RegularGuy

You present a good argument. However, in the field of battle, an order may feel more like coercion than a choice.

Well played. :clap: So, let me just ask you this (as I am having trouble with it): does a game with rules, such as basketball, have meaning outside of...

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My thoughts are often aligned with Janus’. I love Kant. We can always learn more about the physical world as it is presented to our reason, but reason...

I think you’re doing fine.

The antinatalist seems to completely ignore the fact that the vast majority of conceptions are unintentional. Do antinatalists differ on abortion? Edi...

Only complete maniacs such as myself or 5 sigma geniuses such as yourself have the luxury of letting the laws of nature run their course. :wink:

That’s true, but as a Democrat or Democratic-leaning person, I was working under the assumption that we actually had to pay for these things and not j...

Unfortunately, as in nearly all domains of human experience, there will be ignorance and the ignorant. Even many mathematicians are ignorant of consti...

:lol: Is everything going okay? Your dog didn’t die, I hope.

My interpretation of the antimonies is that reason is limited by experience (not to say that reason is derived from experience), so one cannot through...

I have that need as well.

Not sure how I inferred that you were a psychiatrist. I infer a lot about people when I shouldn’t. A lot of the time I’m right, though. It’s a defense...

Maybe. Or maybe it’s both? I tend to think it’s both that he’s a racist prick and that he understands that there is a large proportion of the country ...

Psychiatrists know how to be the biggest pricks of all. Many choose not to be most of the time, but I had one once who said he hoped I’d kill myself. ...

This is very well said. I suppose I was looking for more responses like this... but then that would be imposing my values on the discussion instead of...

You’re right. Discuss what you like I suppose.

I have all of the traits you describe plus more that are negative. Good traits that I have? I suppose that I’m empathetic much of the time. I find a l...

This thread is getting way off topic. Recognizing and accepting that there is the Other, that the Other lives in our communities, that we should engag...

There is no cabal that is pulling the strings and pulling the wool over our eyes. There are only and have always been opportunists. Opportunists who p...

Just looked him up. It’s not the same person.

I don’t believe Trump actually believed the birther bullshit. He just knew it would be widely popular. Also, your second paragraph which I quoted abov...

Who wrote “The World is Flat”? I think that is the guy who writes for the NYT.

It seems to be better in the Scandinavian countries. There the governments appear to work for the people. The institutions of my country aren’t inhere...

If I ever get out of this quagmire of apathy that I’m in, then I will read those thinkers’ works. As of now, I’m just trying to survive each day. Is D...

I have no doubt that they can set aside their differences at times, and that many of them are friends, but I don’t subscribe to that particular flavor...

I am only familiar with Ayn Rand’s philosophy, and the many right-wing politicians who espouse that philosophy.

I never espoused socialism per se. Furthermore, I seriously doubt that what I call “right-wing libertarianism” is the same thing as what you call “rig...

Yeah, I can be a bitch (or dick), too. I just choose not to be right now.

Meaning that wasn’t intended by the artist is the best kind of meaning of all, IMHO.

I don’t have a copy anymore. I deleted it in a self-destructive fit.

Not only that. The “State” itself is equally divided.

I self-published a now unpublished book, and I wrote a little in the Philosophers’ espousing socialism thread.

Not really. I’ve outlined my views elsewhere before. I’ve just no interest in doing it again. This just harkens to my thread on identity politics. I s...

I tend to think that universes are constantly being belched from other universes. One or many had to have always existed.

I am in agreement with you. I just didn’t feel like ripping into someone I like. Besides, I’ve been through this song and dance before. Usually the ri...

Often times the synthesis or completely original idea formed after considering a battle of minds is done by a third party. Some can learn. Others are ...

So wise and true.

Agreed.

Two Statists and one Anti-Statist? One can be proud but at the same time indifferent. I think this is the best way. This way, differences are recogniz...

That seems very intelligent and moral to me. Good luck getting the conservatives to tax and spend, though.

The Princess Bride made my point better. Thanks.

Thanks for the input. I should have a few to several paragraphs in an OP sometime today. Thanks for suggesting such an important topic! :smile:

Let me mull it over and see what I can come up with.

The politics of difference is of interest to me as well as your normative implication. I think that would be an awesome topic, but I wouldn’t know whe...

Conflict does help me to understand things better. It’s just that so many people take it personally or get personal. I’m not immune to that myself.

I didn’t take it that you would.

Well, obviously I disagree, but I don’t want to battle you on social policy.

I’m not sure what you mean by “search conflicts.”

I agree. My confused use of language was trying to communicate what you just said.