That is compelling. I once heard "news" defined as "something worth knowing that you didn't already know." The question then revolves around what is "...
This is the essential challenge. Autocratic regimes tend to last while democratic regimes can change over short periods. Finland may think that it loo...
Agreed. The "bail out" comes at the cost of the taxpayer which is heavily weighted toward the working class -- and fiat money production which ends up...
I don't understand. Do you have anything more interesting to add or is this the extent of your contribution? So far, it seems fairly traditional with ...
I appreciate that this brings up the idea that Nazi Germany used segregationist and eugenicist United States as the model for its anti-Semitic ideal o...
You can also read what he said in his many speeches and letters in his life but I guess since they weren't carved in stone, they don't matter. He was ...
I agree, but what role is separate from the labor associated with it? In aristocracy or rentier economies, ther are roles without labor, but what do y...
Oh - I thought you wanted an actual answer. Apparently, I was mistaken. Capitalism provides simply a progression of comfort for those that engage in i...
Back at you. It feels like the old idea of someone asking what something means but providing no real context. If you ask what is "capitalism" -well, t...
None of that contradicts my assertions. How did Lincoln get into the position so that the split vote gave him the advantage? The defining characterist...
However, that is the only "real" version of capitalism available. It's like baseball. I can tell you all the rules involved in the game, but knowing e...
But that is not capitalism in the ideal sense. Class positions break down to aristocratic without the ideal of social mobility - and infinite developm...
What we had in the American south was a pseudo-Aristocratic society producing the essential material for the industrial revolution (cotton) based on c...
However, even where capitalism can take root, it does not do so without the liberal ideology to support it. Mercantilism or feudalism can also express...
He didn't. His arguments had two objectives. First, he did not oppose slavery in the south, he opposed slavery in any new territories. Second, the sla...
I think essentially it is similar to trying to define any concept. It only has meaning in relation to the context in which it functions. Capitalism ob...
Neither. It is primarily nonsense in that the context ("unjust") depends on the primary assertion ("justice"). It's like saying "you'll know it when y...
This may be an accident of perspective. Things that are able to perpetuate remain while things that do not perpetuate do not continue to exist. So the...
You're getting into deeper philosophy here which touches on Hume, Hobbes and Locke and Emerson. It is hard or even impossible to separate both utilita...
From the "feminine" perspective, the essential elements of masculinity are those that lead to reproduction. Or activities associated with reproduction...
Well, yes, but only because it is specifically something that originated in Europe. Ironically, I'd say that Asian capitalism began with Imperial colo...
I don't think or hope to survive an apocalypse (well, maybe I'll hang on as long as possible just to see how bad it gets), but I do think that there a...
Capitalism is not specific. It is relative. Marx and Marxism supposedly are about communism and socialism, but in fact, Marx wrote almost exclusively ...
I think you misunderstand. I didn't say that money is capitalism. Specifically, I said that "profit is tied to the accumulation of currency." The conc...
Philosophies like Hinduism and Buddhism take a more internal approach to examine the idea of suffering. In other words, from God's point of view there...
The headache with capitalism is the concept of profit tied to the accumulation of currency. If the currency is connected to some real economic base th...
Not Lucifer. Satan. It's important to note that Satan was simply another of god's "children" or "angels" and not a direct opponent to God. He was acti...
Primarily, the inability to be distracted or immunity to the desire to seek distraction. Distraction is such a basic experience or activity for people...
There are some challenges to this in that there is a question whether one's devotion to non-humans can be placed above one's obligations to other huma...
Wittgenstein did portray most philosophy as a kind of mental illness related to the misuse of language and logic applied to concepts in a way that str...
Job directly addresses this as well in something of a trial. Superficially, it is a trial of Job but essentially it is God who has more to lose. The b...
For real world examples, look at the labor movement in the United States under Hoffa, say. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a soci...
I'm not certain about the emotional pain. I believe most abortions are for women that already have children and maintain a healthy life, but accidents...
That is an interesting point of view. From a pagan, pre-Christian perspective, I doubt that anyone would have ever expected or asked if God was good. ...
I have read that it was common in Roman families to leave unwanted infants in the streets, and that early Christians would collect these children and ...
Did Jews ever believe in a benevolent God? Throughout their own religious stories and texts, God was always something to be feared and usually the sou...
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