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Would've? Why no vote? (Add. You would have been wrong. But you also would have been wrong to vote for Trump.)

Indeed... You are probably right that a third party needs to gain prominence, beginning at the local level. But I think that is just as likely to occu...

What better alternative, Hilldawg? Romney?McCain? Kerry? Gore?

What the US really needs is a parliamentary system.

My vote is a boycott against the system. That's why I refuse to vote for a president.

Then it seems we are similar.

Who are you guys, I don't give two shits about them, I'm just making a point concerning self respect

The meaning of life is meaningless... It can all be summed up into one word: death.

pound me too What do you mean?

That's my take. Are humans not able to transcend nature? To be clear, I was talking to mr. Harry in terms of degrees of nature, and that society as a ...

Thank you. You have a nice way of framing it all. I would add there is also the important debate of whether predetermined factors allow for the existe...

Aesthetics can indeed function as a powerful tool to relate the ethical. But it can only be indirectly related. That is what religious texts do, and w...

... I just finished knowing myself, now I have to clean up

The evidence that it's corrupt is found in the fact that they won't allow 3rd parties in the debate unless they have a certain amount of support. But ...

Trump won for the same reasons Obama did. The system is shit and people want change. Both brought the appeal of novelty to the table.

No, I'm baffled. To undermine your base in the way they did, is about the most shady rat-bastard thing a political party could do. I don't see how the...

Until they sabotage the next candidate.

Are you factoring in the superdelegate scam? https://observer.com/2016/07/wikileaks-proves-primary-was-rigged-dnc-undermined-democracy/amp/

Definitely! If I walk up to you on the street with a bump of cocaine, and you refuse to take it: automatic prison sentence. I like your irony, illegal...

I'm no Republican by any stretch of the imagination, but I don't know how anyone could support the democratic party after it sabotaged its popular can...

Speak on my brotha

The only thing they have to do with each other is that they are my opinions. And the first sentence assumes that those who are in elected positions ac...

well. Uh...

I have no argument, only the opinion that the state has a deeper agenda that is not available to the populace, and that agenda seems to be unimpeded r...

The first axiom of philosophy: ????? ???????

During the Obama era the war machine and surveillance state took no pause in its advance (Add. In fact, at the the end of the Bush era, they were noth...

Oh but you should, indeed, you should argue it

Too bad the Democrats sabotaged Sanders last election

But they have done little to stop the onslaught of either the war machine, or the surveillance state.

Even if the choice has no causal relation to the state of affairs, it marks a resolution for the deciding agent so that the landscape of possibility b...

Perfect. I saw the left scrambling for solutions during Bush. Now it seems like the left is just screaming about its problems. Perhaps it the only way...

Perhaps it's in the possibility that the choice can reconfigure the causal chain, in effect resetting its succession to a new origin.

Would you say this is true regardless of whether the choice can be shown to have any causal relation to the corresponding state of affairs?

Don't get me wrong, I am opposed to Trump. It's just that I'm equally opposed to his opposition.

It's only an opinion, I've seen no poles on the historical trajectory of hardcore political opposition. It seemed like the left possessed greater spir...

I appreciate that you are examining from multiple perspectives. It's worth a re-read

The opposition to Bush was hardcore. The opposition to Trump is quite lame (toothless and whiney). (Add. I think something happened during the Obama d...

The will derives its freedom by relating itself to infinite possibility through the rational imagination. So, in one one sense, it is in the creative ...

I have more points to address, but time is limited for now. . . But I might dispute that the real and natural are synonymous. Consider that the unnatu...

Don't know if it's been posited here yet (haven't read everything), but: Perhaps it is immoral not to do illegal drugs.

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Just because there are predetermined factors, it doesn't necessitate that they are the cause of choice And just because a state of affairs corresponds...

Suppose the predetermined factors are infinite, would that then give infinite possibility to the deciding agent? If so, that would make the will beyon...

Except maybe that part of me where my decisions are made

Not one part.

Or you could consider the Nietzschean idea that there are so many unknowns that factor into choice, that I have no idea what's going on, but like to t...

But even if the choice is predicated upon determinate factors, the choice itself is not predetermined

If the will is the deciding agent for causality, then that would mean it chooses, and by choosing that implies some degree of freedom

I agree. But I don't even think a causal (deterministic) model would sufficiently explain freewill. Suppose freewill is an immediate process of an ind...