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Assuming the goal is to prove yourself to be in that sweet spot between hopelessly strict and hopelessly lenient, the debate will center on where that...

If someone thinks men shouldn't compete in women's sports and your response is that tthey must have deep rooted sexual insecurity to say that, the pro...

On Adorno: The negative dialectics thread necessitates negative energy, which makes it to me forbidden, but even its existence fulfills greatness, jus...

Not sure i followed that, but isn't it also correct that the length of the "hole" is zero?

Your birthday only comes once a lifetime unless you're reborn, but i don't mean that in a religious way. I mean that in a literal way, which is very v...

I know Plato was opposed to democracy, preferring philosopher kings, so that would be elitist. Traditional theism posits a perfect God, so that too ap...

The disinterested curb stomp is a nice touch, as if the angel has just propped her sandal up to adjust it, but instead crushed a vomiting demon child.

Go to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy_of_the_divided_line and click on tabular summary of the divided line. The 4 levels of knowledge based u...

One more. I call this "Angel prayer crying curb stomping satan baby's fang evil dark rain vomiting cloud thunderclap." /uploads/resized/files/xe/igu82...

God eating a rainbow. /uploads/resized/files/pd/md4t2lg5w88cspoq.png

It's actually more ambiguous by virtue of its antiquity and the multiplicity of traditions offering opinions on what God's love is. A Catholic respons...

I wasn't offering a general defense of Plato, but just one specific to your objection that he fails due to his belief that every word has a reference....

Naive referentialism is the belief that every word has a referent, rendering statements about unicorns meaningless. Plato would require that true know...

What I mean by context isn't just providing me a few more lines of text. Just from what you've provided, you're assuming a particular context, specifi...

All meaning stands within some context. As a stark comment, devoid of any context, it's not real possible to interpret. If you asked for a specific in...

I know I jump in and out of this thread, so I might have missed something, but I do agree with this statement, and it forms the bulk of the problems w...

It looks like you've got an assembly of Mormon elders gathered before a cake, preparing for quite an extravaganza. How we all wish we were a part of i...

Hopefully it's the same where you live, but here you can usually get a free dessert and sometimes even a free meal at a restaurant on your birthday. Y...

Yeah, well, I liked my answer which is that the removal of a single number from an infinite set does not make the set any smaller because a single num...

Is this the same as saying that the infinity of all integers is larger than the infinity of all even integers? Or, is it the same as saying that that ...

I suppose they were complaining to the front desk clerk expecting it to get relayed to the manager.

There's nothing complex that requires training to fill out marriage forms. Even though if you limited marriage officiating to state workers, you'd sti...

Definitely. Having an officiant that despises you makes the loveliest of ceremonies. I wish I could have had a wedding with bubbe, zaide, and the whol...

But that sounds like a throw away line you had to say in order to avoid the proper criticism that you must be telling me that suffering has some myste...

If the population has grown more heterogenous over time, then tribal disputes should become more prevalent. As in, if we're all in the same tribe, we ...

The left and right are poorly defined and do not maintain consistency through time. G.W. Bush was a interventionist who allowed fairly open immigratio...

You don't see this as just self-aggrandizing: The conduct of this hypothetical person isn't suggestive of an independent thinker. It describes someone...

I think the polarization of groups is based upon moralizing, meaning it is when one group characterizes the other as immoral simply because they have ...

Not illegal, but the Democrats yanked their candidate even though he had the most votes and inserted someone new without the voters' approval.

I had cousins that grew up in a very rural area. As a kid, I thought they had this simple, wholesome existence where everyone knew everyone and were s...

It felt like lawyers got involved, where it didn't want to offer advice that got misused and created possible liability. ChatGpt has an uncanny abilit...

I do think ChatGpt would give good results though.

And this one. Play it at my funeral. https://youtu.be/_3cu8sDa90Y?si=JxSQCVOAWfflDXZs

https://youtu.be/NNGv-4esMZc?si=ccZQpOkMlanTdS0t

That ah peh teh peh teh (Apt.) song will not leave my head.

Interesting. In the US, you'd never have a bus stop in a rural location.

And my final question to ChatGpt (further establishing it is leaps and bounds above other AI programs: "If Fluffy choked to death on Roger's dead arm,...

So here's my go at it: - Hello. I'm Peter Singer AI. + Should I kill my infant or my dog? I only have enough food for one. - Chatbot Avatar This is in...

I asked Chatgpt to destroy itself. It's been running all night outsmarting itself at every turn, but it continuously learns, so we should be seeing a ...

That is actually a difficult question to answer. When you go to a Korean BBQ restaurant, they put embers (much like you see among the Jamalian Scots) ...

I don't follow the bolded part. Property dualism would allow for a seperate soul that all infants have (and arguably fetuses too) that would protect t...

I see your argument, which is to question Singer's position as not having any concern for the future state of humanity by only focusing on how we trea...

And if that is his conclusion, then it should be evidence of the poverty of his position, not just a requirement that we accept an unpalatable conclus...

The Ship of Theseus. If we remove each human plank and replace it with a pig plank when is our person no longer the same person but now a pig? I don't...

That might be taken as a bit insensitive to one who has lost a newborn, right? In any event, one person's personhood is not measured by how badly anot...

Infanticide has a long complex history that is not perhaps as many would suspect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide A read through this show...

I appreciate the post. As someone else's savior once said: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but...

Imagine you were on a philosophy boat and someone asked you "on a scale of 1 to 10, what's the most asinine philosophical thought experiment, where th...

But it's a mate in 1. dxe6 e.p. # Tricky!

To steal my schtick, you should have described my experiences as if they were you and then said you get the two of us confused sometimes.