I'm saying people don't vote for it. If you convince them of what they should want, they'll vote differently. Everything he's ever said and done publi...
Changes like sending millions of people to destitution, misery and death is a bit hard to countenance. (Especially since we know that it was the allie...
Because it would require them to die and sacrifice. Nothing vague about aggression. One country attacks another - as you propose they should. The popu...
Oh, he'll make it much worse, if he gets the chance. I'm worried about fascism, which rides in on nationalism, racism and the fear of strangers. Trump...
No, I mean the rise of right-wing xenophobia all over the world, to which some nations are more susceptible than others, for reason of their location ...
Yes, that. No country invades another country and kills its people for their own good. After the pillage and installation of a governor, the conqueror...
As guardians of other countries, yes. Candidates don't run on aggressive foreign policy. The American people have just elected an isolationist preside...
Yes. However, things have been changing and will change faster now. As more small countries fall to totalitarian governments, into debt or under Russi...
Where does that empower any nation that considers itself superior to the nation in which a wrong is taking place to invade and impose its own values? ...
No, a reality-check. It's the UN's mandate, not any self-appointed guardian's, to organize interventions against genocide, but those morally superior ...
How about preventing the proposed persecution of liberals, women and immigrants? Nobody's about to intervene on behalf of those threatened minorities....
I'm not exactly looking forward to that. In the case of Canada, they probably don't need to invade; they're imposing their 'values' on us through mone...
They're not willy-nilly, they're at bad guys. Every imperial aspiration is fed by some self-perceived need, threat, imperative or benevolent wrapping ...
Like the USSR appointed itself liberator of the world's exploited proletariat? It's not easy to see the log in one's own eye. Whenever economic parity...
Partly because 'degeneracy' is far more evident in some western countries than in some you consider inferior. If you were serious about promoting demo...
Can rational self-interest account for religious zealotry, patriotism or racism? If you separate the economic arrangements of a society from its world...
Oh, dear - again? Didn't I link the correspondence. You can read the fifth meditation, if you like. It's exceeding tedious in describing the heart and...
Many reasons. Temperament, upbringing, self-interest, culture. And some order it and always find many to carry it out. You just don't see that in prai...
I respectfully disagree. Or exemption from the gas chamber if there are more of them than we like. I know. But then we don't treat our fellow humans a...
And that's a bad thing? It didn't take any angels to establish animal protection laws - just a lot of determined ordinary people, with ordinary IQ's a...
The dying planet won't wait for us to swing around like a leaking oil tanker. Have you looked at any newspaper headlines lately? Which animals are les...
I do believe - sincerely - that they do not conflict. Any more than a pencil and brush in an artist's satchel, or a hammer and pliers in a carpenter's...
Of course it was. Wouldn't you? Joan of Arc was crazy; Giordano Bruno was an ideologue. Most of us normal people practice some degree of hypocrisy, si...
Yes, exactly that! And it's unwinnable: if you force yourself to do what needs doing, you resent the process; if someone else has to do it, you feel g...
It was a moral issue in Descartes' time. He defended his entrenched mechanistic position in many arguments. His main theme was: They have no souls; th...
Inflation is caused by a number of interacting factors, money supply being only one of them. Your understanding of it is at least as solid as Trump's....
In for? You mean judge him as I would any mortal making his way in the real world? Okay, I do hate what he and his cohort did to our relationship with...
Of course, Galileo was both right and wrong. He endorsed the Copernican system (Copernicus himself was rational enough not to publish in his lifetime)...
Of course knowledge is stored in memory. There are only two forms of memory: short- and long-term. The short term memory is information. If it's used ...
No problem. After Galileo had his little confrontation with the good fathers - and quite rationally stood down from his heretical belief in the Earth ...
Like you said: hundreds of years for this, decades for that.... Have you noticed what's happening in the US election? We simply ran out of time. What'...
I don't know about that, which is why I said 'might'. I do know Descartes was. I was only interested in the rationality of their thought, whatever the...
They're also administered way too late. You have to be literate and numerate to take one; at least 10 years old. By then, whatever experiences you've ...
Yes, it is an inherent mental capability - although, like all inborn, or *hold nose* hard-wired traits, it can be dulled or enhanced by environmental ...
And whales learn songs both from their own and from other pods. Learning is common to all species that operate in a complex environment (i.e. not unde...
Would that be an appropriate response? You might instinctively take it as a friendly greeting, or as just something geese do with no meaning. In fact,...
The assemblies only made recommendations how to frame the debate for a referendum. The referendum itself asked all the citizens one important question...
You're a bit late on that one! I meant - in response to That would make it a choice among those that exist today. Couple of problems with that. Withou...
It's not just my explanation https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10529410/ Why should "we" prevent history? Which empire would you like to keep i...
I had a health scare the other day, so the OG bought Winnie the Pooh. I'll probably watch it with him - sometime. Halloween is coming up, so it's time...
Oh, people have opinions on everything within their line of sight, so if you ask them a question about something that they happen to be aware of, and ...
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