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How about if they would show up on the main page after or separately fro the Philosophy related articles? We have the Shoutbox there in the up? Why no...
April 30, 2024 at 06:44
Luckily there are long format podcasts etc, but then you have to have the time and the interest. But what is marketed to us is to watch shorts, and sh...
April 29, 2024 at 12:13
Lol. I would beg to disagree. It's not the worst, of course, but is quite indifferent at civilian casualties. At least when they are Arab / Palestinia...
April 28, 2024 at 14:24
Declining levels of education is something very alarming. Irrelevant of what is the symptom or the cause. But here the point is that really, reading e...
April 28, 2024 at 14:12
What is wrong with my argument that Israel should fight as Americans fought when fighting Al Qaeda and ISIS and avoid civilian casualties? What is wro...
April 28, 2024 at 14:02
Netanyahu knows what he is doing. He's talking to his base in the US, those evangelicals who have a special place for Israel in their hearts and at Je...
April 28, 2024 at 08:49
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If they get elected, then it really comes down to thing of the parliamentary support they have and finally the next elections. If the people elected d...
April 27, 2024 at 13:16
Obviously the difference ought to be clear, but it's our natural desire to be rational and logical that we have the tendency of using facts rather tha...
April 27, 2024 at 12:01
:grin: Yeah, the UK might remember the Argies from that one. Of course he isn't talking about NATO membership, so the proposal isn't ludicrouse. There...
April 27, 2024 at 11:06
It's very rare that a foreign head of state attacks student protests, or more properly the university institutions where the students come from, that ...
April 27, 2024 at 10:49
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The whole system is based upon the rational judgement of the electorate. If the electorate votes "wrong", there's nothing much to do then. It's not th...
April 27, 2024 at 10:24
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Who would be above the law? Almighty God? What do have atheists to say about that? Without opening any American legal prints I'm sure that there isn't...
April 26, 2024 at 19:54
I think it's the sheer hostility that some of these media atheists have gotten have made them very aggressive. It's not only 9/11 and what basically c...
April 25, 2024 at 16:49
The man himself talking about death with Richard Dawkins. Dennett gets to make some remarks too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVm8bdJNyMA
April 23, 2024 at 20:32
At least if it would be Saudi-Arabia, then yes. Even Trump would defend the Saudi oil fields. And btw this was the major threat that the annexation of...
April 23, 2024 at 20:21
The likely reason is just why Kuwait wasn't going to be let to be annexed by Iraq. This would change dramatically the power balance even globally. Do ...
April 22, 2024 at 13:55
But they had a significant role in making the region as it is now. Isn't that a bit too much assume that kind of Mearsheimerian realpolitik? Asia has ...
April 21, 2024 at 14:22
Indeed. After a brief interlude, state actors and lobby groups have adapted perfectly to mold propaganda and censorship to the new media of the net an...
April 21, 2024 at 12:16
Well...it would go back to the British Empire, actually. And anyway, I'm not exited about calling various states as "artificial". Putin uses rhetoric ...
April 21, 2024 at 10:07
Now this is something worth debating. Even if they are tiny, they aren't "really worth mentioning". On the contrary. Only Kuwait and the "Switzerland ...
April 19, 2024 at 20:56
Especially with the case of Israel, I would beg to differ. The Israeli lobby is very powerful, you could read Mearsheimer's book about it, but this sh...
April 19, 2024 at 13:09
Don't forget the unlikely battlefield of the Sudanese civil war: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2_nM8JZ0E&rco=1
April 19, 2024 at 10:32
I admit he's been a critique of Israel. But he mainly focuses on US actions because of the reasons he has given. That's simply a fact. He says it all ...
April 19, 2024 at 09:37
This is a bipartisan cause. And it's not simply the 7 million Jewish-American votes (of whom many don't like the present right-wing government in Isra...
April 19, 2024 at 09:10
It actually shows just how much we truly value things like "freedom of speech". It's very sad. What was hilarious was the Jewish person that was arres...
April 19, 2024 at 08:23
You got the answer today. Anyway, as Israel did attack the embassy, it's likely that the Netanyahu government did want to escalate this to Iran, as it...
April 19, 2024 at 08:08
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A certain kind of equality, identity is an equation that us true for all values of its variables. An equation might be true for some variables, like x...
April 17, 2024 at 15:31
For starters, I think the whole monetary system will sooner or later collapse. But that later can be in 10, perhaps even 50 years. And if it happens i...
April 17, 2024 at 12:28
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It's in the Lounge. It was deemed not Philosophical enough, or just math. Or lousy math. :yikes: The reason is that the Ukraine crisis thread and the ...
April 17, 2024 at 12:01
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Ok, Even if the discussion has moved on, I'll just point out this, what identity in math is and why math does deal with identity: or in an other way: ...
April 17, 2024 at 11:45
And this just undermines also the idea that all Arab countries are just waiting to get the chance to kill all the Jews and/or push them into the sea. ...
April 16, 2024 at 20:04
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Set theoretic axioms can be difficult to anyone, so let's think about this. What do you think identity in mathematics / set theory is? So the axiom ex...
April 16, 2024 at 17:33
And this just shows how difficult it is to get a negotiated peace in the Middle East. Why not would they? They still need to have relations with Europ...
April 16, 2024 at 17:08
Indeed. At least academic professors in the West can act like "dissidents" because they have a tenure and there is an Overton window for free speech. ...
April 16, 2024 at 14:52
Well, just look at the discussion of some here in PF about a) The Isreali Palestinians conflict or heck, even about the US Elections / Trump / Biden. ...
April 16, 2024 at 14:42
That's exactly what he says. Listen carefully, at (1:00): "I'm here, I have a shared responsibility what the US government does...and to an extent, I ...
April 16, 2024 at 14:37
It is perplexing. Yet the name of the first political book of the linguist, The Responsibility of Intellectuals, tells it all. Chomsky and others see ...
April 15, 2024 at 17:47
Then educate me. :confused: So? Hence when it's only Superpower and so superior in everything, why was it then defeated by the Taleban, the same Taleb...
April 15, 2024 at 16:10
All those interventions, including the theoretical ones aren't fairly simple. All are quite unique. And so are the "interventions". Giving just weapon...
April 15, 2024 at 10:13
Isreal got it's ironclad support automatically from Joe Biden. I think they will continue with the Rafah operation when the time comes. For both Israe...
April 15, 2024 at 09:30
Yet you are not a soldier and not even in the region. But on the other hadn, even before Oct 7th, from 2016: So firm public support for ethnic cleansi...
April 15, 2024 at 08:46
An interesting development: What is Jordan's role in this? Naturally shooting down armed drones flying in your airspace is totally legitimate thing to...
April 14, 2024 at 19:36
Ah, that is a really fine line in the sand. Because nobody will say that they are trying "terror boming" as a tactic. And it all comes down to targeti...
April 14, 2024 at 18:46
So now Iran has had it's revenge after the 1st April attack on the consulate, which the supreme leader promised. Likely it won't end up here. Bibi can...
April 14, 2024 at 18:17
People back then believed the ideas of Douhuet, which was an error. Bombing the manufacturing military base works...just as destroying air fields and ...
April 14, 2024 at 18:09
So what? What do you have against K-Pop? Of having South Korean electronic gadgets and cars? Of them being wealthy and not on the verge of famine? Is ...
April 14, 2024 at 12:38
And what do you think the German people fealt about the Nazis themselves in 1945? How much had the Gauleiters and the Nazi party taken care of them wh...
April 14, 2024 at 12:30
OK! Thank you. :up: The real question, which I do think is important, is how much Ukraine could trust Putin after Minsk I-III? Would Putin simply enla...
April 14, 2024 at 11:53
And they have here the agency. We are just giving them support. What's so wrong with that. They can call it quits and there's nothing that the West ca...
April 14, 2024 at 11:42
Well, we aren't giving enough support. In fact my country has given very little, because we feel we haven't enough material for ourselves even. That's...
April 14, 2024 at 11:38