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How did Hamilton create legal nightmares? How many lawyers in Hamilton's day (or Lincoln's, for that matter) were NOT self taught, and had not gone to...

The more common version of this is "The truth is somewhere in the middle", which is also problematic. "The true is somewhere in the middle" is an exam...

I'm all in favor of free will, but I don't think we just freely choose to love anyone, whether that love be eros, agape, or philia. What we can will o...

God has interfered, intervened, got involved with, the affairs of this world much like the US got involved in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria: The intent...

Your alternate ideas for god are good. You might also consider adding "a god who is good but not all powerful". Or, as some have proposed, a good god ...

If there is such a thing as a god that is all knowing, eternal, perfect, perfectly free, and so forth, we would be quite unable to apprehend this god....

Indeed, it would not be good. Free will is no excuse for bad behavior, whether on the part of a deity or the brats next door who ought to be straighte...

Metaphors are not to be taken literally.

I don't see any omni-perfect beings on or off the hook.

To be fair, you ought to mention the good actions of the alleged god of monotheistic religions (whom I doubt you believe in) allows or (allegedly) aid...

Of course, Yahweh didn't flood the earth in Noah's or anybody else's time. Are you trying to sound provocative? God didn't make Adam and Eve, put them...

Let's give God a break. The problem is parents and their children. The parents exercise their free will by allowing their children to behave like mons...

Some superstitions become obsessions. Don't know why, exactly, people start doubting that they locked the door, but they HAVE to go back and check it....

Let's put Wosret in a Skinner Box and see what we can accomplish for SCIENCE.

Ah, the EMP scenario. Quite popular as a apocalypse inducing event. The sequel is One Year After, and the second sequel is The Final Day. EMPs are a g...

Kung pao, perhaps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcCEqUZXfLY

I'd agree to no such malarky. Mongrel Enterprises, Inc. makes her contaminating windmills by not merely exploiting labor, but by exploiting the most v...

I'm willing to entertain the notion that the concept of the "corporation" is immoral if it shields its owners, office holders and management from the ...

The consequences can be immoral. A law that shields individuals for their immoral acts under the cloak of a corporation, for instance, could be immora...

All things considered, I'd rather be a decent fellow who drinks a bit too much that a dead sober creep. Alcoholics have a very bad rep these days; it ...

Really? Amazing. The law is often not a matter of morality. For instance, laws specifying how real estate property is transferred from one person to a...

Aliens established themselves on earth quite some time ago. Some of "us" are aliens--from where, how we got here, and what our plans are--is none of y...

That's right, but... maybe the law is an ass. Corporations can be a means to at partially or totally shield individuals from the consequences of their...

Oddly enough, or not, it isn't clear who actually first wrote or spoke the phrase, "Eternal Vigilance is the price of liberty." Thomas Jefferson may o...

I read that the heart shape (which has nothing to do with the heart) actually comes from the appearance of a reasonably plump fat lady's A-shapely der...

Thanks a lot for stealing all of my thunder. But I did like this highlighted quote in the Monbiot piece I'll drink to that several times -- "And they ...

It's been done, and in terms of world history, seconds ago. In fact, quite a few countries have closed their borders in various ways--take the Great F...

Please don't. I have a long list of reading I am trying to get through before I drop dead. I know you don't mean that. And yes, people in an organizat...

Never heard of it.

The rhetoric employed in talking about organizations of any kind can become confusing if one isn't careful. So a couple of decades ago, some people we...

Philosophers probably hate admitting it, but they are as deeply rooted in rutting physicality as everyone is. A bit of the vulgar, the vernacular, is ...

Oh, he did expect to gain something -- your salvation, Wosret. He wanted to save your sin-sick Canadian soul from eternal damnation and the fires of h...

Self-inflicted suffering, sort of. But what about people who are suffering at the hand of others for being what they should be, and are?

People are always in danger of losing their freedom whether there is 1 centralized military or 50. There are several entities -- the military, the loc...

Sexist for practical purposes, probably.

Public for-profit corporations in the US have to issue regular financial reports. Non-profit corporations are not obligated to do so, and privately ow...

Accidental? Maybe 'accident' isn't quite the right term. The state created the template of corporations and upon formal application and payment of fee...

I want to deny them access, period. Arthur D. Levinson is Chairman of Apple, Inc. Mr. Levinson can spend his own money and go to Washington, DC or Sac...

Until the revolution and we get rid of them, corporations should stick to business: buying, selling, renting, exchanging, digging, refining, farming, ...

There are many reports of sexual encounters between men and women which were quite short, and where the woman definitely did not reach orgasm. Apparen...

Good things happening to bad people (perhaps) jar's people's trust in God to do the right thing more than bad things happening to good people. There i...

Suffering isn't necessary, it just IS. We suffer because we have a complex neural apparatus that enables us to sense the environment. Sensing helps us...

It's true that the quality has gone down, but then, the quality was going down 'over there', too. The classical Greek philosophers thought the quality...

To quote a revolutionary... Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to rep...

Agreed? Yes? No?

You are right -- "self-less love" doesn't make sense. It's a hopeless case. Let's bury the idea of "self-less love" once and for all. Where did this i...

We are real, and we experience love, and we are part of nature and some think part of divinity too. So, sure. Love is real in a universal sense. We di...

Definitely, because... Vox populi, vox Deus. The voice of the people is the voice of God. They're working on that problem. Stay tuned.

I totally agree. Very bad. Fine by me, but I like labels. You still look like a libertarian to me (being libertarian is not a bad thing in itself). I ...

I think greed is one of the basic problems that all people deal with, sooner or later. It long proceeded capitalism, and it will be around long afterw...