Fully agree.

If this kind of institution starts to be ignored, with no consequences, then it no longer serves a purpose.

Aliens took them, obviously. What else? What other logical, rational, simple explanation could there be?

I really doubt that much rock can’t find any other use except being dumped into the ocean.

Then why not just use it to extend a coast line or build an island?

Not doubting your word, something doesn’t add up.

There are hotels in my country that already buy and install dessalination plants, in order to save costs, to fill pools and fountains and even irrigate gardens.

These instalations have steep requirements to be installed and the off products can’t be dangerous for return to environment, as the return often goes directly to the sea, through beaches.

Concentrating the salt is also another intelectual itch for me. We naturally concentrate salt by evaporation. There are a few programs aimed at developing low energy/high efficiency processes to obtain salt from sea water. The few I was described involved using systems built around the pressure cooker working principle or purpose built enclosed systems alike to greenhouses to force the water out. I’d risk the processes would be useful to make use of the brines.

Call me skeptic but I’ll risk there are a good number of industries that could use and profit from using that brine.

And you opted by the chemical process. Why not use reverse osmosis or pure and simple forced evaporation?

Anywhere near the mines?

And me building hope on the legend that Norway was a civilized land.

Couldn’t it be just pilled up and eventually used to back fill the mine shafts?

Where I live, the prices would be for about €1/cubic meter. That is very low. And it wouldn’t hurt farmers to be a bit more conscious on how they use water. There are still to many people that irrigate by flooding, which is demontrated as a bad practice.

The brine problem I really don’t understand it.

Nowadays, industry buys salt, processes it to remove rare metals and elements and sells back the purified sodium cloride we buy from shelves (don’t buy it; go for raw salt if you can) or ship it to other industries to be used as a filler (like powdered laundry soap).

The brine can be as easily processed into these same end uses.

How could such an odd choice benefit them?

Honest question.

Clarification: are you originally criticizing the capital penalty or just making that as a declaration?

Doesn’t work.

The french used that same reasoning to deport their hardened criminals to the French Guiane.

If they are irredeemable, put them away and let them waste away inside a system that will be a constant reminder they are at fault, they were put away by their own actions and attitude.

Killing them makes the system the same as them and puts blood on many peoples hands.

And you still wonder why your country is considered backwards.

Fine. Shall we retry or leave it as is?

That is not how a conversation is handled.

You voice your opinion, I voice mine, then we keep comparing ideas in order to advance the others understanding of it.

I did not attack you, I pointed issues to your statement and added my own counter points.

Good. I don’t also want you to quit.

It is tiresome. Extremely. But quitting is dying. Is giving up on ourselves, on tomorrow. On something better, that we personally may not be able to enjoy, but nonetheless worthy of our toilling.

We have been played and toyed with, told we are worthless, small, a nothing. But we are not.

I can’t solve your personal problems but I can emphatize with you, with your tiredness, your frustration, your anger, your sadness, your whatever. Because I am as human as you and I do not want you to feel alone. I can be as bad or worst than you but right now you need more than myself to know there are others in the world that feel as you feel.

You are not alone.

It hurts. Its hard. But you are alive and that by itself is better than not be alive. If we lay down and quit, we lose ourselves. We matter.

I do. What I lack is a proper sense of humour.

Fine. You want to quit? Do it.

No, it’s just that if you quit, the other side wins. And unlike yourself, I’ll risk, the other part is not a good bunch.