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Sure. I am aware of those kinds of compasses. But what's special about the Trump presidency is not just the policies. Those had already been republica...

Honestly, who knows where the center is anymore in US politics? Trump and with him most of the republican party went to somewhere completely outside t...

This isn't a debate. It's an attempt to get a handle on Nosferatu's propaganda.

The apparent divide between "ends" and "means" is a false one. One can wish for a certain end without considering the means. However, once one makes a...

Well the first question is, does Kant view ethics as a "logical problem"? I am not seeing anything about maxims here. The categorical imperative is no...

What's the important difference? "Atheist" and "theist" are categories. That they gloss over subtleties is kinda the point. Saying someone falls into ...

But why would you ignore all the ready-made fusion reactors that are already around, their output for the most part wasted? Even if you have other way...

Unless the laws of physics are fundamentally different from what our research so far suggests, the available useable energy in the universe is finite,...

The problem of evil has to be seen in the context of Christian theology. It doesn't apply to gods in general.

Granted, I am an atheist. But if we consider possible states of reality, it seems to me there are only ever two options. X is the case, or X isn't the...

Is "neither denying nor affirming" a proposition? It seems to me that it "proposes" nothing at all.

So are you. Never a single answer.

If the language was more precise, you'd now be complaining that forecasts did not come true. Something you are, in fact, already doing. And have you l...

Is he the sucker? Or are we, for giving him a stage and willing actors? Who do you think stands to gain from keeping up the appearance of a debate?

Just going to point out that, over here in the real world, it's perfectly normal for charges to be downgraded during the course of an investigation. S...

If you tried to actually do it, but failed, I'd try to get you convicted for attempted theft.

Wanting a public aannouncement is the evidence. If you don't believe me, I encourage you to walk into a shop, take a bunch of items and leave without ...

To pay for what? Your sentence is missing an object.

But you were attempting to defend Trumps promise of building a wall. So what does any of this have to do with the wall idea? So who did you mean?

What is this nonsense? Anything the Mexicans are paying for is now related to Trump's promise of building a wall? How would anything that Mexico does ...

And all achieved without a wall, or anything related to funding a wall. So where is the connection, exactly? No-one is arguing that "building a wall d...

That has nothing to do with the wall, as you well know. Says who? You? That's as patently absurd as claiming all Trump supporters are idiots who only ...

Well, there's Germany, France and Italy, as well. Interestingly enough, this made me realize that republics don't actually make up the vast majority o...

That seems a bit constructed to me. There is a bunch of emotional needs that people also want fulfilled. People will also not necessarily be aware of ...

But that wouldn't explain the geographic clustering, would it? There are other correlations concerning the nordic european countries: Protestantism. A...

Am I not allowed to pick and choose what I find interesting? Who am I "covering for" by asking you a question? Why are you so afraid of questions, any...

One might accuse you of much the same, given your unwavering loyalty to your chosen cause. So are these more than words, "empty and without value"? Ca...

It doesn't follow from a rule in the sense of a social construct. Something that people decided to do. It follows from the way human minds work. It's ...

Do you want a descriptive answer or a philosophical argument? From the perspective of moral philosophy, I think the ability to engage in a form of "so...

There is a base assumption at play here: that consciousness can be categorised, using language, under a more general term. But is this necessarily the...

your objections are good ones. Natural selection is not about who is the most viciously competitive. The only thing that's relevant is spreading your ...

There's also, presumably, a reason why the first section is specifically about Kant's legacy and not Kant's work itself. It works just fine to say tha...

Why not pick any random philosopher? The first essay in the companion you cited isn't titled "Hume's legacy".

Because Kant is the jumping-off point for continental philosophy?

Were you referring to the introduction or the first essay? I read the parts of the former that were available, and it didn't seem to consider Kant a c...

The idea is that, as a punishment, death is absolute, so doing torture + death would just be adding gratuitous cruelty. It is, however, not possible t...

What's specifically "continental-style" about Kant? It seems to me he'd be among the more "analytic" philosophers of his time.

That's not really how the human psyche works. People can be extremely miserable and still also afraid to die. I don't think there is a good justificat...

I think personhood has intrinsic value, so I am going to respect the life of people as a basic requirement for that. I think suicide is not a moral is...

Well, I consider personhood to have intrinsic value. For the purposes of this thread, I'd stick with a standard concept of personhood, so humans have ...

You're denying capitalism leads to escalating income inequality without some form of outside influence. That's a factual claim that made in the articl...

Then you are not, in fact, giving the quoted articles the "benefit of the doubt" as you claimed.

So, to clarify, would your question apply to something like a synthetic mind? An uploaded brain or similar? That is are we talking about something spe...

Does this also extend to other genetic expressions, such as eye and hair colour? Pretty sure skin colour falls under physical characteristics. As far ...

That might get us down a rabbit hole concerning where the meaning of words resides. But yes, the Harry Potter books are physically real. There's also ...

It sounds like what you're actually asking is "do people have intrinsic value". Life has the status it has because it's the most basic prerequisite to...

The linked articles make the opposite argument: That State intervention is necessary, because there is no intrinsic mechanism in a capitalist economy ...

When we say "fictional", we usually mean that something is not physically real, and the method to tell what's physically real is the scientific method...

Since this is a philosophy forum, I am obliged to ask what you mean by "real". Harry Potter is "real" insofar as I have a mental model of him as a cha...

Sure. But I don't see how that supports your argument given the context it's used in. As per the article you linked, Lawrence Tribe makes the same poi...