As an old man, I am very offended by jokes that are not funny. I want to hear politically incorrect jokes that have a decided improper edge to them. D...
With all due respect to your historical insights, Marx and Reagan aren't in the same game, the same ball park, the same league... "Religion is the sig...
In a capitalist society / economy (such as ours, Europe, Japan...) the central role of the government is to facilitate the accumulation of wealth by t...
The principle problem I see in libertarian thinking is 20/20 vision about the problem of governments, and blindness to the problem of corporate power....
In an unusually forceful statement, Wallows is telling me to butt out. Will do. Meanwhile, Wallows and Sushi are tied to the track on which a trolley ...
What do you want highlight? (This isn't a personal attack on you; it might feel like it, but it is not. I'm just bored with the trolley problem, and w...
No, I don't. The fucking trolley has been rolling down the track for years and doesn't get better by being repeated. It's just a no-exit forced choice...
You pass three bums begging on the street. One is a shabby but cute white guy; one is a drunk black guy; one is a down and out white hooker. Which one...
The person at the switch has a 100% chance of killing someone, either through omission or commission. Therefore, this person is worse than the prospec...
et al... If the world's oldest parliament can't maintain the box on which the Prime Minister puts her papers when she is addressing the Speaker, I don...
Both of us together could make up a very long list of the various things we are doing wrong or not doing right -- old refrigerators in Brazil probably...
I have nothing against thought experiments, but this one seems silly. It ask us to put ourselves in the position of performing a great evil to prevent...
It is, I think, species-deep rather than life-style that prevents us from dealing with population and global warming. Intelligence puts us in an odd p...
I didn't find the video clip very helpful. The idea that human beings are a parasite feeding on the planet crops up every now and then. This is a full...
Goodness, there are so many possibilities! Obviously nuclear bombs would be the way to go. Do I have to stay UNDER 1 billion, or can I maybe do more? ...
Only individual human beings have executive agency. Institutions such as governments, colleges, churches, corporations, etc. can not have, do not have...
The buildings, infrastructure, functions, and even the raison d'être of the modern industrial city was pretty much built by men. On the other hand, wh...
Binyamin Ze'ev Herzl (1860-1904) was the 'father' of modern Zionism and he seems to have died way too early to have been influenced by WWI or WWII. Je...
Yes. I have heard of the concept but I have never met the reality of the race-blind, sex-blind, various-other-features-blind person. I do not think on...
As one reviews the history of the world, not just since 1960 AD, but back to 1960 BC, or 5960 BC, one finds recurrent waxing and waning of one group o...
Do-gooders are TRULY arrogant? Why wasn't I informed of this? Had I known, I would have done something. Heads would have rolled. Do-gooders are likely...
It's there now. For some reason the URL wouldn't post. Here's a link to an Article in Philosophy Now about How to Be a Cynic. DIY. I looked up Cynic T...
Here's an early photo of Diogenes. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Jean-Léon_Gérôme_-_Diogenes_-_Walters_37131.jpg The sitting bla...
I have met a few people who prefer to literally live on the streets and beg for money. In this state (frigid winters, hot summers) it is a choice invo...
Unfortunately or not, societies have clashing interests. It is entirely possible for 100% of the electorate to vote on matters for which they are comp...
No, because the mad, ill, deranged, or impoverished people living on the streets did not choose to live there. In our world, 'the streets' is the last...
In the last 25 years, "nationalism" has been degraded to an epithet associated with caucasians who are separatists supremacists, racists, etc. This tr...
No. It was as ill-advised as stupid bullshit usually is. Maybe the prosecutor thought it was just too loony to convict. A few years in psychotherapy w...
That's what the word means, true. Philosophy is a both a literature and a practice. Philosophy is often read. How much practice enters into a reading ...
My guess is that people who have a high tolerance for ambiguity, open-mindedness, and so on are more likely to be interested in philosophy than people...
I thought I clearly supported the idea of the people making the choice on Brexit. I don't know whether the information people received during the pre-...
In some matters, yes. Whether or not children should be vaccinated against measles has been decided by public health experts. That's the way it should...
It's garnered 7+ pages of comments; apparently Wallows isn't the only one who thinks the topic is worthwhile, even if they don't agree with Wallows on...
This is TOTALLY beside the point, but I just finished a pretty good book about the history of Baltimore: Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a ...
Take this song by Eddie Fisher from the mid-1950s. It was a big hit at the time. If Fisher was participating in this blog (he isn't cuz he's dead) wou...
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