Obviously! Don't we all think that? But that doesn't mean I can give myself everything I want, or can ever give what I want to other people in all cas...
Ants got it right early on, so they haven't had to change much in their configuration or mode of operation order to keep adapting to new environments ...
I disagree. " the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication." It is quite true that people "believe...
That's a lot like the animal to keep eating almost until you burst, just in case there is a famine coming. Yes, that's one kind of mind-set that might...
I picked social species at random to illustrate that family, social norms and standards of acceptable conduct predate the advent of religion. It's not...
Oh, so you're an evolution denier as well? ....Sad.... Aping our own heritage? How? Social behaviour is social behaviour, in all species. It has been ...
No they didn't. The entire french dechristianization program only lasted about 2 years. It didn't work, of course. The church got all the wealth and p...
I am referring to social organizations, with families, norms, codes of behaviour and enforcement of rules. As to physical laws, they've been around ev...
No problem! https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/meerkats2.htmhttps://defenders.org/blog/2014/07/wolves-are-even-more-socially-complex-we-thought...
Nobody ever has. Get off that train; it's never leaving the station. Some Christians fought against slavery 1600 years after the mainstream churches e...
They make claims, certainly. Have you ever fact-checked the claims? How many can you disprove? They do actions, as everyone does. To which particular ...
Why is it so hard to understand that those positions are not taken with regard to a god, but with regard to what men do in the name of that god? Athei...
And when you're not, you don't care either way. Unless you go to hell, of course, but fortunately, I don't believe in hell. Sadly, I don't believe in ...
That was eerily familiar! I had a flashback to one summer night circa 1967, in the bed of a pickup truck, looking up - which was also out and down - i...
I have no explanation for how and why, and I was not convinced by any of the explanations I have so far heard and read. Until I come across one that I...
Faith isn't restricted to a belief in gods. For example, I've noticed that a great many Americans have faith in their Constitution and the democratic ...
So, what's the difference between having non-empathic men in charge of the arsenals of the world, and having an unemotional (unvengeful, unhating, une...
Al;so, remember how power and wealth are most commonly acquired. A noble spirit would consider the responsibilities of wielding power and know himself...
No, I don't think so. It's the seduction of owning even more, being even more important, having even more people under one's control, inspiring fear a...
I suspect it's more a question of what kind of leaders they're asking. Not every government will order running over a protester with a tank, but some ...
Are you kidding? What do you suppose the Pentagon uses to figure out the outcomes of various scenarios and decisions they're contemplating? Any hand-h...
More than the spiteful, greedy 3-year-olds in control of the world's governments now. I mentioned the problem two pages ago: some well-intentioned but...
It was never proposed as anything but a tool. Has no values, has no values, has no values. Neither do Donald Trump, Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin, yet ...
Why would it ever be without humans? It would have no purpose without humans. The whole reason we're building it is to serve us and save us. It does w...
Has human civilizations ever known stability for more than a decade at a time? I don't see a world-wide enforcement of human rights more of an infring...
We know that a couple of states that used the communist label worked badly - precisely because they operated on the same model as all other examples o...
Yes, that is exactly the kind stupid human reality they can change. Water was never scarce until we poisoned it and sold it off to private enterprise....
All the computer has to do is long division. It doesn't need to develop virtue or figure out what we mean by virtue. It doesn't need to figure out how...
I just watched an interesting documentary about Paleolithic people, which, among other things, dealt with a meeting place where a number of many small...
I was using a jocular tone. I am, in fact, absolutely convinced, beyond a shadow of doubt, by everything I know and all of those many statistics I hav...
How many - or rather, what percent of the population - is enough? How Two things about that. 100 doesn't provide a big enough gene pool or work force ...
Yes, I would always object to them. And we have gone nowhere. IOW, at the end of the 20th century CE, 8,000 years after the advent of civilization, th...
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