They are dysfunctional because they have been fucked over too many times. People left to their own devices generally settle down to live ordinary live...
Anyone who follows global warming closely has to be aware of the problems involved in talking about both "conditions that are changing now" but are pa...
Were I writing your paper, I would look among anthropologists, psychologists, or sociologists. Some philosophers might have written on the subject, bu...
There are non-profits that teach people "how to fish"; some of them work in the US (or other developed countries), and some of them work in the third ...
I'm not sure that dithering over "quantum supremacy" even qualifies as political correctness. It's not even wrong. It's nonsensical. What seems to be ...
Back when psychoanalysis defined homosexuality as a serious deviation, the establishment considered thought it was constructed--domineering mothers, d...
Unfortunately the list of card-carrying Liberal/Progressives was stolen just the other day by Rudy Giuliani and a gang of pro-Russian Ukrainian thugs ...
Sex is determined at the moment of fertilization: xx or xy. The body may begin with a female template of sorts, but it is destined to be either xx or ...
I've often wondered if it might be a good idea to drown the Dutch, but that was just in the context of seeking completely satisfying experiences. It s...
Well, Ms. Thunberg is a lightening rod, as much as an oracle. A young woman who suddenly appears (in the media--Aspergers and all), somehow has a sail...
A "fuck you greta" movement is an inevitable reactionary event. I agree with Greta 100%, but I don't especially like listening to her talk. I can imag...
I think that's the law in many states, applying to married adults, or adults who have designated a person to have power of attorney for them. As for s...
Lots of people end up in a world of pain and are entirely competent to decide their own future. Most people actually choose to go forward, pain and al...
The first clause of the sentence is not true. I am confident in saying that it is not true because you made it universal ("everyone") and you made it ...
Sorry about the snarky comment. As I said, it wasn't about you, personally. I might be willing to take "something exists" or "at least two things exis...
I believe in the existence of many things. The many are made up of a few particles combined in particular ways. Without the plethora of things made fr...
True. If 2 half-assed philosophers meet 2 other half-assed philosophers for lunch, their discussions might not add up to anything. 2 + 2 in that case ...
The matter has already been brought up, but I'll do it again: "truth" is unitary and doesn't need an adjectival intensifier like 'absolute'. What is t...
Yes, consciousness is in the brain as a whole. It seems to be an emergent property of the brain's activity--that is, it isn't located in a particular ...
I was going to comment on your use of arrant, but others have used it AND they have used it correctly (as you also did). But you are in a select group...
Not so. Capital is largely responsible (it's the key) CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM. Why? The reason is that capitalism is, by its nature, based on exploitatio...
Under what rock does your economics professor live? Here we are in the beginning of the possibly terminal climate crisis and he's theorizing about so ...
Ability and need is different than tastes and preferences, even if they radically change. I might experience a radical change from Haydn to hip hop, a...
My philosophical or biological view is that human beings have innate characteristics over which we have little control. Our problem is captured in the...
I was wondering why we were discussing ends and means again. Lenin supposedly said, "If the ends do not justify the means, what in god's name does?" G...
That's the problem, all right, and it is a fantasy. It's a sort of magical thinking. In WWII, US production was reorganized for war production, whethe...
Economic recovery would have most people employed in a probably radically reorganized system of production ad distribution. It would, of necessity, be...
I think it would be worse than China. But if we want to brake CO2 emissions, it certainly can NOT be accomplished through slight efforts. I'm not enth...
Yes -- climate change is slower but more thorough. However, in a carbon-reduced economy, it would be quite a while before most people experienced an e...
Just what sort of consumption reductions would be necessary? We would switch to a vegan diet, or at least a largely vegetarian diet. Meat/fish/crustac...
I assume you are not being serious, but the idea is floating around out there (certainly in SciFi--which regardless of the science part, is F I C T I ...
I am sorrowfully leaning toward the view that we are totally screwed. We are screwed because we are descendants and close relatives of primates withou...
Philosophers will be as overheated as everybody else, so it's in our best interests to think about what can, can not, should, should not, will, will n...
Well, for a long time (a millennium minimum) State and Church has been allied. The alliance bound the church to the preservation of whatever-ruling-cl...
The constitution can't be suspended. Were he to order the DOJ or the military to arrest and jail Pelosi and Schiff, I expect that officials (who didn'...
I commend the Democrats' efforts toward impeachment. (Remember, impeachment, to be effective, has to be followed by a conviction and removal from offi...
Trump was never a suitable possibility for POTUS, and the Republican Party, had they had, at last, some decency, would not have selected him as their ...
Maybe not, but I think the quote is quite apropos. Any society has to decide how it will do business ("business" not automatically capitalism), and wh...
Both, and not just in a manner of speaking. The legal system is organized to support private property and entrepreneurial activity. For instance, one ...
"Government is a committee to tilt the playing field in favor of big business." (A paraphrase of Karl Marx's statement, "government is a committee to ...
What that means is manufactures try to avoid class action lawsuits. IF the US was "very vigilant" about consumer protection, we would be moving heaven...
The "great cycle" of economic expansion is very long. The Roman Empire was one period of economic expansion, wealth getting, and building. The stretch...
I'm an old (literally) practitioner of shallow, pseudo-cynical blasé attitudes, so I understand their pleasures and satisfactions. But I'm a little co...
Well sure, like running the world, running the country. Ruling. Look, I disapprove of the ruling class and the Uber-rich. I am interested in how they ...
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