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I hear what you're saying, but the problem with just not talking with other political actors is that they are out there, in positions of power, and of...
January 20, 2021 at 20:51
Disagreement and polarization are not the same thing. To become polarized means to become entrenched within a political position. It has a veritable r...
January 20, 2021 at 20:36
The consensus-based decision-making model is not quite what I'm trying to get at here, but, I will say that, within a genuine participatory democracy,...
January 20, 2021 at 19:17
Well, I'm all for pluralism, but that "polarization clarifies things" runs directly contrary to the general sentiment of this post, which you have cla...
January 20, 2021 at 18:58
In so far that Philosophy is a process of cultivating a way of life, how far beyond the political does it really extend? I think that, in the text, Ma...
January 20, 2021 at 18:55
I've just posted this thread and another about the text by Karl Marx which includes the statement, "Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, ...
January 20, 2021 at 18:49
Engaging in the pathology of what recorded version of the play, Hamlet, is "objectively" the best for long enough never to want to think along such li...
January 20, 2021 at 18:46
To be fair, most of her work relates to the Mexican Mafia, as well as that she's on the Church Committee, which I am hoping to be put somehow into eff...
January 20, 2021 at 18:40
So long!
August 05, 2020 at 21:28
Apologies for the double-post, but, to explicate further: Trigger Warning: Brief mention of domestic violence. Let's say that there is a coalition of ...
August 04, 2020 at 21:02
I like that Lorde quote, but you're not actually, like, reading what I'm saying. I'm well aware of the history of the ban. Again, though, that's just ...
August 04, 2020 at 17:18
I meant that the incentives towards authoritarian behavior should be removed and not that authoritarians should be systematically eliminated. The stru...
August 04, 2020 at 03:34
Eh, I have some, but not too many qualms with Marx. I think in the Soviet Union, it was pretty clear that the most culpable party was Josef Stalin. Vl...
August 03, 2020 at 17:34
That'd be something, but they don't really want Philosophy majors. Anyways, I'm leaving this forum to prepare for the semester, anyways, so, see you a...
August 03, 2020 at 16:44
Well, I mean, like, the Anarchist movement isn't really funded by George Soros. There could be such a movement without that kind of funding. I'm only ...
August 03, 2020 at 16:42
This is incredible. I can't believe that you created all of this. I don't know that I will read it in its entirety, but I'll probably leaf through it ...
August 03, 2020 at 02:06
I voted "no", but, though I do more or less adhere to a kind of strict nonviolence, think that there could be particular cases where violence can be j...
August 03, 2020 at 01:53
Everything and nothing. I feel like, after years of independent research or whatever, I just don't really agree with anything anymore. I have some vag...
August 03, 2020 at 01:06
Well, I appreciate the sympathy, but I haven't even applied for a graduate program as of yet or anything. I have two years of a Liberal Arts degree co...
August 03, 2020 at 00:30
I'll keep that in mind in the future, but I feel like people couldn't really understand what it is that I mean about all of this. I'm not the sort of ...
August 02, 2020 at 23:44
Eh, I see everyone's point, but I'm probably just going to go through with it and suffer the consequences.
August 02, 2020 at 22:54
Like I said, that solution is only given a revolutionary scenario, though contemporary prisons ought to be reformed into being something like, anyways...
August 02, 2020 at 22:43
I've read a good bit of Nietzsche, but don't quite remember that bit. I might have to read that again if you remember where it's from. My theory about...
August 02, 2020 at 22:19
In so far that there is some sort of revolution or something, I actually have a plan for this. It's kind of nebulous as what I'm suggesting are basica...
August 02, 2020 at 21:44
Well, looking at my prospect right now, the best job that I could take, but wouldn't, because I suspect for it to be as exploitative and terrible as h...
August 02, 2020 at 20:58
Well, thank you NOS4A2. Machiavelli was, I think, bit, but not too much more culpable than Nietzsche, who wasn't terribly, but sort of culpable. "Mach...
August 02, 2020 at 20:25
I have no interest in hard science or Mathematics, though. I could develop an interest in something like Anthropology or Film Theory, but those are ju...
August 02, 2020 at 18:57
I'm not the author of this original post, but, I, too, am in need of advice. I'm going for a Bachelor's in Philosophy because I just don't have any ot...
August 02, 2020 at 18:11
Why, though? The coordinated grassroots Democratic Socialists of America campaign in favor of Bernie Sanders was the last political campaign that I be...
August 02, 2020 at 16:55
Well, I did drop out of Politics, and, so, though, perhaps, conceding that there was nothing that I could do, did consider for my departure to be for ...
August 02, 2020 at 16:46
I actually have a conspiracy about this. Donald J. Trump, star of the show, The Apprentice was led into his position of power by the Central Intellige...
August 02, 2020 at 16:20
In Race: the Power of an Illusion, they point out that there is greater genetic variance between two identical fruit flies than there is between two p...
August 02, 2020 at 15:46
I only take them seriously enough. My point was just that if you upset the people who you had wanted to like because you discover that there's still k...
August 02, 2020 at 02:33
Is this video Nihilist? Also, it depends upon you define Nihilism. If it refers to the belief that the human experience is ultimately negative, then, ...
August 02, 2020 at 01:12
Liberalism is fine, but I am still confused as to why you believe the way towards liberty is to ally yourself with Conservatives, especially when you ...
August 02, 2020 at 00:37
Eh, it's part paranoia, part because I came to suspect that they had wanted me for something, and part because of that, because of the aforementioned ...
August 02, 2020 at 00:03
Well, writing a homework assignment isn't evil. The argument isn't just about pain and suffering; it moreso refers to evil. If God exists and she is o...
August 01, 2020 at 23:29
Seeing that the film school that I was going to closed, I decided to go back to the university for my undergrad after taking some classes at community...
August 01, 2020 at 22:40
Oh, I understand what you and @"Pfhorrest" were saying, but, I really think that Camus ascribed a kind of philosophical pessimism that was almost akin...
August 01, 2020 at 21:41
A Liberal in what sense, then? Like, Classical Liberalism?
August 01, 2020 at 21:36
Paleolibertarianism is kind of just a form of Conservatism. I suspect that they claim to be Libertarians for the sole purpose of seeming more liberal-...
August 01, 2020 at 21:01
That's pretty cool of the United Kingdom. I feel like I've given the UK too much guff in the past. Socrates only believed that he was wise because he ...
August 01, 2020 at 20:07
There's a difference between the accusation of "statism" and Stalinism. I don't think people who want things like universal healthcare are, at all, gu...
August 01, 2020 at 20:00
I agree with what you suggest about your own philosophy, by my interpretation of Camus is that he was saying that life was "useless and hopeless", but...
August 01, 2020 at 19:23
Yeah, but the boulder rolls back down the mountain. I feel like Albert Camus was suggesting that Sisyphus was right to rebel against the Absurd, as, a...
August 01, 2020 at 18:59
I do dislike coercion. I believe that the freedom from coercion should be invoked as a primary right of sorts that should be a fundamental aspect of P...
August 01, 2020 at 17:55
Eh, perhaps, I was being too critical. The respect for life is laudable, though, since I'm pro-choice, I don't really like how the discourse gets carr...
August 01, 2020 at 17:33
Hold on, let me get my glasses here, as someone has finally decided to explain this to me. That is quite helpful. Thank you! I guess that I'll have to...
August 01, 2020 at 16:40
I don't know, there's just something that seems so totalizing about that to me. As if even every thought were some sort of political battle. In Introd...
August 01, 2020 at 15:48
To be honest, I haven't really put too much thought into questions like "Who will direct the traffic, and so, and so on?" Libertarianism slowly became...
August 01, 2020 at 15:25