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Capitalism is one way to organize production and, as it happens, it is quite good at it. However, capitalism tends to externalize it's costs. When a p...

And it won't be your last, so press on with diligence.

This is a standard Libertarian view. Perhaps you are a "left-libertarian", since you are in favor of a quite limited government and interested in elim...

"Therapy means change, not adjustment." (Motto of the Radical Therapist) “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point...

Your long post covers a lot of territory; it would be a good idea to break-up your piece into several posts, maybe in two or three separate new discus...

Ashwin Poonawala, welcome to The Philosophy Forum. You haven't offended anyone. You haven't made anyone feel bad. The fault is mine. I apologize to yo...

An interesting case. It was good of you (really) to help this chick fly. Is it because, when these people are children or adolescents, that they do no...

Barry, dear, you quoted an irrelevant article on awards for grocery bagging--an altogether different existential experience than shelf-stacking. Baggi...

As well it should pain you. But what about us JUST TRAGIC 70 year old English Lit graduates? It apparently didn't pain you much to hear about our suff...

If you don't get that language straightened out, it's going to be a lot worse than kangaroos loose in the top paddock, figjam and all. Whinge is also ...

A government (whether national, state, provincial, county, or city) should be: Competent Honest Effective Efficient Responsive

You are quite right about this: a highly agitated, disruptive state of emotions will certainly interfere and threaten our rational thinking. When this...

Let's say if there is too much dissonance, or nothing but dissonance, we end up with the noise of a cacophony. Picking up the musical theme, a little ...

Not a cause for great concern, but certainly a need to harmonize. First, we need to do away with higher and lower brain. The whole brain evolved, and ...

See, MadFood, we are a unity. We are basic emotions, simple drives, biological functions, perception, memory, coordination of movement, and thought. N...

Not a cause for concern. For one thing, I am not sure it is the lower brain (so called) that is confused, self-contradictory, and irrational. Survival...

You really should go first. In a full life, many things are relished, enjoyed greatly, and missed when they are gone. And over time, if we live long e...

So. There was no chance of them dying. What were they whinging about, then? Or, had they been here, whining about?

We are to assume, I suppose, that the agents pointing out to these guys that their thinking is incorrect, or undoing someone's understanding of the wo...

Suppressing the gag reflex is more useful than suppressing the startle reflex. Unless, of course, you were gagged by an unusually large organ menacing...

Of course they were whinging -- after 2 of them had just splattered on the sharp rocks at the bottom of the cliff.

This is intriguing but I don't see how it figures into the cingulate cortex and to shocked reactions. Unless, of course, your saying "to be loved is s...

You are analyzing an observed / remembered reaction to a sudden, intense traumatic event in the leisurely comfort of our philosophy forum and over-thi...

It seems to me the world of pain (how they suffer!) the GOP is engulfed in is entirely of their own making. A major source of the pain is the realizat...

Maybe it's the flippant fraction of the Shout box. I shall now take your question seriously. The broader social climate is damnably ambiguous in place...

If Trump is a covert nazi, he might worry that people would guess that he is a secret nazi and is responsible for coordinating jew hate in jew cemeter...

I am unanimous in the opinion that nobody should be allowed to be made into a dolphin. I mean, do we really want to insult dolphins that much?

I see... the list gives an air of verisimilitude to the otherwise airy notion that there are more than two genders--male and female.

What drugs bring on the states-of-mind that enable people to write such crap as this? Would you care to explain what the 5 genders are?

Klimt has become quite popular, seems like. It's been a long time since I read Anna Karenina. I should reread it. (It's on my list.) I hate to mention...

There are 2 parts to their site -- the information map obtained from Stanford and then their own organization page. Their organization looks like a co...

Feminists need to take constructivist position because they want to eliminate all barriers (like biology) from the accomplishment of their wishes. Unf...

Sometimes you have to take the horse by the tail and face the situation.

For better or worse, 'transgender' or 'transsexual' is grouped with gay and bi. One prominent issue in the discussion of sexuality within the GBT popu...

How many grains make a heap depends on the shape of the grain. If they are square or have flat parallel surfaces then 2 grains can make a heap -- 1 re...

Julia Gillard, writing in the March 7, '17 Guardian, asks... "With great female minds idling on the sidelines, how much progress have we lost?" Appare...

Is that a fact?

POV: If I flew through the cloud that you were standing under, from the planes window it would not appear to be a thick white or gray could, but somew...

I and Thou, Martin Buber (Kaufmann's translation) A reference link to discussions of the various terms for love in Greek -- Agape, Eros, Philia, mainl...

The Heart of a Dog by Bulgakov; It doesn't have anything to do with love, but it's very good.

Many people seem to have a more fluid identity; it's variable, depending on the situation. For better or worse, I don't think my identity is fluid. It...

Did I suggest that I had the right or intention to eradicate all termites on earth? No. Am I not the founder of "Termite Lives Matter" after all? Both...

Here are some quotes (which you will probably hate, but hey, I don't want to read a long, thick, hard book on love. Short works only at my age -- brie...

I thought I had agreed with you that humans are a part of nature, and therefore, what they do is "natural". But just being natural isn't in itself alw...

Pets really are a good opportunity to learn about animal minds, because we spend so much time with them. We can observe them in all sorts of situation...

There are a little over ONE million species of animals -- not multiples of millions. Of that one million, there are about 5,000 mammal species. A few ...

My sublime thought is available to the Chinese via the Internet. I am sure there hang on every word.

As the climate changes, there will be winners and losers. In the US, for instance, the southwestern region will probably be a loser and the northern p...

Maybe you should just settle for wearing a dolphin disguise. I have reservations about transsexuality. I have what I suppose is a reasonably well grou...

Maybe it depends on the sport. In contact sports (like American football) the mass of the body makes a difference. In a number of sports, size of musc...