BC

I don't see why there can be no objective definition of evil because we are not objective all the time. God is our creation, not the other way around....

We live in a world where a handful of people (somewhere between 8 and 25, depending on who is counting) have more wealth than 1/2 of the world's popul...

On whom does the benefit of this brave insistence devolve? If some people in Great Britain identify as Scot, Irish, Indian, Kenyan, or Polish, how doe...

Tim Wood speaks only to the Lowells, the Lowells speak only to the Cabots, and the Cabots speak only to God.

I don't know. The sale was private -- the old forum site was owned by an individual (Paul); somebody bought the site for unknown reasons and then let ...

There is something screwy and knotted up about the way you process the topic of race. I just don't see how "white" is not a racial identity, how ident...

I didn't take your thread title, "Humiliation" to be about personal psychohistory. I could go into the details of my personal "someone who has been mu...

We are not stupid. We are quite bright. But... What we are not is sufficiently forward looking. This is one of our Achilles Heels (when it comes to he...

This is what identity means to me and I think identity is a good and normal thing to have. One's identity is the core "who I am" which we start buildi...

Have you considered (apparently not because you haven't done it) arguing for antinatalism on the basis of global warming? Fact is, human beings are wr...

Life is suffering. Being born entitles one to life's suffering. therefore not being born is good and being born is bad. One could say Life is adventur...

And in the fullness of time we will. All of us. Drop dead. But Schop's plea is to not have children. None of us. Not one. Is Schop depressed? I don't ...

Right. You are preaching to the already doomed. As global warming escapes our control, climates become unsuitable and too erratic to support the neces...

Apparently you haven't heard that we will all be looked after by machines of loving grace.

We are working hard to do a good job of it. Our homeland planet is heating up; insect populations are crashing; big mammals are going extinct. Soon fo...

It started with the early days of AIDS. I was involved in producing educational material for high risk gay populations and straight youth, some of who...

That's a good observation. Sometimes I'm not sure either. What I do believe is that Justice has an economic basis (as do most forms of Oppression). We...

As far as I know I am not autistic, but one winter I became obsessed with readability and how to engineer it. I developed a plan which required compil...

No, no. I wasn't thinking about collective memories, contemporary temporalities (whatever that is) and so on. I only meant that people haven't recentl...

Or, why not the Greeks? My off-the-cuff guess is that most well developed cultures (and the Greeks were not the only one) experience episodes of liter...

The French -- or at least some French -- seem to have a history of collective action which American workers don't seem to manifest. One thinks of the ...

Amy Klobuchar: FLICKED.

Morally sensitive people will feel like "all of the above". Take Amy Klobuchar, my esteemed senior Senator from Minnesota. What on earth does this wom...

My goodness; it's been such a long time since the days when I hung out at The Factory and I taught Mr. Warhola everything he knew. :rofl: I enjoy obse...

At the rate we are going, I think we are laying the necessary groundwork for implementing a thorough-going anti-natalist plan.

@"Blakley" seems to have read something about hunter-gatherer societies. I have not -- I know what I hear from a friend who has recently gotten into a...

People who are happy -- some how, some what, some time, some where -- don't think happiness is the problem. professing indifference to happiness remin...

After years of reading various books, magazines, internet forums, this forum, public radio talk shows, and the like, I am heartily sick of hearing abo...

In these later years, I have spent a lot of time evaluating the course of my life and have often wondered, "What intervention, taken at the right time...

If an individual has no empathy for a particular individual or small group of similar individuals, they will likely not be thinking about this individ...

So you are telling us that understanding other people is hard. Who knew? You discount knowledge and empathy as both being insufficient. So, we use emo...

Someone capable of empathy about another's situation still has to employ rational analysis to really understand their situation. Anyone might feel emp...

When you say "obey" and "obedience" are you referencing the kind of obedience that a dog exhibits when it is commanded to sit, stay, heel, etc. or the...

This is totally true -- usually people who are reasonably well put together don't end up sleeping in doorways. But, I have known two who were well put...

Material reality isn't quite as generous as you make it seem. Adequate food -- never mind really good food, adequate clothing for the season (winter, ...

Like food, shelter, clothing... stuff like that. Status can be measured in very small increments. If you are living on the street, having a piece of d...

You are very generous in your praise.

Not really -- Hollywood hasn't been around that long. The quality of governance in the United States varies a great deal from national to state to cou...

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There are several points here with which I can agree, or not. That's 1/2 of politics; the other half is resisting control. Individuals and groups pref...

I have no problem with the claim that men are stronger (on average) than women. Greater size, greater strength is one of the noted characteristics of ...

No gender identification, no gender rules before gay liberation? Not so. "Appropriate sex roles" for men and women have been in place and 'policed' fo...

Exactly! Every cell in his feminated body still has the xy chromosome.

Just because Superman was the last person to tighten the plastic wing nut on the spare tire shouldn't be taken as a strength deficiency. Maybe your wi...

BC said "Social construction is just egotism: I can be anything I want to be!" The improved sentence: "I can be anything I want to be!" is socially co...

IF they are 25 miles out, have a pump, have a patch kit, and don't want to walk 25 miles, they had jolly well better fix it. I've known a woman with a...

We have some reasons to minimize genetic influence: being controlled by genes (mere molecules) gets in the way of our determination to be whatever we ...

So much critical development takes place during the first several years of life -- before most children get to school -- that the child can arrive at ...

All of the above, but who, what, when, where, how, and why. Parents have the first and most critical responsibility: psychological, physical and spiri...

Let's get serious about security. Enough of this sickly inability to use force! It isn't the physical barrier that effectively keeps people in or out....