Living in society involves negotiating the rules and regulations. IF one wants to be naked in public, one should expect a certain level of resistance....
Ideals and ideas are a fine thing, but The Philosophy Forum, Wikipedia, your favorite publishing house and preferred media outlet, and so on wouldn't ...
One of the reasons it won't stop people from running the rat race is that the "universal wage" is, in one version, intended to provide a survival inco...
Our hunter-gatherer ancestors found the necessities that allowed them to "be people". They left behind some stone tools, the very occasional piece of ...
Seems reasonable, since the thrust of "The Church" from the get-go was to preach the Gospel of salvation. All Christian churches share the same founda...
Let's start with a basic definition: Political parties might qualify as rackets IF they engage in illegal schemes to obtain money. The law is such tha...
Lower case "new atheists" of the world UNITE. Since we've already lost our tickets on the Hallelujah Express Salvation Train to heaven, we'd best take...
I'm a lower case "new atheist" because I became an atheist in middle age and worked on it for quite a while. Unpleasant atheists? Indeed there are. I ...
"Heathen" is a Germanic word (Dutch, German, Old English) but the concept derives from the Middle Eastern 'received' religions -- Judaism, Christianit...
I'm all in favor of resisting the censors and their wishes to silence people. You can find much better examples of censorship vs. freedom of speech th...
Really? Why do you think that? Is 'free will' even a suitable topic for science? What about matter would make it possible for the laws of nature to ch...
Something as specific as "money" or "currency" isn't the problem. It's a whole economic system that is the problem. Capitalism (which has been develop...
If we can resist our inclinations, even only some times, isn't that a demonstration of us having at least some free will? I don't know for sure what I...
"What to do with a mentally ill commander in chief?" Involuntary commitment; locked cell on a locked floor; thorazine, electro-shock therapy ("Here, l...
Law or analogy, yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater remains a bad idea. Unless, of course, the theater is packed with Republicans, then it might be c...
Wouldn't it depend on whose children you are talking to and under what circumstances? Like, telling the neighbor's children that their mother is a who...
A little historical information will help. There have been very bad fires in theaters, night clubs, and the like, resulting in very large losses of li...
It was probably a butterfly. My knowledge of entomology could be written on only one of your butterfly's white wings. Insects = 6 legs, spiders = 8. T...
Have you not previously noticed those small winged white things flying around at night? Moths? Insects need more than nectar; they also need some mine...
Observation tells us that the galaxies are moving away from each other because the universe is expanding. The galaxies are spinning, the planets are o...
These are all good suggestions. I am in favor of all of them (with the possible exception of space infrastructure--meaning population habitat). I beli...
I'm not in favor of killing 3 or 4 billion people either. So what's your do-able suggestion, aside from 3 or 4 billion people leaving the planet aboad...
So true, but just a teensy bit easier said than done. So far, a dozen people have stepped on the moon, and the moon is only 250,000 miles away, and tr...
Regarding Hubbert's graph... The recent surge in US production of oil is the result of squeezing out more oil by using increased energy inputs (fracki...
Per your handle, I would suggest that a lot of the gain in the last 60 or 80 years in life expectancy has been from the development of antibiotics. Pr...
There wasn't much "progress" during our 200,000 years of hunting and gathering. Innovations were few and far between because hunting and gathering wor...
That the Trinity test of a plutonium bomb would ignite the atmosphere was not a serious concern among the Los Alamos scientists who constructed it. So...
The major improvements in longevity have come about through better agriculture (more and better food -- this goes back to the late 19th / early 20th C...
. So says @"fishfry" Tell that to the people who died in the pandemic, the famine, the tidal wave, the war, the sinking boat, the earthquake... What h...
True enough, except that people usually don't exist as "raw population". The whole Humvee-style economy is a very perverse aberration. You heard abut ...
As a rule I do not discuss female sexuality, because it is pretty much outside my ken. But... what I have observed (and read) is that women often esta...
In the last 50 years, all the homosexual men I have met were interested in having pretty conventional sex (adjusted for male anatomy) OR were interest...
The "gender-fluid" people I've met strike me as fairly confused and irrational about sex, bodies, roles, and so forth. Their confusions are aided and ...
Back in the early '80s I lived in a building with a guy who believed he was Jesus returned to usher in the Kingdom of Heaven. He was a well-educated, ...
There is a mistaken assumption here. Neutron bombs still explode with quite a bit of force--and resulting destruction. The "desirable" feature of the ...
There are effective means available to thwart your peculiar pronoun proclivities. "Computer: commence thwarting @"thewonder" until further notice." "G...
On the one hand, it seems fairly clear that the situation is hopeless: GO @"Schopenhauer1"!!! On the other hand, I hate that -- "There ought to be a w...
Yes, thank you. It is not surprising that people get confused by its and it's. Most words are made possessive by adding an 's to the word. Not it. it'...
It's not absurd. The reason underlying the grammatical correctness of using "he" is because in English, "man" is the default general term for "human, ...
English is one of the German languages, Anglo-Saxon. Despite all of the words it has borrowed from other languages, it’s grammar has been stable for a...
“Do you think English is one of the hardest languages to learn as an adult? I am a native speaker of English, but even still, I consider myself to hav...
The Guardian noted that a shortage of remotely affordable housing was an underlying frustration of many of the young protestors. Granted that HK does ...
I totally agree, but I have not the vaguest idea what I can do that would amount to even the most gossamer support. I fear that Hong Kong's goose is c...
If it helps, people experience sadness from time to time whether they suffer from depression or not. But what I want to focus upon is this: For some p...
One of the Guardian's list of 10 best jokes at the Edinburgh festival: Ken Cheng: The other kids all called me “token” growing up. At least that’s wha...
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