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You are over simplyifing my original points. And as nice as your charts look, they're not comforting? Gun safety solves one of two gun issues, prevent...

I hear your argument. Your people will uprise. That is what the NRA propaganda has done.

I've never been to rural Wisconsin but I've been to rural Canada so I can imagine. These gun supporters correlate directly with poor, ignorant (read: ...

My apologies, you're right-an exaggeration on my part (my boyfriend often accuse me of being an exaggerator). Interesting that the rise of the NRA coi...

I disagree. I think the NRA is too powerful of a propaganda group to not hold accountable for the cultural mindset that props up the bullshit gun owne...

And the winner is clearly not the US. https://www.businessinsider.com/education-military-spending-comparison-2016-9 This was before the Republicans (s...

Again I appreciate your thorough correspondence. Its weird because I never considered myself one to like small or younger children, for one, I don't l...

Adults always tell and emphasize messages to kids to "help them", its the classic hero complex narrative, not unlike how we as humans are always "resc...

I appreciate your thorough response! I tell myself I am young enough that right now I can complain-and when I am older (and maybe very rich) I will st...

Looks like I will have to check out Spillane after this-I liked O’Connor, but I also enjoy books that appal mainstream appetites

Gramsci and Goldman are two of my favourite thinkers-radical as they were-but I’m confused by your hostility? I had only now come across Rand (or at l...

I'm not sure if this thread was directly discussing philosophy structure in university, but I do feel like chiming in here and saying I agree! Groupin...

I read somewhere that American public education is municipally funded-which means obviously, that poorer/under privileged communities will have less r...

Ive looked over your thread, its a bit waylaid by opposing opinions but I think I understand and appreciate what you are getting at. :)

by metaphysical antirealism, do you mean idealism? One such popular proponent, at least in early modern era, was of course Berkeley. But Berkeley's id...

In all seriousness though, I understand OP's original point; both God and the concept of a 'nation' are facets of intersubjective reality-not objectiv...

Canadais going to defeat the Warriors. Also, as a Canadian, currently standing in Canada, it exists-but does Australia exist? No one here seems to kno...

I agree with @"Frank Apisa" I'm not really sure what you're getting at-I'm currently working on a book discussing the umwelt, or perception of people ...

I'm suggesting (as per my original post) than any form of severe mental pain can warrant assisted suicide, not just PTSD from rape. But I am also noti...

Rape is certainly "that bad of a pain". In many ways, rape is worse than murdered-attempted rape victims suffer on average more PTSD than attempted mu...

Also, I hope this issue brings to light the severity of sexual abuse and rape. It is not something that people can just 'get over' or 'go to therapy f...

It's not murder. Murder implies the involuntary action of one person taking another person's life. It is bad-not because death is bad, but because for...

Eating human meat is, well, just meat. The horror associated with cannibalism is not due to the meat itself, but the practice of 'eating' a member of ...

We've had domestic terrorism, just not on such a grand scale as the US. Last Spring a man drove/plowed through the sidewalk of Toronto in a rented van...

I consider myself an indeterminist-the opposite of determinism. The complex arrangement of interaction, and cause and effect, which cause what we expe...

Foucault! Or from a feminist perspective read Andrea Dworkins (she writes about the inherent coercion involved in heterosexual sex), Promiscuities and...

What about Canadians?

Funny that many of the narratives supporting domination of the Earth/instrumentalism of natural resources, relates back to the beginnings of Judeo-Chr...

Ya of course, exposure over indoctrination. I don't think everyone is able to/wants to be a philosopher, but I think that philosophy can be useful for...

Descartes also tortured dogs and seemed overall-a dismal and myopic person. Pity he devalued philosophical inquiry so entirely, that to date, it is ha...

But what if the human mind/imagination can only comprehend unity? or unified theories? Does this implicit bias of de facto unity reveal more about us ...

In the Ontario curriculum (a province in Canada) philosophy is only offered once, as an elective high school course in grade 12 (ranked as a "U" level...

Yes I'm getting that vibe only a dozen or so pages in! But it is a refreshing view point, and I appreciate his defence of the anti-realists of his tim...

Am I mistaken to say that Nietzsche also does blame language/interpretation for issues in philosophy?

Yes-haven't gotten to that part yet! I regret replying now-I am by no means qualified enough to answer your question.

I just started reading Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche, and (in the first part at least) he discusses the problems with philosophy (as he sees it) i...

Surprisingly, I say yes. I say that people can force themselves to usually come to love and be attracted to the other person. For example, there are o...

LOL I remembered when I took my first philosophy class at the age of 18 in grade 12-I was like, well its a social science class and I love and am grea...

I disagree, I quite like the buttered bread metaphor. Also learned social mores and rules, such as talking to strangers, is not really related to the ...

I agree. The definition of better is tricky-especially with regards to racial differences, then we get historic genetics, which has never led to good ...

I think your misusing 'biology' by making it to explain all human actions-human actions are the result of more than just literal biology, in fact, sci...

I'm an indeterminist-the opposite of determinism (which holds as you pointed out) that something (or someone ie. God) has a pre-determined plan that a...

In Homo Deus Harari argues that it is fictions themselves, whether religious, language, money, ideologies ect. that have lead to human domination. He ...

OP must read Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death. He discusses the divorce between man's bodily side, and his transcendental functions. I have always l...

Well of course, that's how capitalism as an economic and a deeply entrenched cultural system works.

My boyfriend has the unfortunate tendency to subscribe to various conspiracy theories, and while I agree that conspiracy theories have some philosophi...

Yes I've tried smoking high high CBD weed (I think it only had trace amounts of THC) but this was about two months ago when I was still smoking regula...

Easily-surely there are more 'political correct' movements occurring that allow for LGBTQ+ people in churches, great! But why were they ever banned in...

I too, am in general very concerned for the thinking skills of the general population. Especially my generation. Religion may be less to blame though ...

Ah, well in Canada, you have to be "Catholic" to go to Catholic public school (until high school). I personally never experienced the curriculum first...