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Being logical doesn't mean something is correct or justified. A psychopath follows his own twisted logic, yet unfortunately even saying that one under...

Yes, unfortunately there actually is: like not to bomb ISIS in the first place. Simple and as logical as that. As the late Osama bin Laden himself sai...

I hopefully won't anger or annoy anobody, but really? It might sound offensive, but New Zealanders are what I term "annoyingly old-school British" and...

I think here the most startling thing is how the late Robert McNamara wrote about the dangers of nuclear weapons in his last years. Robert McNamara is...

A bit off the topic, but I disagree here, because of the objectives, really: Korean war: The defence of South Korea. Was successful. Uniting the Korea...

But one has again simply not be ignorant of the history itself when somebody intreprets these tire marks. You gave a perfect example above, Bitter Cra...

Bitter, I think a far worse threat is simply accidental or unintentional nuclear war. There have been many cases were if common sense wouldn't have pr...

But even the assumption of the other side having a mass of chemical weapons has acted as a deterrent. Adolf Hitler never used Germany's vast arsenal o...

Isn't war outlawed? I guess somebody like the UN has outlawed it. Seriously, nuclear weapons are here to stay. Unfortunately some might say. The idea ...

The most important factor is what the guns are around for, what their primary function is. - If in a community the vast majority of gunowners either h...

Historians writing history are also people that try to make it in this world. And yes, controlling the view of the past is a path to control the disco...

Prophecies, predictions and especially Doomsday Scenarios tell far more about the time they are done than from the actual future.

Way to go. Back in 2006, but one cannot wait a brief time before one tells it here.

The Communist Party understand basically that the people will accept it when there is economic growth. They portray, not perhaps directly but by indir...

Not my favored reading, actually. And reading the actual 5-year plan it might be very difficult to see where the actual interesting emphasis is. I hav...

Officially they're still communists and thus favour central planning. What's the question, comment?

The truth is that a huge number of people in Europe feel that way. The truth is that the national identity that is created to wellcome people and take...

Great to have actual reports from a PF member on this, especially Mayor, but also others. To my mind comes the idea that refugees and basically everyo...

Nice. I've noticed that some of the more eccentric or specialized threads at least on the old PF found their way quite high in a Google searches. Hope...

Yes, like with the statistical wonder called the arithmetic mean, the average. No really, some dynamic mathematical models are not exactly useful, but...

I disagree on the naturality aspect. I think here far too much emphasized is the 19th Century and the nationalist ideologies of that time. Here in wha...

That is because we can use so well math to explain the phenomena we see in astronomy. In history the use of math is limited. It isn't because it hasn'...

Actually this I wouldn't define as history. Sure, if you have the history of the use of mammals, but basically describing all the time that mammals ha...

Why should they all stop? If the old site doesn't go down... or you don't fall victim to identity theft or whatever? I assume that the tolerance that ...

Hi Paul, Words of wisdom, In my view. I mean heck, your dealing with a Philosophy forum! Do you think that people in a Philosophy Forum will be the pe...

I don't hope I don't offend people, but... That the alarmist threads were taken down is at least for me understandable. It's called a clean start. Don...

The answer is very simple and logical when you think about it and is described with the words of Tacitus: atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appell...

This is something that has happened because of the way social media and the internet works. You find yourself easily with like minded people going ove...

Here in Finland the majority (53%) would either want to limit the number of refugees to the level that is now or to stop altogether accepting any new ...

Thanks for the answers. (Hey, I got the quote-thing working! Nice and easy! :) ) OK, follow on question for those computer experts you are. Just how m...

The above (B, i, u, seem easy, still... Question 1: What's the mention? Question 2: The tweeting bird??? (Not familiar with Twitter) Question 3: How m...

For me it goes something like this: 1) You are looking for some information on the net 2) You find good information / resources in some themed discuss...

A lot of PF members (and assumingly here too) are (will be) Americans. And Americans are religious.

Uhhh... moving this much around in the net makes me dizzy. Yes, hello to everyone also.