47 fields study suffering but none study suffering itself. It's like having Flame, Smoke, and Heat departments but nobody puts out fires.

Bentham's felicific calculus quantifies pleasure and pain on a 1-10 scale. Yes, you can mathematically calculate whether you should kill your cat.

Military gets $2 trillion, brain research gets $13 billion. We spend 154x more on bombs than abolishing all suffering forever.

Your vote has same odds as winning lottery 7 times. CAPTCHA for stupidity filters crowdsourcing bias by removing people who guess wrong.

Random farmers guessed an ox's weight within 1 pound. Experts were wrong. Crowds beat geniuses when math says they shouldn't.

Obama budget $3.80 trillion vs Romney $3.79 trillion. 0.26% difference. Same banks fund both. Democracy is working perfectly wrong.

Only 1 of 180 countries has press freedom like 1st Amendment. North Korea, Eritrea, Turkmenistan are information black holes.

Government spending above 25% of GDP slows economic growth. OECD countries prove it. Every dollar above 25% is basically lighting money on fire and calling it policy.

95% of suicide terrorism targets occupying militaries. We invaded to stop terrorism, making terrorism increase 89% instead.

Banks needed $125 billion TARP bailout. Same banks gave $1 million each to Obama 2008 and Romney 2012. Both candidates support bailouts.