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Is this true, though? Can't one imagine individuals who become disinterested in attempting to fit in, and come to perceive the development of a person...

The question remains whether these external ideas introduced to us through social interaction help us understand who we truly are or instead encourage...

I would go with an entirely different approach. To actualize the self (to become one's unique person) one must free themselves from all the psychologi...

Try Twitter if substantiating your claims and opinions is so unappealing to you.

That's not proof. First, you'll need to provide something other than "read the news" to support your claim that 90% of buildings have been destroyed. ...

Sounds like a bunch of inflammatory nonsense meant to vilify the political enemy. What proof do you have that Russia is bent on "annihilation"?

This is hardly the first domino to fall in the ongoing assault against individual freedom. Where were all the lamenters then?

Evolution is not something the individual has any influence over, nor is it something the individual will experience the fruits of in their lifetime. ...

Neither do I. Those are your argument's logical implications. I didn't find them very compelling either.

If one doesn't believe people have agency, then there's little point in arguing morality. Individuals don't go through evolution. In fact, they don't ...

I'm not advocating anything. I'm sharing thoughts and asking questions. Is that really all you have in favor of your argument? I wonder what would hap...

What is extreme about it? I can see you may not find it very usual, but to err on the side of caution is hardly extreme.

A newborn has no choice but to live, and an adult can only make that choice by committing suicide. If your argument is that "if you don't like it, jus...

It's nothing like that. Firstly, it is not your car. It's someone else's. Secondly, "a flat tire" represents an objective problem with an easy solutio...

I disagree. The anti-natalist problem is very simple: what gives one the right to decide for another that they should experience life? Until someone c...

No they're not, not for great powers anyway. And the fact you would use the United States as an example of why they would be is ridiculous. There's no...

We agree on that. Mexico attacking doesn't seem very likely either. But how do you think the United States would react if Mexico were to enter, say, a...

You are talking about the length of the border after the admission of Finland as a NATO member, then? That's by no means obvious from what you said, s...

What border is this? An interesting theory, presuming the ability to look deep into the Russian psyche to uncover underlying, even conspiratorial, mot...

Yes, and how does it relate to what is happening today and what Mearsheimer is saying about it today? He said this in 1993. You're leaving us to guess...

Yes, so? You're not making a point, but leaving us to guess what it is. You believe he is wrong in what he states today?

I take it you disagree with his view on a Ukrainian nuclear deterrent? What's your point? And how does it relate to the arguments he's making today?

NATO, more specifically the United States, is deeply committed to integrating Ukraine into its ranks - an intention they have publicly expressed as fa...

:rofl: You ignore the central point of Mearsheimer's message so you can avoid having to engage with the substance, because it's threatening to you. Th...

You're obviously not interested in talking substance. Just like you latch onto any excuse not to engage with actual substance that's presented. The st...

I'm not seeing any sources. One would almost get the impression you don't have any.

Beating around the bush again.

The "madman Putin" hypothesis. Do you have any scholarly sources that provide a basis for such a hypothesis, like the one I provided for a more geopol...

You just stated what is happening in Ukraine is a geopolitical conflict. Now you imply that it is not geopolitical factors that caused the conflict in...

Then what impact would Putin's death have on the geopolitical factors that underlie the conflict in Ukraine?

You're getting a little hung up on this "great power" thing. One might almost get the impression you're desperately trying to find something to disagr...

Your gas bill suggests otherwise. Regardless, whether or not you consider Russia is a great power isn't relevant to the point I'm making - a point whi...

I think Putin's death would not produce a peace. The conflict in Ukraine represents a genuine geopolitical great power struggle that goes much further...

And they have publicly expressed a desire to make it so, and actively taken steps to make that a reality. (See Mearsheimer's talk) The United States a...

Is it your interpretation that Mearsheimer's theory hinges on whether or not Putin is capable of lying?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciVozNtCDM

It's a compromise because the United States and the European Union obviously want to add Ukraine to their political spheres - something which is unacc...

Since before 2014 the Russian red line has been that Ukraine must stay neutral, independent and demilitarized. In your view, have the United States an...

What are the forum's thoughts about Ukrainian membership to the European Union, which seems to be inching ever closer? If Ukraine becomes a member of ...

Paper "money" and metal money are markedly different. Paper "money" is not real money, but currency. It's a means of exchanging value. Real money is a...

This would be a funny joke if I didn't know you were being serious. Taking away economic power from private individuals and putting it in the hands of...

Are you joking, or some kind of closet racist?

Interesting theories, no doubt with a great deal of truth to them. But I'm not willing to absolve governments just because an alternative theory exist...

Not all money printing is undesirable, since it can be used to accomodate a growing economy which relates to your comment. But instead it has been use...

It's monetary policy of printing billions of dollars causes inflation. It adopts this monetary policy to accomodate a general fiscal policy of spendin...

I'm not going to play this game where you ask for details while ignoring the elephant in the room.

I realize I should have specified, but fiscal policy and monetary policy are connected, and intimately so, and both have been disastrous. How did the ...

You mean to say you didn't see this coming with the disastrous fiscal policy that the United States and other western countries have been pursuing for...

You're probably right, but this pill has become a particularly bitter one to swallow, because the raise in interest rates it would require to countera...

So what, if that is the result of people's voluntary actions? There's nothing wrong with destroying the village if all the villagers voluntary want it...