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I dont think there's any evidence of this, is there?

The heart pumps blood to maintain blood pressure. Some pressure is required to force oxygen and glucose-rich blood into the tissues and uphill into th...

Awesome. I'm going to get a used copy.

Interesting that you ask that. I have a black hole that I keep in a jar. Through it, I explore alternate realities. In one of them there's a guy names...

And this is a coordinated, conscious undertaking? Or an uncoordinated trend?

So you might knowingly do things that are intrinsically evil while considering yourself to be morally compliant. Does this sit well with you?

Yes. I'm just rejecting just war based on my own sentiment. I wouldnt say it's moral to wage war on Nazis. It's an evil we embrace to combat another e...

I'm curious if we had the same experience. I was also affected by his rallying, but in the afterglow I realized that the tuning fork he was tinging wa...

Is there a book you would recommend?

Based on prior experiences? Why not a priori?

A feature that appears due to genetic drift can (in some way) enhance survival. Mind evolving by natural selection would require a population which in...

Why do you think mind would need to be a product of natural selection as opposed to genetic drift?

So mind is goal oriented? Would you say mind is an anomoly in this regard? Or is nature pervasively devoted to purposes?

You're a loony-bot.

Lol. Are you invading my thread like a trump-bot?

Why not just address the OP directly? Yes, no, not applicable (n/a)?

I didn't address any practicalities in that post. Its just the assertion that all military ventures are immoral. Versions of pacifism: separate issue....

That's an interesting question. Darth was the only one who actually listened to me, so I think most were talking to themselves.

Historically, hardcore pacifists expect this "realization" to be a next step in human evolution. They would say war is too deeply embedded in human li...

No. Pacifism is radical. It's about human potential.

If you decided to drown yourself you'd quickly realize the extent to which the life does not belong to You, the Homunculus decision maker. You'll figh...

Cool. I was pretending that you're the Quiet American after your Vietnam comment. Its just as well our discussion went silent.

Opinions vary, yes. I'm deflational about morality without being a nihilist (relativism just being a form of nihilism). Morality is a part of my exper...

I appreciate your need to defend your phantom cat. Its organized military exploits I was really condemning.

Freedom of religion becomes a religion worth killing for? There are many things I enjoy. I wouldn't sanction killing to get them.

Actually, it might do you good to climb up on this cloud with me and take in the bigger picture for a change. Yes you're enmeshed in a web of necessar...

True enough. Fact remains: pacifism doesn't inspire invasions. The promise of wealth does. Nobody's planning to invade the Amazon just because we know...

Inevitably innocents suffer in a bloody revolution. Life has no price. My interest in NK emancipation doesn't change that.

Really? Certain parties find themselves being invaded and it's just incidental that they're sitting on top of a lot of oil? Yes there are complexities...

You're saying it's a moot point for most of us. Probably so.

Honestly, I think this is mostly feel-good justification. Wars are fusions of multiple agendas. But if one is fighting for liberty, is it really moral...

Thank you. That's exactly what I was thinking. The implications of the immorality of political entities is escaping me. Should we think of a city or n...

The environment of the average video game suggests you're right. What does that mean about us as a species?

Possibly. Russians have historically robbed invaders of any prize by abandoning their cities. But if we stipulate that pacifism encourages invasions, ...

If your personal military includes your body and weapons that may be available to you at the time you are attacked, it is not immoral to engage your a...

Coordinated military action of any kind is immoral because commonplace military strategies make indiscriminate lethal force a likelihood. It's also im...

No. But you know Trump owns a certain amount of deceit. He called it "truthful hyperbole" in his book.

Only a bot wouldn't have recognized my post as a joke. How did you get past the reCAPTCHA? AI???

Its only unknown to you because you haven't been listening to me. We've strayed some distance from the point I made in response to the OP. You chose t...

Of course. I'm getting the impression that you know practically nothing about conservatism. And so it follows that you don't really understand liberal...

The corn incident (and Castro's giant strawberry experiment) are symbolic of something pervasive.

To bring it into context, think about the kind of social engineering experiments that took place during the French Revolution and in Communist regimes...

Anyone familiar with the career of the iconic conservative Alan Greenspan would most certainly agree that "one should have respect for what evolves na...

Aww. The only reason I'm here is that Mr Phil O'Sophy encouraged me to hang around and invest more in my argumentation. But he's gone and his magic is...

Which problems?

And of course there's the time honored tradition by which liberals turn on their own allies, as you have just done. Way to go!

Not really. It's going to be harder to point out specific leftist failures in the US because leftists are hardly ever influential enough to make subst...

By nature I'm maximally impractical. ..off wondering what it's like to be a cloud...

I don't know what you're looking for. Sorry.

Not usually. A devotion to practicality usually follows the possession of real responsibility and some experience with the folly of hubris.