Why should I care how true it is for you? You made the statement and I had no reason to disbelieve it. That's where its importance begins and ends. I ...
My objections were that the persons you mentioned do not represent "the left", and you have not shown that any of them personally accepted either mone...
The fact that you either do not have or refuse to produce any evidence of wrongdoing by these examples from the so-called 'left' that would in any way...
I wonder about that assertion without some context and citation. And of course, about how accepting a car is on par with mass deportations to a foreig...
Where does the concept of liberty originate? Who came up with the idea in the first place? In what circumstances? I strongly suspect it was a civilize...
'Common sense' validates common nonsense. Not knowing is all right with them. In fact, they'll go out of their way to avoid knowing tings: they're hap...
'Property' no. Animals compete and fight for things they need and want; they have no 'right' to them. But, according to libertarians, Other animals ha...
You might be surprised. Most sentient organisms. Grass, not so much, although it can be 'invade' the artificial domains of mankind. Defending one's ho...
That's pretty much the point. Institutions brought them fortune, power and fame and they're busily attacking and tearing down those institutions, in o...
Superb! Well organized and thorough. There it is, right there: the hard kernel of contradiction. What is property? The concept doesn't exist in nature...
I'm sure it will helpful to know what people wanted 20 years ago! Universities can't conduct new research, whoever directs them, without funding. That...
I don't think the budget will be larger; I think you're using it up on unproductive programs. You hire a bunch of academics to set standards and make ...
We usually start political careers by running for town or city council in a municipality where the candidate is known personally or at least by reputa...
I love it! A profound debate wrapped in a gentle fable. I'll have to come back and read it again, for the sheer pleasure of it. I have no comment; it ...
I had to ask the Google bot what this means. The concept seems to be eating its tail. How would that happen? Would the result still be identifiable as...
It's beautiful, evocative, intimate and disturbing. It will take a long time to translate to my pedestrian, materialist language, and in the meanwhile...
The Borg are a better analogy to ossified cultures than are ants, although the Borg, too, have a degree of adaptability. Ants do it through chemical c...
That's no accident. A great deal of effort by governments, commercial media, churches, mass entertainment, propagandists and sloganeers, over several ...
You've got my vote right there! The rest of that first paragraphs elicits interest, curiosity and brings a host of long-held beliefs and long withheld...
By the way, I'm inclined to think that the only way to get clean, incorruptible governance is not through rules and standards, but objective rule-maki...
To which we can bear witness. We can also see the progress of human rights, general standard of living, literacy, equality and fairness in reasonably ...
Who does the establishing? The present government, yes? How are the academics chosen? What other means and how are the results of these other means me...
Not that much earlier, and not quite as you put it. The experiencer of a sensation knows that sensation to be true, without making any statement. It's...
Life is also necessary to disagree with axioms like "life is good". Some lives are good; some lives are mediocre; some lives are terrible. We who are ...
Parsimonious?? Sentiment?? I merely listed, factually and without embellishment, a few people who were not looking for validation, happiness or Someti...
Well, so much for Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Desmond Tutu, Eleanor Roosevelt, César Chávez, Malala Yousafzai Greta Thunbe...
Revealed to witnesses by the product, yes. But the sculptor's knowledge was acquired gradually, by learning the concept of sculpture, assimilating inf...
Huh. What I heard was: I.e. Voters are emotionally immature idiots and we need the guidance of someone ordained in something. That is: Sounds an awful...
Like the right to worship, speak freely; marry whom they love and sit where they like on the bus? Sure. That's why limits are set for terms of office:...
It does, if the election is conducted properly by the currently government; that is, the process meet a pre-set standard for fair elections. That's wh...
If it's a detailed instruction on how to juggle balIs, yes. I can believe that a statement or instruction or description is true, but I can't know it ...
You can never be 100% certain that the tap which worked an hour ago is still working, or that the pipes connecting that tap to a well or reservoir hav...
We use axes and bassoons in the world, too and they're nor knowledge. They were made by people who knew something about materials and processes. I kno...
Okay: I completely failed to understand. I thought you posited a set of standards that all administration are expected to meet, and then voted for a g...
No, that's just accurate information. It doesn't become knowledge until you compare it with previous information you're gathered, test it for logical ...
It seems to me that one can wholly separate standards from policies, even without subdividing one's choices. When voting on a set of standards, a popu...
Isn't bullfighting? Isn't gladiatorial combat? How about cinema? Hemingway's is; grandfather's isn't; Charles Dickens, yes; the Ojibway elder, no. If ...
Ritual mutilation? I wonder whether scarification, piercings and other forms of painful body modification are considered art? They usually have religi...
If there is built-in safety, is it violence? For the matador, what he does may be art, certainly not for the bull, nor for the subject of an inquisito...
As a historical novel, it could be interesting, even captivating. However, you use the word 'sacred' so many times in the outline that it sets off my ...
It's not luck. Humans are pretty much the same the world over, but some leaders have had more foresight in organizing their governance, invested more ...
In fact, some bad ones are improving. Still, the decline overall is distressing, and it's because of the political divisions, which affect law-making,...
There are procedures through the elected representatives. It was difficult and rare to impeach a federal supreme court justice (I expect it's also the...
An increasing number as elections grow more expensive, kickbacks in the form of gifts and vacations become more blatant, appointees to supreme courts ...
That's easy! Elected and appointed officials. The judiciary is tied to the political administration and the similarly financed electoral system. When ...
And it will continue to be ignored, and cause massive corruption, as long as money plays such a prominent role in elections. (I refer you to the egreg...
You would say that? I wouldn't. It means wrong for me. The determination of what is and is not art, who is or is not an artist, is entirely subjective...
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