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The scientist who experiments on his own brain has an idiot for a subject.

Some fetuses that were not aborted are never satisfied.

Just in case anybody reads only this post without referencing the posts to which I am replying, I haven't changed my views about abortion. I am still ...

So, per my response to RA above, do you find "fetus" more acceptable than "potential person"?

Hmmm. Yes, well... Lots of determinations are kind of arbitrary, true. You have a problem with personhood, philosophical or legal. It's a distinction ...

It does not seem counterfeit to me, but what would you prefer: person or tissue?

Yes. A freshly fertilized egg is a potential person, and nowhere close to being an actual person. Personhood is best reserved for newborns who have de...

What's good for the reply is good for the post. Pretend you are being charged by the word.

I flatly reject the argument that pro-choice people think a fetus is not a potential person. This is a very, very flimsy argument. OF COURSE a fetus i...

This is a rather novel argument against abortion. I haven't seen a college scholarship administrator connected to abortion before. Very creative. Most...

According to the Guttmacher Institute (fertility and sex education is their bailiwick)... At 2014 abortion rates, one in 20 women (5%) will have an ab...

It is immoral to kill human beings except when it is moral. If we collectively dislike a group or individual enough, then it's OK, desirable, even man...

I'm very glad that men can't get pregnant -- what a drag! As she (Gloria Steinem) said, 'If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.'

I'm not sure that Sartre did anyone any favors by coming up with that line in No Exit. Is there any guru, philosopher, prophet, or saint, who offers a...

Somehow new topics sometimes drop down the list so fast I don't notice them. Like this one. Chomsky provides some excellent and insightful analysis in...

Wales should probably be cleared for use by the various displaced persons who want to live in Europe. Unenlightened could be in charge of the clearanc...

You are aware, I hope, that you don't have to write the paper about philosophy or mathematics. You could choose a historical topic (like what major ev...

There are a lot of very smart people in science and math (and in other fields). Most of them are not in danger of madness. Some people do "go mad", to...

What sort of knowledge is it, do you think, that "to know it is to lose one's mind"? And let's be reasonable... how likely is it that you will stumble...

There are a lot of fairly odd people out there; some of them have brilliant minds, most of them do not. One could cite many examples of very brilliant...

I agree that in many instances of humans feeling that something is right or wrong, they are very consistent from instance to instance. They always fin...

I would agree that people just "feeling something is wrong" is a very unreliable system of morality. (And what goes on in the comments section under Y...

In the plot from which these quotes come, there was just a handful of people, so, sure, make more. At some point (around 2 billion, give or take a cou...

A large part of the environmental impact of a meat/dairy/egg diet is the amount of animal protein that people eat if they can afford it -- big income ...

Right you are. Bad statement on my part. What I should have said is "The Bible doesn't stake out a supportive position on veganism or vegetarianism. S...

No, I don't think that the way you put it is true. People generally have an identity and they generally have a system of morality. They are not inextr...

Right. The lion will lie down with the lamb, but the lion will sleep a lot better than the lamb... Lions and lambs is not from Genesis, it's from Isai...

Surely this broad-brush stroke of stereotyping should not be allowed to stand without objection. I object.

Well, that certainly didn't take long.

I don't know whether you can have ideas for which you have no words or not. It seems like having words for which there are no ideas. Empty. Zero... Mo...

Objects gain 'sentimental' or 'emotional' value in a number of ways. We become familiar with the object. It has been around long enough to be a piece ...

Maybe. I'm not sure what all makes a society unstable. Economic instability certainly plays a role; political instability, climate instability, water-...

Oruj Defoite may feel she belongs to Wales, but at least some people do not. This doesn't strike me as altogether unfair (or altogether fair, either)....

May I sharpen this up a bit, without disagreeing with you too much? We started out in natal groups, not as individuals. Yes, of course we were born on...

Successful adult animals, including humans, have enough intelligence to succeed in their preferred environment. Success in obtaining the necessities o...

It seems like a moral obligation to oppose ideas like Rand's and AppLeo's.

Love who you will, but really, what do you see in that old hag? You are presently walking around on your own two feet, at this point; that could chang...

Great clip!

Review of boring novel, Leo, Slayer of Socialistic Super Machines, Dead Chicken Press, 2019 $19.95 Summary: After @"AppLeo" read a novel by Ayn Rand h...

Those of us who are turned off by Rand's views might be just as disturbed by "all powerful governments" as you are; value the individual and individua...

Don't worry, there won't be 11 billion people by 2100.

There is a hair-care product better than aluminum foil or hair spray. I recommend SUAVE DAILY CLARIFYING SHAMPOO. Daily Clarifying Shampoo is loaded w...

Good way of putting it.

Monomania is tiresome. Comparing thinking to a phonograph record... "Are you in the groove? You mean ever diminishing circles?" (quoting Marshal McLuh...

I agree with you that, at this point, we can not prevent climate change. Whatever is going to happen is making itself manifest already. Can we make it...

That's OK, because I had never heard of him either. I use Wikipedia to manufacture fake omniscience. Pegasus is a character in a story, and because th...

So, Pegasus exists without being real. No horse with wings (let alone being bright red) was ever real, but one did exist as a fictional character. Now...

Thank you for appearing when only twice summoned. Some spirts require 3 summons before they are able to appear. Pretentious spirits...

This reminds me of the James Thurber story about the Unicorn In The Garden:

Ding an sich? If it represented nothing, how could it exist? https://66.media.tumblr.com/eac95ee6b6695859a01e15e846c2e71c/tumblr_plyevb0L7q1y3q9d8o1_4...