot cheaper than it’s sold.

No.

1. It’s opt-in in my country.
2. I fear that medical personnel will give up on me way too easily and early if they know that I am a donor. Or that it’s even rooted in malicious intent.

Because there is no “experience” after death. You just start to rot.

How come that you refuse this so confidently?

Here just a few works from that wide field:

• Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain
• AWARE—AWAreness during REsuscitation—A prospective study
• Neurochemical models of near-death experiences: A large-scale study based on the semantic similarity of written reports
• Surge of neurophysiological coupling and connectivity of gamma oscillations in the dying human brain
• Surges of Electroencephalogram Activity at the Time of Death: A Case Series
• Time to loss of brain function and activity during circulatory arrest

The Abrahamic religions do not have a monopoly on the concept of God.

Yes. I just made few examples on popular concepts. And I can make similar examples for a lot of other concepts. However, to discuss this further, we need some clear definitions.

Do the ridiculous things now ascribed to electricity […] prove that electricity doesn’t exist?

This is a form or erroneous attribution. It reminds me of the luminiferous aether of which physicists thought for a long time that it exists until it was disproven. This is a testable hypothesis. Your pixies might even be testable to a certain degree. But beyond a certain point they aren’t. Therefore being in the realm of pseudoscience again.

If we observe electricity, of course elctricity exists. But if we don’t know its cause, it’s important to investigate it. We have to investigate cause and effect instead of just assuming that a higher power plays a role. That’s our only way to gain knowledge and separate fantasy from reality.

And currently, religions with their concepts of deities reside in the realm of fantasy.

Debugging fucked up C/C++ code for example.

Of course we can. We have means to observe the dying process. There is already a lot of scientific knowledge on that topic.

That is a bad comparison IMO. We have piles and piles of hard evidence the Earth is round. Saying the Earth is flat is just factually incorrect at this point.

We also have a lot of evidence that snakes can’t speak, people can’t turn plain water into wine, walk on the water and so on.

But the existence of God. I would argue we have no hard evidence of God’s existence nor do we have hard evidence that God doesn’t exist.

Claiming something which can neither be proven or disproven is what constitutes a pseudoscience. By that logic I could claim that we are in fact giant pink elefants hopping around on the moon, while imagining our reality as we currently think to perceive it. Since you can’t disprove that, I must be right. Or am I not?

As far as science is concerned it is still a theory.

No. A scientific theory can be proven or disproven, while the idea of a God, as interpreted in most religions, can not. Thereby constituting a pseudoscience. And thus, it’s not a scientific theory.

On top of that what makes a god a God there are multiple definitions of a God.

I suppose in the context of the parent comment the abrahamic God is meant, as interpreted by Christians, Jews and Muslims.

In practise, we probably don’t. But maybe we could speed up a lot of progress if we could remove some obstacles and think about it really carefully.

A perfect system would be able to deal with this. Of course, that’s a purely ideological goal which probably wouldn’t be reached in practise. But I think we could gain a lot on the road there.

Imperfect political and economic systems like our current version of capitalism and democracy. (Both could be better, or even replaced by something different which is better.)

Violence.

Judging without critical and unbiased thinking.

Community. We call it a community.

I don’t find it goofy. Having an opinion and insulting someone are different things.

Your example could fullfill both elements of offense, insults (§ 185 StGB) and defamation (spreading things about someone which are not true) (§ 187 StGB).

There are quite different aspects to this. Formally insults are considered “libels” (or to translate it more literally from german: violations of honour). Some things depend a lot on the indivdual circumstances and actions, some are almost universally. Insults can be expressed verbally, non-verbally and through various means of communication (text, pictures, gestures, etc…).

For example, showing a driver the middle-finger (which is the common “fuck you”-gesture), because they took your right of way, is usually considered an insult. Whereas it is not considered an insult if you and your friends do that among yourselves with a humorous intent (which also needs to be perceived humorous for all participants). Another example: dumping your softdrink over your fellow pupil is usually an insult. Calling someone “bitch” can be an insult if it’s meant in a demeaning way. It is not an insult if it’s meant in a friendly manner, like the “heey biaaatch” and suchlike in colloquial English.

So it really depends on the intentions behind it and the reception of the one receiving the insult.

The jurisdiction of the German Federal Supreme Court of Justice says that insults are expressions about contempt or “dishonoring” (idk if that’s a good translation) towards another person.

I could write a whole lot more about this as there are even more aspects to this (e.g., how family is a special case, how you don’t even need to be the victim of an insult and it could still be illegal, some “flavours” of insults which are handled by different laws and much more), but I’m too lazy to do so now. ;)

But, which is very important and to avoid confusion: You can have a negative opinion about someone and are allowed to express it. It just depends on how you express it. Opinions and insults are different things. Freedom of speech is protected in Germany, but that has limitations there, where you can really hurt someone. (Reminds me of how insults provoke similar neurological reactions as a slap in the face.)

Yeah, it’s not very common that someone gets sued for insulting someone else. Still, about 235.000 in the last year, cases is still a higher number than one would expect. (Source: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/157630/umfrage/polizeilich-erfasste-faelle-von-beleidigungen-seit-1995/ ) As insults are an “Antragsdelikt” they are only prosecuted if someone files a police report and sues.

I tend to disagree with the notion of “being super petty” for suing someone over insults. Sure, there are quite a lot of them, I agree with you so far. But I think about a lot of worse cases, where people can even suffer from psychological damages, e.g., if they are being bullied that way. Or if such insults are coming in regularily and/or are very intense in their expression.

They are. You can have a negative opinion about someone, but calling them names or do something insulting, like the “fuck you”-gesture, has mainly the purpose of hurting them.

There were and are quite a lot of cases. Not all are reported by media as it’s not a big thing if a driver shows another driver the middle finger again. You would need to go through the archives of courts. (Or talk to people who work in attorney’s offices.)

Edit: just found accidentally that in 2016 over 200.000 cases were registered and prosecuted.

I find it good that there is such a law. It is a law to guide and enforce civil behaviour. No one should be exposed to this as if it were nothing.

By the way, that doesn’t mean that you can’t voice your opinion. Freedom of speech is protected so far. Even if that’s confusing for some people: having an opinion and insulting someone are different things.

Edit: Typo. You can voice your opinion. forgot a “'t” at the “can”.

Take the following with a big spoon of salt, since I am not a lawyer. Those are the results of interest and some reading on that topic.

Insulting someone is illegal in Germany (§ 185 StGB). You can get financial penalties and in worst cases some jailtime. However, if you insult someone back immediately, those can cancel each other out and the judge can exempt both of you or one of you from punishment (§ 199 StGB). Furthermore, since it is considered a crime, you could, theoretically, detain the culprit in case they want to flee until you are able to get some identification on them, i.e., see their ID card, or until someone like the police arrives (§ 127 StPO). Also this is not okay if you already know the person or have easy means to determine their ID (e.g., your neighbour or someone working at a facility you visit). In all cases the proportionality of your actions are important. (Beating someone senseless just to detain them, because they called you an avocado in a mean way is certainly not okay. This might be slightly different however, if the person in question commited a violent crime and is still acting violently.)