Why is a suicide by older people "tragic" and helping somebody (eg., older person) to die NOT a tragedy? There are not a lot of statistics on the matt...
Maybe. Allow me to wade into deeper water that is even farther over my head. Whether a discrete event is determinative or irrelevant would depend on w...
Oh, dear. I though it was a Greek custard wrapped up in philo dough, baked, and served with strong coffee. No wonder so much of this site doesn't make...
I don't know what @"FDrake" is up to here. One should really not rain on other people's parades unnecessarily, spoiling the floats, filling the tubas ...
My apologies. One should really not rain on other people's parades unnecessarily, spoiling the floats, filling the tubas with water, getting the horse...
I think we all know, Mr. Wallows, WHICH animal you will be reincarnated as. So, why stop with Buddhism? Why not try a whole smorgasbord of ancient and...
I don't like the way this article was constructed. I don't own a gun but I don't object to other people owning guns, but if 1/3 of the population owns...
Oh, I wasn't offended. And. I agree that more education tends to equal less likelihood of pro-gun right views. I think that one of the background proc...
Well, I don't think you have to worry about gun confiscation or a massive gun buy-back. Too expensive, too much effort, takes too long, etc. You know,...
Hold, on there. I grew up in a rural community (and got the hell out asap) and am related to a number of people who also grew up in that sort of place...
I have not heard whether sardines are individually unique, but researchers have found that honey bees can differ slightly. Some individual bees that f...
More positively, the Amish are preserving a "green" way of life we might need to emulate, one of these days. They don't consume excessively; the succe...
The NRA hasn't always been powerful. At some point, less than 70 years ago, they decided to pursue a strong political program to insure that "gun righ...
Pinker's claim is certainly debatable. He based it not on crime stats, but on archeological evidence of the number of found skulls that showed signs o...
I admire the Amish lifestyle, though I'd probably choke on their theology. But Lord have mercy, they are not hearkening back to a long distant past. M...
Your trimmed statement, as I quoted it, summarizes the human situation. The human species has difficulty living together when many share close quarter...
England experienced a 'tragedy of the commons' in the form of the common agricultural land being enclosed and made private. The commons had been maint...
Chancy events, like one’s phone battery finding itself empty at the most inopportune time, can lead one to nihilism. Life begins with a chancy, quite ...
Logos. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Another take on words. We are but some of us less badly program...
Conservatives spend plenty, and all they have to do is divert a few billion from weapons systems to Central American Reconstruction (or some such moni...
“The identity that matters most is one's identity as a human-being-becoming-a-person. We can be grouped into pairs, families, clans, tribes, interest ...
“I don't want to debate about whether there was or wasnt a Big Bang. Instead I'd like to ask you all to talk about, before the Big Bang“ RK There can’...
Just a personal tick, but I am beginning to wish people would just shut-the-fuck-up about all their alleged differences. Yes, it is true we all have d...
It wasn't as if Europe had a lot of choice. The refugees from the Syrian state disaster just "arrived". Hungary was excoriated (or praised) in the pre...
What are Grab, Lyft, Uber, Airbnb, et al if not corporations listed on stock exchanges? The first food chain stores disrupted the locally owned food s...
I had intended to say that very thing, but didn't. Quite so: For various purposes we can define a person as an object, and we do. From the POV of the ...
Very true. If you are criticizing the New York Times, it makes sense to criticize not only authors, but editors and owners. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr....
You think keeping up a sharp critique of the status quo, analyzing the way thinking is warped and/or controlled by major institutions (government, pre...
Chomsky's contributions are immense. If he had wished to lay out a political program, reflecting his political philosophy, he would have. I have found...
When do we begin to have personhood? Somewhere between zygote and the grave, I suppose. I view "personhood" as a continuum. All that a zygote 'has' is...
It makes a difference what kind of war we are talking about. There are a lot of wars around the world (quite a few long-running wars in various shit h...
Boris's Boy Sajid Javid bears a remarkable resemblance to Fester, one of the ghastly Addams Family. https://66.media.tumblr.com/bf21af10ac3798df9d676b...
Boris's Boy Sajid Javid bears a remarkable resemblance to Fester, one of the ghastly Addams Family. https://66.media.tumblr.com/bf21af10ac3798df9d676b...
I'm not sure, but my guess is that avoiding adjuncts would require one to attend very expensive private schools. An excellent PhD adjunct instructor i...
Oi, the Union of Assassins -- I had overlooked their student loan repayment needs. Well, alright -- needles between the toes, accidental attack by a d...
I'm all in favor of NOT taking myths literally. Corinthians 13:11... When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like...
You are fixated on "the government". The government wasn't growing tobacco, making it into cigarettes, cigars, snuff, or chewing tobacco. They weren't...
They don't need to hide behind needles between the toes. A bullet through the head (faster, cheaper, better) and the coroner's report will still say, ...
We live in a kleptocracy, or a plutocracy, or an oligarchy masquerading as a democracy. We (the western industrialized countries) can rid ourselves of...
We need both. Screaming fear is what gets our asses in gear when a clearly visible existential threat appears -- the big crocodile about to eliminate ...
The history of brains is quite long -- about 5 hundred million years. Animals (like us) rely on emotions to provide the impetus to act, to give the 'f...
Congratulations! You are the first person in the history of Philosophy to connect smashing toilet seats with broken shoe laces. How was this crucial c...
1. The typical human is already an idea machine, but people make only a few "quantum leaps". Most of the time we make little leaps. If you are lucky, ...
A bomb? Yes, in so many ways; a heat-seeking missile... Donald and Boris are both too much the lard ass to soar. They roll and crush. In America, each...
Fish will bite if you've got good bait, and that is definitely attractive. So, on the coinage issue: The phrase "in god we trust" on money was first p...
Right. Well, many of us truthfully said the same thing about one Donald Trump, and it seems quite possible that he could get re-elected. No one every ...
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