Seems like you jumped to the conclusion that Javi was talking about eugenics. How did you conclude that? Does "selective antinatalism" = eugenics? I t...
I don't think of masculinity or femininity as having much to do with moral compasses. Men and women of a stripes can be equally moral and immoral. Hav...
I don't know what the actual ratio of young and old is here. I'm 75 and not the oldest guy here. There are many more men than women here (at least as ...
There are many activities which can occur without incurring material social costs: smoking weed, consuming narcotics and alcohol, engaging in unprotec...
Actually, it has always been harder to be good than to give into whatever primal urges we have and just ruin everything. We teach our children to beha...
"Be a good person but don’t waste time to prove it." Good advice. Good question, but an altogether different problem. There are numerous cases where l...
A bracket is missing from the end-quote at the end of my quote. The result is that I am credited with your very good response, You might want to fix t...
That pretty much nails the case against excellence in journalism, or maybe journalism at all. From the POV of the oligarchy, the plutocracy, or the kl...
Commercial newspapers, television, radio, cable, and internet channels are probably not a good place from which to expect fairness, probity, integrity...
Did they accomplish anything at all in this conference? Sort-of radical groups often hold highly ineffective meetings in which all sorts of irrelevant...
Your use of the preposition "forward" implies progress. It seems to me that what they are actually doing is just stumbling, possibly stumbling in circ...
It is better to spend limited resource on eliminating the death penalty. Next best is proving that the state erred in its prosecution of specific capi...
A lot of the pronoun abusers are mad period, They can call themselves whatever they want, but I get to make the decision about what I call other peopl...
Cruelly insulting, like ridiculing the handicapped. I mean, people can't help it if they are lowbrow slobs, really. Also humiliating--particularly for...
One aspect of DEBATE--at least as I understand it--is that is a contest in front of an audience who may vote on the question at hand, validating one o...
In fact, cloistered monks did contribute something: They participated in critical ways in the reproduction of society -- the cultural part in particul...
It certainly looked that way at the time -- 1934. Germany, the USSR, Italy... But it is a mistake to oppose democracy and socialism: the former is a p...
If it is true that we are what we do, a corollary is that we do it with, to, for, by somebody else. As John Dunne said, No man is an island entire of ...
Penetrating topic. Way back in a college class we discussed whether "who the person was" could be separated from "what the person did". Back then I pr...
The neuroscientist would, presumably, share the leap. Would you, receiving the great insight, be changed in your control of brain operations? There re...
As I said to @'counterpunch", I agree with the animal part; the transition phase, not so much. For one thing, what @"Steve Leard" speaks of, require a...
6:20 in Albion; soon you will awake. Good Morning. I totally disagree. Look: Science is true. Science isn't the problem. It's self-interest -- yesterd...
Mining asteroids (which is why you want to catch them?--See John Donne below), to bring ores to earth for refinement in furnaces fueled by magmatic bl...
Sometimes it is, but a placebo involves the material world. A procedure or medicine is faked, but something real (even if it has zero efficacy) is don...
Yeah, I don't know about red or green or blue, not to mention chartreuse, beige, or puce! Very black and very white are more certain, and even then......
I like lists, and am duly impressed by long ones. You have found a lot and made your findings available. Thanks! There is a website in England, "Forgo...
Whose morality? Law and morality may agree that murder is a bad thing. Most people agree. Law and morality do not agree that the the state may take pr...
In what seems to be a less pressing situation, millions of people vote against the plug in the outlet (the fat man, in your example). Lots of people o...
Fat people are useful in these kinds of forced-choice situations. In the much discussed Trolley Situation, throwing a fat man off the bridge derails t...
I am one of the hikers; I am also the fat man's doctor. I have been telling this guy for years that being as fat as he is eventually is going to kill ...
Is it? Yes and no, I wanted to be as independent from other people's control as possible. I wanted to be independent enough to have executive agency--...
Guilty as charged. I just finished a nice pork chop I cooked myself. I could have raised the pig and butchered it. Too much trouble. I could have gone...
They may not have a very vivid idea of what it is you are talking about. Reading a few books about totalitarian states (Hitler's, Stalin's, Mao's, etc...
If you are a genetically-determined worry-wort, there is not much you can do about it. I won't tell you to focus on positive topics because such advic...
It is probably not healthy to worry very much about economic collapse or the arrival of a totalitarian regime taking over your country. Whatever John ...
For the same reason that 13 States United in the late 18th century--in union there is more power than standing alone. You perhaps think that any large...
My window on Britain's confusion is very small, but it does seem like public policy in the UK is disordered. I thought Brexit was always a colossal er...
Imagine feeding yourself without any "systems": no agricultural system, no transportation system, no financial system... You'd have to do everything y...
Epidemics, attacks, disasters, etc. can be the occasion to ratchet up social control. 9/11 resulted in security measures at airports which have been i...
Thank you for joining us, and presenting your vision of transhumanism. A thermonuclear war would indeed be a fine way to ring down the curtain, but pe...
As you know, as most people here know (I hope), sex is the means by which nature conducts reproduction in plants and animals. True, a lot of single ce...
In the grand scheme of things, there are children because sex is very pleasant. That's the most parsimonious explanation. True enough, some people dec...
Win today, lose tomorrow. That's one angle. Another angle: Don't take it personally. Just because the Boston Red Sox won, or lost, has no real bearing...
Some high-profit minded farmers rent their goats out to clear kudzu. They selectively eat it. It's environmentally healthy. And there's the fertilizin...
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