The problem with the explanations of theism is their lack of predictive power, instead merely taking something already known and offering a reason for...
I'm often praised by others for being self-aware, I think it's something I'm pretty good at. In my view, one of the worst things you can do for self-a...
I don't remember saying that "we need more"... I said respect isn't something you can order people to have, it's not enough to just tell people to be ...
Keep in mind that you are the one who has introduced the context of people being assaulted, that was not what I had in mind at all. I condemn violence...
I don't think one can expect people to have unconditional respect for others, I'm sure you don't have that because if you did it would mean you're una...
I can tell you're a kind person, and that your motivation is to be kind and respectful to others, and I appreciate the need to be flexible and deal wi...
I agree. My language can be clumsy when it comes to this topic so correct me if I'm wrong. When someone calls themselves "non-binary", they are saying...
Do you agree that characteristics are part of someone's identity? Even things like being good-looking or intelligent can be part of one's identity. Do...
People with nothing but a stereotypical experience of gender make up the norm, we have a right to be part of the conversation about gender identity as...
What does anything you just said have to do with my conversation with Molieire or anything I said? It just sounds like you're sulking about people dis...
Because it'd mean having no thoughts or opinions of your own in favour of just accepting and believing about me whatever I told you? And with that how...
Do you accept that disabled status, class, appearance, ethnicity, language, hobbies, skills, occupations, culture, place of living, and way of living,...
I agree that you're not going to be consulting me when it comes to someone else's identity, but you're not going to be consulting anyone at all. The n...
Are you saying that identity is entirely free choice? Don't we portray ourselves to others in very specific ways precisely because there are standards...
Life is everything, and after death is nothing. It is as if the world starts when you are born, and ends when you are dead. I believe that when it hap...
I strongly disagree with making abortion illegal but isn't the US system sending the question of abortion legality to the state level? If a red state ...
Lmao, streetlightx has been the same way ever since I've been on this forum, he broke the rules of this forum on a regular basis, so I'm surprised we'...
I don't think Putin is the idiot you make him out to be... someone who cares nothing for strategy, who only wants land because Russia used to own it. ...
I must say that many NATO supporters act like this is the end of history. As though no future generations will look back at this time and view it as n...
We're humans before we're citizens of any nation. And humans are always killing each other over things like territory, ideology and resources and maki...
What we must acknowledge when comparing other wars with this one, even ones as recent as the Iraq war, is the rapid change of our world. The amount of...
Democracy isn't valuable because of voting, most democracies vote between two parties - they are usually pretty much the same. Election promises are i...
Power means having control and influence, what exactly that entails depends heavily on the context. Perhaps you're just making a joke but I think inte...
Even if Ukraine is a product of The West's "cold war mentality" as the CCP would call it, do posters here genuinely think that the Russian-Ukraine war...
The subject of interaction between people is too complex to talk about so generally and without context, don't you agree? But I can agree that anger i...
I worry that we may have in our minds differing images of context for anger and blame, at the very least, I can agree that anger and blame are not alw...
No, should I want to? Well, I completely disagree and I can't imagine why you think this. Do we have rules that protect the rights of employees and em...
Anger and blame achieve the establishment of boundaries and rules, in different settings, in social situations. The cause is secondary, it is separate...
Putin's work will be undone by his successors. Putin is an authoritarian kleptocrat living out his fantasies, he likes playing these geopolitical game...
Well, since we're calling Chinese communist because they said so, shouldn't we also acknowledge that China is a democracy? https://qz.com/2098528/chin...
I don't think you're denying the existence of anything, you're putting forward a different characterisation of behaviour you agree exists, one that pr...
The world can't be cruel, you can only tell us it is. What I would say is that the "world" or "life" are too big, too much is going on, our focus skew...
Humans are not merely conscious, we are specifically humans, really specifically. I would be shocked if we don't see some kind of android or genetical...
Gang activity and access to guns, it's not just the US, all high countries with high homicide rates have these two problems. Unless there's civil unre...
Whatever characterisation one gives will, it is most definitely us and not separate. We always act in accordance with our will because we are our will...
I don't think the government hinges so much on the actions and thoughts of its people. Democracy is held together by legal and political institutions,...
I don't think Putin is going to be invading Ukraine, this is a geopolitical chess move, many reasonable theories have been circulated but nobody can k...
It is boring to even talk about relativism in the sense of "the truth" vs "my truth", you need to stop treating this concept of truth with such revere...
The strength of a democracy should be measured by how easily its leadership can undermine it. These are not mutually exclusive, it is the institutions...
The whole point of democracy is that the dictator isn't the one who decides what is "allowed", the institutions do. A democratically elected leader, w...
Democracies are not kept in check by informed citizens, they are kept in check by powerful legal institutions and as well as various other rules and s...
I have gone through a similar thing. I still consider myself a nihilist, by which I mean that I don't think there is any meaning to anything besides w...
You apologise that you can't help with my inability to see the merits of your idea? How gracious of you. I'll also apologise that I'm unable to see th...
I really don't know if I've met anyone where I thought it was difficult to figure out what their motivations are, nor heard of any activity where it w...
We can take a person's actions and assess them in terms of gain and loss and judge those actions but people don't usually act as a result of such calc...
With your logic, isn't any solution worse than the problem? Can we justify the systematic slaughter and destruction of ecosystems as means of ending c...
People are overstating how effective the US would be at stopping China from taking Taiwan, it's only a matter of time before it becomes so clear that ...
If someone is struggling with unbearable pain or stress and is having suicidal thoughts, I don't think it reasonable to say that society's view of thi...
Do not bother applying logic to religious matters unless you have a few screws loose, either be a good believer and do not think too much or let all t...
When it comes to deterrence, I think many are not reasonable in their assertions about what kind of punishment can effectively deter. Let's imagine th...
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