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Oh, it's quite possible: Just add there Democrats working with Brussels to emasculate the US and a sinister plot against American white heterosexual m...
September 20, 2018 at 05:32
I think both the left and the right have a lot to say about that. And how do we philosophically validate the context of 'the good life'. I assume peop...
September 19, 2018 at 17:37
How the EU would make reforms is the problem. And I think it cannot create an common European identity. It simply is too bureaucratic and basically th...
September 19, 2018 at 17:34
Jake, a) There are a lot fewer nuclear weapons today than there were during the Cold War. b) However problematic the Russo-American relations are, the...
September 19, 2018 at 17:10
Trust me, I think that they could do that. There are many ways like starting a civil war or simply adapting the economic policy of Venezuela, just to ...
September 19, 2018 at 06:03
Economic growth is the most natural thing when there is population growth. Children grow up, start working, move away from their parents and typically...
September 18, 2018 at 15:38
First it should be noted that any media-atheist like Harris won't talk about any positive aspects of religion as they simply will get this hurled back...
September 18, 2018 at 12:32
What disturbs me is when people just mix math with reality in general and forget the model part. This happens especially in physics, but can happen al...
September 17, 2018 at 20:07
OK, so I'm a troll and you will diss me now for giving some critique. But fine, seems you really didn't get my point and obviously don't care, so enou...
September 17, 2018 at 20:03
Usually what is officially reported is the U3 unemployment figure (in the US). If you want to know what the actual unemployment rate is, better look w...
September 17, 2018 at 19:29
Then I have to say no. A lot of things can be modelled by using infinity in some way or another, but I don't see it in reality as applied to real worl...
September 17, 2018 at 19:12
I think that experiment would be deemed as cruelty to animals. But I bet it did have an effect on you.
September 17, 2018 at 05:53
This can make the gap severe if the quality of schooling is truly totally different. In Third World countries this is an even bigger problem. Yet I ha...
September 17, 2018 at 05:47
I rest my case. I've never seen anyone as self-contradictory as you in the PF.
September 17, 2018 at 05:30
Simply because there are so many of you. We just have the equivalent population of Minnesota. That leaves +320 million other Americans that don't live...
September 16, 2018 at 22:25
If they can prepare 18 year olds for work or for the university, then they have been successful. And that doesn't give much other time than to school ...
September 16, 2018 at 22:08
Well, I've gone through the Finnish education system up to a Masters degree in the University and have had a brief contact with the American education...
September 16, 2018 at 21:58
What countries would be like this? Yet is this what the education system educates us? I think what you are talking about is more about the American at...
September 16, 2018 at 21:23
I don't think so. Even the physical book isn't going to fade away: it's simply still so useful and handy. If one argues that the hey-day of book readi...
September 16, 2018 at 21:12
I think a reasonable objective is to teach kids the ordinary things when living by themselves at first. Simple task like making basic foods, baking, c...
September 16, 2018 at 19:50
It's just that people have through urbanization grown apart from countrylife. They don't see how much care farmer can give to their domesticated anima...
September 16, 2018 at 19:37
No. It is you that is totally contradicting yourself all the time and are quite illogical. On one hand you say the human race is a species just like o...
September 16, 2018 at 19:14
Seems you don't have any idea what is the philosophical question about humans being part of nature. OK, I'll try to explain my point better. Is it par...
September 14, 2018 at 09:07
I still think that animal cruelty is a different question than veganism. Or to think that being against animal cruelty means that you have to be a veg...
September 13, 2018 at 21:23
And would they eat more meat, if they would be better hunters? It's absolutely logical for an omnivore to eat meat than things like grass. OK, I'll an...
September 13, 2018 at 21:16
Likely an animal of prey is slaughtered far more violently and suffers more long when it is killed by a pack of wolves than how their domesticated rel...
September 13, 2018 at 20:24
What is so wrong in accepting that we as humans are omnivores? What is wrong in the idea that the human species, however advanced it has become and su...
September 13, 2018 at 19:47
?hæn/, Or the first word in this song... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4jPEBQV8zw
September 10, 2018 at 20:53
Yep. My own mother tongue has a gender neutral word for the third person: "hän". The word hän refers to both sexes, hence a Finn cannot now exactly wh...
September 10, 2018 at 20:07
Fine, sidestep it, but just to note that Marx has basically a theory of commodity money (just as you put it, taxes in terms of raw goods, and elsewher...
September 10, 2018 at 19:48
There are many problems with Marx, but here I guess the problem is that Marx takes the classical view of money while in todays World money is debt.
September 10, 2018 at 17:28
You bring up very good questions, ChatteringMonkey. Here's my five cents. The EU has responded with a trying establish “control centres” across the bl...
September 10, 2018 at 17:16
Well, the immigration crisis of 2015 had a profound effect on politics in Europe. As the focus is on the few populist right wing parties, what isn't n...
September 10, 2018 at 09:25
Well, Vlad the annexer and Agent Trumpov seem to be best buddies. Why worry about the two? And how are you doing yourself? Because your line is what I...
September 09, 2018 at 21:40
A somewhat biased and simplistic view, I have to say. First of all, populism is more of a method of approach in getting support (and voters) and is us...
September 09, 2018 at 20:57
And what about the typhoons that don't ever make landfall? What you are pointing out is that any news is made for an audience, which then gets some ut...
September 05, 2018 at 10:08
I allways wonder how these people are picked up. They first work actually on their own academic field and they are total unknowns. Then they write som...
September 05, 2018 at 06:07
Even if choosing which news you report is a subjective decision, to simply list shortly what has happened can be objective. If news reports a typhoon ...
September 05, 2018 at 05:54
Question: how does neuroscience show that we don't have any free will? (At least this time it's a historian talking about neuroscience rather than a n...
September 03, 2018 at 18:40
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I think it goes something like that. The difference with a conscious human and a computer is that the computer cannot fathom it's program it's running...
September 03, 2018 at 18:26
Sorry fdrake, but I have to admit that this part I didn't understand clearly. Yet notice that history has marched on in other ways too, notably that t...
September 02, 2018 at 16:57
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Yes, I do have 2 children. Hence I'll shoot you first. And don't threaten my children again. There's free will for you. This is quite illogical as you...
September 02, 2018 at 16:02
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Free will isn't eradicated by the fact that our choices are somewhat limited. We still have choices to make.
September 02, 2018 at 08:35
What's wrong with Immanuel?
September 02, 2018 at 08:04
At least the politicians here (in Finland) have to be more civil as the administrations have to be coalition governments and hence the opposition part...
September 02, 2018 at 07:56
Oh, it's fuel. Not perhaps the highest octane, but still. Seems you missed or forgot just how Hillary Clinton's famous line about the part of Trump's ...
September 01, 2018 at 22:32
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Hello to the forum, ceewoody. Add there that you can learn, adapt and understand your own thinking. Some might say you are conscious. You can understa...
September 01, 2018 at 21:39
+1 There doesn't exist a political discourse in the US that would try to seek any consensus on anything or try to solve things. It is just about bashi...
September 01, 2018 at 21:03
Just who has the most immoral positions naturally depends on one's political views. The left had it's heyday of repackaging after the collapse of the ...
August 31, 2018 at 10:18
To be honest, both the left and right have a habit of trying to rebrand themselves, find again their roots and try to sell their ideology to a new gen...
August 29, 2018 at 19:18