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As John Stuart Mill says: "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfie...

I don't question the gentleman's respectability. I expect it's a family name, having been gained by the prior occupation or reputation perhaps of his ...

Wrestling the Angel - Terryl L. Givens Creation ex nihilo - Gary Anderson and Markus Bockmuehl Moses the Egyptian - Jan Assmann (an unfortunate last n...

This really isn't true. The Nazis limited their tribe to Aryans, specifically excluding the neighboring Slavs (who were very much white). https://en.w...

The object isn't to appease, but to not be confrontational in the first place. That's what I was pointing out. I have though, despite your efforts at ...

Much respect. Apologies.

I get the sarcasm, but I'm not chastising you. I'm just saying I know you and I don't agree and doubtfully ever will, so if that's all you're letting ...

Yes, so let's collect up the world's children and nuture and care for them all, and let's collect up all the kitties and puppies too that have lesser ...

Political decisions are pragmatic and it seemed an unsustainable policy based upon democratic sentiment. Maintaining it would only lead to greater pol...

Even funnier is how the party known for killing babies is so worried about whether a child is separated from her mother for a short while. Funnier sti...

If you decided to immigrate to Germany and you knew their laws strictly forbade it, and you knew there was increased enforcement of its immigration la...

It'd be ya'll're (you all are) stupid, not y'all stupid, unless you were going for the African American dialect that truncates the final consonant, bu...

The outrage does seem to be expressed in different ways by the different parties. The left seems to get very lecture driven, condescending, and emotio...

My post specifically said "Survivalism in modern society has nothing to do with basket weaving, tracking and hunting prey, or starting campfires," but...

Sure, we can exclude the fact that Hitler was a genocidal manic, but he did have two legs, so he was in fact like Trump in a really important way. Lik...

Is this where I draw a distinction between gas chambers for Jews sought out from every corner of Europe and temporary detention centers for those who ...

The Nazi hyperbole goes from mildly annoying to insulting, but to speak literally, as if we are just a few years from actual gas chambers and genocide...

An important distinction that sometimes gets overlooked between Hitler and Trump is that the former had death camps where millions of people were syst...

Bernie is an 800 year old socialist from Timbuktu, yet he's supposed to be the voice of the future, who will just seize the passion of this changing n...

Thanks for the quote. I couldn't watch the whole thing, work gets in the way sometimes. I'll give you a glimpse into the mind of the right: The suppre...

https://youtu.be/Pc9Ne7WJN2Q This technology has been around since the 70s.

It seems the distinction between now and the future is just how we'll interface with the technology. Currently we type in or speak to computers in ord...

I'd just add, consistent with what you said, is that we can no more protect our friends with relaxed rule enforcement than attack our enemies with str...

Sure, and some good decisions are made in bad environments. Perfect freedom doesn't exist, but our choices matter.

Hey guys, it looks like we've taken care of these posters, so I'm going to close this thread, but feel free to pick up this conversation in the lounge...

Yeah, and we did offer him an opportunity to explain himself, which he ignored, so I doubt any of this came as as surprise to him, even if it does to ...

Another mod already banned her. Oh well. I'm sure there will be more.

I noticed a new user named Nadia. I banned only Natasha based on Banno's post. Did you get something from Nadia?

I'm afraid you'll have to communicate offline now because I just banned her.

The Wendy's near me has a sign on its door saying they don't have the staff to open the restaurant, but you can only go through the drive through. Ano...

Atheists and theists are sentenced just the same for lying under oath.

I bought some colored cellophane overlays to change the colors. That's how we had to change the colors on our iPhones back during the depression.

. Survivalism in modern society has nothing to do with basket weaving, tracking and hunting prey, or starting campfires. Mastery of those skills would...

If only manna would fall from the sky.

But I was so vying for your affection. Not sure, but it sounds like a playful question designed to detract from the obnoxiousness of your post above.

This at least acknowledges the straw man you've been fighting all along attempting to attribute to me. There's nothing free market libertarian in my p...

1. They have terrible dental health. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6336/362.summary 2. I guess they had to find water first, but once the...

So now you state that the reason we have increased life expectancies is because of (1) better neo-natal care, (2) antibiotics, and (3) better surgery,...

Of course. That's why we ought have democratic rule and ought not have a dictatorship.

It's an odd argument... The democratic process protects the commons and we all benefit, yet there is a problem with the common. Odd.

But this is the first you've asked that. I think it has to do with all sorts of things, including medical, all of which are evident in wealthier natio...

They absolutely show a statistically significant increase in life span in industrialized countries, even more overwhelming when childhood deaths are i...

Several decades is significant. Also, that massive numbers are dying prior to age 5 is kind of important too. From Wiki: "Researchers Gurven and Kapla...

Cite this.

Sure, and good luck, which I'd think would be as likely to befall one race as the next.

What to do about the carrying capacity of the paddock can be determined by science, likely by the Democracy (at least through trial and error), but ho...

It can better be settled by the collaborative decision of the group (as I suggest) than by each person's conscience (as you suggest). Or. do you now i...

Ok. I recognize it and realize when failures are the result of bad decisions versus a bad environment.

I agree we could concoct a situation where Stanley has no moral right to the money and that he ought give it to his brother. My point is that there is...

If the common folk pass a law through the democratic process, then obviously the common folk do show respect for the commons. The reason they allow on...