Having trouble threading together these two narratives myself. The threat of Russia driving countries into the arms of the world's largest military al...
A minute ago Russia were unlikely to mount any kind of response to NATO escalation, now everyone and their dog will chuck nuclear missiles around like...
I'm not sure what more I can do about your lack of imagination. Imagine the things you think will happen... Now imagine them not happening. You asked....
We're talking about nuclear responses, not ground force invasions. Nonetheless, it's not about the details of the assessment, it's about the scale of ...
Well, that's either insanely egotistical or just plain insane. Why would you trust your own assessment? these are matters of extremely complex militar...
I don't. Some people do. Again, some do. You've yet to demonstrate that. Comfortable and free of pain I'll grant as being self-evident since such emot...
To be clear, you have evidence of something. You can't possibly have private evidence of consciousness, how would you know what the word meant if your...
...and back to my original question. Whose story do you trust and why? If global news outlets report two different things then one of them is (all oth...
What. The fact that we haven't yet had World War Three shows that we couldn't initiate World War Three? That's something of an heterodox argument to s...
But also dis-information. Or are you saying that all bulletins are factually accurate? The task is to determine which of two opposing (or non-overlapp...
"Our biology values that which our biology values" is a tautology. To avoid the tautology you'd have to define well-being in terms other than 'that wh...
There can be. You are arguing that there actually are, not merely that there could be. That's what we professors call a 'difference'. I see, so Russia...
Of course it is, otherwise you're deriving misinformation from it. How exactly? How does your 'broad take' give you a sense of what's happening on the...
Go on then... Tautologous. If our well-being is constituted of those aspects which we are driven to maintain then it says nothing that we a biological...
Yes. And then it turns out that Putin was Zelensky's father all along but turned evil by Biden back when he was training to be a dictator... Brilliant...
Uh huh. And you can't believe them all. Hence the question - whose story do you trust and why? Yes. Since you stipulated that an iron curtain was a ba...
Really. You physically go out and gather your own evidence and then learn all the historical, military, political and economic processes acting on tha...
Ha! Why on earth would they do that? Russia don't invade countries to keep a buffer between them and NATO, that would be ridiculous (apparently) they ...
Sources, not opinions. I have the latter in spades already. You said... I asked for a source. It's not rocket science. You find the article from which...
That talks about Russia's military success in Ukraine. We we're talking about the risk posed by escalating NATO's involvement. Where is the source you...
Your assessment of the likelihood is irrelevant. I just can't get my head round the enthusiasm with which a load of armchair laymen want to speculate ...
Don't be ridiculous. If this is going to be your approach we can forget it, I've not the time to play these daft games. My point requires only that th...
How do they do that? If those metrics are not themselves 'well-being', then you've got to somehow relate them to the concept of well-being you're usin...
No indeed, but irrelevant to the topic of whether we need be wary of provoking a military response. 'Seems' to whom? I've pressed @"frank", @"ssu" and...
I doubt that. There's an entire internet full of alternative narratives, if you've seriously not come across any it seems hard to believe that you're ...
That's all very interesting. What's missing is any reason at all to believe you above the experts at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Or indeed. Cha...
What metrics? OK, so to test whether some behaviour is moral we have to put all the members of the society it effects into fMRI scanners, test for cor...
Indeed I am. I did a DuckDuckGo search for "is Russia a military superpower" Hit one Mixed picture, there then. Hit Two World Number 2. Not convinced ...
You argued that Immoral actions were those which caused a disruption in well-being which could be measured by a change in certain biochemicals. Change...
Yeah, astonishingly reckless complacency from those advocating escalation. It really highlights for me how it's zeitgeist, not expertise that drives t...
Oh well, you should have said earlier! If it isn't likely then you crack on, 'cos 'not likely' is a perfectly good enough probability to work to for a...
...or we could go with the opinion of some random dude off an obscure social media forum... Yes, 'cos Vietnam is a model we should all be striving for...
Sure, because Russia's anti-missile defense is the only issue to worry about when one global superpower provides weapons to attack another global supe...
Yes. I agree. The problem is this... Russia says it's not the aggressor, not evil because blah, blah, blah The West says Russia is the aggressor and e...
Well then your suggestion that... ...seems off. Claims from a single biased source that the US were hiding biological weapons in Ukraine were, quite u...
Indeed. But if the source of a claim is a far-right organisation with a history of anti-Russian activism, it might be worth mentioning that when prese...
You said well-being was measurable by... You will see spikes in those chemicals when you deny a child sweets. So are you now saying that's not how we ...
It can't, for the reasons I've given - 1) Underdetermination - there are too many uncontrolled-for factors for us to say which one caused the change i...
I suspect they probably are, but you'll find an increase in stress hormones in a child denied sweets, you'll find a decrease in oxytocin in a prisoner...
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