Anonymity is not a good thing. It allows persons to participate in communities, no matter how vile that community or that participation is, without th...
Because life is a wonderful experience, despite the fact that there is also struggle and adversity. These things teach us how life works. They give us...
If one believes life amounts to nothing but struggle and adversity, and it is without redeeming qualities, then it makes little sense to want to proce...
Two thoughts come to mind. The first: Why would anyone wish for another to experience adversity and struggle? This seems like a profoundly malevolent ...
The only logical conclusion one can come to given the aforementioned scenario is, like the wisest of the Athenians once said, "I know that I know noth...
What exactly would constitute a victory in the 'war on terror'? That terrorist attacks are no longer being carried out, or that terrorist attacks are ...
In word and intuition 'modern societies' may feel compassion, but in their actions they consume more and more, to the detriment of exactly those they ...
If you're interested in uncovering the meaning of dreams, there's a series of lectures you may consider watching. You can find them here on YouTube: P...
Whether one agrees with these rules or not isn't relevant to the point. The fact is that civilizations throughout the ages have attempted to formulate...
Nowhere did I claim it would be the solution to all the world's problems. Simply that following those two rules as an entirety would universally make ...
Omnipotence is a rather strange and paradoxical term, but it's also not the staple atheists pretend it to be. After all, if God was not omnipotent, bu...
How could not calling men beautiful possibly damage them? Surely, if affirmation is required in order not to be damaged, the one that's doing the dama...
An extremely interesting topic, but clearly not about statecraft, no? Central in Plato's theory on the nature of reality or 'The Good' or 'The One', i...
They're both related to the individual. For Plato explains justice to elaborate on his assertion that it is better to be just and spurned than unjust ...
As Valentinus pointed out before me: Plato's Republic is about using the example of a state as a means to better understand the individual. It should ...
What if morality is universal, but societies simply get them (partially) wrong most of the time? Aren't there many 'rules' that one could think of, th...
Ah, insults. The last refuge of the ignorant. It takes a special kind of debater to call a sensible statement like "the world would be better without ...
Since you didn't react yet, I'm assuming you won't be answering my question. I'll answer it for you in that case, and make my point anyway. Any ration...
In Taoist philosophy the feminine is seen as a symbol for everlasting. "The Valley Spirit never dies. It is named the Mysterious Female. And the doorw...
A point of order: universal doesn't mean absolute. You continue to dodge my question, by trying to find exceptions to a rule that any sane person can ...
I considered this, but in order for something to be murder it needs an element of crime, in which case things like war and capital punishment couldn't...
We've gone over this already. Killing someone as an unintended side-effect of self-defense cannot be considered wrong. Similarly, killing someone by a...
It certainly is always wrong and that is what I am arguing. I think I have pointed that out for the examples you gave me. Self-defense is a strange ca...
To terrorize people into following the rules can only be seen as wrong. It is the sort of practice that made Stalin's regime so terrible. If terror is...
The use of the term "moral order" seems rather vague here, but you seem to be suggesting that killing as a means of maintaining public order, capital ...
Perhaps it would be more accurate to state that psychiatry finds it more plausible to change the individual rather than the society that is making him...
You're purposely dodging my question, I would assume because you are afraid what I might do with your answer. I'll put it plainly: You disagreed with ...
Devout means with deep commitment. Fanaticism requires an element of excess, so they are not the same. And in what instance would you say murder is ju...
Morality; good and evil, virtue and sin, is a universal, absolute concept. It cannot change. It simply is. Mankind can try to interpret good and evil ...
Either the internet provides something unique and therefore uniquely creates avenues to do both good and evil, or the internet provides nothing unique...
Of course the internet has value. The question is whether you'd miss it had you never known it existed. You probably would've made different choices a...
Medicine has been around since recorded history and probably before that. Modern medicine makes it possible to treat more severe diseases and conditio...
Quality and length of human life should not go above all else. Presently, there exists a negative correlation between our quality and length of life a...
There's nothing that stopped man from being at harmony with nature 2000 years ago, and there's nothing that's stopping man today, except man itself. T...
You seem to be questioning the morality of human existence, rather than life itself. And haven't you already stated that human existence isn't fundame...
The idea that science would be able to accurately predict an individual's behavior is absurd. Even if you could create a visual representation of all ...
Well said, I agree. Lately I've been contemplating the barriers you describe. I'm not certain what part of them is real and what part of them is a pro...
Interesting perspective. Another factor is how societies have gotten used to a standard of living which is largely unsustainable and superfluous. I'd ...
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