It's sad, for sure, but Agustino isn't American, German, or Francois. He's not British, Finnish, Swedish, Norskish, Danish, Dutchish, Swissish, Polish...
Well, 4 and 5 are positive: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. (Is Heschell or Agnon who calls the sabbath "a cathedral in time"? Honor your f...
Do you think Mr. and Mrs. Hegel did this? What did Mrs. Hegel say? "Don't believe everything my husband says." Are you ready to surrender your persona...
What I find troubling about your valuation of the relationship which you think adultery violates is that it is too close to the idea of ownership and ...
Just some additional details, Jake: Military planners underestimated the damage that nuclear weapons would do. Daniel Ellsberg documents how these pla...
Of course. We're screwed. First, what are you classifying as "artificial intelligence"? Is Google's speech-to-text service artificial intelligence? Ho...
A balance to be sure of productivity, consumption, and amusements, if at all possible. We have the ability to turn an ordinary activity into a folly, ...
Welcome to The Philosophy Forum. Great topic. We human beings are simply not emotionally and cognitively configured to manage the consequences of havi...
Fascism = national socialism in Germany, but not in France, Italy, Ireland, the US, etc. How can fascism not be the same thing in different countries?...
I have no experience playing video games. I can not judge whether they are a waste of, or a productive use of time. I have heard from others (you, for...
I agree with you that the value of life is greater than the value of property. It is always wrong for a government (like your local city police force ...
I'm not Catholic (never was) and for the most part don't have deep resentments toward the Catholic Church. The religious body that I find more disappo...
There is no position that one can take in human affairs that will always guarantee a verdict of "Not Guilty" or "Not Immoral". In 1964 when I turned 1...
Is it unnatural? Is that a step up from intrinsically disordered? I don't really give a rat's ass what the pope and bishops think, but I have no doubt...
The Roman Catholic catechism calls homosexuality "intrinsically disordered". In pastoral letters, the bishops may say that homosexuals are "persons of...
Bear in mind I wasn't setting these two swans up as the model of all creation to follow. They are, after all, just 2 birds. I certainly don't think th...
You didn't like the black swan story? It's from Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity (Stonewall Inn Editions) authored by...
When I was growing up gay we were considered mentally ill and worse. What one did then and what one does now is ignore as much of the negative cultura...
We were hunter/gatherers for a few hundred thousand years before we invented agriculture and urbanity. How do we know that H/Gs left their children an...
H/G children would be less productive when they are very young, but would soon be old enough to forage and perform some tasks. Their greater value com...
Troll or not, there are many people who have difficulty getting their heads around the idea of homosexuality being advantageous in an evolutionary sen...
And why isn't that sufficient? Claiming to be gay in 2018 does not confer many advantages in life. There are plenty of places where it can get one kil...
Your assuming my lovely young heterosexual niece isn't actually a lesbian. How do you know she's straight? How would you find out? Maybe the lesbian a...
It will be difficult for you to accept a definition of homosexuality if you think "whatever homosexuality is has no boundaries other than 'mere social...
Because human behavior is so interesting. You could be straight as the day is long, and still find it interesting what kind of lives homosexuals lead....
I pretty much restrict myself to talking about gay men, on this topic. Lesbians tend to be very touchy about men theorizing about lesbianism. Alfred K...
There seems to be a lot of crazy behavior going around, lately. However, people rarely come up with entirely novel ways of being assholes, so I would ...
A woman is crossing the street and is struck by a car. Her back is quite severely injured. Her doctors tell her that she may walk again, but only afte...
You have this bizarre bourgeois/religious notion that sex is valuable only if it is experienced as seldom as possible. It's a delusion that your lobby...
But pop culture and Hollywood are only several threads in a skein of influences. Peers, family, church, school, work, "public opinion", the press, etc...
There is ample evidence of homosexual behavior across a variety of mammals and birds. For instance, some male black swans pair up for life, build nest...
I sort of like being something of an outlier. When I was a young man (50 years ago) being openly gay made one enough of an outlier to feel good about ...
That's possible. I posted some thoughts on fascism a bit ago. Fascism is a tricky subject because it doesn't seem to have essential content. It is mor...
And here I thought that the Trump Derangement Syndrome was a condition that Donald Trump suffered from. If he isn't deranged, then he is certainly in ...
Maybe the former conservatives have begun to congeal into a FASCIST GLOB? From what I've been reading (comparative fascism) doctrine is unimportant. F...
We need an bad-tempered economic ACT UP organization for the masses. The boat definitely will need to be rocked to shake loose all that cash stored up...
Don't forget that the now dead liberal wing of the Republican party was socially liberal and fiscally conservative. Nelson Rockefeller was their last ...
Yes, those damned conservatives who inveigh against consumerism and wanton consumption complicate things. Sometimes what they are against is the vulga...
A slight correction: A very large paradigm shift (like a revolution) will be required before there is any sort of UBI, especially an adequate UBI. The...
Probably screwed, but let's not dwell on it. Yes, people can free themselves of the dominant values and live their lives out on the margin. There are,...
The age of marriage fell from a high of 26.1/22.0 in 1890, to 22.7/20.3 in 1947. It remained low during the post war economic expansion. In the early ...
If we want to challenge the values of consumerism and commercialism (a challenge I heartily endorse) we have to ask, "Where did these values come from...
Where am I supposed to paste this? "I understand that moderators will evaluate my writing and if they find it deficient, they might remove it. I under...
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