"Us philosophically-inclined people" are definitely obliged to examine and defend any definition of good, but not everyone is philosophically inclined...
Fine by me. Are you suggesting that God is the source of good, actively anchors the good to reality, or that God is the hook on which we hang our defi...
I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that God doesn't exist. No god, no gods. But... humans created god(s) in their own image. It would be stupid t...
It's worse than weak correlation. Assuming a lab has a unique chemical, and not just a chemical different enough from other antidepressants to count a...
"Science" has gotten much, much bigger than it used to be. First, more phenomena are being subjected to granular examination that previously. Second, ...
No, that's too simple. Xenophobia, racism, sexism, elitism, homophobia, and like terms may describe features of some people's thinking, emotional reac...
Man, how far from dead do you think it is? It hasn't shown much life, lately. (Granted, there have been a few twitches, suggesting that the soul and b...
Excellent post. I'm about to start reading "White Trash: The 400 year untold history of class in America. Nancy Isenberg. I don't know if it will be g...
This is a perplexing problem from a couple of angles. Clearly, massed labor is not needed in many places, though it is needed in some. Per-unit cost i...
No, Trump supporters should not be ridiculed; neither should Clinton nor Sanders supporters. The objects of support, Trump, Clinton, Sanders, and ever...
My guess is that migration has had mixed consequences for Britain (and many other countries). Some of the consequences are beneficial, some are not. I...
Excellent post on leadership, Moliere. One of the virtues of good leadership is knowing when to leave, and how. Any given leader is able to accomplish...
The vacant isolated island became beautiful, sublime, awesome, and sacred -- in your mind as the mariner. Beauty, sublimity, awe, and sanctity are, as...
/uploads/files/w2/4kh68wwj4f3so4gd.jpg I readily grant that Romanians in England are hoping for a better life. So are the Poles and Pakistanis, Indian...
Must one assume that The Elites are of one mind and so are the "Ignorant Masses"? That it's either the elite's way or the highway? Is the choice betwe...
Which we, non-gullible intellectual types who are in the know, none-the-less buy. I understand how it works, I know better, but sometimes I want it, a...
There is a great deal of intentional misinformation, unintentional misinformation, and fairly serious misunderstanding for many topics. Take nutrition...
But they are usually exposed as lacking integrity, credibility, reliability, decency, honesty, probity, sincerity, honorableness and scruples. True en...
Nonsense! There are several reasons to speak honestly or not: Speak to amuse, speak to inform, speak to persuade, speak to spur to action... Speaking ...
Lies and misinformation end up in democratic campaigns, for sure, but I would hope that they aren't expected to be part of any lively debate! I don't ...
I forget by how much, but the £350 million a week being sent to the EU was a rather large exaggeration -- and didn't, for instance, account for the x£...
LBJ was in Congress for a long time before he became president. He was in Congress from 1937 to 1961, and he was Senate Majority Whip. He had been the...
"Good and decent man" does have something of the diminutive about it, because "real men" know how to get things done one way or another, some not so g...
Drawing the plumbing diagram of how taste, aesthetics, or "class", or opinion, or some paradigm gets promulgated, by whom, and how it is altered--all ...
Oh, sure. I get what you're talking about. Dramatic advertising is never too much to sell a counterfeit ideology. Be heavy on the image; the lighting,...
Gawd, 90 degrees, high humidity, and prospects for storms this afternoon. I think I'll skip the Gay Pride in the Park bit. Besides, it's too, too... b...
The entropic heat death will also erase 99.999999% of the evidence that we ever existed. Somewhere a few contraptions launched from earth might still ...
It won't be necessary to wait that long. By any stretch of the imagination, the 'bubble' will have burst long before then. For instance, in another mi...
From the perspective of many gay men, women are sexually irrelevant, and can be considered as real people--likable, funny, annoying, boring, whatever....
TGW, there's a vast difference between the chattering class feminist (educated, economically stable, and socially privileged) and the uneducated, impo...
If progress is "forward or onward movement toward a destination" and if we are not headed anywhere in particular, then "making progress" isn't happeni...
at 11:45 p.m., local time, 5:45 a.m. in London, it's 52% to 48%, in favor of leaving. There's a 1,121,000 majority, with 19 voting jurisdictions yet t...
I agree with you. The democratic process is open-ended, after all. "The People" never speak once and for all time. Take prohibition in the United Stat...
Which feminism are you talking about: First Wave (1830’s – early 1900’s--Suffrage), Second Wave (1960’s-1980’s--workplace issues, sexuality, etc.), or...
Me? Make stuff up? It is tempting to make stuff up, and if done with sufficient boldness, confidence, and brio there is a good chance one's lies will ...
"The government has never invented anything or done any good for anyone." More stupid ideas from Ayn Swine Rand. Aside from maintaining the legal infr...
Some of the Randian principles that Mayor cites are ridiculous: (Rand, not Mayor, is ridiculous) "Any and all natural resources are limitless" is true...
True when Vidal (or whoever coined the phrase) said it; still true today. Indeed. As Marx said, the state is a committee for organizing the affairs of...
Mayor: I'm starting a new thread: Can American Business Be called 'Objectivist'? I really don't want it to be true (American business is bad enough as...
Your information on Austria is interesting and depicts a sharp contrast, indeed. It would seem that Austria's political and governmental system is org...
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