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Yep. The other issue: to what extent does the US accept dictatorships as manifest in alliances. Wasn't there a time when the world was divided up into...

Damn capitalism! Oh.

:up: I agree about Trump. What I've mainly learned by way of him is the readiness with which some of my neighbors can rally round a guy who puts out d...

What is truth?

66 million years ago an asteroid contributed to the extinction of the era's dominant lifeforms: non-avian dinosaurs. This past July, a 100 meter wide ...

I was nauseated by your attempts to bait the phantom Christian. You have to admit, that was ugly.

Your argument may be sound, but it has nothing to do with your life. It's forever esoteric. Think about it. Good night.

All you can ever do is hope that you're being reasonable and so moral without knowing for sure. Therefore your morality does not proceed from reason. ...

But you have no way of knowing if your values are truly moral. So how do you decide what to do? You can't say reason. Do you see why?

if your values are moral, then what you value is necessarily valuable. Right?

Calm down.

Megalomania has a poor prognosis.

The OP thinks that if a moral statement seems true to him, it's necessarily true. He's declared himself to be a divinity and therefore needs no extern...

So if science isnt approached entirely rationally, it's not likely that morality is. I'd say love, but close enough. :up:

An economic downturn followed by a hot war with China? It would open the door, but whether the US goes through it would depend on how badly people are...

So a biased scientist isn't rational? Einstein was very biased. He wasnt being rational? The OP needs for all morality to proceed from reason. Do you ...

But a rational argument (referencing science no less) can be and has been used to defend inequality. I'm not saying that reason has no role in achievi...

Morality doesn't proceed from reason, though.

I'm not a Christian. It's kind of nauseating talking to you, so I'll move on...

What are you doing?

So who else?

Who else?

You alone know right from wrong?

Have you ever met anyone who knew Reason the way you do?

And Christians don't know reason. Muslims dont know reason. You do.

So you follow your own council?

Muslim?

So you're not a Christian. Do you just discover right and wrong off the cuff?

Happiness, satisfaction, a sense if completion? Just as people differ and so your happiness differs from mine, societies differ: they have different h...

One of the biggie moral tenets is: love your neighbor as you love yourself. Would Reason care to comment?

@"Bitter Crank" What do you think it would take for the US to become a dictatorship?

What gives it away?

Say three people come forward claiming to be the best philosopher alive. How do we know which is telling the truth? If any of them?

How does the philosopher king know which is the best restaurant? And if he chooses a pizza parlor when you were in the mood for Greek, has he still ch...

I mostly agree with that. I think reason is a kind of behavior that includes rationality. But being rational and reasonable is no guarantee of anythin...

No they aren't. And Reason is not a god. https://www.prageru.com/video/is-evil-rational/

Why do you call it Reason?

What is Reason?

It's interesting that you decided to put up Reason as the source of morality without realizing that you need to put that into an ontological context. ...

What about on a small scale: you and your friends vote on what restaurant to go to. Vs an oligarchy: two of your friends decide for the group. Vs an d...

It's the same scientific model. Potential=kinetic x resistance. Ohm's law, Poisseuse's law. This isn't controversial.

:wink:

Did you not realize you would create confusion by not being explicit about your idealism?

Why are you so angry?

Probably. I think you were being a little sexist toward fresco, though.

Many resistors are made of compacted carbon. If you could probe inside one, you'd see the resistance is divisible. 1/2 way through a 1.5 Kohm resistor...

Your view of math helped me understand you, though. You're a subjective idealist. Nothin' wrong with that.

Math seems to be made of truths that are beyond any one individual. It's not like pain. If math is subjective, are we living in the mind of God?

Is math subjective?

Sorry, I'd have to bend my mind into a pretzel to follow you from there into your argument. I don't know what it means to be "made of mental states."