RegularGuy

Pardon the interruption. What’s with your handle? Why must God be an atheist? Is it because He doesn’t know He’s God? Or that there is nothing above H...

Are you daft? He’s tearing apart your premises.

It seems obvious to us with thinking brains. I think Virgo has an axe to grind. Either that or she is delusional.

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In other words, why not make food production and healthcare not-for-profit? Farmers and doctors could still be paid well through State subsidies, and ...

Furthermore, there is more than enough food to feed the world, and healthcare is not a non-renewable resource. Why should profits be involved in them?

With money management (such as the Kelly criterion and a good reward to risk ratio), yes.

I simply find your premises to be flat out false. Thus, I cannot arrive at your conclusion. See what @"fdrake" wrote above.

If it it simply natural evolution, then what is the need for convincing us through argument? You’ll have to excuse me if I find your motives suspect. ...

People with high IQs in pattern recognition can make a lot of money trading Forex using technical analysis (reading candlestick chart patterns). It ma...

Property would have to be redistributed equitably before ancap would succeed. Perhaps I grant you that the State is the cause of inequality. But how d...

No. I’m trying to help you.

Furthermore, perhaps I grant you that the resources of the rich are merely of higher quality. Why do you think you are entitled to more property and h...

I don’t know what “ancap” means. I know what’s keeping the “downtrodden” from eating the rich. It’s the police state. People are not rational. They wi...

Obviously, you’ve never lived in the ghetto. I lived in one in Chicago and Madison. You clearly don’t understand the downtrodden like I do. There is a...

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If the State were dissolved, there would be massive unrest. There are more guns in the US than people. If there is massive unrest, there will be massi...

It’s a fact of life that blows up your entire philosophy. I’m just illustrating the FACT that your philosophy is ridiculously naive.

I seriously doubt it is possible for a self to be truly selfless. Unless, of course, you believe in Jesus Christ... but even his opponents find fault ...

I believe I understand your point. However, every ego is ego. In other words, everyone has one. It is inescapable in so far as we only have access to ...

Racism is a result of a faulty inference from an individual to a group. “A Muslim blew himself up in a church. Muslims are bad.” Demagogues are mostly...

Everyone feels entitled. Some just get more out of their sense of entitlement than others.

As an aside, during this state of agitation I coined the term “Ronald Reagan’s Paradise” as a descriptor of the state of affairs in our country.

Maybe if you understood my and others’ responses, then you would see what the the waste of time is.

I don’t think there’s a one-size-fits-all solution. Some of them could maybe work, some can’t. I think mini-home communities would be preferable to a ...

I have a problem with the first question. My wife works at a transitional housing program for the homeless in Madison, and it’s rarely the case that j...

It’s a minute by minute struggle to be at peace. The “other” constantly wants to point out what’s wrong with you. At some point, you’ve just gotta rea...

And as I was getting at, it’s a dumb question.

Lol. You’d better hope the State never dissolves because it’s what is standing between you and your property and the unwashed masses armed with their ...

Eat the rich.

Well said.

Colors exist as objects of cognition. Cognition is a function of conscious agents. To say that colors don’t exist “in the real world” or whatever nons...

This is physicalist nonsense. Why not just ask if consciousness really exists?

Why would I rather be other than I am? I’ve tried being other people, but it never works out. :wink:

Climate change is a hoax designed to destroy our capitalist free market system. I know this because ExxonMobil told me so.

I will be sitting out the Wisconsin primary due to the fact that the candidates I choose never come close. I may even sit out the General due to anoth...

Some here do actually use their extensive knowledge of mathematics to argue about things that are not in its purview. They wrongly think that axiomati...

What does it matter? The predators get in your head, treating you like filth your entire life to the point that you don’t know whether the voices in y...

Yeah. Unfortunately many of the world leaders don’t see it that way.

Not all ends justify any means. Some ends justify certain means. No end is so noble as to justify any means possible. Rich privilege, power, and comfo...

It’s not so much that the rich are out to get the poor. It’s that the rich have privilege that they don’t want to give up. It’s a matter of habituatio...

I’m not sick. Society is sick.

I try and often succeed in treating people fairly and tolerantly in public. I don’t know what they are going through. I abuse the demonic people on TV...

I agree with you. I was just saying something like that to my teenage son a few weeks back. He told me that he didn’t think Uncle Mark likes him. Kadi...

I was giving an example of a stereotype to shed light on his. It was a rhetorical device.

You’re completely missing the point. I’m not at all surprised.

Actually it is a truth that many white men are pseudo-Christian Tump supporters who own AR-15s. Most people living in the US know this. Likewise, ther...

That’s like saying all white men are pseudo-Christian Trump supporters who own AR-15s is a truth.

Yawn