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Ok. Thanks.

Right. Aggression is a two edged sword. We didn't take over the land surface of this planet by being model, moral creatures, although that has a place...

Physics hasn't changed that much since 1944, Tzeentch. You don't know what you're talking about.

well said How am I supposed to know? :grin:

But apparently the US military thought it was possible.

They can't? Why not?

:up: What kind of factors cause that? I know. But I think the average human would be left speechless by Dachau. It was just in another level. Although...

"A pro-Vladimir Putin TV host, Dmitry Kiselyov, said in May last year that these torpedoes would be capable of causing a 500-meter high tidal wave of ...

Exactly. This wasn't something that had ever happened before. Was it?

That's what I was getting at. The particular kind of immorality that created the Holocaust, for instance, could it have been related to a weak moral a...

So we're just in a lull? We can expect 100s of millions to die violent deaths at the hands of their relatives sometime around the corner? Or could we ...

How would you assess accountability? I assume you agree that these things were to he result of science and technology. Do you agree that scientism was...

The US came into existence in 1776. It was on the back end of both of those crimes. If you check your source again, I think you'll find that he or she...

Since he had been repeatedly aggressive to his neighbors, I don't think anyone thought of him as benign. Plus, remember that when the US tried to pers...

No, that would be Geoffrey Hoskings, who spent time in Russia examining records from the Soviet era. Aren't you banned yet?

The 20th Century events in the USSR and China are unique in human history. It was mass insanity, not evil. No other country can compare, including the...

Although, crediting capitalism for the robustness of the western economic scene is over simplifying. The west received a boom of energy through emanci...

That hinges on knowing the outcome. If I turned history into a video game, you could "backtest" your prediction skills to see if you're using your ana...

I agree. So would the average historian. Westerners don't have any frame of reference for understanding what happened in the USSR.

That's kind of a childish attitude. The world isn't black and white. It's shades of grey.

You should definitely look a gift horse in the mouth because there could be little Greek soldiers in there.

It is very effective and efficient. It's also volatile and occasionally crashes, so a little of both sides of the spectrum is a good thing. I don't kn...

I think it's that rich farmers know how to lobby. I don't think the average American knows how much they're actually getting. In some cases they're be...

American farms are pretty heavily subsidized, and we haven't starved. It actually doesn't make sense to pay CEO's the bizarre reimbursements they get....

This is an old union song sung to the melody of an Appalachian spiritual. C'mon all you working people Good news to you I'll tell All about how the go...

It appears that a lack of regulation inevitably leads to disaster in markets of this type. Or do you think some entities are just more upstanding than...

American collectivism came originally from the need for defense.

In a number of ways the English North American colonies were deeply divided and distrustful of one another. The South had a different type of economy ...

How did we end up with a collective with no collectivism?

Not really. A strong argument against collectivism is that information is used more effectively in a free market. Concern for the welfare of both indi...

I don't understand the question.

Strictly speaking, no. A collective of some sort is required for the defense of civil rights.

I wasn't pitting them against one another. Hyperion was saying that when you look out at the world, this is third person data. It's not. It's first pe...

We have very different views of that issue. :chin:

I'm just not sure how this observation is significant. Maybe you could share what it means to you. On the far end of the spectrum of individual freedo...

There isn't any phenomenal aspect to the third person account. It's the God's eye view. If you read a novel that's in third person, it's from a POV th...

So the multitude goes – like the flower and the weed That wither away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes – even those we behold, To repeat ...

Epiphenomenonalism appeared in the 19th Century before we clearly understood that physics is unfinished. I don't think it violates the spirit of epiph...

What part of the psyche doesn't fit with epiphenomenalism? I mean, when does freedom of the will become necessary to understanding?

Well... it's that we couldn't communicate all without any preceding common ground. There may be little nuances about your experience of say, seeing th...

I'm a hard determinist, so I don't share that concern.

Ha! This is why you need a shotgun: https://i.imgur.com/SbBrcFO.jpg

Science is ok. :up:

Are you familiar with Meno's paradox? It basically concludes that communication is always a matter of pointing to facets of your audience's experience...

It's as if we started creating a documentary film, then forgot about the guy behind the camera. We wanted to remove personal bias from the account, an...

I just meant that I don't grasp what it means to call experience internal. I'm not trying to be a pain in the ass when I say that. I just really don't...

Something odd I've recently noticed is that I don't really understand why people say phenomenal consciousness is private, internal, and ineffable. I r...

Gotcha. Maybe someday down the road you'll return to it and it will all click into place, but not now. :up:

I don't play dirty. I'm telling it straight. If you follow Chalmers' and Dennett's works, you'll find that both are pretty heavily preoccupied with wh...