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Let's talk goats... I'm awaiting my kids to be weaned from the teat. If you bottle feed them, they remain very clingy. Once I get them, I'll have them...

True, but some business is as useless as reading, but offers an education as well. I just bought 3 goats. My embarrassing ignorance of goats will soon...

The only way to determine whether people are becoming more ignorant year to year is to compare their knowledge over time. If we go back 3 years for ex...

Per evolution, the ability to reproduce would be the most useful skill, and most critical.

Are there studies that show that those with larger prefrontal cortexes make better decisions or do the studies just show that decision making occurs i...

For some it's bad. I've read stories of those who claim addiction and and poor relationships because of it. For others, it has no long term sorts of e...

Alright, I won't assume you're acting in my interests. It's an odd request, but be that as it is. Your overarching argument, as far as I can tell, is ...

I just assumed it was the same as mine.

I can tell that you've probably not taken a single course in virology and I wouldn't rely upon your knowledge on the subject, regardless of how many h...

That's because you don't think covid is a serious threat. If you thought it was like ebola and going to kill indiscriminately and quickly, you'd deman...

I'm going to need names, dates, and details. Otherwise this is mindless conspiracy theory telling me what the undefined "they" did.

I'm a moron when it comes to virology. Did you figure out a cure on your own or maybe you relied on someone else?

And so on your island of self-sufficiency, do you refuse all treatment for all diseases and just lay down and die because to do otherwise would rely u...

That's less a book than it is a sheet of paper. I think people who buy your book will be disappointed to open your book and see only a page. They'll f...

I do agree that you're no mathematician. If I have 5,000 pieces of evidence that if any are true would prove the existence of Bigfoot, I cannot assign...

The ideal is absolute non-discrimination based upon race, but if a group becomes oppressed, it makes sense to self promote to overcome that oppression...

I draw a distinction between nationalism and patriotism,. It's a matter of degree and objective. The same applies to race. There's a distinction betwe...

The line quoted by @"180 Proof" ("I'll tell you this no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn") could be considered anti-Christian (...

For a more objective study on the advantages of a positivity bias, see: https://www.chabad.org/generic_cdo/aid/4382048/jewish/Positivity-Bias.htm

Nothing is ever for certain, but the question is which is the better strategy? How many pessimists made it to the top of the mountain? Which is better...

This presumes that optimistic thoughts don't dictate positive outcomes and that pessimistic ones don't dictate negative ones. There is such a thing as...

This answer assumes that neither optimism or pessimism is the proper starting point, but that neutrality is. You then use the neutral perspective to d...

I'm showing Genesis having been written in the 14th century BCE. https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/how-old-is-the-bible. Exodus was written around the ...

I really don't know how to approach this question from either an anthropological perspective or upon speculation. We seem to be referring to some sort...

I don't follow this. Whether religion predated morality is an empirical question, and since our history books don't go back that far, the best you can...

I'm about to move and will have room for chickens. How hard are they to keep? We have coyotes, hawks, and owls and probably there are foxes and raccoo...

There's some equivocation here. Parental and guardian rights are very different from the rights one has to chattel, like eggs. People don't (rightly) ...

This really is a legal question, not a thought experiment. It is answered by looking at the laws in the jurisdiction where the issue has arisen. In th...

We'd likely be deluded if we thought we could be billionaires, but I don't think it's a delusion to think we could be richer than we are, if we so des...

I'm a pretty active player online. I looked through the games you played with @"Outlander". It's clear he's very much a beginner, so your games weren'...

You need to think this through. The argument submitted is not disingenuous nor stupid. It goes to the heart of your belief that you want to protect fr...

The law, at least in the US, is that the government cannot suppress one's speech. That's really as far as I'd go with that. The question then becomes ...

The universities do not believe they are stifling free speech, so they are objecting to having a government oversight committee formed to regulate the...

The question then becomes why that's the case. If a scientist uses a different explanatory system to explain mental events than non-mental events, the...

I'm saying that you divided the world into two types of events: those explainable by science and those not. You have clearly placed mental events into...

If you believe that mental activity is a phenomenon that is special in some sort of way due to the fact that science is incapable of explaining it, yo...

There are few better ways to determine what women want than to ask a bunch of men on a philosophy website, so I want to first commend you on your deci...

What about toxic femininity, toxic transsexuality, toxic oldness, toxic youngness, etc? It seems the bad word here is "toxic," so the moral is that yo...

I didn't have anything to do with the decision to lock the thread, but I do see Street's reasoning here. The OP asks why able bodied men are mistreate...

Two very different questions. How one ought parent is the first, how to formally educate the second. The Authoritative parenting style is considering ...

Not sure we're disagreeing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_fide The murderer who accepts Jesus as his savior on his death bed goes to heaven, but ...

This is Protestantism generally. Salvation by faith alone is a central tenant of Martin Luther's protest against Catholicism.

Charity is a complicated notion in contemporary society. Prior to the secularization of society, charity was mandatory. It was a commandment, not just...

Dogs and humans evolved together for thousands of years and the way we currently interact together is as natural as anything is.

This case was tried some years ago, with the following outcome: "That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet,' said the King, rubbing ...

This personal trainer at my gym stood behind this girl wearing these ridiculous tights spotting her while she did squats, squatting up and down with h...

I'm taking a mediation class right now so that I can get a certification. I have a smug attitude, like I know it all and that I'm better than everyone...

I've been in the top 1% 80% of the time every time.

I had a fig tree in my yard with thousands of figs. I only ate a handful. There are just so many figs a man can eat. I did clothe myself in a fig leaf...

They just need horns and animal skins.