Doesn't the quality of that transition depend on the world environment? "We" sophisticated, prosperous westerners with all the potential for advanceme...
Because the nature of their reality is not subject to verification. They are processes inside the subjective consciousness of an organism: real to the...
I prefer something a little more up-to-date. It's fine that both the Greeks and Americans taught their upper-class boys patriotism, citizenship and He...
I claim that I do not include myself in that "we". Of course I think illness is bad in the sense of unfortunate, don't wish it to happen, but without ...
This is not a question of ethics or morality (unless you're questioning the judgment of a god). Illness is a fact. The ethical question is how we ough...
I would call it a mental aberration rather than a wrong action. This is not an intellectualized answer but my gut reaction: "Poor guy's going bananas ...
Yes, I am. It's not the 'after' picture I disagree with, but the 'before'. Where? When? How long? For which children? Athens is where Socrates was snu...
Given the title, that's hard to fathom. Of course not. Truth and fact are not identical in common discourse. Facts: Torture hurts. Torture is a delibe...
I say it wasn't a fundamental change but a stage. Their success in the world wars fed their ambition and expanded their scope and thirst for conquest....
Nor do I. And we know our own criteria for why that is a reasonable desire. For anyone with a different moral foundation (e.g. "Might makes right" or ...
I missed that tit-bit also. How are "moral truth" "valid reason" and desire interdependent? A truth is not moral or immoral; morality is neither true ...
Regardless of my definition, I know that people invoke morality on their side of an argument, whether its relevant or not, whether they believe it's r...
So the OP question is not about truth anymore again? Biology is not "motivated": it is merely predicated. Nothing in the universe operates without und...
There are no such things as regards physics. There are such things as regards biology. For biology to operate, life is a necessity and the sustenance ...
The heavenly dwellers, hands down. They have the resources, for one thing. For another, as you say, they have time to develop their intellectual capac...
When a group that constitutes a community, organization or government shares a belief of some kind - true or false matters not in the slightest! - and...
There is nothing random about the basis on which people decided what is correct and incorrect behaviour. Their opinion is based on a consensus of prin...
That is an incorrect attribution. I neither said nor implied anything about "moral truths" I did explicitly say the opposite: that truth and falsehood...
And I responded to that. I don't claim to know or understand the mind-set of people who kill; I can only go by what some of them write on forums. In s...
That, right there, is my vindication for the advocacy of zero employment! Everybody should be able to do what they love, and I'm quite sure, given the...
Those are manufactured animals, designed and produced for the meat market, treated as commodities their. They won't go extinct unless humans stop bree...
I don't need a logical reason; I need a bigger hammer and a 2" box nail. That's one way logic has been applied throughout history. It's an obviously d...
That' too, can only happen in a country where some people are rich enough to buy that luxury. If 8 billion of us started hunting for our dinner, we wo...
I didn't ask about spending. I asked about involvement. https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/50473 15 or so years of peace since independence. And t...
Yes, I understand that. But if poorly educated people live in a town, their choice of material is limited by their knowledge, and their children will ...
Not until after the capitalists broke all their toys and a millions of lives. I don't think they could have nationalized industry - or very much else ...
Charles III. I quite like him, actually, but he can't control the tories in his own country any more than he could here, and the tories are controlled...
"We" propose; "they" dispose. There is nothing to stop you from planning. I have a plan for education reform that I devised forty years ago, and it st...
We could. But "we" don't want to. If all we cared about was the welfare and education of our young, we didn't have to wait for virtual reality or comp...
Like the one I suggested in the UN hub of internet traffic? I suppose something of the kind could work in legal systems regarding published material, ...
I don't know what you have to apologize for! Did you delete it? I must have missed it the first time - and, looking back through the thread just now, ...
Education is just education. Values do not come into DNA replication; it happens in amoeba, earthworms and wombats just the same way it happens in peo...
I think only because I worded my response ambiguously. I meant that the purpose of not allowing ethics and critical thinking to be taught in schools, ...
That's a valid opinion. In the case of religion and politics, I agree. But encouraging basic civility is not out of place in a classroom or a textbook...
No. Those seed banks libraries, archives and DNA repository are being prepared for the people who will restore biodiversity and agriculture after the ...
I believe so. (Well, I have to believe it; I wrote it.) But it would take a very long recovery, even with the excellent provisions some of our long-si...
Absolutely! Always have been an advocate of the universal charter of human rights and would like to see all legal codes based upon those principles. I...
I think the problem there - as in many other subject areas - is thinking terms of "us" or "we". There is no collective that can make decisions or dete...
That would be nice, but it doesn't seem to me practical. Some private owners of social media have imposed their own standards of acceptable discourse ...
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