It's close enough to your complaint that the difference doesn't matter. You asked, you say. Big fucking deal. You are 1 of 16,039,370 registered voter...
Many people strive to maintain their health, from young adulthood to old age. Then, fit as a fiddle and 90 years old, they develop the inevitable chro...
Sometimes you have to strike when the iron is hot; other times you have to strike until the iron is hot. Many of my pet topics (like socialism) are ei...
Yes. I've been out since 1971. Immediately after Stonewall, and in the years following for... maybe 20 years, at least in Fly Over Land where I live, ...
Who needs the right when anyone can bring about their own death? I'm not sure that someone who wants to kill themselves because they didn't ask to be ...
The way we play this game, you can't just make a claim and then say you are not going to back it up. Ok, so we evolved into hunter-gatherers. Hunter-g...
You make some valid observations here. I don't know how old you are, but age makes a difference. I'm over 70 and a lot of the people I interact with a...
If you stop feeding people, they stop shitting in their pants. Just joking. BTW, it has been found in states where assisted suicide is legal, that ter...
I don't think this is an entirely serious proposal, but for a provocative post it's reasonably well thought out. I have two objections right away: Fir...
Of course, it doesn't NEED to be expanded to more people. I thought we agreed on that. Is our main difference that I think more people get added the s...
This takes me back a ways. I remember this idea from college days back in the late 1960s. It is possible to put too much emphasis on the author, his o...
Wait a few hours, see how you feel. Then wait another day or two, see you feel. I would much prefer that you stay on with the rest of us. On the other...
No. I just cited the doctrine of original sin. Our alleged affliction with original sin removes the element of choice, which is convenient. All the ba...
That is the general idea behind Original Sin -- man is prone to sin. Borne out in the biography and letters of Dorothy Day. Helping homeless and desti...
Yes, they absolutely are passing property taxes on. Does the state where you live offer property tax relief to renters? When the chattering classes ar...
Au contraire, mon bon ami. Life was not fair in the past, is not fair now, and in all probability, won't be fair in the future. I don't like that, but...
Scientists get paid more and are, in general, more useful than most philosophers. There are more people calling themselves "philosopher" now than in a...
From the New York Times 12 28 17: Rats! All those great looking svelte guys on the beach in their minimal Speedos are now lard asses, and have switche...
Possibly your act of taking their stereo killed them. After all, how will they survive without the soundtrack of their life playing in the background?...
Unfortunately, the cake does not get bigger for everyone, and the share of the cake that the rich get increases faster than the expansion of the cake....
One of Marx's quotes from the Manifesto is that "The state is a committee to organize the affairs of the bourgeoisie." In other words, the state is th...
This sounds a bit like the line of questioning in the House Unamerican Activities Committee..."Are you now, or were you ever a member of the Communist...
First you say that the law is only as good as the people behind it, then you say a tyrannical law is worse than tyrannical dictator, and that law legi...
What, exactly, are you intending to be for and against here? Why would you counterpose the Holocaust against law? The nazis made a sham of the law, re...
It isn't necessary to face nihilism stark naked and "unadorned". (Did you mistype "unarmored" but auto-correction decided it liked "unadorned" better?...
Christian morality is intact (it's a system; it's based on certain documents and models; these sorts of things, whether it be Christian or Égalité übe...
Even Milton Friedman though a universal basic income was a good idea. How expensive would it be? Maybe not as much as one would think. Those who recei...
Venezuela is a basket case because of grossly bad management. Bad management doesn't work well in any economic system. "Entrepreneurs don’t have a spe...
No, I do not know that that is true. There was a time within my memory (maybe yours too) when college tuition at major universities was quite affordab...
Well, actually it is the quintessential step to solving growing inequality. The biggest underlying problem is the regressive tax system which allows g...
In fact, it is the rich that are confiscating the work of someone else's lifetime -- their employees. Labor creates all wealth. Capitalists get rich b...
There was a depression around 1893, and a few years later the beginning of the Progressive Era which was about as welcome by the rich as an infestatio...
There is no question that material resources are limited, and that their distribution is severely uneven. The distribution is neither fair nor equal. ...
Yes, affirming life as good is a deliberate act of engagement, just as asserting the meaninglessness of life is a deliberate act of engagement. I didn...
"Just wondering if you had a response to last post here:" I do. I think you are probably right that other animals do not self-reflect--at least most o...
Let's switch topics for a while. Well, unscrupulous individuals do lots of bad things in every field, from warehouse management to the priesthood. Why...
Of course, it wouldn't be weird to say that IF you grew up believing that one went to heaven or hell after one died. The truth is the truth if we can ...
If gay marriage is put to a vote, and more people support it than reject it -- for whatever reasons -- then that is sufficient. It is sufficient becau...
I don't usually quote Schopenhauer, but this quote is pertinent: Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills. The limitation on our free...
I think humans are perfectly capable of intentionally doing evil. One can always find a way of packaging an evil act as "intending to do good" even th...
These are not all high quality results: Query: "Science damages the environment" I am assuming a negative effect of science would be the large quantit...
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