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It's important to understand the motives of people's actions and not just put them into a broader context of an ongoing discourse in the media. Good e...

Here. The Guardian article, which you referred that we (or Bitter) even might understand says "The right denigrates equal rights campaigns as ‘grievan...

Yes, you are being paranoid. Especially thinking this is some kind of right-wing conspiracy. Because academic journals, especially those that are peer...

Have metals no intrinsic value? At least they are quite useful. Gold as a metal that is inert, never rusts and is very malleable and is resistant to m...

If that's their thinking, I wonder from what party they have copied this strategy.

Above all, a somewhat bad event lacking that drama simply doesn't sell.

This. Me and others have explained that you can make convincing, credible denial calmly. So what does Bart Kavanaugh do? He whines about being a victi...

Your children aren't your property. They as humans have rights from birth. Machines tend to be someone's property. Knowing humans and history, basical...

At least he got a hearing. (And anyway, if it would be character assassination, far better would have been allegations of pedophilia. Like Pizzagate.....

Yep. Machines need machine rights. Of course. Those are evil bigots who think otherwise. Obviously you need to put androids to jail if they kill someo...

Perhaps in a similar situation Hanover the candidate for Supreme Court Justice would spring up from his chair and leap up to hit one of those slimy De...

What is missing in political discourse? Respect for other views than your own. Or views that don't go by party lines. And basically the healthy critiq...

All this just makes me to think in a better light Trump's previous pick for SCOTUS. Don't remember such a show then. Not to loose your cool (or temper...

Actually the "nuclear winter" theory is a bit controversial and somewhat disputed. Of course there are things like weapons targeting policies, fire st...

Trump is the most transparent politician ever. All the reporting, the books about him and his administration and also his actions, speeches and tweets...

I personally don't think so. Socratic questioning can give that guidance. And usually children aren't so dissappointed or frustrated about reality tha...

Actually got into a heated debate about this issue in this Forum. Because the politically incorrect truth is that even a nuclear war likely wouldn't r...

And just how realistic is the Mad Max -scenario? It's great for Hollywood, but I think the catastrophy-movies and zombie-movies aren't the most likely...

Sure. For the government to get tax income there has to be income that can be taxed. It's so simple. I'm not so sure about that. Currencies might coll...

There's a discourse that promotes this view and the so-called "perma-bears" have told this for decades. I read a lot of these similar things in the st...

Quite an intrepretation! I truly don't have any grudge against atheists, but it seems you just assume that. I really don't know where you got the idea...

You mean MMT? That's the problem: everything works fine until a loss of confidence. And I don't think the theory answers the problem of this confidenc...

Religions basically do give answers on how to live, what is good and what is bad. And religions rely on deities as the reason for this. Is this logic ...

Then simply the best way is to put them to think themselves of the issues. Hopefully the "life Simulator" isn't a Computer program, as the best way is...

I think you have missed my point. Science is objective, it explains how the World is, not how it should be. Ethics is subjective. We can agree or disa...

You are correct that it explains our current system, especially the US situation. I'm not sure how well it explains smaller countries or Third World c...

Why put science into this? Anybody thinking that science can prove or disprove this question is in my view either naive or simply doesn't understand s...

What do people think here of the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)? To those who don't know the economic school of thought, here's a short introduction: Th...

And let's not forget that money is also legal tender, backed up by law. This makes it different from example the so-called crypto-currencies and other...

Well, President's do tend to personify a bit the country they lead, you know. I'd say the Trump administration is a tragicomedy: you really don't know...

Ah yes, just like the old good times when Obama was President and had his candidates for SCOTUS and the GOP had Capitol Hill.

I think the following story that I heard personally from a Finnish WW2 veteran fits this topic very well: The veteran, who served as a reserve officer...

Seems like my point also works in the affluent US example, not just in the Third World.

What standards should the whole nomination process follow?

In many places people have children so that there is someone to help you and especially to take care of you when you are old. If you don't have a fami...

I've allways thought that animals are logical. Hence it's no surprise that the species which develops a highly advanced complex system to communicate ...

Actually no. Cantor's set theory is totally rigorous and logical. It doesn't fall into the paradoxes. And ZF-logic, basically developed in response to...

Ah, you didn't know the issue. It's basically about what Georg Cantor proposed. See here.

I think that many have noticed that. Or actual knowledge about nuclear war either. What you've just done is to get fixated with the nuclear war scare ...

Is there a theory of Absolute infinity? Please tell me if there is!!! Cantors' system of larger and larger infinities, his transfinite set theory, whe...

You might be on to something. Let's make a thought experiment: Let's assume that a similar economic boom that has happened in Asia would also happen f...

After studying a masters degree in the university, have to confess that many academic people won't do this. They limit or accept the 'dumbing down' pr...

I myself believe Absolute Infinity as an mathematical entity exists. It's just a personal hunch that it is so. Cantor reserved the knowledge of Absolu...

You raised good points, ChatteringMonkey. The problem is how to make nation states act as a team and be a functioning part of a federation. And as you...

No Jake, it has been a custom in PF that if someone presents a thesis and relies on facts or data, it ought to be corrected if there is something wron...

So when I counter your argument of "if you want to make comparisons, you should be talking about civilization crushing threats like incoming giant ast...

It's actually not egoism. Altruism and unselfish behavior can surely be what a person see's as his or her utility and is totally rational behaviour in...

There definately is a difference. Ten times of a difference. Now you are talking about a country that is attacked by nuclear weapons. But how about So...

Perhaps you live in the Western Hemisphere and hence it's difficult for you to understand, but Europe and even Japan were quite up and running in a sh...

It is all about economics. In an affluent society where people have work and a full stomach there's no need to find the culprit for your problems in t...