Hogrider

What neoliberalism has engineered for the rich is based on a false myth that the market solves all problems of inefficiency and competition guarantees...

Can you verify these para-quotes, or are you just making this stuff up? I agree that Rand was basically evil, and her book was dreadful and has had a ...

Why would you think that a major movement that could include more than half the population of the world would easily submit to a convenient all encomp...

Starting a story whose second word is uncommon, and has a range of more familiar synonyms is bad strategy and possibly an attempt the demonstrate the ...

I'm somewhat puzzled why you think this is a problem, since you have set aside any discussion about the validity of the premises. It seems to me perfe...

He could just simply be mistaken and not actually lying.

What you have here is two straw men. To some Life is absurd whether or not god exists (whatever you mean by God) To others life is meaningful whether ...

Krishnamurti always made sense. "When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. D...

I eat meat because I support the existence of a more natural environment. In our world of monoculture, with billions of acres of wheat, or veg grown u...

You are dancing round the point. A social contract goes both ways.

I'm puzzled why you want to persist in this fantasy. The truth is whether or not you like it the nation is going to be held responsible. Sticking your...

Of course what you say is true. Nonetheless the people shall be called upon by outside forces to account for their action. This can express itself in ...

The laws are enacted and formulated by the will of the people, and with their implicit consent. In this sense everyone is responsible for the actions ...

The trouble with staring a philosophical discussion from a hypothetical which is impossible is that the discussion tends to find impossible results.

Sometimes people are just wrong: maybe from a misunderstanding of "qualia" or a misunderstanding of the context of consciousness.

A p-zombie, lacking in consciousness, would be incapable of understanding the question, let alone answering it.

The act of torture requires the complicity of a torturer, and the cold blooded execution of this punishment turns that person into a monster, and requ...