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I think understand the argument but not fully, without gout pain or similar. But I'd not go through that pain just to understand Hume's argument. The ...

I stand on a platform which insists that morality is subjective. My personal position is not relevant. I've only to demonstrate that there are DIFFERE...

In theory we could all be born of stem cells. women would still be needed to gestate the foetus.

What is the function of pain? I suppose the argument that animals that feel no pain tend to die, and so in evolutionary terms pain is useful. However ...

It's okay if you are celibate, or gay or whatever. This is the 21st C. You ought to be less sensitive and more honest - it might do you some good.

Interesting but speculative.

No water vapour is the most potent greenhouse chemical and well as methane.

No more or less than a religious person. Break the law and risk getting caught. Behave badly and risk the censure of the public. Suicide is painless, ...

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Atheism does not absolve anyone from responsibility or accountability . Atheists are good without the promise of an afterlife, or the threat of eterna...

You can't eat gold. Gold is as arbitrary as any medium of exchange. You make the usual mistake of thinking that money is the same as wealth, when it i...

There is a body of knowledge which is relevant here. Groups of the same species that are separated geographically they can mate with groups near to th...

I'll take that as a big NO. Please refrain from talking on subjects you know nothing about.

That gets the silly post of the week award. I'm not talking about s stubbed toe or a paper cut. Gout is is pain beyond reason. That's why I made the c...

I've suffered from gout and suggest that no one can comment on his argument and fully understand it until they have also experienced that pain. There ...

have you ever had sex?

I am suggesting that oral sex is seen as a step up from just screwing. It is more intimate and interesting than all that excessive humping.

I am given to understand that religion also provides a context for social interaction. though the same can be achieved with pop music and football tea...

"Plenty"??? Name three!

ONLY??? Some ONLY screw!!

Neither of those examples deserves the words "justified" or "entails". Maybe Gettier expressed the situation more clearly? So unless there is a more c...

I wake up in the morning is the answer to this question. Life is a negotiation between what will you have to live your life as you wish, and the inter...

a person called Smith is applying for a job. Another person, Jones, whom is known to have 10 coins in his pocket, is applying for the job as well, and...

What is his account for the emergence of new species? Actually Darwin does account for that. If a species is a group of living things that are capable...

Depends if you prefer crying or laughing.

Being patronising will not help your (ahem!) "argument" I knew Co2 was a greenhouse gas when you were in your nappies.

Historical data is gathered by completely different means. The scandal of the hockey stick was due to this problem. Estimated as the probably Co2 conc...

Unless you are saying that EVERY Bacon shows this riskiness, please indicate which ones you are talking about.

1) I have abelief that black cats are unlucky. 2) One walks across my path. 3) After that I break my leg. 4) I know justify my belief that black cats ...

Depends on the justification surely? If I continued to have bad luck after seeing black cat it could be confirmation bias. Eventually I'd have to igno...

You mean belief 'a' is falsely confirmed by a co-incidence of fact. Like a black cat walked across my path and I subsequently tripped over and broke m...

Have you got an example of this?

Tell them to read Darwin's Origin of Species. It is a well conceived, beautifully written book, and still relevant after 150 years. I've done it cover...

Tell that to the birds

Can you show an example so we are talking about the same thing? IN any event - there are not really any negative consequences except a repaint - not e...

Childish straw man!! LOL Unless Mr banana is a Victorian gentleman, or both of you are pair of misogynistic twats - would it hurt you to use a gender ...

That is always a risk, but I fail to see the relevance!

Yes I can: the context. The mention of the phrase "American Dream" is not relevant. My query about that was how the data was gathered. 1988 is a long ...

Why is that risky? If you live in N. Korea I'd not recommend it - but what adverse consequences are there?

Adorno used to say , if you are paying attention then you can never be happy. He responded to the idiotic American "Have a nice Day". The world is ful...

He did not use this form of definition, which is, incidentally about 40 years out of date. Not "MAN" but men.

Can you give an example?

The US is a sovereign nation and could half national debt simply by printing half the amount of that debt. Monetary sovereignty before "Reaganomics", ...

Obviously they are completely unconnected.

Everything looks like something else when you are a pattern seeking animal. Ink drops fall, and by the reverse effort a jellyfish propels itself upwar...

Not even a word is it? Can you give an example?

I'm not sure is any kind of painting is really risky since there are not really any adverse consequences to painting a bad picture. Someone will alway...

If 10 people had voted for Trump in the year before the election, and only 100 in the election year, Trump would not be President, despite getting an ...

Modern measurements whilst they represent modern concentrations are not directly comparable with historical data. comparing your number my figures are...

A sense of proportion!! Co2 has proportionately been 100s times higher in prehistoric times. These days there is only a trace amount of Co2, and the c...