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Yes. It's true.

I agree with you. I assume your point is that if the average person doesn't limit consumption, that makes your efforts to do so meaningless?

You're off the hook for climate change. :up:

Well that was easy @"Agree to Disagree" What's your next trick?

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Ok. I don't think that insight, awesome as it is, has anything to do with the OP.

If you check out Schopenhauer's description, he's clearly referring to the first person experience.

No, it's first person.

Not a moral code. Jesus claimed the moral code is summed up by the imperative to love. Christians think they've been set free from innate sin. I'm sur...

Did you think Schopenhauer thought otherwise?

Yep.

What I took away from it was an image of a diamond with many faces. Each face thinks it's unique, but logic leads to a collapse of the whole thing int...

If I could put your point in my own words: A moral realist says that people are dependent on external rules for guidance. There is benefit to seeing t...

:up: I think that's what's often missed about Schopenhauer's idea of will. You may think of it as your own, but it's something you share with Everythi...

I don't think it was confirmed until they had super computers to run the models on.

If China can have a part 2, the US needs one. This aggression will not stand.

It wasn't just aerosols, but that's beside his point, which was that he has doomsday fatigue from a lifetime of hearing about the end of the world. Th...

Ha! Same plot. But mine was definitely in an anthology of old science fiction stories.

I think that's because it was in the 1970s that historic geography took off. In the early 20th Century, they thought there had only been four ice ages...

I'm guessing you'd have to buffer all that doom somehow: keep it at arms length to plan for your own future. I was reading some science fiction short ...

Instead of raising interest rates, the Japanese just let their currency devalue (relatively) and then they intervene. Investors get nervous when the y...

Yea, I don't think anyone thinks cattle farming is the culprit. It's fossil fuel consumption.

No, that's you not knowing anything about history.

Mmm, I don't think so. Most people don't know the US government once did a massive study on cow farts to determine it's environmental effects. But it'...

I didn't know that. So they really think cattle farming is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions? As it turns out, there's another pro...

Nagase is a great resource for Davidson. We'd be lucky if he had time to stop by.

Unless I'm mistaken, the cow-fart angle is from the 1990s? Or 1980s? This makes me think you've got some age on you? My question is: do you remember d...

I'm sure you've addressed the issue of unstated statements and such. I don't remember how you did it though.

But you didn't rule out the unknown or unknowable reality. You just said that talking about it is useless. Wasn't Wittgenstein saying that even addres...

Damn. Who peed in your cornflakes?

I get the feeling you don't know Hegel as well as you think you do. :wink:

I want this on my tombstone. I'm drawing a blank on what kind of crisis would do it.

I think the big Hegelian insight for postulating a hidden bass reality (I just prefer bass to base) is that the world we know is a dismantled cuckoo c...

You aren't ruling it out, you're just saying you don't want to talk about it. Meanwhile you are talking about it.

What this photo demonstrates is that one of the many advantages to being white is that if you're a monster, the external signs of that show up better ...

The customary death by alcohol is liver disease, which can cause the esophagus to start bleeding. They put a giant hose down in there to blanch it, bu...

Yes. It would warm back up when it's over. It would be a local extinction level event for Europe. Let that stand as emphasis. :lol:

I agree. Also, philosophically speaking it's a case of Kierkegaard's sickness until death, which is that we can't carry certain aspects of who we are ...

When it comes to massive efforts, what we're really good at is war. Society is reorganized top to bottom to find the way to survive. The population gi...

I haven't argued that climate change can't be addressed. I was simply explaining that this view is common, and that there are discussion groups where ...

Somebody keeps making these kinds of news blurbs about Florida and then they're picked up. I've fallen for it too. In this case, if you look closer, y...

Ok, good.

I am hold a phone. Totally unrelated, do you believe in karma? Like you reap what you sow?

But don't your needs track the available funds? If you had more, wouldn't you use it? Or would you just save it or give it away? :up: Although, there'...

Of course money brings happiness, what were they thinking?

The cost of winning an argument is that now they hate you because you made them lose.

They think the challenges to avoiding climate change are insurmountable. They think we'll have to adapt.

I hadn't heard that term before. You're saying it includes people who accept climate change, but don't think there's anything we can do about it? And ...

So how about just walk away? Why mistreat the person? Walking away has the benefit of leaving the door open, should he change his mind and decide you'...

By this scenario, intentionally misinterpreting and belittling people is the way we achieve consensus. Do you really believe that?