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You would have a valid point if this degree of error were typical. But it hasn't been in Australian elections. Some of the polls have got the predicti...

I was trying to open up some ideas. For instance which of A or B is more mututally inconsistent? For instance should someone who is a vegetarian own a...

Quite easily. All the predictions were wrong. Even if I accept that they were within the margin of error, that doesn't help. It should be so unlikely ...

They were a failure when it happened with all of them over a long period of time. You should not be redlining a margin of error for at least a year be...

Actually the example mentioned by some people here isn't that facetious or hypothetical. The video of "Russian Roulette stunt - Derren Brown". is stil...

It's as though the US does not want to extradite Assange. He has very strong human rights grounds now to avoid extradition.

I'm going to go a bit left field and say that the most depressing philosopher is Australian bioethicist Peter Singer; making animals have so many righ...

No. Not at all. I am describing relativities of ethical degree. Actually I think that both A and B are unethical. But my argument that A is less uneth...

But just because we can waste resources doesn't mandate that we should.

To minimise resource usage could free more food for starving people to eat. For instance feeding cows for meat uses more food and resources than growi...

No. The pet cannot in itself be immoral. B ut the owner can be for his or her choice of pet.

Ok. The traditional arguments for meat eating being an ethical issues-\ - involuntary harm - the use of more resources such as food and land for meat ...

Why not, may I ask? You are saying that A and B are of equal ethical or non ethical ststaus?

I only found this out this year. But there is also the aspect of burial. The euthanasia drugs used by a vet are toxic and remain in the dead animal. S...

I guess that less clearcut cases are things like horses. A blind horse can be very hard to keep. On the other hand other horses can help a blind horse...

Assange. Here's my views. First, I believe in the rule of law ahead of conscience. This is not a fashionable view. Thus Assange was wrong to avoid bai...

I add that to read more than my teacher was not easy; he was once a lecturer in history and literature at the University of Hawaii. But yes I agree th...

Does Mister Rogers qualify as a philosopher? If so then he's my opposite; I'm an atheist. But the way he lived was enough to make me very briefly want...

I suppose that if you expanded the idea of drugs you could include the morality of many "illegal drugs". I am thinking of brain hacking drugs that are...

That's the word isn't it. Procrustean. lol.

I have no idea how I made italics there. I did not intend to.

My point with a Dvorak keyboard would be that it might follow a more intuitive pattern of letters rather than the totally artificial Qwerty keyboard.