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I agree. One principle of the anarchist tradition is to assume all authority is illegitimate until it proves itself to be legitimate. A parent or teac...

If the brain gives out it just means the brain gives out. Just a body before and just a body after.

A historic campaign and the greatest political comeback in history. Not even bullets could stop the Trump train! Sadly, the live-action-roleplay of hi...

It just doesn’t follow from any of this that we require a master. If anything, the fear of others suggests we ought not to have one. When I think abou...

Understandable. No one would want any criticism of routine nonsense.

Trump’s opponents never accepted the 2016 election, therefor they had fascists tendencies, like Hitler. Trump joked he was going to be a dictator, the...

All objects that can produce multiple human beings are individual human beings. A mother, for instance, can do that. But this is also true of asexual ...

The one on the left is what the one on the right looked like about 9 months earlier. In those 9 months, what changed for you?

It occupies its own unique and distinct position in space and time. A zygote is alive. At no point does a zygote die and get replaced by another livin...

https://twitter.com/nicoleshanahan/status/1853116147341967534?s=46&t=IakyLvDoU1iHVTU4X-LNfg The bipartisan Trump team is a big FU to the establishment...

The genetics only distinguishes the zygotic human being from the rest of his environment, ie, from his parents. But I also included the principium ind...

If 2016 was any indication, people know what will happen should Kamala lose. I wager she will win, but better safe than sorry when the participants of...

Why do they need to be instantiated by force? Why do you need to enforce your values on the world? They only need to be instantiated by your own thoug...

“Material” doesn’t encapsulate what it is and what is occurring, whether it is living or non-living, and so on. Everything in there is a material by d...

City-states had governments. Many of them were republics, modelled on the Roman one, much like the governments of today. So of course they warred with...

It just isn’t clear why you’d give this group the right to create and defend rights while denying it of everyone else. After all it’s just a value in ...

All the more reason to let it live.

If that is an human zygote, every person who has ever existed goes through this stage in their lifecycle. What leads you to believe it is not a person...

Olson provides the logical form so you can check its validity.

It is their presence, not their absence, that breeds their corruption and incompetence. The arbitrary rule of competing gangs and never-ending wars ar...

So long as you know your condition is that of a willing slave it is fine with me.

Statists love their made up scenarios and hypotheticals. The irony, though, is that your cartel government acts just like your enlightened one, with s...

There are plenty of gangs in modern countries, terrorizing individuals, neighborhoods, and entire regions, all while there are governments “acting on ...

This is a common political superstition. It doesn’t make sense that we have to create a governing body so as to establish and confer rights upon ourse...

The state has been conceived as a person for quite some time, for example in Hobbes, but at least as far back as Ancient Rome.

Thanks for the insight, and I think you’re right. The idea that we are animals, and not angels or something, proves to be a good foundation upon which...

If we are human animals, and human animals are persons, we ought to extend personal identity to the limits of the human animal’s life instead of limit...

What timeline is this? Perhaps I should have voted… https://twitter.com/ronpaul/status/1852493942283239458?s=46&t=IakyLvDoU1iHVTU4X-LNfg

What would the fact be, then?

The things of this world. What else is there?

This is it. I also wager this motivation is the beginning of all such theories that are platonic or idealistic. It satisfies some impulse to raise man...

It’s fine to quibble about that but according Olson and animalism in general it is statement about our fundamental nature. But I do find it extraordin...

Thanks, I assumed people would read the paper, but will try to add more.

That’s not the intention. The intention is to prove that you are a human animal.

Souls aren’t human animals, brains aren’t human animals, consciousness isn’t a human animal, minds aren’t human animals, are they? It’s not a question...

I know what you wrote but I’m afraid it doesn’t beg the question. Nowhere in the first premise does it say you’re the human animal sitting in your cha...

The aim is to prove that you are an animal, not that there is an animal sitting in your chair. I’m just curious if you disagree with any of those prem...

A cat is numerically identical to an animal. A bottle isn’t. Which premise do you disagree with?

Which premise do you disagree with?

Some love being lied to, for whatever reason. Those who tasked themselves with informing Americans are pretending Trump said Cheney should be in front...

Swimming with neocons in anti-Trumpistan. You’re in good company! https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1852448089157595643?s=46&t=IakyLvDoU1iHVTU4...

It looks like the Whitehouse may have violated the law in order to save face. White House altered record of Biden’s ‘garbage’ remarks despite stenogra...

Ok, in the future men can get pregnant. You have the choice between two single-celled organisms, a human and a fly? Which one do you choose to carry t...

You’d allow her to attempt to carry a fly to term?

If a woman you knew wanted implant one of those single-celled organisms into her womb so as to incubate it, which one would you choose?

Humans are of the same moral worth as flies, ie. worthless. I mean, what can I say to that?

Are you trying to get around to saying all single-cells organisms are of the same moral worth?

It all depends on the species. Is the alien one that inserts eggs into the human abdomen, so that they rip out the chest as soon as they are old enoug...

It’s not the same species as us. Why do you think humans are as morally relevant as flies?

Trump capitalizes on Biden calling his supporters garbage. https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1851928782896009450?s=46&t=IakyLvDoU1iHVTU4X-LNfg