My objection to slavery is not that it was racist, but that it was extremely exploitative, extremely dehumanizing, and extremely cruel. Racism, to my ...
My understanding of slavery in Rome, at least, was that it was hereditary, but the Romans allowed some (limited) avenues of escape from bondage. A sla...
Red represents Republicans, blue Democrats. @"Hanover" should be thrilled! I don't give a rat's ass what color it is as long as it's not teal or aqua....
"being a mean person" might not be as bad as being a mass murderer or an arsonist, but certainly meanness is a moral flaw. Take a look at the synonyms...
Do you think this was true in the Roman Empire or for other Mediterranean Basin slave-holding cultures going back 1 or 2 millennia BCE? The Roman econ...
It seems very safe to stake out the claim that "Prior to the Civil War, most Americans were racist". it's also safe to stake out the claim that Americ...
Reduce the brightness of your screen? Cover the screen with waxed paper? Go to bed instead of staying up all night to haunt the empty crypts of the da...
I didn't look at any of the links provided because I agree that "overconsumption, intensive farming, deforestation, heavy use of pesticides" et al are...
Yes: adaptable humans will make it IF they are located in northern climates, are not too numerous, have lots of resources, and have viable economies t...
The species are fucking dying off, that's what it has to do with climate change. Most species evolved to fit a specific environmental niche. When the ...
How dare you, Tzeentch, fly in the face of us doomsayers. Elvis Perkins sings in one of his songs, "I don't let doomsday bother me; does it bother you...
I am a climate change survival denier. I believe in climate change and I don't think we will survive as a technologically sophisticated species in the...
I have spent what... 6 decades coping with conflicting feelings about my physical self, about how my sexual desire is manifested (given that I grew up...
It's at least somewhat about you because you are the only one who can provide testimony about how you feel and think about your self. How else does an...
I didn't think @"Swan" was sidetracking the discussion; you might say the same thing about my posts. This graph displays the overlap of male and femal...
I'm fairly far to the left. My lefty peers don't approve of my views. Much of this topic (gender vs sex) seems to have gone down the rabibit hole wher...
It seems like avant-garde gender and sex theorists/activists are reacting to the most conservative picture of masculinity and femininity. The stereoty...
Some people have been told to stop coming up with so many great discussion topics. Are they paying you to do it? I noticed you have become a regular f...
Work, labor, in this world tends to be a pretty alienating affair, whether it be run by capitalists or commissars. The reason people are paid to work ...
Language and music are intertwined. Of course, a lot of language is "un-musical" just as some music is "unmusical". Otomotopaeia is the use of words t...
You might get paid back. Time will tell. In the meantime... Don't mix business with familial love. Loans are loans, love is love. Don't confuse the tw...
It's a difficult knot. The 'species' doesn't think, react, hunt, shop, cook, and eat. That's all done by individuals. On the other hand, individuals d...
Hayseeds of the Bread Basket Unite. The urban parasites have nothing to lose but their bread and butter, their pate foi gras, their fried chicken McNu...
by "collective" I meant all the members of the species who do whatever they do from day to day. If "we" go extinct, it will be because "we" all died w...
Right and wrong. From the individual's point of view, our efforts at work or education have approximately NOTHING to do with our individual survival, ...
Congratulations! You are the first person on The Philosophy Forum to use the word "bricole". Unfortunately, you missed the boat. "Bricole" refers to t...
It is unfortunate that your brother's business did not work out well. Loaning someone (total stranger or your beloved brother) money to save a failing...
Prefer whatever you like (which is why you prefer it) but what kind of sense does it make to ignore what you say are sound observations about behavior...
Of course, we know that Africans WERE in Europe, and everywhere else, since we all came out of Africa. So, Africans did colonize the world. So, why di...
Nothing would convince me of the soul's existence outside of simple faith (or complicated faith) because it is a question of faith by its very nature....
You could spend grant money until all the foundations went broke supporting your research without positive results. And why bother? There is nothing d...
I've been saying that Man created god for years. I count our 'theogenesis" as one of our more notable cultural achievements. "God" is real in that sen...
Using logic-not emotion-Trump should be impeached? Sure, impeach the bastard, but be aware that it might not make any difference. A merely impeached p...
Eating dinner?! Hey, get back here. Trump is way too dangerous for you to take time out at the trough. I used logic. Logic said that on some official ...
people hate this, but it' is "carte blanche" -- the 'e's are silent, short or soft 'a'. It means unconditional authority; full discretionary power. It...
Both. Here is a good summary of a sex hysterical sex abuse case in Jordon, Minnesota in 1983-84: http://www.minnesotalegalhistoryproject.org/assets/Ol...
I wish I knew much more about the why; so do a lot of other people. One can sift through the election results, electoral college strategy, demographic...
Right, the 1960s (running into the 1970s) are not the 2010s. Given episodes of more recent mass hysteria about pedophilia, his story and his denial of...
The voting age in Scotland was lowered from 21 to 18, in 1970. The voting age of 16 was used once for the Scottish Independence Referendum in 2013. I ...
I haven't recently read Wilhelm Reich (like the Mass Psychology of Fascism or The Function of the Orgasm). It seems to me he promoted greater sexual a...
Age-of-consent-laws are a can of worms as far as discussion topics go. Various arguments have been made for the legitimacy of sex between people below...
If patriarchy was a real thing, it is still in business. But things have changed quite a bit in this country, and in many other countries--not everywh...
Well, I didn't really mark out an aristocracy of suffering. No, castration was not universal practice, but eunuchs were handy to have around guarding ...
I don't think women are from Venus and men are from Mars, and Saturn really should have been named Athena to Zeus's Jupiter. Pluto could have been nam...
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