That's not exactly a unique stance on these forums. Plenty of criticism of objective morality is around. Morality is certainly related, on a fundament...
Yeah we're all totally controlled by our urge to have children. That's why every family has many children as they can, intentionally childless couples...
Pray tell us what these laws are. I don't know. What are the odds? Do tell me. With the relevant formula for calculating them. We got lucky that milli...
Well, that is kinda the definition of reality. But the point is still important, because we really only experience reality as one stream of informatio...
How do you know that? What are you comparing this outcome to? You can believe whatever you like, but what's the point of posting here if you're not in...
What makes the will free is not it's freedom from causation as such, i.e. the will is not somehow unconnected from the fabric of causality. The will i...
But humans obviously do make choices, at least in their heads. So what exactly do you think would be different if humans had free will? How would the ...
It would only be different to a hypothetical observer that somehow had access to both timelines. But all observers exist within a timeline. So the tim...
Why not though? What do you think something called "free will" would look? The problem with this argument is observer bias. We only have access to one...
How does that follow? It's reasonable to assume any number of combination would have lead to a similar result. But perhaps more importantly, I am not ...
That doesn't follow from what I said. You have to consider likely outcomes. Some risks are justified. But you can't go around simply ignoring all unde...
Yeah, I disagree. You're limiting responsibility for your action only to your intended results. But it's a fact that you don't control the exact resul...
Contractual obligations have moral weight according to my moral code. Two wrongs do not make a right. There is a difference between you personally fig...
The countries, and thereby their governments, and thereby the people these governments represent, insofar as they were democratic at the time, have si...
If you look at right wing media, they're more or less openly discussing the strategy. Deligitimize the result in key states, prevent them from certify...
He doesn't stand much of a chance without the support of the GOP establishment. You can't just order a military coup in an established democracy. With...
I think an actual military coup is pretty unlikely. Such an operation would be far too likely to turn off large swathes of the population. If overt mo...
He offered something new and, in it's own way, radical. I think you misunderstand how right wing populism works. Yes, it is backwards-looking, but it'...
Not really. Nothing says wholesome like referring to women as "females". Your respect for mothers apparently does not extend to their ability to judge...
Policy-lite is still policy. That everyone can understand it makes it more likely that it was the reason for the success. There is an alternative inte...
I don't really buy the personality cult angle. Trump, Farrage, Bolsonaro, those are all not people known for their personal virtue, even among their s...
The value of human lifes is not solely dependant on when a killing is considered lawful. That there is no blanket ban in killing doesn't imply that so...
And you have no evidence you're not a robot. What interest do you think we have in killing someone? You're the one demeaning pregnancy and motherhood ...
Ah, so it isn't about baby killing after all. It's about the reasons we have. The abortion debate suffers from a lack of people who are willing to adm...
I have been checking Fox and Breitbart in the past days. It looks like the large GOP donors have decided to let this one go, and not take up the oppor...
Isn't this circular? You have to determine what questions are reasonable and coherent. How would you do that, unless you already knew which questions ...
Yeah, it's very silly to expect the people in charge of the police, the military and foreign relations to be well informed and reasonable. What's the ...
CoViD fatigue. It's not a thankful topic for philosophers anyways. It doesn't lend itself to analysis from first principles, and a lot of data is uncl...
It's the most immediate danger to people on the ground, but in isolation it's unlikely to do damage to the institution. I think the stance of the GOP ...
Ballots can arrive in NC until Nov. 12. There are about 130k ballots which could theoretically be on their way, though it is almost certainly much few...
Interestingly enough, since 2016, money has become less important. Because it is now so easy to reach an audience, it seems like the new currency has ...
It should probably be mentioned that there are several "levels" of the conspiracy, a bit like with Scientology. The entry level is "just" the global s...
People seem awfully quick in predicting Trump's downfall in disgrace. The counting of votes hasn't even finished, and it's a long road to Jan 20. He s...
Why'd they drop him though? That doesn't seem in their interest. Much better to make him into a Martyr and keep him around as a "shadow president". Th...
You know, I have been wondering if Hillary Clinton is secretly smiling over the nail biter race. After everyone treated the 2016 loss as her personal ...
I'd not let my guard down just yet. There is still plenty of room to influence the electoral college. The GOP might not be willing to openly challenge...
In terms of economic reality, Nazi Germany differed very little from any other capitalist state. It was actually rather more internally competitive an...
I'm already depressed even though it looks like he's winning. This bodes poorly not just for the US, but for the resilience of liberal democracy in th...
I don't really agree with that. I think "character" plays a central role in a representative democracy. The problem is that character is hard to asses...
I find it hard to see anything good about the results. Biden is still favoured (even heavily so if AZ flips), but the result still seems to validate a...
Some back-of-the-envelope math on Pennsylvania: Trump is currently ahead by 680.000 votes. There are about 1.7 million votes to be counted. If those b...
But democracy does require decency. It cannot work in an environment of pure power politics. It requires the consent of all involved to abide by some ...
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