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@pierra you are changing the subject however. The subject is not about consumerism. But that is the economic theory that you have now introduced. It i...

@leo you believe it can be changed. That dos not mean it can. Touche'.

So you @ssu are regurgitating the minority dissent on the SCOTUS in Heller. You should confess your sins up front when you sin like this. https://www....

You @sir2u should look into Deism. You can google it. Wiki has a great explanation. Deism is the concept embraced for the Philosophy God of the Romant...

Somebody explain to me how I can add @baden to my iggy list and ignore all his comments. He is a dedicated Sophist who uses Sophistry and lies with ev...

Thank you for that. I think.

I believe that idiots should be free to say whatever they want. But I feel a moral obligation to refrain from paying them any lip service for it.

In response to your response with Romantic Philosophy, I concur in your comment that humankind (male and female) is responsible to be stewards of the ...

I would buy you a drink and/or coffee if I could. We all owe you a drink at least for your purely philosophical refutation of @Kranky's extremist skep...

You cannot change it. Neither can the insects change it. Nor any other creature on the Earth can change it. Trying to change something that cannot be ...

The Peoples' Republic of California has laws that you cannot bear your guns in public. They also have one of the highest crime rates in the Nation. So...

Yet another strawman fallacy. You are also a Sophist and a very bad boy.

You are a very bad boy. You just used a big fallacy called putting words in someone else's mouth. Also known as a straw man. So let me correct you: Bo...

We have pheasant and grouse and quail but no turkeys here, no. I have only hunted such birds while on backpack trips with my Colt Woodsman 22LR pistol...

I too love Native American philosophy. The most fundamental principle of it is "No man can tell another what to do." This is way different than anythi...

I wear my clear polarized ski mask as safety goggles whenever I am dealing with the homeless so that they cannot spit on me or at least not into my ey...

If humans were not the top predator on the Earth then next in line would be the other apex predators like orca's, elephants, bears, lions, tigers, wol...

Those of us who are not concerned about climate change simply believe that the ants, termites, and humans on the Earth cannot stop climate change one ...

By "ancient democracies" you must mean Athens and some of the other city states nearby it. These ancient democracies did not possess the U.S. Constitu...

…"conventionally" is a populorum fallacy. You ought to brush up on your Aristotle reader.

Almost the same thing however.

Every POTUS from Reagan to Obama has exported American jobs. Only now has one (Trump) finally tried to reverse that process.

Thomas Jefferson as POTUS was an isolationist moron. Had he been POTUS in the 1930's and 1940's we would all be speaking Japanese by now and worshippi...

… Remembering also of course that Philosophy involves thought experiments whereas Science involves physical experiments. So far @Bitter-Crank is the w...

Bravo !!! @Bitter-Crank you have nicely articulated a corollary to Descartes. You are the winner. Aristotle would be proud. Ok now I want to know who ...

Any body part besides and including the hand would work in this kind of experiment. This is yet another proof that pain ultimately teaches us that we ...

You have become an extreme skeptic. This is unfortunate since Skepticism is a flawed philosophy. There are actually many, many things you may be quite...

All these things have been cinema-tized in science fiction movies. Got any ideas that are original and unique?

Every silver lining has its cloud. And every toy or tool can cause injury if improperly used. While I am neither for nor against the personal ownershi...

Sometimes it is necessary to hide things from your children actually. God must have a good reason for hiding from us. We should therefore trust in God...

All of philosophy is based on emotions where you love that which seems logically true and hate that which is illogical. Love and hate are emotions. Th...

Thank you. For a more Romantic twist on this issue and my response, I would have to say: "God created all mankind. Samuel Colt then finally made them ...

I am putting you on my "Smart List" for now.

The way I handle this problem myself and also recommend to others is the instant that you mention any technical term or word that requires a deeper un...

You have a rather broad definition of ad hom if you think tone is a part of ad hom. Only if you take it personally I guess. But then you could just al...

The saying goes in philosophy that Augustine was a Catholic version of Plato. And that Aquinas was a Catholic version of Aristotle. This is because Pl...

You are a mathematical philosopher. It is very common for philosophers also to be mathematicians. Bertrand Russell was a classic example. My high scho...

There is a rich heritage of Catholic Philosophy which culminates in San Tomas Aquinas. His "proofs of God" are the cornerstone of Catholic Philosophy....

You are a Christian philosopher. You lean towards God's Grace therefore you lean towards Protestant Philosophy. I admire Protestants because of their ...

Here is a Socratic answer: 1. Democracy is best. 2. For democracy to work citizens must vote. 3. To vote everyone must vote for someone. Ergo you must...

I like to agree with people who are smart and disagree with people who are stupid.

To live we need air, physical warmth, liquids (water is for baptism), foods, safety, and a purpose. The Artistic Artificer is one of the classic Proof...

You should have put that phrase somewhere in your first paragraph then.

I am glad I was born in a Nation and in a State and that I also now live in a State that allows me to be free to own guns. I have a pistol that goes w...

Well if you were brainwashed since childhood by your parents, teachers, ministers, friends, the Government, and your employers, it is unlikely that yo...

You need to first define you terms. You forgot to do this.

Your inference that everything has a start is influenced by your limited experience here on the Earth. Everything must have existed forever otherwise ...

I have read Heidegger and I did not like it so I have discarded him.

Defining what is circular has already been done by Aristotle and others even more current. You need to look it up. Not plague me to educate you.

Anyone (like Heidegger) who cannot come up with an argument that grants that others exist as well is not worth considering further.