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If I understand you correctly, I agree, but that is not an institutionalised form of democracy, but rather pure cooperation arising naturally between ...
August 28, 2017 at 16:09
Freedom of choice is a fact of human nature. Some freedoms you ought to protect and others you ought to discourage. For example, you ought not to prot...
August 28, 2017 at 15:05
This conversation made my day >:O >:O >:O >:O
August 28, 2017 at 11:42
That is quite an inspiring story you have there! (Y) Thanks for sharing that. It's always a difficult thing to decide how ambitious you should be will...
August 28, 2017 at 11:20
:s - I haven't become unknowingly implanted with internet memes - Lying Hillary isn't an internet meme, Donald Trump said it at his rallies. If you st...
August 28, 2017 at 08:27
None are free to coerce. Am I responsible for her stupidity? No. She should pay for it. But if she really can't, then I'm not opposed to help her.
August 28, 2017 at 08:23
Well yes if she wants to have that abortion with my money, I think I have full rights to tell her what to do with her body. Also, she shouldn't be abl...
August 28, 2017 at 08:22
No, not necessarily. It's not "many many many" who have it out of economic reasons. About 30% according to some statistics I've read. About 2-5% are t...
August 28, 2017 at 08:20
Define healthcare.
August 27, 2017 at 20:17
Depends what "healthcare" means. Abortion isn't healthcare, unless the woman's life is threatened.
August 27, 2017 at 20:16
At minimum no one should be forced to pay for it or perform it. It is killing a being with a soul.
August 27, 2017 at 20:15
As I said, I used those classifications symbolically. No, I don't value this. Yes, I think these are quite important. On my property and using my tool...
August 27, 2017 at 19:39
Hmm well you say good luck with that, but until now you were saying that I made no suggestions, while in truth I had made them. So why is it suddenly ...
August 27, 2017 at 18:14
It's also quite possibly a copy of this one @"Michael"
August 27, 2017 at 17:25
Having to earn your living in and of itself doesn't make you a slave, but having a wage under an employer generally does. I've always hated working un...
August 27, 2017 at 12:46
Well, yeah, that's kind of an accurate description of it! >:O >:O >:O
August 27, 2017 at 11:47
Democracy is not the opportunity to suggest the system, it's the opportunity to suggest someone to be in charge of particular functions within an alre...
August 27, 2017 at 11:44
Sure. I think it's a fact that all are free to choose, rather you might mean that their freedom to choose should be protected. Ah, it would be great i...
August 27, 2017 at 09:17
Why so? If you think I'm a reactionary, then democrats are also reactionaries - they've taken us back to Ancient Greece! But of course, I'd make no su...
August 27, 2017 at 08:55
No. That is still materialistic. More enlightened materialism doesn't cease to be materialism. Materialism means utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is not...
August 26, 2017 at 21:12
Well I think at least that I understand that philosophy is lived, but the practice of living doesn't deal in truth, it deals in actions. Those actions...
August 26, 2017 at 20:57
In terms of philosophy sure, but what about, say, in terms of building a family? Are your words and actions in that case not directed towards the well...
August 26, 2017 at 20:52
With regards to taking tests, exams and the like, I can say this is true based on my experience. I thought I will fail many tests and exams, and I pas...
August 26, 2017 at 20:42
McGregor seems to have a big mouth, but to me it seems that Floyd appeared to be more confident.
August 26, 2017 at 19:35
All of you blinded democracy lovers should listen to what people like this guy have to say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k12teOokSqM It is really b...
August 26, 2017 at 19:02
One of my friends also told me "you should come with me to XXX place, they have the best steak ever there!" -> is he a liar now, because there's some ...
August 26, 2017 at 13:31
Yes he made a tiny statement in answer to a question: "Are you for invading Iraq?" which he answered "Yeah, I guess so". That's not a lie. Give me a b...
August 26, 2017 at 13:08
I don't think it's a hang up at all. It's absolutely important. Democracy has in fact killed some of the most enlightened people who have ever lived. ...
August 26, 2017 at 12:44
A vomit of insults - sometimes one needs to vomit to get the poison out. Feel better now? ;) Next time, try not to drink so much my friend.
August 26, 2017 at 12:18
You should have a look at After Virtue to see what I'm talking about when I say rational moral framework...
August 26, 2017 at 11:20
A rational moral framework. Rational discourse. Yes, I've witnessed this too, but the religious people who did that came on the losing end. They are. ...
August 26, 2017 at 10:27
Indeed, and everyone ought to do them because if they don't, then the particular way of life that the ethics sustains becomes impossible. That is inde...
August 26, 2017 at 10:08
Okay I see. I did manage to read your post before you deleted though, but I will not go over all the points since you have removed it, something that ...
August 26, 2017 at 09:11
It is exclusive to the religious person though. That's what I've claimed. I disagree that science can be such a means for a cognitive shift of the kin...
August 26, 2017 at 08:39
Now, to help faciliate understanding of what I said earlier. When I say: This isn't to be taken to mean that morality isn't objective. But rather that...
August 25, 2017 at 20:41
Okay watched it (at 2x the speed, so no stress that it's 8mins and I answer faster). I've read Harris before so I'm aware of all this and the one thin...
August 25, 2017 at 20:28
Seems like I'm doing well! :D :D (Y)
August 25, 2017 at 20:15
Wow, relax. I am pointing out that us two have a very different understanding of conservatism, and people should not put us in the same category (as M...
August 25, 2017 at 20:13
Is this a license to sin? Just because we all fail, failing no longer becomes problematic? To a greater or lesser extent sure. This is false. There ar...
August 25, 2017 at 20:09
Before I address Hanover's soliloquy against Agustino, did any of you expect Alan Watts to write: "But a meaningless whole cannot evolve a meaningful ...
August 25, 2017 at 19:40
Yes, he has. Richest White House team in history. So what? I'm not judging his hirelings, I'm judging him now. Okay, I don't think those things are ba...
August 25, 2017 at 19:28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUbw-goIO5Q See @"Hanover", you are much like Osho's father in terms of what you call conservatism. I'm not, and I wou...
August 25, 2017 at 19:22
I will not watch that, sorry ;)
August 25, 2017 at 19:13
>:O >:O
August 25, 2017 at 19:06
As far as I know, not really. He has maybe been cruel in some business deals, but I wouldn't say he's actually done as much as Clinton. In terms of pe...
August 25, 2017 at 18:57
Does the American news not spill over the border? :P
August 25, 2017 at 18:50
Oh so you're going to do what Reince Priebus did to Anthony Scaramucci for 6 months before he could get in the White House? >:O
August 25, 2017 at 18:35
hahaha it actually was quite funny! :P Not that I agree with the interpretation, but it's funny. This is better kind of humor. I thought you were goin...
August 25, 2017 at 18:25
Yeah, I thought so, I didn't mean to suggest you made it up the first time around though (I know very little & vaguely about Jung, so I just wouldn't ...
August 25, 2017 at 18:22
>:O LOL, good one!
August 25, 2017 at 18:16