ChatteringMonkey

No it couldn't lead to global cooling, then it would be global cooling instant of global warming. Extremes are possible, temporarily, but then that's ...

Are you serious? The climate is not the weather. It's about the average global temperature over longer periods, not local temperatures on a certain da...

I look at it this way Frank, after a long history of human struggle we are on the verge of finally pulling our shit together somewhat. Coming technolo...

I'm not great at punchy lines but.... We're degrading the earth at the expense of current and future generations? Probably not punchy enough? The long...

I like that interpretation. Being is becoming... overcoming... over man. Joy is the feeling of 'increase' in power, not the feeling of power itself. T...

I've said this before, I'm not an American, I'm not invested in republic-democratic politics either way. I fully expected some cherry-picking of scien...

I'm splitting hairs when that's how the term is used in the article you linked to and literally the conclusion of the article? And apparently it's not...

I actually read most of the articles and papers linked too here, and if anything a lot of scientists seem agree that climate change is very unlikely t...

Ok, I guess I don't understand why 'turtles all the way down' would be a problem in this case. You have to start somewhere... I do agree that there ar...

But this is what it ultimately is, circular. You have a constitution usually, which is a subtype of law requiring special majority to change, that det...

Laws are rules approved by an organ that has legislative power. Treaties become law in a country if they are ratified by parliament. That is why ratif...

I would think we need something more concrete at this point. An awakening, a shared ideal would help no doubt, but as I said a bit earlier, that kind ...

Yeah, this was long overdue... even if 15% isn't a whole lot compared to what regular people pay. I do agree with your point, this can only work if ap...

Thx for the info. I didn't read the whole report yet, but it seems like they also count the non-inclusion of 'externalised cost' as subsidies, which I...

I agree in principle that this is the way to go, but for that to have an effect on this particular problem, I don't think we have the time. That kind ...

I could easily see it going the other way though. You know, that knee-jerk reaction of falling back on the instinct of saving oneself in the first pla...

Yeah, I read most of his stuff. What I like about this polemic is that he doesn't waste time on pointless discussions about the truth of Christian doc...

Few contemporaneous people I think he meant predominately. People are educated in the culture of their times, and assume that frame as a given for the...

A Boycott only is effective if enough people join in. People are not likely to join left to their own devices, usually they'll just buy with their wal...

Justification that people give to their beliefs are often not the real reasons for holding a belief... but just that, justifications or post hoc ratio...

Yes i'm saying this evaluation of these two scenario's doesn't make sense, because it kind of assumes an evaluation for some abstract point of view, w...

I don't think this is true in general, at least not for everybody. I've only been afraid of death a few times, in some dangerous situations, and I kno...

Thinking plays a role, but not fundamentally. We can reflect on certain valuations, and maybe switch them around a bit or change the ordering, but you...

Right, without experience there is no one even able to make the valuation of good or bad. The argument VS nothing cuts both ways though, - if you thin...

Just want to say that I agree with this! It seems so obvious yet seems to be ignored a lot of the time...

Utilitarianism does to some extend I think, in that it has an in theory simple measure (i.e. pain/pleasure) that isn't restricted to an already deline...

Yes and I think the tacit assumption there is that truth is valuable, which it is... generally. It's a bit like linking someones actions to those of n...

That's maybe a better example, because it's I think well documented that de-conversion is actually a very difficult process that doesn't happen overni...

Right, as a moral realist one would make that distinction.

I'm no moral realist, but I suppose regardless of you meta-ethical stance, one thing that might happen if you violate moral principles regularly, is s...

I hadn't looked at my posts quite in that way, but good observation, I do tend to think that what matters, or what is valuable, is the most important ...

To put a bit of a spin on the thread, and maybe this is not the direction you had in mind (so feel free to ignore it), I don't think public dialogue, ...

Depends on who I'm addressing and where I am. If i'm posting on a philosophy forum as some random dude on the internet than I don't think the ideas I ...

Depends on what you mean with 'necessity' and 'impossible', doesn't it? If you mean physically impossible than sure, that seems like a hard case to ma...

My intuition is the same, we do seem to have a tendency for veneration, to listen to authority too. And from an evolutionary perspective that does mak...

Yeah no disagreement here, that's why I tend to stay out of politics these days, because I don't see it going anywhere. But I don't want to close the ...

I mean something a bit different I suppose, and it'd need to be bigger in the amounts of people supporting it, yes that too. Trump is a sign or sympto...

This similar to what John Dewey proposes, to make democracy really work you need educated citizens. I like Dewey, and I like this idea... but again to...

We could do a lot, the problem is there isn't enough political will to do any of that. How do we change that?

So the question is really, why do tend we to think in narratives? What is it about stories that makes us remember them easier? Because we evolved to b...

In homo sapiens evolution has delegated part of the species survival functions to culture because we have the capability for language.... we need an e...

Here's a bit of an argument from left field, and one I don't know I entirely stand behind, but devil's advocate et al... a. Growth and flourishing is ...

Certainly in the foreseeable future it will survive, other posters have pointed to the role it plays alongside and in edifying scientific progress... ...

Yes that seems like a plausible explanation. Though I'd guess that a general shift in public opinion and demand for 'green assets' also plays a role h...

Window-dressing most probably, in that they probably wouldn't do anything that doesn't benefit them in the first place and I'd assume care very little...

Maybe, I would like to see his ideas being really tested empirically... but do keep in mind he didn't see himself as the arbiter of truth, but rather ...

Christian culture had truth as on of it's core values... Anyway the thing I think you need to understand about his philosophy is that he evaluated thi...

The kingdom of God is psychological state according to Nietzsche... a state beyond suffering, completely peaceful... by denying the world. In the symb...

Well what we have is not the accomplishment of current socialist parties, but something socialist, Christian-democrats and liberals worked out after W...

I'm not against socialism, even said so explicitly, just trying to be honest about its role historically. I'm European, most governments in Europe are...