Of course "I know" they want to be happy. I want to be happy. Everyone wants to be happy. That part isn't difficult, and I can probably even manage my...
You did not. It's an attractive idea that we can know for sure what others are thinking, what others want, or need. I'm pulled both ways by the idea t...
In your psychological theory, Intimacy is inherently good, and sex which does not aim for intimacy must fail. If intimacy is the only goal, the ultima...
More than mere consent would be needed at this point. There is no legal framework at this point for allowing care providers engaging in explicitly sex...
Bees don't 'conceptualize'. They don't think about the problems of beeing. The kind of consciousness they have is probably what you described: when st...
Current thinking about disabled people is that they have a right to live their lives as close to normal as possible. Students with mobility limitation...
the psychopathology of normality I disagree with you immensely on this point, and let me widen the area of disagreement I maintain that actualization ...
I would say it either has more meanings (some of which you listed later) or it has no meaning at all. I prefer not to think it has no meaning. I have ...
I absolutely agree that love is the best motivation; intimacy adds more meaning to sex; institutions can not act out of love (or any other emotion). M...
There is an erotic massage program (The Body Electric) which teaches people how to give and receive safe, sexual experiences through tantric practices...
I don't know, either, whether cows prefer to be milked, or not. If their udder is full, they seem to be anxious to have it emptied. I do know they hav...
Apples, ditch the clothes, and ... I wish it had been this guy I was in love with when I was 17, but alas... Passionate kissing had to wait till 27. F...
But... Are we inflicting suffering on animals when we raise them in a humane manner, and then at some point, end their lives humanely? Granted, there ...
God, this is the story of my life! It would seem like there might be some problem finding housing, medical facilities, food distribution systems, wate...
I am pointing at animal suffering as a given, whether we eat them or not. "Eating an animal" per se doesn't increase their suffering. Suffering is ubi...
Why? The Central Planning Office determined that Muslims did not fit into the long-range plans for establishing atheism, pork eating, booze guzzling, ...
Your door handle and lamp don't seem very counterfactual. "relating to or expressing what has not happened or is not the case; a counterfactual condit...
Some people are more "missing antecedent" tolerant than others. Some people have free-floating anxiety which avidly seeks events to which it can attac...
Here's an example of brittle, flimsy multiculturalism: Our Nordic Lutheran pastoral staff are hot to trot to bag a refugee family to sponsor. (Molds o...
Why is kicking them out "bigoted, close minded and spreads fear"? Do not a sovereign people (Poles, Finns, Irish, Italians, Turks, Rumanians, Russians...
Of course, animals suffer whether meat is an item on the menu or not. No body is eating us, yet we suffer. Birds suffer. Mammals of all sorts suffer f...
Selective, elite schools in the US, Finland, or Timbuktu always do better than general, public schools because elite schools can assemble a homogeneou...
No doubt you are correct about their suctive attitudes. Suctivity is endemic. You probably read Is Google Making Us Stupid?. I don't know whether it i...
What did I mean? Nothing more than that your intellectual development proceeded in a beneficial, straight-forward manner. Proceeding forward with cont...
Our jokes don't seem to be working on each other today. I did a decade in the trenches dealing with poor reading skills, poor writing skills, poor ari...
You seem to be a normal "type A" personality -- professionally aggressive, ambitious, striving vigorously towards goals, and a "big picture" thinker r...
When, whether, how, or not one's positions and approaches change probably depends on one's social and intellectual milieu (which one usually can't do ...
Yes, the schools are doing a crappy job--but only as a secondary or tertiary knock on effect. "School" for 70% of the population, give or take a few] ...
O what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive. THEY control the vertical and the horizontal. Didn't you know that? What sort of faile...
None of us were weaned on Aristotle and Plato (speak up if you were), and it is unlikely that many here encountered Greek philosophy in depth until th...
Children are already being born under unusual circumstances which are going to require later, and perhaps difficult, explanations. Gay men hiring a su...
"Gendered roles" like who does the cooking, cleaning, and laundry, and who does the ditch digging, cattle herding, and mechanical work are constructed...
Animal cruelty has the advantage of sentimental loading. (And sentiment does not trivialize the issue, it just adds another dimension.) Most of us per...
No doubt, obesity and diabetes are past epidemic levels, but "meat eating" per se accounts for those as efficiently as too many refined carbohydrates ...
Eating meat is natural enough, but most modern men (people) are not driven by guilt-expunging hunger to kill animals. The killing is done long before ...
Minorities are in the movie to stand in place of the Great White Goddess and take the fucking for her. If the GWG was going to get fucked herself, the...
Same here -- haven't seen a Bergman film in a long time, but yes, similar feel. I used to groove on this sort of thing. In my youth I needed to see ex...
Harvey Cox, an American theologian, writes in his book "On Not Leaving It To The Snake" that Adam and Eve were meant to eat the fruit of the tree of k...
It's a simple environmental intervention that works well. But this wasn't a problem in the past. Like before we put toilets in small rooms in the hous...
The judgmentalness that constitutes political correctness is another sort of behavior altogether (in my opinion). If I habitually refer to Negros or B...
Welcome to The Philosophy Forum. How did you find us, and decide that we would be a good sounding board? There are certainly plenty of people around w...
Yes, 'being judgmental' is a bad trait because 'being judgmental' is an idiom meaning "an unconsidered, snap reaction" that will normally be taken as ...
Bingo. I was raised in, and pursued with Methodist diligence, a Protestant, Calvinist view of the world. Sometime around 35 years ago (at age 35) I de...
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