Especially given that any passing alien can just take over control of their ship. That's got to be the least secure computer system in the universe! I...
It's a big bag. I'm not opposed to support for the arts, endowments for museums, libraries and research, scholarships, charitable donations, sponsorsh...
Do the best... what? Especially as in your second example: an extra markup beyond overhead and handling. But then, so can lots of other factors. Still...
Okay. But there is always some kind of tangible interest in an arbitrary transfer, whether it's brand recognition for sponsoring a sporting event, or ...
Presumably that's an investment in something tangible, or how could it increase production? Investing in social programs is similarly earmarked for go...
Of course. But it would be your own experiment - a conversation between you and the deity or whatever - no middleman to confuse the issue. Think of it...
They are in the floor and fall on people on the deck below. In any case, they are far too big for the span and weight requirement. And not secured pro...
The most logical path to religion, or God, or the spirits, or whatever mystical thing you're seeking, is a wide berth around churches. Those vast pile...
No, they would use beams to support internal deck floors, which fall on people at the first volley of enemy fire. It's not the supporting walls that c...
Yes! I like that question. (In my personal galaxy, the best spaceship designs are in Babylon 5*) except the Minbari ones - all that wasted space overh...
They wouldn't just die. Nor would they be killed by predators, since we've already killed most of the predators. But they wouldn't find enough habitab...
Not really. They never tell you who or what the aliens are praying to or invoking or whatever they're doing when they're alone in their cabin with a b...
How early? From what I recall of my first five years, reality was immense, vibrant, full of life and possibility, waiting eagerly for me to discover i...
I know that. I also know that, because they are our property, made for our use, we tend to treat them like inanimate objects. And we have no real need...
The word 'purpose' always pulls me up short. I understand the purpose of a sickle or a canoe: something made by n intelligent being to accomplish some...
They were not invented - like one of our vehicles or tools. They were bred from enslaved wild cattle. How does that justify mistreating them? There is...
Motherhood is not a human societal concept. It's a deeply embedded animal instinct - one for which many birds and mammals and even some fish risk thei...
I recently saw a video about a bovine dairy where it's working very well. This is one way: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/29/mums-as...
I have not yet seen a model of cattle ranching that's good for the cattle, the environment and the climate. Migrating herders of ancient times probabl...
So, you never ask another poster to justify a philosophical position? You never ask a child "What were you thinking?" or a colleague "Can you explain ...
Yess! Clear, coherent and logical. I meant to distinguish the agenda of a publicly constituted entity, such as a board of education, from the idiosync...
Terrific summary! That was my premise: we can - and do - apply it to everything. Not just moral and legal issues, but personal hyginene, opinions, fin...
In a legal situation, it is not. One of the very common situations in which we find ourselves having to offer justification for our actions is the leg...
I like this explanation. Will have to reflect on it. True. in the specific case, as an answer to an example. Not a goalpost; not in the OP. I didn't u...
All kinds of different situations call for justification. It might be defense of a philosophical argument in an academic setting; it might be a confro...
Yes. In which case, selling drugs would have to be judged on a case-by-case basis: which drug, to whom, under what circumstances; how did they use it,...
I think that would count as a mitigation or perhaps excuse. It doesn't justify the act; it only explains the motive. To justify selling a particular d...
Future generations will be far too busy trying to dig basic necessities out of the rubble to give us much thought beyond the odd "bastards" over their...
Not from my POV. (Remember, I didn't ask anyone to justify anything.) We all have different perspectives, convictions and sensibilities. Whether a jus...
Only I didn't ask that question, and I don't think the OP was asking how the farmer justifies his living, but how the consumer justifies his food choi...
Maybe he doesn't need to justify it. Not everyone has the same sensibilities. But I do question why a farmer who operates on a large enough scale to m...
I don't think any comparison to nature is valid. We took ourselves out of nature a long time ago, and have done everything our clever imagination coul...
That must be comforting. Still, it's not entirely about 'capacity', is it? It's more about how many of us - the ones who use most of the world's resou...
Ours wasn't that hard. After we moved to the country, my SO asked where to build the chicken coop. I said I didn't want chickens. "Why not?" "Who's go...
Ecology and climate change. Cattle grazing takes huge tracts of land from the natural environment, displacing wildlife, causing massive loss of oxygen...
Ah, I see. No, individual people don't vote for "society" or "values"; they vote according to their personal concerns. Special interest blocs, such as...
If. But why would the majority think that way? Each person is not voting for "what's good for everyone"; each person is voting for what she or he want...
Unless the participants want those things. Overall, in countries with a reasonable constitution (no mass exclusions; equitable laws), where democratic...
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