Judaka

My understanding is that misanthropy is not about improvement and it's not constructive, a misanthrope is simply someone who holds humans in contempt,...

If misanthropy is just a condemnation of certain human behaviours then everyone is a misanthrope. It's the conclusion that these condemned aspects are...

It's kind of like hating all dogs because some might bite or bark at you or disliking books and listing the reasons as all the bad books ever written....

Man is judge, jury and executioner in all courts. You can in your heart of hearts be convinced of your righteousness. I admire this, it allows the int...

Evolution aside, competition by itself creates efficiency and quality like nothing else, the stakes range from economic, political, social, sexual and...

Their ideas and practices, their organisation and many things. Take a stratified society as an example, the existence of which may predate any living ...

They are obviously part of society, that's like saying "I'm not part of a group, I am the group". Well, I'm not even going to deal with this anymore.

But that's not what moral responsibility is about, at the point where the husband literally forced the wife to kill herself, that's no longer suicide ...

These things simply aren't mutually exclusive and it's not just society or culture, behaviour can't be analysed in a vacuum. Society constitutes the e...

When someone is "morally responsible", we are not talking about them being the only or absolute cause and that is missing the point. I think moral acc...

Depends on the context, when addressing an individual, blaming society diminishes personal responsibility and while addressing a widescale problem, bl...

Well, I think that's too general and I'll say that even though I'm sure you agree, not everyone handles adversity the same. There are difficult situat...

I think that people want to be a part of something bigger than themselves, not as a disenfranchised slave but as an agent of righteousness. People do ...

I really do not know why you keep trying to shift focus to me, everything I have said has been generalised. Which means that there's no reason to assu...

I am not talking about bodily limitations, I am talking about the body's influence on will. An example might be discussing how getting aroused can inf...

I agree to the extent that characterisations are always subject to interpretation but I don't conclude as you do. I think the body's influence on the ...

I do want to add that I recognise a distinction between "free will" as the consciousnesses freedom to make choices, even if those choices can't be ena...

Impediments, influences and limitations. 1. Nature of Will Hormonally, psychologically, emotionally, sexually, sensually and so on, the human body is ...

I am going to state for the record that I have absolutely no idea what you're on about. Typing insults really just does nothing for me and since that'...

Well, you're certainly belligerent, you sound like a moron and I'm pretty convinced your reading comprehension skills are selective at best but you ma...

Primarily the issue isn't about true/false, it's that you were asked to give an alternative characterisation of Putin and offered only positive commen...

Yep and that's what I just said. There are all kinds of ideological hubs on the internet which demonstrate what should be pretty obvious, you're in th...

I don't know why you feel the need to ask these questions as I feel they are sufficiently answered already but here's a recap. You offered a character...

Responding to me without actually responding to me doesn't count, your "parallel" with Hitler is just an irrelevant but convenient example for you. Yo...

While Norway is one of the least population-dense countries in the world, the US is below average. Though, I am not sure to what extent these figures ...

The defence spending being high is simply a fact, it's the third-highest in the world and higher than the US when calculating as a percentage of GDP. ...

What's the difference between Putin and Erdogan? Both are corrupt, both harbour imperialistic ambitions based on past glories, both suppress their own...

Can you give some examples of the non-legal rights you are talking about?

I think most view life as inherently valuable and that's the default position and the reason for that is emotional. Besides that, people generally vie...

Academics themselves often strongly disagree and rebuke each other and as it should be. We can't guarantee that academics will always have the best an...

I don't really understand your question of whether academics have the "right" to impose their ideology onto the non-academic". Where do they have the ...

Obviously the further we go back in time, the less of the population is even able to read or receive an education, the less likely an academic will wi...

Communism and socialism are both considered to be on the left but I think it depends on the country and candidate because there's varying transparency...

Fair enough, though it only changes my examples because the issues here aren't bypassed by being all-knowing. I assume you are really talking about th...

This is wrong and there are just so many circumstances which make it wrong but even more fundamentally, yes/no questions are likely to be contentious ...

The classic banno response.

Humanity shouldn't be judged as people are too different from each other. Really, any attempt to judge humanity will show the interests and interpreta...

Society is just a group of individuals in aggregate, I don't understand what you mean by "society is a collective mechanism". For me, morality means c...

Fair enough, but you didn't follow up with an explanation to your statements so I think we can end the conversation here.

I view morality as a social mechanism for the benefit of society based on pragmatism. Where enough choose what is best for them leads to an outcome wh...

I agree with your thoughts about how utilising perception and interpretation could be useful in this kind of situation. There is an aggressive approac...

The "problem" simply has more to do with sexuality than anything else, as I said, you've chosen a poor example. I don't care to go into that topic.

A person is not their body but a person is not their mind either, they are their consciousness. If somehow my consciousness was swapped to another bod...

Fascism means a totalitarian socialist state which validates violence and war as reasonable diplomatic measures both to their own people and to other ...

Why accept suffering where it isn't necessary? Take steps to fix the problem and if the most obvious solutions don't work then attempt to be creative.

The intellect only needs to convince themselves, to provide reason sufficient for their own belief. Meaning is always based on establishing prerequisi...

The intellect determines what matters, emotions are not an essential part of the process, only the intellect's ability to understand the concept of so...

I am not really suggesting any particular one-size-fits-all solution, I think we could begin to come to an agreement if you didn't want everything to ...

I expect someone who's interested in mathematics to be competent at it but I have no such feelings towards someone interested in philosophy. I'm not s...

I think philosophy is something like 5% important and 95% entertaining/stimulating and if someone doesn't find it entertaining or stimulating then the...