the problem with communism is that its adherents and proponents, and its intended subjects, are humans. If we could just get rid of those increasing n...
Aleksander- "...If, in this hypothesis, god didnt exist, how would mankind as a whole decide what is wrong and what is right? moral or immoral?..." Ph...
"Before anyone can answer this, you have to prove that he does exist so that we can then take him out of the picture and see what is left. Where is yo...
It is a condition. It can be, at the same time, an aim, a process, and a precursor to an end-state. It can be both descriptive and quantifiable. It ca...
"...We only care about the people that are closest to us..." Perhaps, to be more precise, we care most about those closest to us. We reserve a special...
LOL!! Jake, if he's wrong about what he replied originally, demonstrate as much. Just because he doesn't have a PhD (mebbe..?), or isn't published, or...
"... To debunk this, show us the articles YOU have written on nuclear weapons. There are none, right? …" Ummm….what? An ad hominem?!?! In a philosophi...
Bitter wrote, "...Since the definition of the male orgasm is to ejaculate..." This is a very common misconception. Ejaculation is entirely separate fr...
"...That basically means we shouldn't use people and that, of course, means people shouldn't be considered as having a purpose..." I would take it as ...
"I think heterosexuality is inherently related to patriarchal subordination of women..." Agreed. Just like homosexuality is inherently related to the ...
If arranged by contract, either 'marriage' should be kept according to the understanding at the time. If a person cheats, and the process was intended...
Perhaps the 'easier' way out is more correct if you mean there are only two choices. There is appeasement, or capitulation, in addition to negotiated ...
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." That old aphorism has stood the test for many centuries. I don't see a change coming any time soon, unless AI puts every ...
Has anyone defined terms...operationalized them? How would any of us know to answer yes or no without defining 'pacifist'? Can a person be a pacifist ...
"...Utilitarians will obviously say to take the left track with the one person on it sacrificing his life to save the five on the right track. This is...
Can God "be" anything other than what God is? If not, God is a singularity with which we can compare anything else, be it a construct or something tan...
Nothing like an ad hominem to put a fork into a discussion, Marchesk. :razz: Philosophy has taught 'us' how to think carefully about common phenomena,...
I have little experience in this, but I do know that the human brain has two main types of cholinergic neuroreceptors, muscarinic and nicotinic. The l...
"... Creativity is randomness and can be replicated..." ??? On the face of it, this is self-contradictory. Random is patternless, meaning it can never...
One with good will would not exceed the limit through a speed zone. One without good will wouldn't care of the outcome or the fact that their behaviou...
It's one thing to show why he may be misapprehended, but quite another to show that he is intolerant. A bigot is a person who will go to extremes, inc...
According to Kohlberg, morality has its root in our ability to accommodate the varying positions of others around us, or at least to tolerate them. We...
Bigot? Is that word useful here? Apart from attempting to thwart further dialog due to the ad hominem, it doesn't seem to apply. A person who is a big...
I like the topic creep. From racism to capitalism......as if it's even remotely necessary. Apparently, no non-capitalists are racists. Or, if one is a...
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