The Op over-generalizes. There are cases in which medication is appropriate and beneficial. Some people are so psychotically impaired that this is the...
" Well the Guardian is fairly reputable, and two sources is better than one, whereas the Canary is new and 'radical', and that article seemed to be so...
The Guardian says they were told this by two sources. That is not "fake news". It may be false, but fake news is the spreading of stories that have be...
Am I failing to provide the sort of support you think I should give? For what it's worth, I'm not pulling for Trump to fail. I related this in a post ...
Sure, there's lots of factors in addition to her mother, but the drunk driving woman deserved to be convicted because she was the direct cause of the ...
I was giving one example of a difference in the past that might have made a difference. For example, a near miss where she almost kills someone or her...
"I am still waiting for an account of responsibility that works if we have no free will and all acts are determined. " Here's two compatibilist accoun...
", it is not a choice at all. Unless there is more than one possibility open, there is nothing to choose. " People engage in a behavior we call "choos...
I strongly disagree that we should support policies we disagree with. That is beyond absurd- no President has ever received that kind of support. Trum...
What is entailed by supporting Trump? It's normal to have policy disagreements. Surely you aren't expecting us to support his nasty rhetoric, like nam...
It's subjective how one identifies responsibility. Consider this scenario: a parent raises a child with a lack of discipline, essentially letting the ...
Trump's view on this implies he doesn't think justice is possible, because it all comes down to the judge being antagonistic or sympathetic to the per...
" If whatever I do is fully immanent, fully determined, in the state of the world before we are conceived, then our actual existence can play no role ...
There is no such thing as a random number generator*. There are pseudo random number generators. Rolls of dice and coin flops are deterministic. You m...
Although the argument in the Op fails because of the equivocal use of "responsibility", premise 1 seems true and constitutes a good reason to believe ...
Humans have the capacity to make moral judgments. These judgments are rooted in empathy, the feeling invoked when considering the condition of others....
I don't find your reasoning very compelling. You know that the term is considered offensive by some people, and abandoning the term doesn't constrain ...
John McWhorter, a Professor of Linguistics, writes in this article on use of the term "colored": Malcolm X didn’t spearhead a change from colored and ...
Picking a number would be arbitrary. We should want continued prosperity, which depends on economic growth, and economic growth depends on population ...
Your earlier comment was obviously based on right wing propaganda about BLM. It's not an organization, it's a movement, so what they say about themsel...
That's absurd. Of course measurements are factual! A measurement is made, and it has certain values. There's an a priori degree of uncertainty in what...
They don't know; it's just a thought experiment - a way to consider the implications of counterfactuals, including what contradictions it might entail...
"a particle could move through empty space." Make a case for this. You're missing my point. The measurements are indisputably factual, and the success...
The biggest danger is letting Trump define the opposition position, which the left is letting him do right now. The opposition is characterized as wan...
This is a good observation. Trump is a marketer who likes to win, devoid of principles. Deploying troops to the border is theatrics that is cheered by...
That's simply not true. Particles are real, but they are not independent billiard balls floating in nothingness. A particle is a wave packet, a segmen...
The only alleged deception you've stated is wave particle duality. That's pretty silly, because QFT does not assume wave particle duality. Indeed, and...
Let's test that. I trust the instrumentalism of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory - the calculations seem to work. I have no emotional attach...
Accepting scientific theory as true doesn't entail faith, it just implies that one can justifiably believe them. But scientific theories must be treat...
Quantum mechanics, special relativity, and QFT have been remarkably successful at making predictions. How is that "deceptive"? QFT DOES resolve wave-p...
You must have missed his call for the troops at the border to treat thrown rocks as rifles. The absurdity of his desire to void the 14th amendment is ...
You had asserted: "The fundamental particle is the foundation for physical existence, and the field mathematics can be used to represent the possibili...
And yet it also gets many things right, and therefore it is reasonable to accept much of it as true. QFT is widely accepted by physicists, so if your ...
Two issues: 1) Is the metaphysican's belief justified? We SawIn the present case, it remains to be seen - a case has not been made. 2) In the present ...
You're conflating metaphysical beliefs with well-supported beliefs about the world. It would be silly to hold a metaphysical belief that is contradict...
"Since I'm a metaphysician, and he's a physicist, and we're talking metaphysical principles, it's seems more likely that he's the one who is out of to...
You are out of touch. I suggest you watch this video, starting at 15:00. Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll gives a brief overview of Quantum Field Th...
That flies in the face of quantum field theory (QFT). Under QFT, fields (waves) are fundamental, and every point in a field is constantly fluctuating ...
"And to equate 'pain' with bad, and 'pleasure' with good, is surely just to default to basic hedonism." I wasn't equating pain with bad and pleasure w...
Is it really possible to instantiate "maximal greatness"? That is questionable, and so it is just as reasonable to reject it as it is to accept it. On...
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