Insofar as physical, legal, social and moral constraints allow them to. Sometimes both the rational and reasonable way to act is as unreasonably and i...
That makes no difference to the kind of thinking that is applied to a problem. The whole chain of reasoning may be invalidated at the end by one irrat...
I suppose... But don't they in just about every kind of opinion and belief? Avoiding all of those subjects doesn't leave much to discuss. The weather,...
Just so! Reason is a component of the thinking process (normally) and the result is judged as rational or logical when the conclusion is coherent with...
They are, usually, but the derived word 'reasonable' is not synonymous with 'rational'. Reasonableness is a social judgment; rationality is a psycholo...
Not necessarily. One may think strategically within a framework of delusion, with internal rules that match no rational sequence in the world of 'norm...
Then you'll just have to do that, I guess. How is not my problem; I sleep very well in my physicalist model. Except for the bladder in the middle nigh...
No, it evidently cannot be explained to you in any terms that you accept. The problem(s) of Sydney, Henry, the barn and the car are intractable and in...
Yes, that is hopeful. Meanwhile, the Proud Boys are marching and the glaciers are retreating, entirely oblivious to each other. All those previous uph...
Then I will not attempt to defend it. You said it first! It's not different, just a little more holistic, as I attempted to reunify the uncle's electr...
How is an uncle different from a barn door? Sounds like something the Mad Hatter might ask. I'm more intrigues by why you'd want to go to Wonderland, ...
Every non-consequential word, for my sins! It didn't appear that way to the Sumerian storyteller who originated some version of this particular creati...
I witnessed a few autopsies and processed the tissue samples afterward. I had a kind of opposite problem for the first year or so: I couldn't help thi...
It depends on the moral code you follow, which rests on some founding principle. If it's one of those whose founding principle is: "Pain bad; pleasure...
Well, that rather complex neuronal activity is unique to that particular system, in which it has stored senstions, memories, emotions, responses, know...
Focusing on the Garden described in Genesis 1-3, the Tigris-Euphrates Valley, c. 6000BCE, pretty good match. Gen 3:17-24 - thistles, thorns, sweat, an...
God is. (Shut up and don't question his existence!) God is perfect, omni-everything. (because I said so.) Why do Christians believe my version of God ...
There is also an online chess tutor you can sign on to, that's very good, according to my very bright chess-playing friend, who is only intermediate c...
I was knocked out by my third opponent in Gr 9 chess club. Too much work for too little reward. But that's because we have the wrong brain-wiring for ...
It's nice to have the definitive definition of God. It's nice to have the last word on all matters theological. But it's a teensy bit odd to do that a...
No, but I've done a bit of student counseling in a multicultural city. Anyway, this aspect of the situation has been exercising my mind for many years...
Maybe you're taking somebody else's unreliable word for what God is like. Who told you He's all-good? Christians believe their god created the world, ...
That's 1 out of 3.5 M unemployed. The profit margin dictates replacing expensive employees with cheaper ones, more employees with fewer employees, at ...
None at all, among the world population of 0.35-.40B. And how many of those jobs are available to the 6.5B of today's world? I'm not sure how many of ...
I can't quite picture that - unless you mean something different by capital than I do. This may not be the venue for an exhaustive discussion of capit...
Yeah, that's a depressing state of being. (We have mass-produced pills for that!) Not being connected to your work - what you figured out, what you de...
Of course! They're killing us all, right alongside the trees and butterflies. Sounds utopian to me , by every standard of Utopia with which I'm famili...
The study only covered personal physical health, not any social factors. We already know, from earlier studies on agriculture, land and energy use, ho...
Utopia! In a capitalist world, you cannot have any other kind. Nor have we had any other kind since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. How, w...
Couple of problems with that. What 'healthy job marketplace'? First, what's a job marketplace but people selling their time and strength and skill to ...
Hence the routine addition of antibiotics to their feed. Also growth hormone for a faster profit. I'm not going to research it now (got to get back to...
Maybe. Or maybe their numbers will simply decline from the expendable billions to a cherished few. To a manageable population level, where they provid...
I don't understand this. If we stop breeding food animals, there won't be any more of them to need the grass and grain. We can eat the grain and leafy...
Yet once more again: I never have advocated substitution. I only suggested that if you think the vegetable-based diet is missing some nutrients you ne...
What natural processes? Buffalo grazing over vast unfenced prairies and a few wolf-packs picking off the stragglers and weak calves at the edge of the...
And yet I continue to thrive! There are no real and false nutrients, just molecules! Chemical compounds that an organism requires to function, not a m...
Domestic animals don't control their breeding anyway. The farmers do. Much of it - cattle in particular - is done artificially. To stop it, all we hav...
That's an opinion many humans share. Not all, however. Insects do; they have a nervous system. When caught in a trap, they try to escape. Broccoli doe...
The screaming. That's simplistic, but that's the thing in a nutshell: not to kill that which expresses a desire to live; not to hurt that which respon...
Yes. The OP was about killing to eat. Killing in self-defense is exempted from murder involving a human, as well. The reason you'd get away with it is...
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