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Snap! Crack! Zing! 'I like small titties... (Big'uns too...). But it depends on how she's sellin em'. In all living memory, summary mammary mummery is...

Oh my! You realize, of course, this means constipated and ritualized homoerotic war! Perhaps it is a uniquely male theme; we measure ourselves against...

Tut tut, my lad! :D Father Determinism may be on his death-bed, but grand-father Free-Will has been long since mourned!

Unfortunately, (or fortunately (depending on one's existential footing)), the collapsing wave of quantum probability we find evident in fundamental pa...

My reply is above. Feel free to take your time (or not) in responding, and don't worry about style and format (i'm fine with a brief reply, indepth re...

Sorry for the relatively late response. I have actually written several very large tome-like responses, but invariably I kept repeating myself, so I t...

Your claim that gut-spilling is the cause of most of our diseases is far from established. If it is the case there's no reason we cant reductively get...

"lack of exercise or physical activity, poor nutrition, tobacco use, and drinking too much alcohol". Those are the listed causes of chronic illness. W...

"Functional medicine". Great name. Did the spiritual elders come up with that :) If you want to talk about the complexity and interconnectedness of th...

I'll take reductionism over "IT WERE MAGIC!" any day. The steady progress of science is good evidence of the practical validity of this choice. You sa...

What do you mean "again"? this is the first time that you've suggested "allotropic medicine" has "failed us miserably". If the problem is with money a...

All the more need for medicine that actually works? Are you really a skeptic of evolution?

I'm talking about the insight that the theory of evolution gives us in our ongoing attempt to decipher the goings on of biological systems, and how th...

If by "talk about evolution" you mean "revolutionized our understanding of biological systems with a theory that has been scientifically validated in ...

The point being that it actually advances?

The video starts off intriguing, but about two minutes in the idea of a "life force" needed to explain life revealed to be the direction of the talk, ...

The internet is dead. The internet remains dead. And we have killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holie...

Every damn question is a false quadrilemma. It told me that I'm Nietzsche but the earlier test scored me at 0%... I'm starting to think these internet...

I had a few issues with a few of the questions, but: Hume (100%) Kant (90%) Aristotle (75%) Plato (47%) Augustine (31%) Aquinas (29%) Sextus Empiricus...

That was an interesting experience... He actually managed to resist hard controversy and stuck to the prompter... We should all be very proud?

We can try to encourage men to take time off when their wives get pregnant, but there will always be some men who refuse. Exact equality of outcome se...

Keep in mind that the factors they've isolated can account for all but the remaining percentage of wage disparity. Of that remaining percent, there ar...

https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/public-policy/hr-public-policy-issues/Documents/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf

I hate to be possibly pedantic, but that's a study on the earnings gap, not the pay gap "The gender pay gap is the difference between the average earn...

Because restricting the use of certain language limit's individual's ability to express themselves, and because using laws to systematically "de-platf...

I haven't moved the goal post, I'm clarifying where it actually rests. To be additionally clear, we're talking about "protecting people from the harm ...

Firstly, I did give a reason as to why freedom of speech (and of thought) might be more important than other rights: because it's required to guarante...

Because if you don't have freedom of speech then you might not be able to acquire new or guarantee pre-existing rights. Russia or Uganda will send you...

What's worse, hurt feelings or political censorship?

Babbling about the enteric brain and quantum particles makes for uninteresting philosophy though, just as uninteresting as capitalizing words you reve...

If you wish to guess that your mind has residence anywhere but in your brain, that's your supernatural prerogative. You insist that determinism makes ...

I read through your comments in this thread while trying to discern what you actually believe, but I'm still not sure if you think you were "morally w...

It adds a caveat that a justification defense shall not fail if the defendant stated additional untrue things which did not happen to defame the plain...

Listen folks, If I happen to hold a political opinion that other people find offensive on an emotional level, does that mean that my right to hold and...

If you publish a misapprehension of the facts, that means you've published something that was not true, so the justification defense obviously would n...

Actually in Canada you can indeed demonstrate that the offending speech is true as a defense against a defamation lawsuit. From the Canadian Bar Assoc...

Did you know that one of the 7 viable legal defenses for libel is that the libel in question is actually true?

Here is the exact origin of the modern movement toward "the right to not be offended"... It starts with the prevailing patriarchy/white supremacy pres...

Can you be more specific? A network of neurons doesn't seem exempt from causation.

Can you define "Mind" please? And how it's creative, explorative, and evolutionary aspects relate to quantum indeterminacy or actually bring meaning t...

I couldn't have thought them through any differently, but I don't see what the problem is. You can start capitalizing words arbitrarily, and I can pre...

I must say I do agree. Volition seems coherent enough, and even the compatibilist sense of un-coerced volition makes sense; I can see how these concep...

Knowing that we don't have free will does change a few minor things. The main change it brings is the understanding that our actions do not inherently...

So your "Mind" doesn't determine your behavior? I'm suggesting that quantum fluctuations are the only possibly undetermined phenomena that you can poi...

I'm pretty curious as to how these things are similar! How is a field goal illusory like free will is? I opened with the term "Illusion" because the O...

So what you're saying is that your behavior is determined by a conglomeration of quantum fluctuations (as opposed to some kind of ethereal spirit or e...

I'm afraid this isn't an argument ;) I'm claiming that a specific thing is an illusion, not that everything is an illusion. this is a straw-man of my ...

No, free will is an illusion. Can you see how going from X is an illusion to EVERYTHING is an illusion is over-blowing things just a bit? Care to subs...

I don't see right through the illusion, nobody does, that's my point; the illusion of an uncertain and/or an undetermined future is unbreakable. But w...

I'm describable as a determinist; I believe hard free will is a complete illusion. But since the illusion is so complete, pragmatically we're forced t...