I'm not sure how we should categorize $85 billion of war assets that the US seems to have "left behind". They have more Blackhawk helicopters than 85%...
There are no communist nations and they never have been. The original communist ideas by Marx and Engels were primarily about the evolution of society...
Haven't come around to actually read Baudrillard yet, despite him being one of the most interesting modern philosophers I know. Reason being that whil...
Why not just make it tax-funded like in Sweden? I pay like 20 euros every time I go to the doctor and every time I need something from some hospital. ...
Ok, making it easier for those who won't read all data. Norway Switzerland Australia Ireland Germany Iceland Sweden Hong Kong Singapore The Netherland...
Here's a way to at least get some evidence for a conclusion. Look at the nations of the world that scores the highest on well-being and happiness. If ...
Maybe you are just used to being looked up to by your students and the power of the teacher not having to deal with actual valid criticism. Maybe beca...
Or you should just pick up his books, go through and spot premises and conclusions for each segment, analyze through historical context, and find high...
With all due respect, the way you conduct a philosophical discussion here does not reflect this type of foundational knowledge. You don't consolidate ...
You took a quote out of context of the entire text, provided no insight into understanding the meaning of that text, and used it as a means to critici...
It's basically what the conflicts within groups of primates are about. The dominant ape conquers over the weak and gets the girl. But since humans in ...
You cannot argue against the fact that almost every thinker since Socrates was a person of the times they lived. Just because Stuart Mill criticized s...
And there are many religious extremists who keep thousands of years old ideas alive that are destructive to many people. Time is not any evidence for ...
War is the result of an error of humanity. We have already moved past the biological reason to have conflict within the same species. The biological f...
How is that in any way an argument for your opinion being correct? Did you deconstruct the entire page where this quote comes from? Like how you actua...
How do you come to this conclusion? He didn't use the facts of the life of the workers' conditions during the industrial revolution? Opinions don't me...
I know this. Doesn't mean it is better or worse than other philosophies. But you also incorporate Christianity in your argument, which is much less of...
Religion has always been used as a form of class control. So why have trust in that compared to examining people outside of any religious form? Sure, ...
What is you're point of view in this matter? You criticize Nietzsche's writings for not being philosophically rooted in logic and rationality, but you...
Yes, it was because the tools of rational thought weren't fully developed by then. No scientist or rational thinker today that's worth a damn would be...
It is definitely not intelligent to reach a racist conclusion. I said "weak-minded", which means that the person arriving at a racist conclusion is we...
Fear of the unknown is natural. Racism is an irrational mental construct and product of an irrational surrender to this natural drive. Our intellect a...
A bit hard to deconstruct what you are aiming for here? Is it ethical to ask someone to do stressful work that is unnecessary? Or to do stressful work...
Are you asking if it's better to exist and suffer or not exist at all? I don't think that question helps in regards to a very realistic outcome of the...
I think the biggest question to tackle is if there's even going to be a solution that is enough for all? Not all people are suited for high intellectu...
Is that what we've seen with the car? Started off as exclusive, then luxury, then it worked its way down through the classes and today everyone can ei...
A slave can only be a slave if it has the capacity for self-reflection. It's also the foundation for how slavers mentally tortured slaves into thinkin...
Or we change the economics into something else that does not require that. It will be a necessity in the future when automation takes care of most stu...
That's a lot of assumptions about "how things work". I would argue that work activates people. The early humans got mentally and physically active bec...
To criticize the logic in someone's argument, pointing out fallacies is still a valid way. What you are attributing my argument to being, is - (in ter...
In what way isn't it possible? Are you defining physical gender based on whether or not they have a dick or vagina? Or are you talking about chromosom...
But that's not what I'm saying. Ironically you are making me use this argument as an example of how it is used. You are essentially straw-manning my a...
Neither is bad arguments and low-quality reasoning. I would say that if a forum thread leads to a "bullshitting mosh pit that leads nowhere", then poi...
The allegory, the power of religious writing as stories, is not the same as belief in the supernatural or God/Gods. You can have stories, they can be ...
Since I'm often guilty of holding the yellow cards, it's usually not to "win" an argument. In a philosophical discussion, it's important that the argu...
Because of fear. It takes existential courage to live without all that trash. Most people who stare into the concepts of reality are overpowered by th...
Since this connects to what I said, it's important to note that I said more things than what wars were actually about. Most notes in historical record...
Because it's taken out of context of that post. The claim is in relation to atheism, to atheism being linked to violence and blood when the statistics...
Which is why I provided it if you bothered to read it. I write maybe ten times longer posts than most in here and a majority of each post is the actua...
Life is hard, but religion really makes it more confusing and harder, requiring someone to accept a "truth" without proof. Either people are idiots an...
I agree. But theists tend to apply an unnecessary layer that wastes "life time" on irrelevant interpretations that lead nowhere. Atheism is Ockham's r...
Yes, a philosophy forum, meaning, a higher quality should be expected. Outside of picking out a single point, that point has been discussed so many ti...
Ah, that kind of argument again, it's getting old and has been countered so many times without any of the theists able to remember the conclusions of ...
I'm talking about human history. Quantify the entirety of that before concluding the reasons for all conflicts. I would say that even in the cases whe...
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