I doubt it. Viruses mutate all the time. I don't think the Chinese are being arrogant. They just don't believe in human rights. But neither do you app...
And the Chinese government zaps people like you in the back if the head with a cattle prod for being hesitant about giving up Islam. You sure you don'...
We know they were gang raped because some escaped to tell about it. So if your daughter was captured and sold to the highest bidder, your god would ap...
And relating this back to Islamic law, you'd see this as evidence of the righteousness of Islam's association with slave trading? If your mother was c...
True, but teaching them Christianity was a first step in seeing them as human, so the first abolitionists were Christian missionaries and members of s...
The vast majority of slaves transported in the Atlantic slave trade were male and were brought from the interior of Africa to the west coast by Moors....
If the Islamic world is "very divided" on the morality of the actions of ISIS in regard to the Yazidi, then that would mark the doom of Islam. Young p...
What framework prevents the re-emergence of slave trading? I'm aware that slave-trading still exists in Africa. That's not a new development. What's n...
Nevertheless it's locked in to a world in which slave trading was ok. That world is gone and thus Islamic law is crippled. The only way out is to put ...
Guilt, from Old English gylt has a dual meaning. It can mean crime and it can mean remorse. It's true that a person can have guilt without feeling rem...
And feeling humiliated for being seen naked is a aspect of a certain culture. Is shame for hurting people also cultural? And of course there are paths...
In a way that's true, but does feeling ever come in discrete packets? Mine doesn't. Shame and jealousy have a lot of the same emotional notes: anger, ...
Genesis explains why snakes don't have legs. It also explains why childbirth is so traumatic for humans and why women are physically weaker. Genesis i...
Would a philosophy of psychology touch on things like: what if people are fundamentally different in ways that don't show up on the surface. Jim's act...
I didn't see where she rejected obligation. She just noted that such a moral outlook was grounded in divine commands and seems to persist without any ...
Protestant work ethic, not uniquely Puritan. And what does Calvinism have to do with taking over the world? Nothing, actually The US became a super po...
So once we jettison the rule-following model of morality and focus on character, something more personal takes the place of public rules: facing one's...
Evil is the stuff you don't like about others (the Other). It's usually the same stuff you don't like about yourself, can't face about yourself, don't...
Chomsky says Republicans will become subtly anti-Semitic regarding Sanders. I would expect that. Plus he says a win for Sanders will mean nothing with...
You have to kill to survive. You have to be selfish if no one is selfishly guarding you. Moral authority that's separate from political authority is s...
Strictly speaking, we can only judge hypotheticals. We dont know future events and so there's nothing to judge. 'Looking backward, living forward'. We...
O'Dowd of PBS Spacetime says we might develop a way to test it in a thousand years or so. He emphasizes that the universe is not obligated to make all...
It's a planet we can't in principle know about, in the past or during the heat death of the universe where it's expanded to the point that it's imposs...
I think it means a realist holds that P can be true even if we cant know it's true. But what does P even mean if we dont know its truth conditions? An...
Chalmers has a whole thing about how to determine if the root of a conflict is a matter of wording. It only works if the conflict already happened. Yo...
It's a debate between realists and anti-realists. Dummett: 1. The meaning of a sentence consists in its truth conditions. To understand a sentence is ...
Maybe it's the remnants of it. But it's the reason some people claim string theory doesn't qualify as science: because it can't presently be verified....
The magic travelling vantage point, exactly. But there is a view that says a statement has to be verifiable in order to be truth apt. I can't remember...
So when we're evaluating facts about the past, we evaluate P at time T. Kind of like the way statements about possible worlds are evaluated "at" a wor...
A Leonora Carrington artist's statement: "Neo-proletariat politics based on the ever inflating ethics of anarcho-organized government, a system of cir...
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