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David

['Member']Joined: July 01, 2016 at 05:20Last active: September 02, 2016 at 13:055 discussions29 comments

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What about education and public goods, like roads?
August 23, 2016 at 00:04
What I am posing is that perhaps a government without those rules is one we should strive for. Much as many people believe in divorcing the government...
August 22, 2016 at 23:06
I do think there are times when moral governments make sense. This is in an entirely homogenous group where everyone has a deeply indoctrinated belief...
August 22, 2016 at 20:52
I would argue that the examples You do not qualify as moral laws. Perhaps they also happen to be agreed upon by many moral systems, but their existenc...
August 22, 2016 at 20:33
On second thought, there are cases where it is important to protect non-citizen entities. For example, animals or tourists or anything with emotions. ...
August 22, 2016 at 19:31
Could You give examples of what You think those minimum morals might be? Also, why?
August 22, 2016 at 19:23
I would say no. Forcing people to be moral (You might argue that's all society does) is not a good way of implementing morality. On a more practical l...
August 22, 2016 at 19:16
I actually can't because I don't know much about it myself. :P I was just throwing out an idea that makes sense to me, and settles the apparent contra...
August 22, 2016 at 06:26
The way I see it is that the sentence can't be true or false because, as others mentioned, it doesn't qualify as a proposition. It is similar to the w...
August 22, 2016 at 03:03
If only the masses could have conversations like these... sigh To me it seems that race is merely an excuse for failing to be introspectively. It seem...
August 21, 2016 at 07:09
All great points. Especially: Now that You mention it, I absolutely agree. I am not critical of some abstract government having personal information o...
August 21, 2016 at 06:15
Also, as Hanover stated, everyone that uses Facebook knows that the information is accessible (although not everyone is aware of the specificity of th...
August 18, 2016 at 19:04
Could You elaborate on this? Is it a nice, rhetorical statement, or is it actually basic and fundamental? What I mean is that the very sane arguments ...
August 18, 2016 at 18:58
It's a good point, but then again, the Germans didn't have Facebook and they were almost completely successful with technology from 70 years ago...May...
August 17, 2016 at 06:40
Here's a different but still interesting question: If you were placed in such a situation to do so, how might you convince a killer to stop committing...
August 17, 2016 at 04:31
This might sound horribly imperialist and not too dissimilar from the Europeans said when they cut up Africa, but, given evidence that a nation, given...
August 16, 2016 at 05:14
You perfectly hit what I was trying to touch upon and a sense paradox I often find in political persuasions. It leads me to be increasingly convinced ...
August 15, 2016 at 06:33
If that is really the case, then why is there a noticeable, at the least, number of pro-lifers out there? There are religious institutions and such th...
August 13, 2016 at 20:18
So it is a proper noun in a sense? Nonetheless, when I say You, I am talking explicitly to You (Doesn't it make You feel just a little bit special?). ...
August 09, 2016 at 10:56
I think that there is an important distinction to make in this discussion, just for clarification purposes. I think that really 2 questions about hero...
August 09, 2016 at 09:47
Hahahaha. I just figure there's something overly egotistical in capitalizing the word "I" and not "You"
August 09, 2016 at 08:46
Wow! MAGICAL X-) Well, thank You for the help :D
July 07, 2016 at 08:11
Just throwing this out to the community: am I doing this forum right? I feel like every person that takes the time to read and answer my post deserves...
July 07, 2016 at 07:07
Your second post is beautifully explained and reasoned. What obliges us (which I'm assuming implies "us humans")? Or do You mean "us philosophically-i...
July 07, 2016 at 07:05
Yes To You it is. To them, the are right and You're demented. I am entirely willing to admit that good is a manmade invention, but not that it is subj...
July 07, 2016 at 06:42
Absolutely. This is why I mentioned that I fully consider myself Jewish despite believing that none of my actions have any kind of a predictable heave...
July 07, 2016 at 06:18
Bravo. That argument brought tears to my eyes.
July 07, 2016 at 05:59
As a fairly knowledgeable Jew, I'd say You're just about right in Your description of motivators. I know You said You don't know what to make of that,...
July 07, 2016 at 05:57
By "divine force" I mean anything mystical that anyone might worship, which the person worshipping believes to be supernatural and have some kind of w...
July 07, 2016 at 05:52