One of the issues with natural rights is that they're more or less only extant or operant if a given group of humans endorses and enforces them (where...
"We" in my remark was meant to be inclusive of all affected parties. The need to extend moral consideration to others is a necessary starting point; a...
Give your Buddha's feet a rub on my behalf... I can at least pretend to have a few zen moments before the second half of this god forsaken year comes ...
Sexually no, but I don't think Biden is bi-sexual. Biden does seem to be losing his temper quite often of late though. Challenging his supporters to f...
I haven't actually been paying full attention to the details (scandal exhausts me at this point), but I think the story is that he inserted his finger...
It speaks directly to his leadership style (as off-base as that might sound). He must be (or think himself), or was at one point, a charismatic and au...
The question isn't whether we have or do not have natural rights, or even whether they're "real". The question is what basic rights do we want for our...
Lawyers and students can read and believe what ever the hell the want though. (there is no restricted reading material in the U.S.A. Why are you makin...
I guess myself and many others aren't willing to accept that we must suffer the political equivalent highway-robbery. We all feel like Trump really ne...
I don't know if Biden can win, even with Trump telling people to drink and inject bleach in the peak of his botched pandemic response. Biden is a gaff...
Here's a recent discovery: Scrapper Blackwell... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=626pNZB8xXE Can anyone recognize a more recent song that the above in...
That's one of my favorite blues songs actually (it's one of the songs that motivated me to learn to play the blues). Skip James has some especially so...
Here's an old blues song that likely draws its thematic influences from the hard-20's. Seems freshly relevant... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNftr...
How do you know this is justice? Maybe Flynn struck a deal with the deep-state who controls everything and causes all of Trump's failures. This is rea...
Finally a version of socialism republicans will accept: take money from the poor and redistribute it directly to the rich. I mean, if the rich people ...
Why ask me for an appeal to authority when you can just dismiss it as an appeal to authority? You're asking for me to show you the ultimate scientific...
The experimental evidence is in our face phenomenon... The experimental evidence is what forced people to reluctantly accept GR, and so too the story ...
Interesting question, but appealing to authority is not scientifically sound. We would have to do a random sampling of active or historical scientific...
What was the picture being described by the laws of motion? There is not one (they're generalized formulas)... Only speculations we derive from it at ...
I don't mean a god over nature, I mean god from nature; the god of nature... It's what you said in your opening post so I'm not sure why you're not in...
Even if I had read an article suggesting ventilators are doing more harm than good, I wouldn't contradict currently established medical advice and pra...
I don't know man... Like, over 90% of people who receive brain surgery for gunshot wounds to the head die, or are at least never the same afterward. W...
Do you know what mechanical ventilation is? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALNdQ8YGwKI How are ventilators killing people? (What's that? You don't kn...
I'm kinda curious as to why you think ventilators are killing people. Nothing in the article you posted suggests this. People with more severe reactio...
I'm slowly starting to really like Cuomo, not knowing much about him... https://twitter.com/TPMLiveWire/status/1253362593772822530 Watch him murder Mi...
Here is where I get turned around. First you aver that scientists admit a god of nature as some kind of serious and relevant sentiment that can help u...
You're not describing a modern scientific attitude or position though (science accepts that the jury is still out on "all there is"). Asking for some ...
Experimentation (reliable prediction) is still the bottle-neck through which Galileo's assertions must pass to enter the modern body of scientific kno...
This is a ludicrous assertion. He conducted many thought experiments, yes, and he even got stuff wrong, but he was also a champion of observation and ...
Imagining the way the world could be, could work, has been, or will be, without conducting a single experiment to validate those imaginations. It's no...
Reasoning speculating about nature in the field of science and physics is done only to look for insight and clues that can lead to deeper discovery, o...
I think that a retreat to framework appeal is a red herring in this case (though I did initiate meta-commentary by contrasting your willingness to acc...
You should try and moderate the information (especially from social media) that you are consuming. Many threads on this site are filled with exchanges...
Utilitarianism is more palatable than virtue ethics run amok though, wouldn't you say? Why must the slaves be buried alongside the failed lords? You c...
Arsonist? China is an arsonist in this analogy? Can't we have an investigation while also continuing to fund them? If you want the leadership to be he...
Perhaps it's boredom, but there's something oddly satisfying about the contorted responses that must follow... Like watching raw pasta extruded throug...
It doesn't resolve any of those issues, but you're not answering my question. I am insinuating that withholding funding may comprise their ability to ...
I voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces party because that's what the founders would have wanted. The current leopard is a highly successful fa...
There is no important difference in the terms, broadly they're about what is "right and wrong", and how we should behave based on those facts. You're ...
You can't do oversight with classified intelligence... At least, you can't do it well... The speed,complexity, scope, and sensitivity of most of the g...
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