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It's kind of funny in the face of the previous meltdown over "lost" immigrant children that people are upset the federal government is keeping childre...

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Depends on the source and jurisdiction. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/murder In 2004, Scott Peterson was convicted of 2nd degree murder for the deat...

Sperm does not contain the human genome, therefore it is not human life. Life begins at conception. That part is academic. I am pro choice, and I have...

Right. I pointed out an issue regarding language and the construction of human rights.

A person is a philosophical construct. Barring severe mutation or inter species breeding, we know the zygote is human life. We talk of “human rights” ...

Right or wrong is the question. Who determines governmental vs personal politics? Is a president reigning in what could be considered a done investiga...

Are we talking about "spirit of the law" here?

What’s your prep then - does the Constitution preclude it?

It would as easy as saying the President is not above the law. Obama assassinated Anwar al-Awlaki in a drone strike. If not for being the President, t...

I would submit politics is the original reality TV.

I actually addressed that in the next line and put the difference as the last line.

It would seem objective/subjective depends on the frame of reference. Me liking orange juice is subjective. You knowing I like orange juice is objecti...

As opposed to what? Settling into communities started wealth inequality to the degree it exist to in the present. The means of production being contro...

Does life having no meaning mean we cannot like french fries? How you choose to treat people is like any other opinion, yours to choose.

Equivocation around “collusion” played a large part in fueling the public’s imagination that a crime had been committed. Still, if Chelsea Clinton got...

FDR was nationalist and far from an isolationist. His sentiments have not died out in the US.

The moons and stars are not value judgments.

I don't understand the point. The nature of metaphysical things like free will are simply speculation unless we can somehow observe them. How so? I me...

Objective deals with knowledge. Subjective deals with how I feel about knowledge. I am particularly aware of this when dealing with my favorite subjec...

How is that exactly?

People pick and choose from the Bible from all sides. Can you really not lose respect for MLK if you have disdain for Joel Olsteen? Olsteen runs aroun...

Example?

I became an atheist because I finally came to understand that I believed what I believed not because it was true, but merely because I wanted it to be...

I would agree in that people's empathy does not result in equal treatment. We have been having the mindless screaming that NFL players have 1st Amendm...

How is it that so few people have noticed that Christianity only works if the world is about to end imminently?

I apologize. I meant “without” instead of “with.”

I thought the challenge was embracing atheism with nihilism.

Your rebuttal would have merit if "evolution" meant "natural selection." It does not. The theory of evolution seeks to explain how we went from our LU...

What is the best way to change people's hearts and minds? Has anyone ever negotiated? What happens when you simply refuse to consider the other party'...

The overall problem is that people do not want to dispense with prejudice, they just want to condemn the prejudices they dislike. Who cares if someone...

That is pretty much it as far as "higher moral ground" goes. A lot of people just think their opinion is the objective moral reality everyone else sho...

No one has. It would require metaphysical evidence not available to us. With the evidence we can gather there is no objective meaning to life. We come...

As an atheist, who has embraced nihilism as the nature of the universe, where’s the problem? It is the ultimate freedom. We spent centuries learning t...

You are right. I think, therefore I am. That is an a priori conclusion that Descartes drew up. It requires no inference from experimentation, that is ...

"prior to experience" means prior to experience, ie knowledge can be deduced theoretically without empirical evidence. You are not predicting. You alr...

I think you are equivocating. A priori is about having knowledge prior to experience. That is different than guessing outcomes. You can determine that...

There is neurological research that strongly suggests we do not have free will. Our decisions are made in our subconscious before they reach our consc...

I graduated in 99, so things seemed to have changed. The head of the department had to approve it. He asked me why I wanted to do it, as it would not ...

After all my time observing, human psychology seems solved. At our essence, we are all rent seekers - we seek to stack the rules of the game in our fa...

Got my major in Computer Engineering, but was just as proud, if not more proud, of my minor in philosophy. Looking for a place to be exposed to differ...

My definition is meta physics. Something we can freely speculate about until we develop a method for observing the phenomenon.

The US is a pro choice country. We definitely accept the death of innocent life as “the cost of freedom”, ie maintaining our way of life. It is the sa...