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I agree, and I tried to address this when I clarified that the fundamental basis could be as simple as: the true meanings of good/bad entailing the fe...
January 28, 2025 at 00:03
Thanks for the article. I read it, as well as the study it linked to. The study results make a good case for some things not to do in DEI trainings. F...
January 27, 2025 at 23:09
You had said: "Because if there is no logic reason, there is nothing besides whim." A whim is also a product of a mind - we would not describe the ran...
January 27, 2025 at 21:36
Both "reasons" and "whims" are products of minds, so this suggests deism or theism. Naturalism would imply that what occurs is a product of blind, und...
January 27, 2025 at 16:29
Why must there be reasons? Your question can only be meaningful if existence itself is contingent. I don't think it can be contingent, because conting...
January 27, 2025 at 02:20
Objective morals are consistent with theism, and inconsistent with physicalism. They may not entail theism, but objective morals just existing untethe...
January 27, 2025 at 00:02
Numbers do not exist. They are abstractions. One-ness and two-ness (etc) exist, as properties of groups of objects. There is a logical relation betwee...
January 26, 2025 at 18:20
Others disagree. Here's a poll: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/05/17/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-the-workplace/ To be clear, thi...
January 26, 2025 at 18:09
Prejudice has not disappeared from our society, and was institutionalized in the military in the past. Acknowledging the racial and ethnic discriminat...
January 26, 2025 at 17:06
Mississippi bill would pay bounty hunters to catch undocumented immigrants President Trump’s administration has made it clear that deporting illegal i...
January 26, 2025 at 15:57
I can grasp some reasons why conservatives oppose DEI and affirmative action: they infer that it entails discrimination against their kind (white, het...
January 26, 2025 at 14:55
Without a God, how can there exist objective morality? That's why I brought it up, and also brought up intersubjectivity. Yes, and I disagree with mos...
January 26, 2025 at 14:11
A non-controversial example is law enforcement. Also: minimizing air and water pollution.
January 26, 2025 at 00:11
There is at least the potential of a public interest.
January 25, 2025 at 23:50
Ah! I see your point.
January 25, 2025 at 23:23
IMO, you underestimate the fealty of Trump's supporters. For example: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/22/trump-pardons-republicans
January 25, 2025 at 23:08
It's theoretically illegal, but since Presidents are above the law, that may not matter.
January 25, 2025 at 22:37
That seems overly simplistic, but tell me if you think the proposition ("The Public Weal Transcends the Interest of the Individual”) is intrinsically ...
January 25, 2025 at 22:27
Christians rationalize this as the product of his human nature. That human nature could experience real human suffering, without which there could be ...
January 25, 2025 at 19:21
A couple of recent events that add to the concerns about Trump: his firing of 12 Inspectors General, and his pardoning of the Proud Boys & Oath Keeper...
January 25, 2025 at 19:08
If you assume morality is either objective or subjective, then one can consider the metaphysical implications. This is the basis for the argument for ...
January 25, 2025 at 18:00
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio calls for retribution in chilling interview with Alex Jones hours after prison release Among the criminals pardoned b...
January 25, 2025 at 17:38
Yet another chilling action to loosen the administrative constraints on Trump's power: Trump uses mass firing to remove independent inspectors general...
January 25, 2025 at 16:58
So you assume some magical sort of knowledge is metaphysically possible in order to prove there exists a being who has it. Circular reasoning. More ci...
January 25, 2025 at 10:21
I'll give you a few objections: knowledge = organized data; data entails encoding; encoding entails parts; Therefore omniscience would entail parts. T...
January 24, 2025 at 16:49
I was trying to understand what you were actually disagreeing with when you said, "I disagree about the Bishop"? I thought (mistakenly?) you were disa...
January 24, 2025 at 04:19
I said Trump's post was irrational, rude, and full of lies. Do you think it was rational, polite, and factually true?
January 24, 2025 at 00:57
He said that in 2017 too. A few months later, tried to terminate their protected status. SCOTUS stopped it. He can just as easily change his mind this...
January 23, 2025 at 22:30
He absolutely said those things, on "Truth" Social. Here's the full text: The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday mor...
January 23, 2025 at 16:20
I try. When I've failed to do that, I've offended people needlessly. I've seen other people who've underestimated individuals because of their gender....
January 23, 2025 at 16:09
You identified no lie. I referred to "apparent logic' - I drew an inference. An incorrect inference is not a lie. If you think my inference was indeed...
January 23, 2025 at 15:42
How so? Remember that I asked specifically about all aspects of DEI, not affirmative action. When I worked for Exxon-Mobil as a supervisor I had to at...
January 23, 2025 at 15:22
See my response to @Amadeus.
January 23, 2025 at 15:17
Well, he's embraced the H-1B visa holders, so it's technically not *all* immigrants, but his intentions are broader than just pursuing undocumented im...
January 23, 2025 at 15:13
No doubt, but I'm curious to see if there's any deeper thought beyond the view that DEI oppresses the poor white race because it's kinda like affirmat...
January 23, 2025 at 14:40
Actually, because the reals and integer systems are applicable to the real world (they were developed by analyzing aspects of the real world), the ter...
January 23, 2025 at 14:06
Is every aspect of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion bad? Could you please explain how it's been a failure?
January 23, 2025 at 05:29
In this case, Trump communicated his narcissism quite eloquently. ;-)
January 23, 2025 at 00:00
And yet, I expect most of his supporters will agree with him. Because he has spoken.
January 22, 2025 at 23:54
Unsurprisingly, Trump has demanded an apology: "She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart," said Trump, adding that Budde didn’t mention that...
January 22, 2025 at 23:36
That's an unreasonal leap. Yes, your senses CAN deceive you, but that just implies your senses are fallible - not that they are completely untrustwort...
January 22, 2025 at 23:29
Your reasoning is correct, but I'll try to give a mathematician's perspective (I received a B.S. in math in 1976, so I'm not really a mathematician - ...
January 22, 2025 at 20:21
Trump Revokes Biden's Order to Lower Drug Prices for Medicare President Donald Trump has been busy rescinding Biden-era Executive Orders in his first ...
January 22, 2025 at 05:48
You seemed to be unhappy with the job Biden did because he failed to do these things. Because of this, I inferred that you meant those things were so ...
January 22, 2025 at 01:13
What's your point? Mine is that nothing could pass without some Republican support.
January 22, 2025 at 00:36
I found a Kaiser poll. It showed that only 40% support of Republicans for a public option, and 25% supporting medicare for all. These numbers imply li...
January 21, 2025 at 22:23
What makes you think it's nonsense? Is there some end-point in any liberalism, conservativism, or anything else? You overestimate the popularity of th...
January 21, 2025 at 20:39
I agree on all points.
January 21, 2025 at 20:04
A political problem for social liberalism is that there is no reachable goal. It can only ever be a direction. Biden successfully pushed the US in tha...
January 21, 2025 at 19:33
In the everyday use of the term, a "quantity" is always a fixed, real number (e.g. a number of liters, a number of tomatoes, a number of molecules in ...
January 21, 2025 at 19:01