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If someone is prejudiced, then they're not fair minded. Prejudice is not how the mind works... Prejudice may be a natural phenomenon of minds, but so ...
August 23, 2016 at 21:42
In that case, I guess simply maximization and minimization of the scope of what is considered "suffering" would then be a relationship or difference b...
August 23, 2016 at 07:21
I was reading into the "best practices" report and it actually seems very comprehensive in it's recommendations: The document does deliver what seem l...
August 23, 2016 at 06:59
1) Forget about it. 2) Stoicism and Pessimism are inherently different. Pessimism might be described as a negative emotional or presumptive reaction, ...
August 22, 2016 at 23:45
A major point of contention in the ideological foundation of many social justice activists is that we should make effort to distinguish "racism" (powe...
August 22, 2016 at 22:58
There's really a lot going on with the BLM movement... One part of the movement is the reactionary protests to police killings of black civilians. Thi...
August 22, 2016 at 06:42
"Perhaps I am not abreast of the organizations political intentions. It was my understanding, not so long ago, that the primary political intent of th...
August 19, 2016 at 21:42
I think there is a great deal of truth to the points you raise. One point in particular that I find very pertinent is the relationship between crime a...
August 19, 2016 at 00:42
This time last year I would have agreed with you that the BLM movement isn't specifically about race or racism, even despite the race based slogan tha...
August 17, 2016 at 22:22
Every single police officer guilty of an "unjustified killing" (contains the possible euphemism "justified killing") should be de-badged and prosecute...
August 17, 2016 at 21:51
Howdy Mongrel! Feels great to be back on a living network with familiar faces! (well, familiar pixels :) ).
August 17, 2016 at 21:35
Regarding the oddity of the findings you point out: You're right that it is an odd statistic, all other things being equal we might presume that if po...
August 17, 2016 at 21:10
What if we try to persuade the killer to kill themselves if we cannot dissuade them to cease killing others? That would work right? Alternatively we c...
August 17, 2016 at 20:31
I found a really comprehensive research paper on the precise issue which this thread seeks to discuss. It is currently a working paper with the Nation...
August 17, 2016 at 20:04