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DiegoT

['Member']Joined: October 21, 2018 at 22:33Last active: January 31, 2019 at 11:215 discussions313 comments
Location: some cold place that makes me miss my Spain

Bio

I´m a Spaniard, which is a great thing to be as Spain is one of the top 10 nations that have shaped and developed what we call Civilization. I like politeness, respect, rational criticism, and truth. I`m impervious to insults directed to my humble self, unless they reveal real weak points of mine (then I say thanks to the person). I eventually get banned from EVERY forum I join.

Favourite Philosopher

Wittgenstein, Lao Tse, Gustavo Bueno, Alan Moore

Favourite Quotations

"The populace want to have the same rights as the king, but not one of his duties"

Discussions (5)

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In: Infinite growth on a finite planet  — view comment
What do economists learn about ecology and natural sciences in university? Is anybody in the thread an economist? What do you really know about these ...
January 25, 2019 at 10:21
In: Free speech vs harmful speech  — view comment
It was not a bad example; we need to use concrete images and situations to make abstract ideas more conveyable. My point was that, while true reality ...
January 22, 2019 at 08:58
In: Free speech vs harmful speech  — view comment
I have read all your previous posts, but I could only bother to clarify one of the errors they contain.
January 21, 2019 at 23:59
In: Free speech vs harmful speech  — view comment
colours are not objective measures of anything, but subjective experiences. What is green or not depends on the observer, and this has been proven: ht...
January 21, 2019 at 22:45
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
The true purpose of this thread about Donald Trump is to use him, as a person, as scapegoat. The scapegoat mechanism, developed by primates, allows yo...
January 20, 2019 at 23:35
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Xenophobia is not a real term, but a "shut up!" word. China for example. It doesn´t mean that individual Chinese people can´t be civilized; but their ...
January 19, 2019 at 12:34
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
To keep people from a specific country is not racism, or anti-mexicanism or whatever it is called. It has to do with the relationship between the two ...
January 18, 2019 at 21:23
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
My problem is that I don´t believe our species has different races; apparently Anthropology does not support the existence of subspecies in Homo Sapie...
January 18, 2019 at 21:17
In: Society and testicles  — view comment
I don´t believe in races. I don´t think we live in the Middle Earth. Racial theories were abandoned even before DNA discovery, and only poor ignorant ...
January 18, 2019 at 20:12
In: Society and testicles  — view comment
none of those words.
January 18, 2019 at 20:08
In: Society and testicles  — view comment
No, it doesn´t, I picked a picture from the internet that seems to ilustrate my point. I don´t know the story behind and it really does not matter; it...
January 18, 2019 at 19:54
In: Society and testicles  — view comment
Curiousity: We "testify" in courts, because Romans literally grabbed their pack when they took an oath. Our society is all about crushing symbolically...
January 18, 2019 at 19:12
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Your line of reasoning led you to that conclusion, so I don´t blame you
January 18, 2019 at 15:30
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
You are being naughty...I did not say "countries", but individual people who can move around. It´s your ideological defense filters talking, because d...
January 18, 2019 at 15:28
In: Free speech vs harmful speech  — view comment
I haven´t read it. Is there any call to kill infidels in that book? what makes it inadequate for children? I believe it was written by a monk and talk...
January 18, 2019 at 01:16
In: Free speech vs harmful speech  — view comment
There´s a huge difference: we teach science with experiments and examples that allow children understand that what they are being taught is real, we d...
January 18, 2019 at 01:13
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
who would you rather have as the U.S. president right now? You can not say any Democrat politician, that´s too easy. Somebody not involved in politics...
January 18, 2019 at 00:34
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
There's a glaring fault there. Would you trust this demon worshipper with the care of children with Down's syndrome? "No" should be your answer. So, s...
January 18, 2019 at 00:32
In: Free speech vs harmful speech  — view comment
Is there any text that you would find totally inappropriate for school and for the education of children?
January 18, 2019 at 00:21
In: Free speech vs harmful speech  — view comment
So basically you are saying that I need to be a Muslim dedicated student of Islamic teachings to really understand what the texts might mean. Do you a...
January 17, 2019 at 23:12
In: Free speech vs harmful speech  — view comment
If the intimidation involves threats, revealing personal information, slandering, or making impossible for you to communicate (like hacking attacks to...
January 17, 2019 at 22:35
In: Free speech vs harmful speech  — view comment
this behaviour has never been part of freedom of speech. When you use the language for real crimes, like publishing black lists with addresses to faci...
January 17, 2019 at 22:29
In: Free speech vs harmful speech  — view comment
Have you read the quran and hadiths? because if you haven´t, your belief is just a belief. The vast majority of Nazis never participated in any crime....
January 17, 2019 at 22:22
In: Free speech vs harmful speech  — view comment
It is very important to recognize good things in your enemies. You must not reduce your adversaries to stereotypes, or reject things because they came...
January 17, 2019 at 22:16
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
So let´s say Trump is a racist, and think Mexicans are a race. So what? People can think and feel what they want in Democracy. They are only required ...
January 17, 2019 at 15:59
In: Is it true that ''Religion Poisons Everything''?  — view comment
Perhaps it is odd in North America? In Europe there are lots of connections. The Catholic Church has right-wing and left-wing factions, and this divis...
January 17, 2019 at 15:36
In: Free speech vs harmful speech  — view comment
I advocate freedom of speech, but I don´t think we can save the Nazi regime at all. True, they gave us the technology and scientists to reach the Moon...
January 17, 2019 at 14:24
In: Free speech vs harmful speech  — view comment
Indeed! And the first victims are those related to humour and parody, because no totalitarian regime can prosper if people can see it through the lens...
January 17, 2019 at 14:14
In: Free speech vs harmful speech  — view comment
with pejorative you mean prerogative? Let´s make this question less abstract and more real. Are you in favour of banning Quran and hadiths, or at leas...
January 17, 2019 at 11:53
In: Free speech vs harmful speech  — view comment
that´s Athena, who´s having this as her January personal cause... It should not be a cause, but something we take for granted, but here we are, back i...
January 17, 2019 at 11:45
In: Is it true that ''Religion Poisons Everything''?  — view comment
Communism is as you say, a practical answer to "Matthew 5:5: "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth." It´s no wonder that first social...
January 17, 2019 at 10:07
In: Is it true that ''Religion Poisons Everything''?  — view comment
The first two books that Gutenberg printed out: The Bible and Maleus Maleficarum. There you had the religious wars and the witch hunts.
January 17, 2019 at 09:47
In: Nietzche and his influence on Hitler  — view comment
I once organized a debate with fifteen kids with 10-11 years, about the existence of God; I myself did not take part. They reached to this conclusion:...
January 17, 2019 at 09:42
In: Is it true that ''Religion Poisons Everything''?  — view comment
so these movements say. But we can not study social phenomena from the point of view of the phenomena themselves; the scientific study of the Bible st...
January 16, 2019 at 22:17
In: Nietzche and his influence on Hitler  — view comment
Bear in mind please that the modern ideas of God are recent, and we can not assume at all that they were equivalent to what people believed tens of th...
January 16, 2019 at 20:46
In: Nietzche and his influence on Hitler  — view comment
I think your intuition about tribes needing new religious myths and deities might be right, but it is generally believed that this came as a result of...
January 16, 2019 at 15:46
In: Nietzche and his influence on Hitler  — view comment
No, I did not say demonic but daemonic, as in the Greek meaning as used by Greek philosophers. I did not use immoral either, but amoral. These deities...
January 16, 2019 at 15:12
In: Nietzche and his influence on Hitler  — view comment
Thjs resounds with me, because it is in accordance with Greek philosophy and Egyptian philosophy (Maat)
January 16, 2019 at 15:05
In: Nietzche and his influence on Hitler  — view comment
I´m not sure that hunter gatherers appointed any supernatural being as authority for morality. It is difficult to guess and impossible to settle what ...
January 16, 2019 at 14:18
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
would you be okay with restricting immigration from regions where cannibalism and human sacrifice is still practiced frequently? My point is if you ag...
January 16, 2019 at 13:38
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Can you use another term instead of "racism"? It does seem to imply that "Mexican" is a race, "Muslim" is a race, and "illegal immigrant" is a separat...
January 16, 2019 at 13:29
In: The Vegan paradox  — view comment
There´s too much soy and too little animal fat in this conversation to produce smart brain outcomes. I quit it.
January 16, 2019 at 12:23
In: The Vegan paradox  — view comment
but going vegan doesn´t prevent systematic and deliberate killing and torturing of animals; I suggest you visit an organic farm and ask the farmers wh...
January 16, 2019 at 10:42
In: Is it true that ''Religion Poisons Everything''?  — view comment
The definition of religion is inadequate, if communism is not in it. We must not define social realities from inside the discourse that those phenomen...
January 15, 2019 at 20:10
In: If plants could feel pain would it be immoral to eat?  — view comment
Where, in this process of expanded awareness, does rational thinking play a part? Or is it all feelings and emotions? Because without rational and exp...
January 15, 2019 at 18:56
In: The Vegan paradox  — view comment
the human soul is all the sum of all the contents of our metaphysical selves. The culture, the spiritual, our values, symbols, rituals, our tastes, be...
January 15, 2019 at 18:40
In: Is it true that ''Religion Poisons Everything''?  — view comment
I agree with that line of thought, but do you realize that it does not need to be restricted to fire arms, but to all possible tools and technologies ...
January 15, 2019 at 17:40
In: The Vegan paradox  — view comment
you haven´t read my comment, but an imaginary comment concocted by your mind. This is probably due to an excessive emotional implication; I suffer it ...
January 15, 2019 at 14:45
In: The Vegan paradox  — view comment
Veganism is partly a consequence of considering the animal kingdom as a collection of Pokemon trading cards, as early biologists and pseudobiologists ...
January 15, 2019 at 13:48
In: If plants could feel pain would it be immoral to eat?  — view comment
3. "It´s only immoral to cause pain to innocent organisms when there are viable alternatives" is my favourite. Sometimes pain and heavy torture is the...
January 15, 2019 at 12:11
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