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I saw the Bosnia example mentioned and it fits for me. It's one of those terms though that could be subject to, shall we say, strategic deployment.

I don't think it's unfair to be a bit suspicious of the term "humanitarian military intervention" @"Thorongil". Would you consider the Gulf and / or I...

Yeah, I was just joking really. :)

Oh, the reveal worked. I was looking for unreveal.

I like the way you drew the bottles. And you have me wondering why you made her face that colour.

Where's the unreveal button?! ;)

OK, a couple of options so far then. If someone wants to contact Philosophy Tube, go for it and let us know what he says and/or if anyone has a vid th...

I like the idea. We could have a combination of collected philosophy videos plus whatever members were willing to put together themselves. Have you ma...

Excuse me while I take shelter to avoid the imminent tsunami of Hanoverian ego.

Never thought I'd see a line like this on the Fox news website: "The more than three decades-long civil war in Guatemala claimed at least 200,000 live...

This is what you get with a species of self-deceptive apes for whom the appearance of morality is more important than the reality. Moral hypocrisy is ...

Moderation is relatively light here in my view. In fact, to my knowledge, you are the first person to complain of it being too heavy.

On a related note from Robert Wright in The Moral Animal: "...the feeling of moral "rightness" is something natural selection created so that people w...

I would say "ethnic group" is the best way to describe Jews too, but then what is ethnicity? Within ethnic groups you can have shared ethno-racial as ...

Worked pretty much automatically for me.

Excuse me for a second while I recover from the metaphor... Anyway, as a cursory look through the thread should reveal, old PF seems to have been aban...

If you think I was implying evolution happens purely by chance or something along those lines, you haven't fully read or understood my post. In fact, ...

What a silly nit-pick. I didn't use the word "force". General relativity is a theory of gravitation. The notion of gravity is obviously essential to i...

It's more fun though. I think that's why we we're doing it. Anyway, ain't broke, no need to fix it (unlike real democracies!).

Lamarck was wrong about the basics of evolution. Darwin was right. Epigenetics is an interesting addition to modern evolutionary theory that demonstra...

Got a 2nd for the first time with philosophy forum (no quotes) on local Google, which, as old PF is presently inoperative, is pretty much as good as f...

>:)

On Bullshit - Harry Frankfurt

Yeah, by honesty I just meant he speaks his mind even if what is contained within is BS. I don't think he really knows the difference. In that sense h...

@"jamalrob" takes care of finances, so he may want to give more details but I'll just say this: While we do need to continue to build a subscriber bas...

Donnie Drumpf: Sincere political moron or genius political troll?

Corbyn's charm relies on the fact that he has reinjected the quaint ideas of "principle" and "honesty" into mainstream politics. Sort of like Trump ex...

. This. I don't think Porat ever came close to understanding the value of what he had with PF or how to nurture it. The best thing would be if he sold...

He was talking about Owen Smith not JC.

Now 3rd for philosophy forum on my local Google (.co.th, with and without quotes).

Hmm, have you been overdosing on Manga again, Wos? ;)

Explanations notwithstanding, I agree with @"andrewk". I understand the point but the presentation puts me off. The feeling that the teaching characte...

I like the look of the Sloterdijk. I'll have a look for something else to add. If anyone else has a paper on their mind, now is the time.

That would be my analysis too. The whole point of the anti-Corbyn crowd is that they hate the left because they think it will cost them power. They kn...

Seconded. (I thought about moving that it occurred on the 6th of June at 6 minutes past 6, but we may not get away with that one).

Ah, he may have been misled by the heretical text, "the Clover Sutra". I suggest a crucifixion as penance.

The main thing I get from that is that you are confused about shamrocks. Rather than jump straight into words, which I know can be difficult for New W...

Oh yeah, I like totally get you dude. (I'm making this one obvious for the American audience.)

Or just betting on a Trump presidency.

Pokemon Go has started killing people. How long before it is a greater threat to civilization than ISIS? (Should I start a thread?)

Loving the vibe here. Here's some classic British thrash from a fantastic band that most people never heard of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6N1s7...

Interesting. I note that the Guardian is running with the "Corbyn is a bully" line coming from the Owen Smith camp. There may be some genuine concerns...

The officer claims he was trying to shoot the autistic guy and missed and hit the black guy. Not sure that that improves things all that much. But wai...

The other obvious point is that having a minimum wage is an excellent way to put more money in the pockets of poor people who are likely to spend almo...

I'm all for giving small businesses breaks. The minimum wage is where I would draw the line because in my world if you work full time at any job you s...

Innovate. If you're not smart enough to come up with a business plan that allows you to pay a decent wage maybe you should reconsider your line of wor...

That did make me laugh, thanks. Anyway, how could I possibly reject the American dream when I see it being played out so elegantly at the Republican c...

Or Dresden, or Hiroshima. Or any of the other actual important deliberate mass killings of civilians since then that have been planned, ordered and/or...

The good ones can at least afford to pay minimum wage. Entrepreneurs that come up with a business plan that doesn't provide the resources to do that s...

The logic is indeed twisted enough to be Hanoverian. Funnily enough, when you work for yourself, you are entitled to all the profits of your business....