Sure. As I said, there is gun crime that just started as a regular old disputes. There weren't necessarily any criminals involved. The existence of cr...
I agree there are factors other than availability, like gang activity. Intuitively, it just doesn't seem likely that availability is of no importance,...
I don't know. It's fairly common (in an emergency department) to see gun crime that started as a dispute and then escalated. Without the ridiculously ...
This article explains that 8% of the human genome is viral material, specifically from retro viruses. Mammals have the ability to have live births (in...
Just as you can't have freedom without a context of constraints, you can't have cooperation without a context of opposing interests. What I'm advocati...
The American concept of freedom is rooted in the need for unity in the face of diversity. The Bill of Rights provides a government divided against its...
James Armistead Lafayette was born into slavery in the mid-1700s in Virginia. He joined the colonial army during the American revolution and was a dou...
You're saying that on the heels of a devastating depression and fighting two wars simultaneously, the US was worried about excess production, so they ...
Mark Blyth says it's the other way around: the world needed the US to buy its goods and establish stability after the war. There is no reason to doubt...
I don't know if a member of the CIA has ever run for president. I would think such a president would prefer to back a coup rather than deploy the mili...
I don't think so. He seems to be viewed as only looking after Russia's interests in preparing for invasion, or at least that's what I think some were ...
“A people who don’t make provision for their own sick and suffering are not worthy of civilization.” – Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, founder of the first ...
Do they have the will and the means for that? It's speculated that they don't have the means to fully occupy Ukraine, much less spread eastward. Altho...
It's true that after all this time there is embedded resentment on both sides, mothers who have lost their children on both sides. But conservative Is...
Animals in the zoo are free, but animals in the wilderness are not. This is why zoo animals are so unhygienic. It's their little protest to pee and sh...
The idea is that the Persians invented the idea of progress. As opposed to the Hebrew view where you're born ignorant and have to learn about good and...
She specifically mentions a number of logical challenges to the idea of volition. Her approach is: this crap is taking place in the realm of philosoph...
I think it's pointed to here: "There was one who was great by virtue of his power, " and one who was great by virtue of his wisdom, "and one who was g...
"It is the contention of the following considerations that the reason for this obscurity is that the phenomenon of freedom does not appearin the realm...
She's pretty throughly wrong. The Greeks abhorred the idea of being free from a community, one assumes because it meant vulnerability. Therefore they ...
The SEP says Augustine's will is basically self control. He was reacting against Manichean fatalism. City of God appears to be anti-political, but it ...
I read that Russia probably won't do a full scale invasion because of logistical challenges. IOW they could overwhelm the Ukrainian defenses, but they...
:chin: Anxiety and despair are the result of one's sin. Recognizing your sin leads you to reject yourself. So the battle with anxiety and despair ends...
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