Hanover

What's for dinner?

Our first practice is tomorrow night at the field near my house. I'll bring the beer and syringes. Yeah, it's a dark sort of team, with some really tr...

As if horror movies are a representation of the horrors of actual society. Is there anything left for me to do without someone trying to turn it into ...

I was thinking that with all this talk about hobbies and distractions and the like that maybe we should start a softball team. We could play PF in the...

Other than a hearty diet of porn and horror movies, I pretty much keep to myself.

Put a bull's-eye in the toilet and challenge them. They'll never leave.

There are a couple of Mormons here at my office, each with five children apiece. I must say that they are incredibly conscientious, hard-working, clea...

My 18 year old son sits at his computer and talks into some headpiece into the wee hours of the night killing something or another. When I tell him to...

I am familiar with the exciting Atari advancements that have occurred since the Pong era.

I don't get the gaming culture. It seems such a waste of time and energy.

This is the traditional thinking on the subject. There are varying degrees of freedom, some of the more dispassionate I suppose have more freedom and ...

The drug thing did get out of control for a while over here, with these pill clinics popping up all over the place. The federal government started cra...

If you type in "thephilosophyforum.com" directly into the url, it'll come straight up #1. The trick is in getting people to do that. You're welcome.

I probably wouldn't get mad at the tornado, but I'll play along. Damn tornado! Maybe, and then they chose to hit my car, which they shouldn't have don...

Sure, international unity so that no one can escape your regulation because any freedom in the market will be used to thwart what the almighty state h...

American free speech rights are far more protective than other Western nations. If this were a free speech issue, it's very doubtful anyone could be m...

Your utopia entails absolute control over the global market so you can eliminate every worker's ability to innovate or create their own market. Such t...

If you cannot hold the guilty morally responsible for their actions, please forgive me when I do. I was predetermined to act that way. If you can't fo...

What sorts of corporate welfare does Joe the baker (for example) get that enslaves him to provide employment opportunities for you? This has less to d...

You use the word "corporation" as if it's a synonym for evil. It's entirely possible that you'll run off an unincorporated businessman who offered rea...

You can't just declare that politics is what you think it ought to be. A representative is beholden to whomever keeps him in office, and under no actu...

I wasn't aware, and I don't really know how UK law works. If the baker had refused to write "Deny gay marriage" would he have been guilty of discrimin...

Since you insist upon drawing a literal distinction between corporations and people, where corporations (as opposed to people) should be prohibited fr...

A criticism of democracy is that it will devolve into mob rule, yet Western democracies actually pass laws via the majority that protect minorities. T...

There are all sorts of angles here one can look at to determine whether it makes sense to require people to serve all comers. Should the same baker be...

The standard, whether it be as applied to corporations, individuals, sweet little old ladies, or whatever, is that entities tend toward protecting the...

It's a complicated enough area that I'm not going to try to answer it definitively, and it's also a bit unsettled, and I don't do discrimination law. ...

This is just naivete. We're not a semantical distinction away from peace. You cite to an agreement reached over 20 years ago that has meant nothing in...

The conclusion here isn't as you assert, which seems to be that an evil nation becomes good once enough time elapses and everyone accepts their author...

So it was a democratic militaristic takeover by Putin? Interesting analysis. I might have interpreted it as a Russian land grab to make certain that t...

Sure, and if Iran attacked the US, there'd be no more Iran. That's how proportionality works. I just don't know why Israel has to fight wars with one ...

I don't agree with this. Stronger nations are wrong all the time. By Egypt as well.

Oh, don't get all upset. Be unflappable like me. You said that there was some critical distinction about Israel declaring itself a sovereign state and...

You can say they want there to be a two state solution, but when given that real opportunity, they balked. I mean there's saying it and meaning it. Th...

Are you kidding me? Palestine never negotiated in good faith to bring about a 2 state solution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Camp_David_Summit. ...

I've not argued that might makes right. It's quite the opposite. My argument would be that we should protect Israel because they are right to possess ...

Are you suggesting that the Palestinian government really is in favor of a two state solution? If they are, they've certainly not ever shown that, esp...

And so you've ignored the entire debate and just asserted that the Palestinians have the right to the land. I assert otherwise. So there you have it. ...

If God wanted us to be vegan, he'd have given us bouncy feet and floppy ears and we'd lay colorful eggs.

The problem with healthcare in a capitalist structure is that there are those who can't afford it. I don't know why you've invested so heavily in doct...

Then you have a very short memory. My recollection is that in the second mid-term elections the Democrats suffered historic losses to the Republicans ...

That cat is like twice your size.

The land was in fact already theirs prior to 1967 and they acquired more as a result of the war. Clarify your point.

First we had G.W. and that resulted in Obama and now we're getting Trump. I just see the pendulum that used to swing slightly left then slightly right...

The problem is that the ideology of communism is ill defined and that the fall of the USSR was never considered by Marxists to represent the fall of c...

Unless Congress excretes some sort of law, SCOTUS will have nothing to rule on.

The USSR was defeated. If by that you mean communism, then I guess it was. The idea of socialism was not defeated, as it existed and continues to exis...

How did I contradict myself? I said that the Israelis won some land in a war, that they weren't required to return it, but they gratuitously did retur...

The proposed two state solution is problematic because the Palestinians reject that idea and wish to push the Israelis into the sea (or some such rhet...

The reason that some associate criticism of Israeli policy with anti-Semitism is because there does appear to be an over-analysis of Israeli policy (l...