If you really think this, that mentalizing (in whatever form) does not necessitate at least some awareness of the other (in this case, that an animal ...
You made the claim, which I objected to that "...animals aren't aware of themselves OR any other animal." and you said: "The animals literally are una...
I'm reminded of Vygotsky here and the social development of thought. Our inner life as a result of the gradual internalization of the social world / l...
You can't account for the rich social life of many animals without positing awareness of others. There's also the mirror test, which suggests self-awa...
As an aside, picking up on Mongrel's reference to fate, people in some cultures take this very seriously. And the result can be quite negative. In Tha...
How? Can you give an example? It seems to me that even if everyone believed in determinism, all it would do is make people think problems were inevita...
Yeah, at least a cop won't normally shoot you for resisting. Tasering is just too easy and ends up being overused. I don't think this would work in th...
The human brain is pre-programmed for language and grammar, it's true, but the language doesn't have to be spoken. Deaf children learn and create sign...
I do still have a dash of the moral romantic in me (though I can't deny it may be nothing more than the final limp twitchings of a deep-seated neurosi...
The Kierkegaard reference is salient here, I agree. I would say though that the moral imagination is largely a product of, and constrained by (sensibl...
Thanks for expanding on this. I'm curious: Do you think it's at all possible to remain an atheist and achieve happiness, or do you think faith in some...
Perhaps you should join the Amish. Heck, maybe even TGW will go along with you. He can keep his extra gods under the mattress. Joking aside, all I see...
I'd agree to this extent: If it comes to the point where technology produces for men an equally or more satisfying alternative to natural sex then the...
Hard to disagree with that. I do see the danger of failing to recognize the distinction you pointed out and so abetting the kind of oppression we set ...
Well, it's certainly very easy to demonstrate that we are not always (if ever) a unified whole, that is that the word "I" itself can be misleading and...
Some people will inevitably fare better than other socially and your issues don't sound intractable to me. Sometimes social skills, like many other sk...
Yeah, I've heard Zizek talk about this, the denial to the right of the minority even to be morally wrong as a disguised form of racism. I tend to agre...
So, TGW gave his tinfoil hat speculation on BLM, I'll give mine on the Alt-Right. I see a relationship between the rise of the Alt-Right and the conti...
1) Take some fear and hate 2) Sprinkle it with vanilla essence 3) Mix it up during the Obama administration 4) Add some coconut frosting 5) Put it on ...
I read one Bukowski book where he described his life as a postman. May have been his first. Really liked it. On love, I offer this quote from the medi...
Wait, a second, just now you said: And I'm making one here. I asked you specifically about the numbers involved in terrorism meaning, as I think you k...
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/03/2014-gallup-international-poll-us-1-threat-world-peace.html "Gallup International’s poll of 68 countries for 20...
I did watch the video. I can even point out some specific instances if you like where ambiguity is used to allow for an interpretation that exaggerate...
Islamophobia is a poorly chosen and misleading word in some senses. I am in a certain way "phobic" to all forms of religion, but not towards Muslims o...
Obviously, I was dealing with the groups as separable, and taking the first one first, which is a valid way to interpret the sentence. Your aim now se...
You can drop this "losing patience" BS, which is just an attempt at deflection that nobody here is going to be fooled by. If anyone here is losing pat...
"The vast majority of the estimated 85,000 to 106,000 militants fighting with militant jihadist groups around the world are fighting for purely local ...
Hilarious. Do you even know what percentage of Muslims are "the bad guys" i.e. jihadi militants? Roughly 100,000. Do the math. That's about 0.006% of ...
You don't like them. Fine. There's plenty more. "The Southern Poverty Law Center described the organization as an anti-Muslim group, and the Muslim ad...
The video is 14 minutes of fear-inducing propaganda interspersed with a couple of minutes of cherry picked statistics. It's pathetic that you expect a...
And we're supposed to take a propaganda video by a right wing anti-Muslim group seriously why? "Clarion Project members are not credible sources to di...
What about a fear of Jews? What should we call that? I would call it anti-semitism. And if any politician in any country suggested all Jews should be ...
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