Karma takes the form of inexplicable suffering or happiness, such events identifiable by the complete absence of, or irrelevance of, agency (people ca...
To be honest, I don't but this isn't rocket science - anyone with a decent head on his shoulders can see what women's clothing these days add up to. C...
Well, it is a fact about perception: women perceive it as part of their femininity to dress in a men-pleasing manner. That's the issue isn't it? If th...
Do the stats beg an explanation or not? Supposing there was no bias against women, shouldn't the proportion of women remain the same in both one-time ...
I guess a lot depends on one's criteria of what counts as a good/bad/perfect fit. Perhaps if you consider the fact that if everything has a cause then...
All you've said is that it's become customary for women to dress in the way they do. You haven't offered me a reason why? The reply to this is the que...
You've misconstrued my words. I don't mean that there's a being who resides in heaven called god. God, as I used it, is morality taken to perfection a...
What do you mean by "inexact phrasing"? What I've said isn't actually so ambiguous and so vague to be catastrophic to the discussion. My intention is ...
Firstly, I feel that you're not adequately addressing the issue at hand - why are women dressing or even behaving in ways that lends itself to being t...
Indeed, causality by itself is not sufficient to prove the existence of karma - a morally-determined causal web. To infer karma we need to demonstrate...
The notion of karma is fundamentally causal in character but in the moral dimension. It basically claims our moral actions have moral consequences and...
The notion of rights first took shape in the minds of people whose eyes were opened to the idea of morality. While it's difficult to pin down how and ...
What is the problem with tropes? Does something being a trope disqualify it from philosophical discussions right off the bat? The idea behind a trope ...
Where? That there's an fundamental inconsistency lurking in how women think of themselves - as not objects AND as objects . It undermines women's posi...
The question, "can you provide a reason to live?" suggests a condition that's the exact opposite of the actual state of affairs, one in which, ceteris...
A man's sexual/intellectual/nutritional/etc. attention? Indeed, that doesn't follow because a woman may just want to display her goods in a manner of ...
What would a non-trivial sense look like? I mean your beliefs on human understanding seems to me as something approaching, oddly and also intriguingly...
I fail to see how wearing what are described as sexually provocative clothes is not objectification. That said, women have full rights as to whom or w...
I suggest that we look at this issue from the standpoint of expressions. Just like someone might say, "I love you to death" and then express the very ...
Do you mean that human understanding is reducible to computer logic but that we haven't the technology to make it work? If yes then that means you agr...
I agree. For your kind information, I suspect my idea of understanding is simpler than yours; that probably explains why I feel computers are capable ...
That's to say there is no meaning except in the sense of a consensus. What makes you think computers can't do that? Can't one computer use the same wo...
While the initial association of symbols may require human input, once the work is complete, a computer can use the databank just as humans do. You in...
After much thoughtful consideration, I've come to the unhappy conclusion that I'm creepy alright but somehow I never got down to being a peeping tom. ...
It's the woman who chooses the clothes, it's the woman purchasing the clothes, it's the woman who dons the clothes, it's the woman who has a motive in...
What's the problem with referents? The clear liquid that flows in rivers and the oceans that at times becomes solid and cold, and at other times is in...
Well, I don't know why people make such a big deal of understanding - it's very simple. Referring to InPitzotl's example of chips and dip, I don't see...
A piece of advice that came too late for me. :worry: :sad: The idea behind lowering one's eyes is to prevent eye contact, a not all too bad thing, fro...
Yes, I did consider that. Referents can be almost anything, from physical objects to abstract concepts. Most physical objects have perception-based qu...
It's ironic that back in the day when feminism was all the rage, women's clothes were comparatively more modest than they are now, at a time when much...
Well said, although I'd say political objectification is linked to sexual objectification in the sense that the former has origins in, and is perpetua...
The problem here is simple: what does it mean to understand? Computers are symbol manipulators and that means whatever can be symbolized, is within th...
Your ideas are interesting but one thing we agree on is the necessity for logic. Now, the question that pops into my mind is this: what does anyone me...
While respectful of your valuable personal experiences I'd say a single individual's observations are, at best, anecdotal "evidence". How do you expla...
There should be no illusions as to how people will respond when the proverbial shit hits the fan. Love, courage, and all those things that evoke warm ...
How do you think a human processes this question? Is it possible to get to E = mc^2 without logic? What do you mean by that? Do you mean there's a met...
What's worth noting here is that given the inherent nature of ours to believe in creator gods, it looks as though we all have a subconscious desire to...
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