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What's the complicated part?

I really don't feel like it. There's not enough "winner" to my personality right now. Why put the energy forward when I'm just going to lose again? An...

True. I don't see "I like fat" as a big part of personality. It is a part, though.

Is it conflict? Or questioning? Both?

Couldn't larger scale conflicts be performing the same function? It's not necessarily that people go into battle to flesh out their identities, but ma...

Democracy has a tendency to come up with malignant legislation. The Court is a two-edged sword. It can intervene to protect Americans, and it can also...

American eugenics proponents (whose side Holmes took in a sort of show trial designed to cement eugenics in American society) had already identified J...

So it gives your life meaning now to work for the well-being of your descendents. So you know your ancestors felt the same way about you. They blessed...

I pm'd you. :smile:

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I understand. You love us.

Did you know Oliver Wendell Holmes supported the forced sterilization of a woman who was diagnosed as a "moron" because she was raped and became pregn...

Interesting plan. But if it works, people might still dig up the coal 5000 years from now and burn it. Whatever CO2 we put up will be scrubbed out of ...

I think a statement will have to make some sort of sense in order to be identified as illogical. Equivocation is an example of a logical failure which...

Even if you say illogical statements aren't truth apt, you still maintain that the world has to make sense. Correct?

Yep.

No. I'm noting that you deny that illogical statements can be true. Therefore you think logic tells us something about the way the world is.

The mysteries surrounding quantum experiment haven't been resolved. There is no consensus among scientists about how we should think about it. If some...

Your insistence that the double-slit experiment doesn't really show a contradiction supports my point. You don't know why it's not illogical, but you'...

That's cool, but it doesn't diminish the fact that the double slit experiment appears to show a contradiction. A mathematical expression of the situat...

OK.

Who misspoke? What did he or she say that was wrong?

The results of the double slit experiment appear to defy logic. Who misspoke and what did they say?

Then it would follow that logic informs us about how the world should be. If we come across something illogical, we say "That can't be!" and we go in ...

I think we probably are wankers. And blinkered.

Logic has something to do with propositional language, not all language. Propositional language is unusual in that it can be spoken by the great third...

Some communication falls outside the domain of logic, like "Wow!" So is it propositional speech that's bounded by logic? If so, that leads to my conce...

He just said it. Just because moving your queen in a square isn't allowed doesn't mean you can't do it.

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So the feature was highlighted for selection by the organism's quest to survive. I'm not sure that will generalize, though. Consider the moths who tur...

Yet both selected and unselected organisms exhibit the intention to flourish. Or are you saying we should look at the whole group (or the group and it...

Science journalists like Richard Dawkins do give this impression. Real evolutionary biologists don't agree. Teleology never has any place in evolution...

I see. I thought you meant that civilization itself would be threatened. I doubt that too. It would require a global military-style government of some...

Isn't that part of the Time Warp dance?

What do you mean by this? Detrimental to civilization?

That must have been correct. Trump is divinely inspired in all things. Like Kim, he doesn't have a rectum.

No, I think you forgot that all of Lockheed's employees are Trump zombies. Doing the right thing is whatever helps our glorious divine leader.

Wow. Touched a nerve. I'm not the threat, Benkei. I agree with what you wrote. Revisit your opinion and see if you can figure out where the threat is ...

One difference is that the US could completely destroy the Netherlands right now. NK is a few months away from that capability.

I think you're overlooking the addition of concrete to the batter which not only increases their ballistic attributes but it makes them more likely to...

It's done very much the same way they make chocolate chip cookies last forever with baked on enamel and high explosives. There's a secret ingredient.

Awesome! Thank you!

I'm not interested enough to read it either (ha ha). I think we're ultimately limited to phenomenology of such things. I am interested in reading more...

I see. Thanks.

The government can arrange to send astronauts to Mars. It doesn't have any responsibility to do that.

Why should the government concern itself with production? I'm not saying it shouldn't. I'm asking for the basis of the comment that it should.

It's fairly obvious why government spending would increase employment. The statement you posted was about purpose, though. Why should the government t...

What's the basis of this statement? Is it supposed to be scientific? Ethical? What?

Lowering taxes triggers a cascade of events that results in a warmer economy.

Absolutely.