Those of us who can remember their early childhood, remember being helpless. The typical family is not run as a market, because infants have nothing t...
Genes are entirely selfless, as Dorkins himself admits in the odd moment of sanity. (they lack the awareness requisite for selfishness) One might just...
It's a curious story. If you read The Mass Psychology of Fascism, or his discussion of body armour, whereby trauma is stored in the body as tension an...
Yeah, "I feel that ..." is a common locution. But in the context of a discussion that is distinguishing feeling from reason, it's a cop-out and confus...
Can we say that it is myopic? Perspective is what makes things that are close seem bigger than those that are far away; folly, is thinking it is reall...
There is indeed a deal of trouble - the troubled feelings are widespread. People have the wrong emotions, obviously. 'Wrong' rationally, that is. I ca...
Emotion = giving a fuck. So policy is based on whether, on aggregate, we give more of a fuck about Granny staying alive, or going to the disco. And ot...
It isn't. But whatever it is called (by foreigners) and whatever song is sung, does not make it one thing and not another. Where I live is called the ...
There is no such place. The Republic of China/ Peoples' Republic of China is a State regulated capitalist market. Like The US, but without the veneer ...
When I can do what I want to do, I'm all in favour of freedom. But when you are doing what you want to do and it's ruining my vegetable patch, your fr...
Lack of fear works just as well. Guns are only any good for killing and killing is only any good for instilling fear. Therefore, fear not and stay fre...
I recently saw a flyer for a campaign "Against the Sexualisation of Children". In my innocence I assumed this was about media exploitation of children...
Folks are always banging on about the suppression of free speech. There ought to be a law against it. Rarely mentioned these days are the traditional ...
Perhaps Kant has it the wrong way around: perhaps my knowledge/perception is the thing in myself, and and the object thereof is the thing outside myse...
I think so. The nature of psyche is that one experiences an experiencer experiencing - I would not call it a regression exactly, but a circle such tha...
I already have esoteric experience of the unthinkable dimensions of reality that are eternal, so anyone who disagrees with me is deluded. But I don't ...
A bit o' history, if you like. https://www.redpepper.org.uk/afghanistan-a-brief-history/?fbclid=IwAR3zIKDShvh2XTt6kk55QxUAeO_MQAzZCn9myIxC1_Yyp63z1LTA...
I didn't ask you how you used the term, I asked you if there was non-delusional thinking in words. I see you have a deal of idiosyncratic usages, and ...
Have you ever come across those miserable children who blame their parents whenever they have to walk, or struggle to do something, or fall over, or f...
If you want entertaining logic, Raymond Smullyan is hard to beat. Here's one to whet your appetite: http://www.logic-books.info/sites/default/files/la...
That's exactly the problem isn't it? The science fails to prioritise my arse in line with its value to me. Overall, nobody's safe until we're all safe...
So, no change in the political climate at least. Arguing about whose political system is more responsible, and what it should be called, and not even ...
If you choose to be consistent, you would have to say that choosing and pragmatism and highlighting and posting on philosophy forums are also just neu...
Isn't that question just finger twitches in the vicinity of a keyboard? Well no it isn't. And moods aren't 'just' neurotransmitters any more than they...
If I could rephrase that to 'absolute control' or 'total control', then I would agree. Control requires tolerance. Think of a bicycle - it's unstable ...
As a rule, @"Banno"'s game goes nowhere, and is unsatisfying, unlike mathematics, and dysfunctional, unlike natural language. One might therefore susp...
Since we're doing the Chuang Tzu thing here... https://uselesstree.typepad.com/useless_tree/2005/07/why_useless_tre.html Value is not identical with u...
It is always interesting to see a fresh translation of such Daoist classics. But I don't quite know what I would be voting for - can you explain what ...
Slavery has been abolished; you cannot 'have' kids, except the way you have guests, if you are hospitable. Don't expect them to bring a bottle, or tha...
All the usual suspects! All irritating, and that's what philosophers like - to be irritated and provoked into thinking anew. But we irritate with a sm...
Sure, and it could even be a complete myth, perpetuated by a superficial conformity to stereotype. Maybe women are just a bit more socialised to be se...
Other things being equal, both sexes and variations on the theme, like symmetrical, healthy looking, fertile looking, youngish fit-ish, etc. And those...
It's my lifestyle choice to be judgemental, (so stop being so prescriptive.) especially judgemental of people who don't help out when helping out is e...
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