I don't think the analogy is apt. It's a good one for getting the average person to consider morality as something we can discuss and work with. It do...
Seems like this would simply lead to a circle of non-productivity and non-progress. I also think it is not in our best interests to treat everyone wit...
Brain stem structures, is my understanding - the nerve bundles prior to the hemispheres of the brain around the top of the spinal column and 'bottom' ...
Very good. I think not only is it self-defeating in that sense (which admittedly, might just come down to the linguistics of hte bumper-stickers) but ...
I see. I may be ignorant to how well-subscribed that view is. My understanding is even the duller coterie among that sort of group aren't seriously su...
There is no acceptable alternative. More likely to be balance of probabilities unless there's no disputed facts ;) Certainly, we already cover crimina...
Some kind of philosophy of hte species remaining a single, pure species (yes, that's on purpose) and the concept of liberal/egalitarian thinking. I do...
My understanding is the prehemispheric structures solve this problem in humans, and make sets of data from both halves cohere in our perception. I've ...
This strikes me as totally incoherent. They aren't related(on my first reading.. This isn't an impugning). the "philosophy of staying together" as a s...
Its beyond me why we allow a child to run around this forum insulting everyone, making absolutely insane posts that belittle the forum, its members an...
Very good point. Steel-manning is a practice few can actually carry out. I have a hard time, so i usually dont engage in those arguments. Yes, and it'...
Having a thread which allows for a single stance is directly against the ethos of the forum. Mikies behaviour in general, for the last year at least h...
Going through Woody Guthrie, Rosetta Tharpe and Mahalia Jackson currently. Also bought an old Joan Baez record recently and remember how god damn f**k...
Very good. And a real problem for the question per se, I think. Maybe they simply cannot come apart and our world still be seen to cohere. For me, the...
Re-read: A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich; Of Mice and Men/Cannery Row; The Crying of Lot 49; and The Problems Of Philosophy (about 11 pages to go...
I think both of you are supremely missing hte crux of why these two (general) camps cannot see eye to eye: they see things from different perspectives...
Totally wild - not unexpected Want to be very clear, that 'trans' isn't relevant to why I think this is wild. But it is somewhat relevant to why I thi...
It's good to see process being talked about. When I read P&R I reached out here for some thoughts/discussion and nothing came of it. Appreciate these ...
You could all just stay here, and let that thread do what it's meant to do -= allow for all discussion around climate change. Echo chambers aren't hel...
For me, the straight answer to this is that, with more restriction and more direction, this is what's happening in waking life anyway. There are those...
Still very relevant. Not particularly well read - and he has the awkward problem of most people reading him being dumb late-high-school, early-Univers...
There are parts of this response that are going to come off combative - I would implore you to not assess every line as an attack. You have clearly mi...
Haven't read the whole thread - skimmed, and sought your most recent takes before replying. You are alternately taking Whitehead too seriously, and no...
No there isn't. They are express policies of racism, sexism and bigotry. On their face, and on analysis. That's a wild leap to make. Not one which app...
I said I disagreed about the Bishop. Not quite sure why you're asking about Trump's post? oh for fucks sake there's absolutely nothign defensible abou...
No, of course. BUt Ari's mean is to do with extremes of behaviour, for the most part. Not the truth or falsity of something. The whole "your story, my...
I want to point out, this is now quite off topic. It will become clear I see no reason to continue this, so take these responses and understand I wont...
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