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Is anyone surprised? I doubt it. This decade long war only ends with both sides sitting down and negotiating peace. It could probably have been avoide...
September 28, 2022 at 13:26
I was just pointing out that ‘partial mobilisation’ is about putting people on the military payroll into battle. If someone is willing to sign up and ...
September 28, 2022 at 13:17
Partial Mobilisation means they call up people on the payroll in the territorial army basically. The people fleeing are likely fleeing to avoid the ne...
September 28, 2022 at 05:34
Assume for a second I actually know what I am talking about and stop ranting. You have not addressed the OP because maybe you did not understand. Ever...
September 28, 2022 at 05:26
@"Agent Smith" There are some very well accounted psychological difference between men and women. In many circumstances we could state that women ‘car...
September 27, 2022 at 06:27
Well, we are unlikely to see ‘justification’ for an action as a negative thing. We know from the neurosciences that we are bias in terms of authorship...
September 27, 2022 at 06:19
Maybe if you back up your claim I will answer. If it is just your personal opinion based on nothing much more than personal experience I am not intere...
September 26, 2022 at 14:14
Nah! They just tend to care about different things.
September 26, 2022 at 11:10
His account of the wiki page was at least more accurate than some. My point - which is overall irrelevant to the OP - was that the primary difference ...
September 26, 2022 at 05:22
Do not try. Just tell me and explain or leave. I am not here to waste my time or yours so spit it out before I lose patience … then address the OP mor...
September 26, 2022 at 04:47
Hypotheticals are meant to be tinkered with imo. If the cancer problem was framed ‘if you do not kill and steal the cure your wife will certainly die’...
September 25, 2022 at 05:53
I do not. That point was one of the issues Care Ethics has when it comes to addressing interpersonal relations. By responsibility I thought it was cle...
September 24, 2022 at 23:04
Anyway, to be clear about the debate of how Care Ethics is classified there is no actual clear cut answer. I will say that the whole development of Ca...
September 24, 2022 at 21:38
Take your patronising tone somewhere else matey. Bye bye.
September 24, 2022 at 21:16
Check your own source you referenced. Jason Josephson Storm Is not the originator of Ethics of Care at all.
September 24, 2022 at 20:15
So I was not wrong. You are making a judgement based on how some individual chose to classify it (based on buddhist views). When I hear Virtue Ethics ...
September 24, 2022 at 20:05
Well, if the people were members of your family I think you may think differently. Ethics of Care is kind of stating this is ‘okay’ and if it was savi...
September 24, 2022 at 19:41
My point was that both Applied Ethics and Ethics of Care essential avoid responsibility and that the real issue is people’s constant crutch of ‘justif...
September 24, 2022 at 18:23
Then why bother? Humans are quite capable of making mistakes and being creative with them. That is basically our best quality is it not?
September 24, 2022 at 09:13
I am pretty sure this is due the realisation (or rather subconscious arrival of) that traditions and cultural values are separate entities rather than...
September 24, 2022 at 09:11
I honestly do not think any of the three issues in the OP is the biggest problem humanity currently faces. The issue is one of communication. Better c...
September 24, 2022 at 08:56
Would be nice to see each AI argue using a certain philosophers body of work and then adjusting according to what other AI say from their philosophica...
September 24, 2022 at 08:36
Humans can actively create new phrases that actually have intent behind them. AI cannot. AI would, at best, be a pseudomystic - spouting phrases that ...
September 24, 2022 at 08:33
It cannot. It basically cherry picks from human thoughts. It does not ‘create’ any new ideas and anything that looks ‘new’ is simply due to the reader...
September 24, 2022 at 08:20
The western body of history is simply greater. I think it can well be argued that the Japanese are strong/er in terms of maintaining a long line of cu...
September 24, 2022 at 07:37
On second thoughts … I would say western because it has a strong line of development. The major problem in the western arena is that ‘mysticism’ is vi...
September 24, 2022 at 07:35
It is dangerous. Since the beginning of time people have feared and worshipped in the name of ‘knowledge’. Ironically those who oppose technology are ...
September 24, 2022 at 07:15
Depends where you were brought up.
September 24, 2022 at 07:02
It is irrelevant. We are not living in a simulation. If you insist we are then there is only the simulation therefore the ‘simulation’ is in fact iden...
September 24, 2022 at 07:00
I generally think people do not think too much. If there is a ‘modern’ issue it is likely more along the lines of ‘distraction’ that excessive thinkin...
September 23, 2022 at 12:48
A problem I have heard from farmers is people buying up land cheap making it impossible for farmers to start up a business. This also effects the envi...
September 20, 2022 at 05:08
In the broader sense of the OP there is interest for everyone in how roles in society have changed. A lot of this came more readily into focus in the ...
September 19, 2022 at 15:12
Most of the talk in this area is generally pointless because it is full of political nonsense. If someone clearly wishes to be treated as a man/boy/wo...
September 19, 2022 at 15:01
Nah! It is just a very crass generalisation that does nothing to progress any reasonable discussion … that was probably the point of Mr. Smith’s comme...
September 19, 2022 at 14:08
I need to think about this whole subject more. Seems like a decade is not enough :D Perhaps with my current attempts I will refine my thoughts better ...
September 19, 2022 at 12:50
That is hardly equivalent. Humans can be male and female. Humans, as far as I know, have never been big-nosed monkeys. It is common enough for people ...
September 19, 2022 at 12:42
Yes. The key terms here being ‘aimed at’ rather than immediately implemented at all costs. The issue is people have to get out of severe poverty prior...
September 19, 2022 at 12:38
In short, it is ‘inbuilt’ but that is not to say nurture is thrown out completely. I say this because we are social beings and our success comes throu...
September 19, 2022 at 10:40
I am starting to agree. I thought he was talking about our experience of time not some garbled rubbish that is neither physics nor philosophy.
September 19, 2022 at 05:47
Nonsense.
September 19, 2022 at 05:46
For remote tribes they do not have a concept of time (well not like us). We have learnt, been nurtured to, segment time and parcel up our day into nea...
September 18, 2022 at 05:58
Just ask yourself if it is more likely that a teapot is orbiting Mars. This seems at least physically feasible whereas when it comes to psychic powers...
September 18, 2022 at 04:50
Time and space can be viewed physically or psychologically. Psychological time is far more varied and malleable. What feels like a day for one person ...
September 18, 2022 at 04:41
Of course different people can be more absorbed in some ritual than others. Take the Sunday Roast. Some may just take it as a meal, whilst another wil...
September 18, 2022 at 04:22
I would still maintain that a ‘ritual’ is not about viewing the world. I would also say that it is possible for it to be shared.
September 17, 2022 at 21:27
I am a bit suspicious of calling every social interaction a ‘ritual’ for the reason I mentioned above (ie. Viewing everything as ‘Art’). I think that ...
September 17, 2022 at 16:48
Well, this is a topic that has had my attention on an doff for decades. It is (as was pointed out above) a major question in anthropology. One approac...
September 17, 2022 at 13:56
You are not making a whole lot of sense here. If there is no data presented you are just voicing your opinion. I do not think for a second that the nu...
September 17, 2022 at 11:17
Okay. Makes sense. I haven’t thought that far back for a longtime in regards to childhood crushes … I guess it was possible I had crushes too that far...
September 17, 2022 at 11:12
Homosexuality is clearly not an ‘evolutionary dead end’ because it occurs in many species and has not disappeared for millions of years. My question w...
September 17, 2022 at 10:47