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Aboriginal art was copied by whites in Australia and sold as authentic aboriginal art.

Black artists systematically did not get royalties for their music. White artists did. White artists or their companies/agents have to pay royalties o...

Sure. I know there are other biases. But I am heading for one's that are so built into the body, I think they cannot be denied or avoided. that we hap...

If someone is getting paid for it, they should. Disney don't let nobody touch their stuff even stuff made by a guy long dead. They even extended the c...

Those are not mutually exclusive. You can be racist and economincally exploit also, without culturally appropriating. Slavery being an extreme example...

I have heard uses that are absurd, so there is little question in my mind that it can be used poorly. I do think there are clear examples. I think the...

OK, that was a nice use of the Turing test. If we can't tell the different we might as well treat it as free will. Fine. But what does free will mean?...

Could you give a more specific context for this? I can imagine being skeptical about certain types of cultural influence, but certainly not all. Prett...

It depends on what you mean by 'authority' but we all pretty much have to, certainly for the first 18 years in purely legal terms. But even after that...

If free will meant the ability to do anything at all with no limitations, then perhaps. But otherwise free will isn't about absolute power, but the no...

I can't see how, for the reasons I mentioned. Science is based on our observations. Our observations have to do with us beings that, for example, expe...

We can't reject the human perspective. Our observations for example are time and location bound. IOW they are made from primate bodies who experience ...

Do you mean that tools as extentions of our experiencing make the observation? This would still be empirical, or? And it would be human action? Or are...

Art is a product that we need to learn how to use. And it cannot come with instructions, though an introduction might give us some tips. It is a produ...

That's an incomplete argument. It is missing the premise that if Jesus is not interested in something, the church should not involve itself with it. W...

Sure, but then isn't this like when the hall monitor teacher in school catches a kid running and the kids says 'but I saw other kids running'? IOW why...

Well, if the novel takes place in a jungle village in Columbia, I have to imagine what that looks like. I have to make the images. In a film, the film...

You think the elites don't decide how to distract and addict you? That tastes are not created? The people who create the Transformer movies are rich, ...

They can ask for your details and if you don't give it, then they can reject you. Which means you would have to create some kind of subterfuge, second...

Of course there are individuals and countertrends in science and in the intellectual circles that think science is the only way to gain knowledge. And...

That's all you focused on in that post of mine? Yes, perhaps I should have written, you don't just mean the land. Ief you'd responded to, or perhaps r...

I meant 'not particularly protected'

It's taking away a freedom of movement based on speech. IN that sense it would, if it is true, go againt the principles of the US, if not the law. The...

I get what you are saying, and I do not think it is the same as salt, though even salt brings up similar issues, just not as clearly, because when you...

God exists but Canada doesn't. I've driven past those 'border signs'. Everyone speaks English, they have McDonald's and they drive the same cars. I we...

That's because you don't exist.

You're making the argument that when people say something is good, what is really happening is that they like it but they are objectifying their likes...

If you say something is good you are attributing quality/qualities to it. You are saying what it is. If you say you like something that's about what h...

And I preceded that with looking down on people for their tastes. I also asked if that was the case. Did you look down on those with certain tastes in...

I said judge them as not good. Which is different from saying you dislike them. And precisely as you say, once you judge something as not good, rather...

Actually the fittest in the US, like other places, in the sense of those with power, real power, have other people who carry guns to protect them.

One other question I have around this is the people who rise to the top now often get there by damaging themselves, making themselves less human. Not ...

Well, you liked Armageddon - which I took some pleasure in, I mean Steve Buscemi...- but you might find yourself looking down on someone who thought v...

For me that's central. In today's anti-emotional climate, with psychotropics and can do smiles as the rule, not judging the so-called negative emotion...

I'm not sure why we are bringing up Pan, that's not what the pan in patheism is about.

I don't know what this means, in practical terms, even with the title's laissez faire. Well, part of what makes us great is that we are also empatheti...

NOt sure if this is a joke, but in case it wasn't what public place would you send your other sex child into a rest room alone in?

Less sexualized, not a physical threat, in need of a chaperone. I am not telling people how they should feel. That some people are attracted to young ...

The kids are in the world of sex yet - hopefully. So the way they would look at the adults is less likely to be in ways that would make them uncomfort...

I think it is more complex than that. It seemed like the quotes in the op were related to science in academia as part of the education. I am not sayin...

Isn't that going in the other direction, wholes having qualities parts do not?

I come in at 5 on the test. A great book that deals with this in relation to drug abuse is https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Scream-Opposite-Addiction-Co...

I think so also. A ball is not a bowl. I cannot scoop water with it. Ions are volitile in ways that they are not when in combination, in molecules. Th...

Or, for example, the teaching of the scientific method in the specific academia includes patterns that are similar to colonial patterns, where not sci...

That some people would use this groups arguments as an excuse to avoid the hardness or to avoid being graded rigorously in these subjects is certainly...

The scientific method doesn't seek, people seek. So while the scientific method may well be neutral, say, the scientists or the facultly may have expe...

They ought to, then, give up the term physicalism with its baggage. What gets called physical has been extended to include thigns that would not have ...

Actually plants clearly do communication - just google that and only focus on the scientific research. They do colloborate which would be a simple for...

When we, at least in the past, in Western societies, granted consciousness we granted it along the lines of function, behavior. But we have no reason ...

If we tweak a car's engine it will affect its motion. This does not mean that things in motion are dependent on combustion engines. The consciousness ...