If we take "the Cold War" to describe a certain geopolitical arrangement, it certainly has ended. America is, for the time being, still the only super...
There are quote and reply functions. Please use them so people notice when you reply to them. There is a difference between saying "no person is above...
One approach to the solution would be to ask why we care about whether or not we have "free will". Is it because we want our decisions to be free from...
No doubt Putin does not mind mounting internal divisions in the US. Whether feeding Steele lurid information in order to increase said division was pa...
A law is not a state of affairs. The state of affairs is that a given law is in force. But the law itself is normative. That's not what the term "rule...
I am aware of the history of the term, but Smith never referred to market forces as an "invisible hand". Indeed Smith's usage of the term is highly qu...
But the key difference is that in the case of the Steele Dossier, domestic political players used information of dubious quality for domestic politica...
But a russian source is not Russian influence. If an FSB agent tells me Putin's favourite meal, that's information sources from russian spies, but bas...
Sure, let's start. Do you have a problem with unrestrained sex? If you're going to refuse every counterargument as demonic, what's the use talking to ...
It would perhaps good to discuss what this global debt actually means. After all, it's not like the planet is owning someone money. Quite the opposite...
Conditions have changed. The post-war boom was special in that it came with high levels of workplace solidarity and a reduction of wealth disparity. M...
Yes, that'd be the more basic question. Sounds awfully condescending. Perhaps it's your moral compass that's in need of adjustment? A lot has been wri...
How do we know the absolute truth? The unborn cannot lodge such a complaint, even in theory, though. So really it's you making the complaint, even tho...
What is "strict morality"? If you want to argue that someone is moving the goalposts, you have to establish what the goalposts are, first. Without agr...
What goalposts though? Who set up the goalposts that are allegedly being moved? It's not about "life" either. We kill lots of life all the time. No-on...
So If the CIA says the sky is blue, you'll conclude it's red? This is a terrible epistemological stance. Dismissing evidence is idiotic, no matter how...
To do that, you first need to interpret the text. And the interpretation itself will not be machine-verifiable. It's impossible to avoid though. There...
Any system that relies on a text written in a natural language is going to require textual interpretation. Textual interpretation is never going to be...
I'd still have an issue with personally adopting a moral system that is entirely outcome oriented like that though. Sure, Trump's tweets and the bible...
Right now? Nothing. The ship has sailed, Russia has taken up the position of the US and it's not like further involvement now does anyone any good. Th...
I would simply call that a form of indirect evidence for states of affairs. I base a lot of my knowledge/predictions on things people have said, becau...
The problem I see with this approach is that, even if we profess to care about everything, our value judgements are necessarily anthropocentric. There...
He didn't make a statement of fact at all. It doesn't make sense to say he was "lying". They were separate, indeed. Mike Pence negotiated a five day c...
You don't think that all the "hand-wringing" is the reason Trump has expended so much energy trying to get a ceasefire? The permanent ceasefire is bas...
That'd be one way to go about it. The issue I have with this approach is that I think any moral imperative needs to reference a subject. If we are goi...
Let's take positive laws as an example in lieu of a moral system. A given body of law can represent a legal system, and in that legal system there wil...
Well, for one the whole notion would seem to require a consequentialist approach, since we are talking about benefit and harm, correct? It seems convi...
Well, but this raises the question: If the single future person really is a non-entity, because potentialities aren't people, how do we construct a no...
Which would explain a lot of your other views. It's not accurate in the slightest. Fair enough. Since I know it's origins, I cannot really see what it...
Not in and of itself, but in this case it directly supports a view of history of cyclic, where "strength" and "weakness" are the governing factors, an...
I'd agree with that from the standpoint of an atheistic cosmology, but in the context of the theodicy argument, I don't think this distinction holds. ...
And no earthquakes, floods, genocide, brutal dictatorships etc. You seem to have left these out in your hotel description. This is an interesting take...
Possible, but I think the EU's political leaders probably have enough political acumen to realize that they'd be playing into Johnson's Hands if they ...
The issue is that "autodidactic" is not an answer to the question of "how much" education you have. Reading a single book on your own is autodidactic ...
It seems absurd to me to claim that, unless punishment is exactly proportional it's "entirely" arbitrary. If it's a question of reason, then the reaso...
To answer this, we have to first ask why we are so sure what the natural order is? Perhaps it is true that, as a matter of fact, life is unfair and ch...
They can. Billiard balls aren't solid particles on a quantum scale. It's just spectacularly unlikely. But, given that you are aware of the exclusion p...
I agree with your analysis, but has the EU actually backed down? It seems to me they would have accepted this solution earlier, but the British didn't...
No, you! Yes. I doubt that even having any biological body is necessary, given that "a person" is really just a mind. Right. And why would you? After ...
It's a question. Given that you claim we can directly observe causation, you should be able to tell me what the actual cause is, in physical terms. It...
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