I've tried scuba diving. Naturally not as deep. But this is a discussion about hypotheticals, so? The original question that Benkei raised was if it's...
Modern medicine has indeed changed our attitudes, the most perhaps in that infants are very likely to stay alive and not die at childbirth or at early...
Too young to die is an age younger than the person making this remark, who likely remembers that he or she was quite vibrant and full of life in that ...
I assume the number refers to actually the possible group that made the attack. Possibly. Not the sponsors and those who got them together. But the id...
Well, if it really would be private individuals or entities, then I guess it's an issue for the police to solve. Depth? Recreational diving limit is a...
I would say in the other way: if you think that computation and causation are equivalent, then you think that mathematics and physics are equivalent. ...
I think there are some that do support Putin and do think it's time to "make Russia Great again". Or as it's put: "Defend Fortress Russia from the evi...
Yes there is. The worst is when you get people to think that you can make the World a better place by killing certain people and with that radical act...
I'm just quoting what you have said. What's wrong with that? Oh, I could add that you think the Donbas republics are independent whereas somehow Ukrai...
I assume that many here would be far more harsher on John McCain. Being in uniform for your country doesn't make oneself evil in my view. If you perpe...
Victimhood points to helplessness (or as @"unenlightened" said, needs help), someone subjected to oppression, hardship, or mistreatment or being duped...
Says the "grown-up" who thinks that Ukraine should have surrendered, blames Zelensky for not surrendering, because he himself sees no difference in wh...
Russia is really taking the historical discourse from the Soviet Union: the Lithurgy. The Lithurgy is the official line and you talk the official line...
Well, I think for many today, to be a citizen of their country doesn't mean so much if anything. You can see it from the comments even here. But there...
Desperately trying to see something wrong when their isn't. Actions are important. Like who actually attacked whom. And then what here the attacker sa...
Social constructs are a good way to think about these issues. Let's first define it:"A social construct or construction is the meaning, notion, or con...
Wrong, What I say what he speaks is important how Kremlin portrays this war, what is the narrative fed to the Russian people. And it's telling how he ...
? I thought the classic denial from Putin of the "little green men" happened quite a long time ago. Heck, he should have not even come out with that o...
Basically yes. What else would it be? Putin is talking of Donbas and Novorossiya as parts of Russia, now liberated from the "artificial country". The ...
NATO expansion is one reason, but it was more of a figleaf than an actual reason for him to attack Ukraine as only massing troops to the border alread...
I would add that the present tribalism and polarization works by those who oppose an ideology (left or right etc.) picking the worst, most fatuous exa...
In fact, Putin gave a "meh" to the membership application of Sweden and Finland. The only reaction was that Russia doesn't want permanent NATO bases, ...
The actual difference is just who are the belligerents. Try as much (as Putin does) to make supplying weapon to a belligerent an act of war, but it is...
Or the question is, in line with @"niki wonoto"'s gloomy OP, will we live to see that day? I'd have high hopes if I would live for 105 000 years. (Or ...
I'm not sure what you are saying here. A multilateral approach to security has it's benefits. Starting from NATO's article 1. Then comes the actual co...
Yet you should understand the difference of between a) sending weapons to a country and b) defending it with your own troops. This was evident before ...
Yes, when you have about 100-200 billion galaxies in the universe and now something about probabilities. And if we want to remind how fleeing our time...
Yet if it's biologically false, it's false. If it's socially true, it's a social construct. As you said above. And that makes it different. Thus you m...
That's were this is going. In a post-truth environment where people are ignorant about the facts, you can make whatever reality, as long as you stay c...
There are two things you seem to mix here. One is bilateral defense agreements, then another is the effectiveness of NATO. For imminent security conce...
Yes. February 24th 2022 was a huge change for Finland (and Sweden). Only a minority of Finns had wanted to join NATO beforehand, but now instantly it ...
Oh but it does. Which just shows that NATO is an international organization where the opinions of the member states do matter, hence the idea that NAT...
Hungary and Turkey will milk what they can get from it, but I'm not worried. Besides, for this time, when the countries have made the application for ...
I agree, and that's why we ought treat humans better. Taxonomies are good if you can answer some specific questions with using them. Otherwise they ar...
Comparing humans to animals is a very slippery slope as we don't treat humans as we do animals, even if many think (as I do) that humans are just inte...
:up: Seems like (to some here) Europeans are just spineless lackeys and pawns, who should stand up against the system they themselves have been part o...
I remember reading that actually in Russia there's no legal stature for PMC's like Wagner to exist in Russia, which fits quite well to the dictators g...
Stratification comes also by the free market system, where supply and demand determine price and thus the income of people. And we accept this because...
This is the fear just what both China and Russia have about democracy in a nutshell. A country with various ethnicities and people is difficult to sus...
Above all Stalin was also an organizer, who kept the Soviet experiment going. But I don't think his way into power was some kind of accident, it's som...
Lol. I think you are mixing up colonies of Belgium and the Dutch (as the Dutch Cape colony existed until 1806) and the largest colony was the East Ind...
As I tried to give @"Benkei" the example of Nietzsche and Nazi ideology. Was Nietzsche hijacked? Misunderstood or misinterpreted? That's one discussio...
I'm sure Nietschze wouldn't have been enthusiastic of the Third Reich making him their favorite philosopher either. But history tells us how ideas are...
I think the critique of "Animal Farm" was against Marxism-Leninism. The story obviously was about Soviet Russia. I think that the Spanish Civil war ha...
What has in history come of the attempts of doing Marxist revolution? I'm looking at history, not selected quotes from Marx. Naturally communism ought...
Marxist movements have been, as you know, political. Perhaps then I should use Marxism-Leninism. But anyway I think here it would be proper to talk ab...
Populist no, definately. But notice that populism (not to be mixed with something being popular) is confrontational and adverserial: it's us, the ordi...
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