I wonder if that might actually somewhat lessen the impact the illness has on these countries psychologically and possibly economically. I know it sou...
Scientists are not necessarily well versed in philosophy. So you often get fairly well-trodden metaphysical ideas, like the simulation hypothesis, get...
Well then, explain how that works. Please explain these terms. I have no idea what they mean. Are you saying one can't measure time? Anyways where do ...
He isn't really trying to claim that. He's just putting the words out there so they can be found by search engines, and so other members will oblige t...
From Worldometer: there have been approx 150.000 deaths today. That site also gives various daily averages for different causes of death. We don't hav...
How do you know it has been planned? Of those members here who support Trump, you're one of the interesting one's (actually, I think you're the only i...
That's just capitalism. Give me a single economic policy of "globalism" that's not motivated by the interests of capitalism. So, what has been negotia...
Well, then what is it? Interpreting science is evidently not in itself science, as the process of interpretation cannot at the same time be the object...
Well, I remain unconvinced. Let's imagine the professor in the example says something like "well you should have killed your neighbors and stolen thei...
So the argument can be expressed less rigorously as: 1. We should believe true statements 2. If we should believe true statements, we can. 3. In a det...
It isn't, though it should be. "It makes sense from a scientific perspective" does not mean it's science. It's pop-philosphy. It does have those theor...
Why would either the DNC establishment or the registered voters want to replace the guy they just build up? Has anything dramatic changed about his vi...
Regardless, you failed to specify. You went straight from "it's not 100% accurate" to "it's a lie". Yet you complained that all of Trumps inaccurate s...
Who called him an "admitted rapist"? Some opinion piece somewhere? Have a source for that? Isn't it entirely possible it's mostly lies, and claiming i...
The resident troll has already told us what the narrative will be. The right-wing media will blame the CDC and FDA, treating them as individual instit...
Oh, so if they just report the weather today, that's also "hyperbole"? Or lying about having a dangerous epidemic under control while it is in fact sp...
Despite a global pandemic, the UN security council cannot even agree on a joint statement. That body is now, once again, completely dysfunctional. I w...
It's reasonable enough in theory. You'd need to set up something like border controls between the areas though, which might well be tricky. Of course ...
Yes, our knowledge, and therefore whatever model of reality is based on that knowledge, can only ever be finite. There might be unknowable aspects of ...
If that were the case, why would people be as unhappy with their representatives as they are? Making it through is merely the lowest rung on the ladde...
So you're pro choice then? :wink: But seriously, if you are going to adopt some meta-political stance based on allowing as much electoral choice as po...
Why do you base what you want on what other people do or do not do? That's genuinely confusing to me. I get voting tactically to get what you want, or...
That just sounds like you're avoiding the question. If it truly didn't matter, why did you bring it up earlier? I suppose I'll complain about it on th...
Well if the whole country decides they'd want rape within a marriage to be legal, would that be cause to just accept it. I think it's obvious that whi...
That, or testing is more limited, only discovering the more severe cases, which are usually older patients. We won't really know until the data has be...
I made a thread about the moral standing of future people a while ago, but unfortunately (for me) it didn't get any traction. I think that, as our cap...
Not sure how one or the other is more logical. As to the moral question: how certain so the negative consequences in the future have to be to justify ...
Uh, impeachment was already finished by that point? And who care about what anyone calls Trump? He certainly doesn't care about what he calls others. ...
Why is it not lying? Is it ok for politicians to lie, some of the time or all the time? Do some politicians lie more than others? Where and when did C...
I know you're probably just a crazy person, but, a 10% fatality rate in Italy isn't a compelling medical reason? What compounds the issue is that the ...
Numbers from Europe indicate that Germany, France and Italy are now out of the exponential growth phase. So the lockdowns appear to have the desired e...
Well they have been for the last two weeks. Or rather most of the world. China did send equipment and advisors. Spain is now in pretty much the same s...
Not unless NATO has a bunch of respirators lying around somewhere. The issue is specialised equipment and medical personnel. And what makes it worse i...
The known and the empirically knowable, yes. But beyond that, the meaning of "the universe" gets rather vague and nebulous. This topic tends to run in...
Yeah, yeah. I am sure whoever you're working for already has a whole narrative lined up for you to peddle. I am of the opinion that the "trolley probl...
He's just preparing the next pro Trump spin. Bad consequences from the lockdown? Experts gave Trump wrong advice. No strict measures enforced? Trump w...
Depends on what you mean by "the universe". If the nature of the universe is established via the scientific method, whatever is the result must be fin...
But why do good neighbors need a fence in the first place? The whole notion seems contradictory to me. The fundamental principle of nationalism is "th...
In other news, barring significant changes during the last couple hours of the day, it looks like the measures taken in Italy are starting to have an ...
Sure. But that's just politics. It's not exactly conductive of rationality. People are emotional. People want their political enemies to fail, sometim...
And my point was that the conventions in place to allow convenient communication don't change what the truth is. If you refer to one thing as a "mat",...
I think you're unnecessarily imbuing the terms "mat" and "cat" with some sort of essential "mat-ness" and "cat-ness". The problem you're describing di...
Assuming you got the prevalence of the disease right, which is the difficult part of the calculation. If we assume the base chance to have the virus i...
Do you think people will accept reducing their standard of living in order to achieve this "deglobalisation"? The Schengen agreement has specific clau...
True. But then we'd at least be able to evolve that question into a number of questions about specific things (since "anything" is again merely a cate...
I think this statement already highlights the problem with the notion of "nothing" as an ontological category. You can only meaningfully talk about th...
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