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Classical. "the rest of your life" is god-awful long in my case. Otherwise I would have chosen another genre. Beethoven.

We need to get back to colonialism. It would create a better world with fewer conflicts and less poverty.

I agree with the sentiments here. I would add that only (heterosexual) married people with children are allowed to vote. It would fix most problems th...

The case could be made that human procreation is essential to human flourishing (in an objective sense). What are the reasons birds want to fly, fish ...

Anyway, the more I read what others people have to say about UBI, the more I become sceptical -- I was very much in favour. But great economists like ...

Deeply amusing that -- in a pseudo-economic analysis -- you forgot to mention the dangers inflation.

Yes, it all depends on how you define supervenience -- no one holds dominion over its meaning. But if you define supervenience without the concepts of...

Sorry, I am a bit late, forgot to reply. Proving that the conceptual understanding of the whole can't be sensibly reduced to its (underlying) parts wi...

The purpose of education is to increase human capital.

Surprisingly good replies here, I almost agree with all of you to a certain extend. Maw, this is a good post and a very good question. It is true that...

Capitalism (and Socialism) is (are) amoral. This thread is a strawman at best. Anyway, the biggest moral argument made in favour of capitalism over so...

Al right. ... and all you did was ignore what I quoted... The fact that you did that replacement showed that. "our scientific understanding of the wor...

No -- I am not going to indulge you in this, sorry mate. I will tell you why. It is the same reason why I dislike the new Atheist-movement. Take Sam H...

Okay Agustino, you know I like you neff, but this is the last time I respond to something you could and should have read yourself... read Hume (read t...

Our scientific understanding of the world.

Like I said you need to learn to read -- I mean it... where you go wrong -- for the life of me, I do not now why you keep doing it, there is no emotio...

Where you go wrong is add your own (strange at best, trying to be charitable) definition in the mix -- equivocate -- then fall over and blame me ( or ...

It is not, read Hume. Christ almighty for the love of God, read some Hume. This discussion is older than your dead granny. Hume's take down on miracle...

Learn some new things about Hume: http://documents.routledge-interactive.s3.amazonaws.com/9781138793934/A2/Hume/HumeMiracles.pdf

Are you sure?

... Learn to read kid.

(lazy copy paste): Hume defines a miracle as ‘a violation of the laws of nature’, or more fully, ‘a transgression of a law of nature by a particular v...

That is not the definition of miracle, nor coherent with your first sentence. Your definitions are shoddy, there are already well-defined terms by oth...

Make a distinction between the philosophically way (abstraction) and scientific way (empirical or practical). OP asks the former.

Yes. Supervenience assumes (or logically relies) on two assertions, (1) Reductionism and (2) determinism. Disprove either and the concept of superveni...

Someone posted it here before, but it is a perfect illustration of Scientism: https://youtu.be/hL4Gq1Le2rQ Scientism --> (i) negation of a priori know...

Didn't that Stanford kid get a few months for rape? US Justice system at its finest. :ok:

This is Scientism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14jEhdqa5Z4

Spare your effort, mate. Right wing conspiracy is as worse as left wing conspiracy, see Alex Jones and Noam Chomsky.

Rubbish, 1 in 7 people do not suffer from major depression. It is only a very few.

Try Christianity. The only cure for nihilistic emo's.

Bold is mine editing. Depends. Not for moral realists for example. Moral anti-realists, perhaps. I think that the entire debate of ethics depends on t...

Ideally, we would have a anarcho-capitalist utopia, conservative hegemony or Christian theocracy, etc...

We do not wish to make paedophiles "happy". Some people become happy via murdering, slaughter, abusing, exploitation, raping, kidnapping etcetera. Hap...

I say this, because I have seen moderate politicians stutter and stammer when confronted with its populist counterparts -- I literally scream at my te...

Agree, but do not romanticise democracy, or conflate it with plebiscitary systems -- though you mentioned "liberal democracies" -- since its weaknesse...

My first reaction is that it is the life motto of libertarians. A deep rejection of paternalism. Like many libertarian economists say: 'no one spends ...