Communism as a means to organize states or similar large communities is the topic of this thread, so I'm not sure why you believe this is the result o...
Pictures and milbloggers don't sway me. That type of "evidence" is entirely compromised in today's day and age. I stick with data that remains more or...
I think you're confusing individualism and atomization - the latter signifying the disintegration of social bonds, individuals thus becoming atomized,...
To make a long story short, we disagree on some key points. Most importantly, I believe the situation for Ukraine is a lot more dire than western medi...
Feasible as what? As a form of government to nation states? We've ample examples where that didn't work - in fact, it created about as close to hell o...
What are in your eyes some clear indications of China's power in the Ukraine conflict? And in a similar vein, what are in your view some clear indicat...
I disagree, but I would like to hear what you believe China's contribution to this conflict is, that warrants being called the most significant player...
What I think is important for Europeans and Ukrainians to consider, is that the more adversarial our stance towards Russia becomes, the greater their ...
Well, the people in the Pentagon aren't dummies either. My guess is by now they have fully realized Russia's plans to take it as slowly as it needs to...
My guess is that the situation is a lot more dire than western sources are letting on, and that even copious amounts of ammunition would not make any ...
If you're interested in this kind of thing - human peak experiences and how they relate to reality, metaphysics, etc., I would highly suggest getting ...
Macron on Taiwan: 'An ally not a vassal', says France leader Not directly linked to the Ukraine war, but since Europe's position of subservience towar...
My guess is that the "fake reality" dimension of AI will result in people no longer trusting anything they see or hear in media, which I would say is ...
Interesting video. The one thing that always comes up to me with these sorts of videos, is that we're fundamentally looking at a human problem. As alw...
Unless mom decides she's willing to lay down her life for the 20 yo, it's going to be mom. Upon deliberation I don't think it's much of an ethical dil...
If the US government or the West in general truly cared about human rights violations and war crimes they wouldn't have to look very far. What's the a...
Trying to sweep hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of innocent dead under the carpet by labeling them as part of "regimes and dictatorships...
I suspect that the producers of the vaccines have signed agreements that make them non-liable in case the risks they knew might be present turned out ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hm7mXkNmAk AstraZeneca has been banned in Australia due to causing severe, sometimes deadly, side-effects. Considerin...
Well, what had you expected the Russian reaction would be to a hostile military alliance marching up to their border? We in the West might have a view...
It seems to me for a lot of people this war has become about Putin. It has become about a person, therefore personal, and therefore emotional. My impr...
Sure. Psychology has always been an interest of mine. Well, I never claimed I was a "truly impartial observer" - I just asked a question about mental ...
I don't have particularly strong opinions on gun control in America, since I don't live in America. How exactly are concerns over mental health incomp...
It's funny you're reacting with such hostility to the suggestion that mental health is an important aspect to this problem. Top-notch tribalism. Carry...
It works against specific drugs, but because the root causes aren't addressed it's a matter of time before the next one comes along. The problem never...
It's a flawed example because illegalizing drugs has not led to a decrease in drug use, and it can even be argued it led to the creation of ever more ...
You may take the guns away, but the mental health problems will remain. But I guess that's just a "NRA talking point". Perhaps if guns were banned and...
Suppose a child is neglected or abused at home, bullied at school and implicitly told by society that this makes them worthless. That child (or young ...
Guns certainly don't help in making these tragedies less deadly. That's for sure. That's the question, isn't it? If the answer were no, wouldn't we ex...
got it right. I was talking primarily about school shootings, but obviously similarly motivated mass murders can be viewed through the mental health l...
I don't live in America, but is the question as to why children (or in this case a young adult) are committing mass murders ever raised? Because I alw...
Why not? Don't people voluntarily agree on ways to coexist all the time? States just aren't a useful way of reaching such voluntarily agreements, beca...
What about the people who do not have children, though? Perhaps I should have specified better, but this is the group that in my view is subjected to ...
It's hard to view retributive justice as something ethical. Retributive justice serves in the first place a pratical purpose: if victims is not satisf...
As you undoubtedly know, states operate on coercion. Given the cost of operating states is the coercion of millions, they can't afford to faff about i...
Whether social programs offer a minimum standard of living. Because I struggle to think of ways states contribute to people's healthy bodies and healt...
Is that true, though? As a basic humanistic starting point, I like to believe every person deserves a healthy mind and a healthy body. Are states real...
Sure. After I've read enough about Russian history, Russian politics and Russian security policy to be able to condense it into a single platitude "th...
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