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I was purposefully vague enough not to specify what I was objecting to, but more concerned with the lack of oversight and what appears to be a naive a...

That's not how I intend to justify it. I justify it by referencing the Constitution. My reference to the Creator is only to point out how fundamental ...

It's generally agreed that power corrupts, and historically we have fought the tyranny of religious institutions and governments by placing strict lim...

Fixed it.

The US has increased its minimum wage as well and there's obviously a breaking point, as I understand some areas, like Seattle, have priced some emplo...

Ebola isn't as easily spread as the coronavirus because the infected person becomes symptomatic quickly and then dies fairly quickly, making it easier...

This strikes me as two points: (1) those nations with public healthcare are not faring any better than the US, and (2) we shouldn't allow for a lockdo...

If you raise minimum wage, you reduce minimum wage jobs, so, whether the whole sector benefits isn't obviously so. Medicaid is free healthcare for the...

It hasn't. Even should I assume your assessment is correct, it's not like I've not heard it before, meaning nothing new has been exposed. I disregard ...

Are you saying that @"frank"'s mom is an ostrich? Frank, is that true?

I was dating this girl who thought my lackadaisical attitude during this coronavirus thing was irresponsible and evidence of incompatibility. I told h...

They are actually starting to advise putting plastic bags over your head where I live. I'd strongly encourage you to get ahead of the curve where you ...

Different states have imposed different restrictions. Where I live, the first thing to happen was the county closed the local schools. The city where ...

There's a difference between asking someone to choose either A or B versus A or not A. The former permits both choices, the latter only one, but not b...

It's a false dichotomy only if I presented it as a dichotomy. Purely hypothetically, you might say that if I support Trump, I'm either (1) a mindless ...

So, if I taste ice cream, and it tastes good to me, but it doesn't taste good to you, and I say "Ice cream tastes good to me," is that statement true ...

I do think that. That's obvious. That's not a contradiction. I trust scientists more than politicians, even though I accept that government decisions ...

It's always been the case that emergency care (as defined by the patient) cannot be denied regardless of ability to pay. That rule has led to those wi...

You speak a broken English and you speak in riddles, but, yes, answer that question for me, although I'm not sure what it is.

The epicenter remains the path from Spain, France, and Italy, with numbers far worse than what the US is reporting. In fact, the US pandemic is largel...

I have looked. The death tolls in France, Italy, Spain, and the UK are much higher per capita than the US, despite them having the healthcare systems ...

But you do care, else there'd be far less discussion of Trump and far more discussion of the Irish leader whoever that is. Your turn.

I just don't see that this has much to do the economic system or health care system as much as it has to do with individual leadership style and decis...

It's true, but I think it's hard for many not to use this crisis to call into question Trump, capitalism, autonomy, and other Americanisms to show it'...

If they cared about saving lives back then they wouldn't have written it in gibberish.

If only the UK had universal public healthcare we wouldn't be seeing such things.

The shift is towards that which results in greater survivability. The bee sees the world in a way that leads to his survival. Those who smell garbage ...

You're talking about truth, right? Subjective truth versus intersubjective truth versus objective truth? If that's the case, then it's subjectively tr...

They blamed him for the levies breaking during Katrina. Anyway, I don't think Trump has mishandled this. It wasn't a perfect response, but I doubt the...

I really don't see how this answers my question, which is specifically how the delay in social distancing has resulting in a measurable loss of life, ...

A Republican and great sage: https://abcn.ws/2Jz6m6O

Now that's a slap in the face.

Real question here, not a politically motivated one, but Fauci reports that had the US implemented more social distancing measures earlier, it would h...

The absurdity of the left/right divide is in not at leart recognizing the disputes are more in the abstract than the practical, with life varying very...

I said I disagreed with you, so bad to you, good to me.

Can't say what the Aussies do, but what I do is disagree with you and then vote for them.

I take hedonism to be the promotion of pleasure as a goal. What you've described appear just to be pragmatic responses to threats of illness. But of c...

The terms and conditions of this site are described here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/page/terms-of-service I don't think we can offer you more by ...

In the US, your Turkish citizenship provides you with a 20% discount on all turkey products, which is especially useful around Thanksgiving. I'm not s...

So now the predictions for US deaths from the coronavirus are around 60,000. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/what-matters-april-8/index.html T...

From my perspective, you've learned the wrong lesson, which isn't that we ought to reconfigure the way we maintain our hedonistic lifestyle, but inste...

If you call a man a dick does that mean being an asshole is a male quality to the extent that being an asshole means being a bastard to the extent bei...

I presume the psychiatrist draws conclusions based upon what he perceives, which is what I do, yet all that begs the question of whether the psychiatr...

Nice how you've decorated the place. You should move that picture a little higher so that it's flush with the ceiling..

Whether a hallucination is veridical is impossible to determine. Reliance upon others' confirmations offers nothing by way of proof as that too could ...

I think you have to decide how you are intending to use the data (and for the record, I am talking about data, not the deceased human beings represent...

So we'll go with molecules as being our unit. All molecules have mass and occupy space. Is "arrangement" as you use the term simply the location descr...

I'd submit that I've not presented a word salad, but that you're simply requesting a better definition of the word "actual" as I've used it, perhaps s...

Maybe. Do you think the Chinese government is above killing its citizens to protect its image? I'm not saying that's happened, but I have 0 trust in t...

I would actually argue it's not a thing either, but that's because I'm probably more sympathetic to the classic substance dualist approach than most, ...