Kippo

But the lessons are hollow if students are not taught how to be free thinkers. And how can they be free thinkers if the purpose of schooling is compet...

I'm not sure many people are tuned in to "beauty". Most people fill their houses with things even they don't find beautiful.

So it is rare that they remember "nationally" what "they did to others", you agree?

Do they remember what they did to others?

No I'm not saying that countries operate like capitalist concerns. If you think about it they clearly don't. Capitalism is supposed to be about compet...

Because the nation state tends to promote itself as a competitor with other nations. With competition there are winners and losers, and in the case of...

Well to be fair to the bible I think the quote (not that you were quoting) is rather more egailtarian as it were - "an eye for an eye" etc. In evoluti...

Trump reminds me of "the Mule" in Asimov's foundation trilogy - though surely not as clever he has certainly bypassed status quo predictions for the e...

Yes, in terms of bringing people together. A certain psychological need for togetherness and belonging is fulfilled. Obviously I'm not suggesting that...

I wasn't making any "moral" judgement by pointing out that the right wing mentality served us well over the time scale of evolution. A good dose of sc...

There is no such thing as "more" evolved! Honest. (OK I suppose you are saying that yourself). There is however emergence.....

I think the biggest factor that shakes out "left" and "right" is psychological profile. Rightwingers are not as trusting as leftwingers. Rightwingers ...

I think I'd prefer to be in flow!

I don't fullly agree with your descriptions of left/right thinking because I think the true picture is more nuanced and mixed up. "1. Tribalism: The l...

If you attribute "rational" economic motives to individuals, where rationality = maximising money, then it is possible to generate all sorts of theore...

I think that's a decent statement. If marijuana legalisation continues apace throughout the world and it is seen as "successful" on its own terms then...

Yes I agree. the "liberal elite" have been congratualting themselves on the rights revoultions that have come about in recent decades, while holding o...

Border controls are seen as shameful by many progressive leaning people; some accept the need but are still wary of admitting it. Maybe such policies ...

Regarding Latin America, there is one single act that would reduce the urge to migrate - eliminate the money to be made through illegal drugs - a lot ...

Yes indeed it is a difficult situation (to think about), especially for anyone who has empathy for others. There are masses of people wanting to migra...

There is nothing in terms of linking people that a nation state has to offer that cannot be acheved by less destructive means. For example people supp...

Nation states have historically allowed large "safe spaces" for technology and trade to develop and flourish, generally refocusing human concern away ...

Nation states have no moral goodness associated with them if morality is about caring about human beings in general. Nation states are about "us" and ...

I fail to see how nation states represent anything morally good. If ever "one world" becomes a reality, then surely its denizens will look upon the er...

I think the media, including the entertaiment media, have acted as a positive moral influence in terms of the rights' movements. It has championed and...

I don't think there is a principled difference between the consequences over time and any other consequences - for example the consequences over all p...

That certainly sounds emotionally unappealing. I can't imagine it is difficult to translate into a very large negative amount in the calculus.

"Can a utilitarian calculus ever be devised"? Yeah easy. You just need a formula that simplifies to a function of one variable. "Will that formula ref...