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I'm not sure. It might just save folks some time wasted looking for something where it isn't, or it might have much bigger implications. One implicati...

When we wake up, we can have a laugh about that maybe, but in the dream, I want to talk about the dream-world, and to bring that up is just a futile u...

Yes, it is difficult. It is as difficult as denying that one can see one's face in the mirror - as if one were a vampire. :naughty: The image is clear...

You, me and Mike are of one mind in these beautiful sentiments. But this is not what you have been arguing in this thread. You can correct me if I'm w...

Thanks! :smile: So the dotted lines are not there, and A' is not there where they are shown on the diagram. So I am saying that neurologists are looki...

Yes. If the old, the sick, the pathetic, the insane, the unborn, all have the same right to life, then you have the same duty to support them as you s...

Here is a ray diagram. Perhaps someone will paste it into the thread. There are no rays, and thus no images behind, or 'in' the mirror. One can locate...

I just did. The whole post is self-reflective. Yet these supposedly internal reflections have reached you.

While there is nothing much I want to disagree with there, it seems one sided. Whilst there may be no final answers, there must be provisional answers...

I've said it twice now, and no one will engage. If, you want to protect the helpless, If you want to uphold a universal right to life, to protection, ...

The Great Programmer created Mario, the princess, and Bowser, and Bowser is evil, while the princess is good. We are Mario, and should try to defeat B...

I'm against eviction, but I don't think it should be illegal. Here, for example is what one might call "social abortion". Shall we argue the toss abou...

How's about a general principle that when a person's personal space is occupied by another - specifically that person A is inside person B, then perso...

Indeed, I am a fairly smart and articulate cookie who has chosen to spend his life doing odd things like working to teach children excluded from schoo...

Fate worse than death? Or worse than being depicted as "a psychiatrically disordered feminist LESBIAN - a thoroughly bitter and twisted, abnormal indi...

I am not remotely humble. I put my life where my ideology is. I am the downwardly mobile son of an architect, and exile from the middle classes. But f...

Well you might well say so, but that is something that deserves it's own thread. I guess your plan is 'get rich, get powerful, then implement a practi...

Yes. There you have it.

I'm very serious. This kind of pseudo intellectual so-called radical truth-telling is influential and gives comfort to the ungodly. I'm a retired nigh...

Stop paying attention to Pinker and Peterson.

My mother had to give up her job when she married, because married women were not allowed to work in the bank. My grandmother did not have the vote fo...

I propose that there are structural social explanations for such supposed racial differences. For starvation, and equally for crime.

political correctness gone mad.

It's a fact; now as an honourable conservative liberal truth admitting liberal, you do not want to deny the fact. As a postmodern neo-marxist degenera...

The overwhelming majority of people who starve to death are non-white. Obviously, whites have a gene for being greedy bastards.

Yeah, he's not allowed to say what he just said, and if someone disagrees, it proves him right. I am of course not allowed to say what I just said, an...

I'm very glad of that, and there are no grounds for any complaint since, by hypothesis, it has also not been deleted and will remain undeleted. Unfort...

"Does anyone else suffer from 'no ego'?" Not me!

I would have gone in there and tied a knot in his gun barrel. Probably. I would expect any of you to do the same. Except the girls; girls would just g...

So inevitably on a philosophy forum there's a trolley, probably a hospital trolley, with a flask of fertilised human eggs on their way to be implanted...

"In sum then, the charge should be laid to rest once and for all that the pro-life movement is not active on behalf of women, children, and vulnerable...

Unlike your post? What a ridiculous claim to make. The resemblance is that humans are suffering and dying through no fault of their own, and it can be...

Well that's what you get for mentioning 'he whose name I am fed up of hearing'. But perhaps one does not need to identify the socio-economic disadvant...

It seems to me that these arguments always turn on an emotional appeal, a line being drawn between human/person and not, and a sort of legalistic argu...

Dude I am the official provider of hysterical historical perspective.

Without actually doing it, It seems to me that you might manage along these lines: assume P assume (P--> ~Q) Deduce ~(P & Q) A sort of reductio.

It's immoral. you are a fallen creature and it's your business to suffer.

Everyone is far too happy these days. When was the last time you heard about Fukushima?

Linked in my first reply. Curiously, I also just came across this, which might be relevant to the op, though I haven't read even the available extract...

Dawkins admits at the beginning of that book that genes are not selfish, and that they have no interests; the whole notion is an analogy. It's a shame...

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

Why is Batman such a violent, punishing teacher? I wouldn't have him in my school.

Are you familiar with the Prisoner's Dilemma? Now personally, I take it to be a demonstration that self-interest is not rational. But supposing that s...

Sorry, forgot the irony alert. Here it is now: :love:

But we know what's best for you better than you do. The only downside is that we probably do not care about it as much as you do, or indeed at all.

"There is no scientific evidence that..." QED.

So here's a study that might interest some. What I found rather shocking though was the unwillingness of government even to compile statistics on mass...

Britannia blazes the trail. All you need is the human rights convention.

Well my experience is very limited and close-up, so it is only anecdotal. It was definitely pie in the sky, and also remarkably successful given the c...

Well they go together. Someone says you're ruining the children in your care and bringing up ignorant monsters, so you want to say - it's really not t...