Well justifiable is a legal term, so when violence is justified depends on the system of law. Whether violence is ethical depends on what ethical theo...
Well in general it is not, it hurts people. Generally it is not nice to hurt people. It can be ethical, when it saves someone (or many) from a greater...
Tomorrow I will be getting my booster shot. Somehow the booster shot made me wonder whereas the vaccine didn't. Will getting a yearly or maybe half ye...
It is a funny thing. Athena is also my favorite Greek goddess and if I will ever have a daughter I will lobby to give her the name Athena. I do see th...
Well, fate might dictate that I die tomorrow because (parts of) a satellite came down from the sky. That was not in my or anyone's plans, actually a r...
Fate is not necessarily orderly. Free will seems very disorderly... Even less orderly? You believe you might be a pink fluffy elephant named FuFu tomo...
If that be true than whether the morgage is stipulated in Word or in PDF would make a difference to the motrgage, since it will occupy a diffferent am...
Yes, but is that not what environmentalism might offer? If you are after a rejuvenation of the enlightenment spirit of progres, then I think you are f...
Well, what kind of positivity do you need? I think the ecological shift brings great possibilities and threats. One of the questions I am grappling wi...
Oh dear. Did anybody else notice how the descriptions of environmental degradation mirror the descriptions of the biblical plagues from the deluge, to...
Not necessarily no? Ataraxia is just the condition of accepting this very situation, aka, amor fati, the skeptic is fated to ask these questions and h...
Well, it is 180's description so he is in a better position, but I agree with him and I do see a certain sadness here. One knows that there is no soli...
I am a bit puzzled with the way this topic is treated. I feel it is very much couched in the metaphysics of old, the nominalists and medieval realists...
:rofl: I always have that issue with the word rabbit, I blame a small brush with dyslexia, Hey you gotta blame something in life. Of course, the upmar...
"Behold the duck It does not cluck a cluck it lacks it quacks It is specially fond Of a puddle or pond. When it dines or sups, It bottoms ups. Ogden N...
What you describe is I think currently being developed. It has always been there in Western thought actually but it has not always been dominant. Schw...
Ohh that be nice @"jamarob" do tell how it will have worked out. I think the common method is to 'flamber' the rabbit with it. I usually just use it t...
Wow, that must have been quite some place. It is apple brandy, in a nutshell, and I prefer it to coognac as a way to close a meal. There must be hundr...
Hmmm..... I have a hangover that could debilitate an entire village, but this mae me instantly hungry. Actually this whole duck cooking sub topic does...
I am proud of you. You should be honored. It is noble to make ducks pay for their crimes against humanity. They are heinous crimes and too numerous to...
Hi @"Reformed Nihilist", good to see you :) I would take an approach rooted in the history of philsoophy, which other posters also have done in this t...
I was agreeing with them on this point: The lack of free will follows from a materialistic interpretation of basic ontology. If one ascribes to a pure...
I agree with them. Phenomenonologically, or maybe less controversially, experentially we do experience freedom of choice. We only do not experience it...
Certainly and in those cases we cannot hold people account at all. This means we may take 'measures' against them, expedient actions out of social con...
The law not necessarily. If it works to keep people from committing behaviour we consider unwanted it can still be there. also here only utilitarian c...
The asnwer whether or not we have free will does have implications for criminal law. I would contend that in criminal law the absolute presupposition ...
Hmmm, in my world this would be the moment that a neighbouring country decides to invade, forcing the family into an arduous journey to safety with on...
To this story I do relate, though in a different time of life, in a different setting and with different 'visitations'. When I was 4, or 5, maybe even...
That is very difficult to say because this is a much more free format. I would also not know how to compare people, because everybody writes about dif...
When grading you are usually bound by criteria. I often get to write them myself now though and I regularly put in a criterion for creativity or 'argu...
I like this post by RusselA and would like to discuss it from back to front... Yes, very true. This is often the case and one gets tired of it, becaus...
Yes, but that is also generally what teaching amounts to. Usually one must learn to grasp old ideas before one can succesfully evaluate new ones. Ther...
In my book it would get an A, provided there are no criteria the student has missed. If a paper gets me interested and I cannot find fault with it, I ...
Sure Roger, all those public health and environmental institutes know nothing about risk assessment, but luckily you found the solution. The problem i...
Yes but that does not matter one bit. Your premise is that a viral load will only infect one person, whereas a viral load might infect 1 or 20 or a 10...
The analogy is again false. The virus is not a killer with one bullet. There is not 'one'virus flying about potentially only infecting one person. The...
Schopenhauer is very interesting. I read him a long time ago, and phenonemologcally I am on thin ice, so if I am not up to speed bear with me. I do th...
No, the way roles are treated shifts over time. Not too long ago one stayed with the same employer all her life and identified with a certain professi...
Oh yessiree, they were men alright, men all the way, you betcha! Yes indeed and women were not considered rational, though Aristotle much to his credi...
Militaristic uber-christian werewolves.... what is there not to love? In my defense, it works when grading student papers. https://www.youtube.com/wat...
What do you mean? Maybe you agree with my point above, or maybe not. Maybe you think it is pointless to explain it to me. Or maybe you just want to bo...
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