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What would it be about living on board a space ship that would change the passengers so that they would not be subject to discontent, tribalism, revol...
June 05, 2019 at 19:40
I don't think they should pay the price. But if they are born on board a starbound spaceship, they have no choice but to pay the price. As would each ...
June 05, 2019 at 05:54
Where did that figure come from???
June 05, 2019 at 05:15
The first few results from a "Noa Pothoven" query on Google were headlined with the transitive verb "euthanised". The Independent (UK), and others, de...
June 05, 2019 at 05:08
Sorry; I didn't contextualise my comment enough. There have been quite a few anti-natalist threads over time, some straight forward, some more devious...
June 05, 2019 at 04:36
No. I assume you are trotting out this curdled milk of human kindness cheese dip as a devil's advocate exercise. The idea is that there is only so muc...
June 04, 2019 at 07:06
This is a sneaky anti-natalism thread, because the second generation of space travellers would face the same problem that everybody has faced on earth...
June 04, 2019 at 07:00
Correct.
June 04, 2019 at 06:56
If you want to be safe from MAD (which term was coined before Ronald came along) you have to get rid of the means to achieve MAD -- nuclear weapons, w...
June 04, 2019 at 06:52
Another good idea. The 2nd Amendment outlived its utility, if it ever had any, a long time ago. Second Amendment Fetishism is a relatively recent dise...
June 04, 2019 at 06:10
They have servants to do that for them. Re: George III: He probably had porphyria, which is a genetic disorder impairing the production of "heme" -- a...
June 04, 2019 at 00:03
Take the discussion of "nigger" elsewhere on the forum. It is a term of derision rooted in the history of enslaving Africans (at least in the West; wh...
June 03, 2019 at 21:19
The reason "fuck" has a much more casual decorum rating than "elbow" is its history. Words have histories, and their histories cling to them from gene...
June 03, 2019 at 21:02
Well, there is the matter of decorum. It isn't that "fuck" or "shit" are "adult words" and coitus and faeces are not. The former words are appropriate...
June 03, 2019 at 07:00
Your proposal is a good idea. I'm in favour. However... There are something like ... 200 million guns in the US. 100 million people own guns. Despite ...
June 03, 2019 at 06:41
True enough, but I think this animal is equally representative of our blighted species: https://66.media.tumblr.com/12f9921f4bac343291e8f223d9d64a69/t...
June 03, 2019 at 01:53
"Political Correctness", "the left", "the Right", are all a bit difficult to discuss because the terms are too fluid. We put the fluid terms in our sq...
May 26, 2019 at 01:08
In this time and place, feudal regimes are not at all suitable. Indeed, the world became too complicated for such systems a long time ago. My "realist...
May 22, 2019 at 21:08
Sorry. Quite often text comes across as harsher than verbal communication in person does. One would soften the effect of the same words with expressio...
May 21, 2019 at 16:50
If you want to make Christianity out to be a polytheistic religion, it seems like you'd have more luck with the concepts of God the Father and God the...
May 21, 2019 at 04:21
So, since God was the very first quantum mechanic, I am sure he has no problem being in the precise location of all those whizzy particles at once. Th...
May 20, 2019 at 20:57
Yes, that's my understanding - God is present AT every location. Thanks for the tip on Akron, without which I almost passed up the all-expense-paid 2 ...
May 20, 2019 at 18:34
Full Disclosure: I've never been in Akron, Ohio or Paris, France. It's possible that both of them are fictional places.
May 20, 2019 at 13:27
Because I said so? Will that work? Wouldn't God have a problem being the same as Paris and Akron, Ohio at the same time? I mean, there are limits on w...
May 20, 2019 at 13:24
They already have received a tax break. Low inheritance taxes (or quasi legal dodges) is one of the reasons they have a pile to sit on in the first pl...
May 20, 2019 at 04:38
I take omnipresence to mean present in all places at all times. So, under this notion of omnipresence God is present at all times everywhere. Time, in...
May 20, 2019 at 04:20
If God is you, then you don't exist.
May 19, 2019 at 21:40
I am present in front of my computer; I am present in my house; I am present in The Philosophy Forum, yet I am not coextensive with my computer, the h...
May 19, 2019 at 21:38
Correct: HAD NOT rather than HAD. Your focus on the sad case of Jack and Mary is trivial. A very large number of workers could work twice as many hour...
May 19, 2019 at 21:32
By your reasoning, then, everything is God; God is everything. Fine by me, but it seems to me in the scriptures God is not everything and everything i...
May 19, 2019 at 21:10
Right, I wasn't saying your thinking was flawed. What is flawed is the idea that a simple redistribution of wealth (a check arrives in 3 billion mailb...
May 19, 2019 at 17:26
The idea of "original sin" was, as I understand it, created to balance the act of final salvation by Jesus Christ. This wasn't Jesus' idea. It was ela...
May 19, 2019 at 17:21
Wealthy people should pay more because they are actually receiving more services and better than poor people. How can that be? Government is, as Karl ...
May 19, 2019 at 17:04
Why not? I don't see a problem in God being omnipresent in a cosmos that is separate from God.
May 19, 2019 at 16:27
It seems like some people are often in zero-profit / minimal loss relationships. No body is having a very good, time, and nobody is being beaten up or...
May 19, 2019 at 03:06
There is a flaw in the redistribution scheme. Before I continue... I believe that the severe disproportionality of wealth should and could be correcte...
May 19, 2019 at 00:28
God as the only being, in whom everything that was, is, or will be exists, seems consistent with solipsism. Of course, God as conceived in the Western...
May 18, 2019 at 23:44
I might agree with you, partly in jest--but not a very big part. Nonetheless, you raise an interesting point about local level peacefulness and large ...
May 18, 2019 at 20:58
"Is it fair for people to compare themselves or their deeds to those of Jesus"? It seems pretty obvious that people should definitely not compare them...
May 18, 2019 at 03:22
Given the purpose of the New Testament (to tell the story of Jesus--someone who was believed to be the Son of God) that makes sense. Why would the aut...
May 18, 2019 at 03:16
You have a habit of raising interesting questions. Point 1, in the "for what it's worth" category: The bigger the planet, the stronger the gravity. Th...
May 16, 2019 at 05:42
As the old saying goes, "Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see." You doubt that the theory rests on more than blue sky conject...
May 16, 2019 at 04:14
About as hard to prove as claiming that the cells, molecules, etc. DID have intent. And by what means do those "some say" claim that these cells would...
May 16, 2019 at 01:19
I don't see any point in making ourselves dumber, weaker, and uglier, so sure. However, breeding smarter, stronger and more attractive humans is not a...
May 15, 2019 at 23:21
Can we blame Columbus for mass emigration? He accidentally brought the existence of the Western Hemisphere to the attention of Europeans, but it doesn...
May 15, 2019 at 23:08
Yeah, well, for the most part we all pretty much behave like the naked, smart, ruthlessly exploiting, short sighted, killer apes we are. Though, you h...
May 15, 2019 at 20:09
Revolution: The Beatles, John Lennon / Paul Mccartney You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it...
May 15, 2019 at 19:59
Here is an article from the New Scientist that talks about self duplicating molecules and life.
May 15, 2019 at 19:43
"Nuclear" here refers to the "nucleus" of the cell. The nucleus is a sub-cellular structure that contains the organism's genetic information. The gene...
May 15, 2019 at 19:39
I don't know. The question you are asking goes back to the beginning of life on earth. Once a cell formed, however randomly, accidentally, or purposiv...
May 15, 2019 at 03:16