Reminds me of The Culture. Excellent books if you like Sci-fi. The end of scarcity entails the end of capitalism. Want something? Download the specs a...
Health and safety needs funding and it needs coercive power. If there is some way this can be provided other than by the state I'd love to hear about ...
:100: But good luck convincing anyone who matters of that. Meanwhile, I fight despair with gallows humour. This is the real problem, that someone some...
Is it possible to arrange the Kalam Cosmological Argument thread into the Kalam font. I'm sure it would make the argument more convincing and the obje...
Recipe for a Mafia. 'Voluntary' contributions to 'protection'. But I suggest to you that market regulation is also important. For example, border cont...
An electric motor and a spring, basically. The difficulty is in getting the forces balanced so that the motor operates the finger with the strength to...
Bore da. I love to watch the dark turn to grey in the morning. A sure sign I am not yet dead. It's a relic of our Christian heritage to care about str...
If the law wishes to mandate children being brought into the world, then it seems to me that the law should also provide for the upbringing of that ch...
I'll leave this here in case anyone is interested. It's a big pile of extemporised words and might not immediately seem on topic, but if you follow it...
The trouble is, with the loss of political probity, no one is believable, which means that anything is believable. In the UK we have the scandal of po...
Why not go for the full transformation with hormone therapy, sperm bank and castration? Reduce all that testosterone fuelled crime, and completely end...
That is a bit simplistic. The issue I would put to you is one of sheer environmental acreage. https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets Now that too i...
The numbers do not lie; the votes add up to 99% therefore 1% is free and undecided even amongst those who have voted. As I have often said if the worl...
The blind following an old blind man with a stick, mistaking it for a vision. If even one you had been without error, the scores would have added up c...
Philosophers have valiantly fought the tyranny of religion and tradition; but they have come under the sway of the tyranny of knowledge and become hyp...
Here's a clue. You're all wrong. I never looked that facility before, so I don't follow anyone, but I just looked and discovered I have 22 followers. ...
Can you explain what you mean by this, since you cannot give an example? It seems to me that if there is a state at all, it needs an income, and there...
https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/1_STRIDE1.pdf So, obviously, if one applies a minimum of charitable interpretation, it is...
What people are calling 'subjective' is an area of lived experience that is evaluative. It encompasses desire and desirability, preference, morality, ...
You may well be right. But he is a legitimate, well published academic, based at UCL a fairly good university. A crank, maybe, but not one to be dismi...
A paradox shows the limit of language, not the limit of being. If as a matter of fact particles turn out to be wavy and waves turn out to be particula...
No, really! No it isn't. One does not wish to erase the memory of slavers or colonial exploiters, or of Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot or whoever. But on...
I agree. But that there are silly claims, does not entail that there are no sensible ones. Of course there are no absolutes, but on the contrary, cult...
Alas it is the result of your thinking, not mine. I do not think cultural differences should be erased - you do. and The Chinese communist Party agree...
It's your bullet dude; bite it or spit out. This is what the Chinese say, that Tibetans, Uighurs, Kazakhs, and others need re-educating. Your turn wil...
Only self-portraits and autobiography are permissible. Don't even speak to me, never mind of or for me. :wink: There is a kernel of justified complain...
There are facts of humanity, such as the long state of dependence of infants and our social nature, that lead to a conflict between what is best for t...
We already know that what ought to be is not, and what ought not to be is. And that is why one cannot derive the one from the other. Do we not know th...
Yup. All written without exception for the other chap, by people who think to have no further need to unfuck themselves. Books written to change the r...
Every Englishman and his dog has a theory about how to solve everyone else's psychological problems, but no clue at all how to solve their own. I'm al...
Alaska and Siberia are going to become more inhabitable in principle -those parts that are above the flood line. but expect migration from the tropics...
Eternalism has a long history. The searchlight in the block universe that is everywhere at once, is consciousness, which is nothing other than God's k...
No. Wanting the best for us includes wanting us to be our best morally. In all fairness, the good deserve rewards and the bad deserve penalties. but i...
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