I did not understand the illustration. It sounded as if some asshole refused to compromise his belief that people he regards as his inferiors have no ...
No, not always. But it takes a great many compromises, large and small, personal and collective, practical and theoretical, to make a society work. I ...
That sounds contradictory to me. And both seem to contradict what you said before about not taking beliefs seriously enough. Now, I can't tell what yo...
No. I'm putting the onus on everyone to exercise lawful civic behaviour. In theocracies, you get to chop off the heads or hands of non-conformists und...
If we choose to deal with that in any serious scientific way, we don't get to travel in space. So, for purposes of fiction and thought-experiments, we...
That's it! There's the MacGuffin! It's not the belief that kills amity (and many, many people) but the drive for dominance. (Which meek, cheek-turning...
All they have to back down from is a determination to control other people. I've known a great many Christians who do not believe they have a right to...
That's what I keep telling you. It didn't. "People" as a concept may have been "valued" as a concept in the official documents, but on the ground, in ...
Probably not what you think it is. I believe good and bad moral judgment are not products of formal schooling, but the example children are shown, and...
If you were in that position, you would already know the answer. A quick review won't hurt, but you'd have to use the information available to make de...
No, however many times to repeat the claim, you didn't. You went from a hodge-podge of state, municipal, private, religious and trades education to so...
To what? That's the central issue. People with different world-views may still be able to agree on a short-term goal. Whether the other person thinks ...
It's just another shift in the choice of self-medication/escapism/thrill-seeking. Prohibition didn't stop the use of alcohol; criminalization didn't s...
And your source of information for my absolute abysmal ignorance - besides my failure to agree with you is....? Okay. So all you need to fix the probl...
I didn't. I'd have taken the time to make a better design. That impatient, temperamental Jehova keeps leaving messes all over the universe for other g...
No, on the topic of that same paragraph, I decided to ignore, rather than punish, their gross transgression of etiquette in calling me narcissistic. M...
Try to imagine an unconscious person inventing language. That's too simplistic an approach, I know. But language - all sorts, even the earliest growls...
What, you mean all the other kids who live in the same kind of house, eat the same food, play in the same park, watch the same entertainments, root fo...
So? Have you heard how they talk about one another's gods? Those are my ancestors they're maligning. Wash out their mouths with bleach, consign them t...
If I'm god, you don't get to set my parameters or my default. I am that I am and that's all that Iyam Whatever they want to say about it. They always ...
To make up for the last god. Having experienced mortality in my own permeable skin, rather than through an intermediary, like the last guy, I have lea...
Do no avoidable harm. Minimize suffering, maximize happiness for every sentient being in your area of influence. Absolutely. Everyone. Beam the new ru...
You set a trap for a rat. A squirrel falls into it. Unintended and not the least bit ironic. You set a trap for your rival. He doesn't fall into it, b...
No, it's just [plain hypocrisy. And dishonesty. No, that's just duplicity. SOP for PR, business and some politicians - nothing that needs a special ca...
Yes, that's what I was on about also. The fact that the outcome is different from, or even opposite to, the intent is merely unfortunate, and sometime...
I don't quite feel any of those definitions are sufficient. That happens all the time and is not remarkable. They all seem to be missing a reflexive e...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0bi7OfaKMY In the home is where early imprinting, domestication, internalization of social roles, and world-view form...
I don't know what that means. I understand the words, and agree with the dark spot portion of it, but don't know who is making a valiant, misguided ef...
The ethical question there is whether the merging of human and machine is voluntary or forced. The Borg are one example of involuntary mechanization. ...
In that case, I'm with Pink Floyd. Ipledgealliegiancetotheflagandtotherepublicforwhichitstandsonenationundergodindivisiblewithlibertyandjusticeforall ...
You choose to limit it to the city states, and exclude Alexander? Okay, then you have to restrict the Roman one to the first Republic. https://www.bri...
No, it's a result of all the history that went before, of the condition of the world today and of the general craziness of our race. Education has a l...
All past empires fell, were conquered or dissolved. They have a natural life-span, just like mayflies, redwoods and humans. See the bias? The Greeks a...
Says stonemason in that biography, and Socrates definitely joined the army. Served with distinction. Good. The fabled Athenians, Pericles' vaunted Ath...
There is the population makeup to consider - alongside access to the outside world, income and income disparity, kinds of occupation, conditions of da...
I have a different perspective, and use - as you have seen - different source material. Matters won't get worse from argument; they won't get better f...
Found? By whom? How? If the actor "finds" his behaviour acceptable (or necessary) and there is nobody else there to judge him, who is in a position to...
Yes. I asked it: What do you mean by this: In order to be broader than morality, it would have to encompass something more than morality does. Since m...
What else does it include? Do you mean one's relationship with the environment? Or are we in soul/karma land now? I'm not against that; I do see a non...
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