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A perennial question without any obvious answer. Do you have a theory?

I do not think people are connected or related because they use the same language. Oppenheimer was referencing Rousseau’s “The Social Contract”, which...

The notion of a “bond” or “connection” is strictly metaphorical. It isn’t real. There isn’t anything between us, holding us together, which we can con...

You’ve supplied meaning to life with those remarks. However slight the significance might sound, you’ve still deemed life worthy enough of your attent...

I don’t understand the question, Paine.

You guys sure are consistent, but I’m not so sure one should be consistently fallacious.

Your focus is me and not the arguments. Why must you keep me in your mouth? Why can’t you criticize the arguments, or absent that, come up with a bett...

I believe everything exists, but I question what they exist as. Future conditionals, for example, don’t describe or predict any actual future, no matt...

You described my intentions but completely missed the mark, I’m afraid. Here again you feign interest but immediately resort to ad hominem. It’s a pat...

I fully endorse people making their own guns. Let me know when some other person or group of persons demand you comply with something and I’ll be ther...

I’m afraid your mind-reading skills are as poor as your arguments. If you can’t argue a point regarding the topic, why do you bother? Is it some littl...

I’m fully aware that we use modal reasoning, but when I ask the question “what in the world is schopenhauer1 referring to”, I can see you are only rep...

Sigmund Freud notes they also have the monopoly on crime. "The individual citizen can prove with dismay in this war what occasionally thrust itself up...

There is a fallacy called the genetic fallacy where you base the truth of a claim on its origin. Even the National Enquirer (an American tabloid) brea...

I don’t think he should be indicted on this. I want to know about the tax evasion and unregistered foreign lobbying and human trafficking, some of whi...

Hunter Biden has been indicted for gun charges, and only because a federal judge called out the sweetheart deals. I wager he is the sacrificial lamb o...

If I understand what you think the issue is, I can address it and give you my arguments. Are you a platonist?

I don’t think that’s true at all and we fundamentally disagree. There is no similarity. There is no person to seek consent from. There is no prior rea...

I thought the issue was the metaphysics of it all, specifically the problem of universals and abstract objects. Perhaps you can enlighten me.

It's true, but there are too many individuals and factors to name and account for, so, since myself and my language are limited, I just say "jungle".

To me the government is a gang of rogues and scoundrels, a criminal cartel made respectable through centuries of propaganda and bribery, bound togethe...

I thought that was a jungle.

What’s the difference? More individual trees?

Brilliant. Little did he realize he was in a thicket.

Yes, my objection is that corporations are not individual people.

Trump told Ukraine to look into corruption; Biden told him to look away from corruption.

I think that’s a great point. The larger the aggregate, the more difficult it is to discern the extent to which its members relate. A prerequisite of ...

You’d be surprised to hear I don’t believe in law either. Your responses are a series of out of context quotes, evasions, and goal-post widenings. Tha...

I said it ought to apply to each and every individual, which implies more than one individual. You can label the set whatever you like—to abandon such...

I didn’t say they need not be imposed. In fact I just wrote that those who get together to form clubs or company’s do so voluntarily. But you’ll note ...

Laws ought to apply to each and every particular individual, not a set of individuals.

It isn’t a voluntary association like people getting together to form a club or company. It is imposed. Socialism and fascism are anti-social and anti...

I would consider them a family.

I do admit my inability. I can neither see nor know the subject to which you aim your politics. That’s why I think it is mistaken or purely self-conce...

So you claim. But it would be clear only if you knew which investors owned how many shares. By then your notion of “public” wouldn’t fit the reality o...

Some like to speak of the common good and society. These are the political subjects towards which political institutions should be mobilized. But the ...

Of course.

It's weird to believe in social entities as defined by imagination but refuse social entities as defined by contract and common goal.

I have read his essay, and I’m weary of the unibomber’s holistic methodology. I don’t think “leftism”, for example, is any sort of ideology that anyon...

Metaphysically speaking I am unable to reduce a marriage to anything between two people, especially when it appears there is nothing between them, con...

I agree that careful language is a solution, but it could be painstaking to speak in such a way. I think it's better to wrestle with the metaphysical ...

Newly-found documents suggest that Biden fired Ukrainian prosecutor Victor Shokin despite the glowing reviews of the European Commission and his own S...

Speaker McCarthy has announced a formal impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. https://youtu.be/Ef6NxPzRWEs?si=4-inW5XANAsYeTZI https://abcnews.go.com/am...

The slave trade occurred with the protection and intervention of government, with the granting of slave-trade monopolies and charters, the treaties, t...

I don’t think it is reasonable because it involves the same activity: holding out for something better than the world. Theism is idealism run amok. It...

That’s true. But we could trust ourselves, our families, our friends, our communities, without seeking the blessing from some distant authority. We co...

It occurs in any collective where the people are bound by no more than some inkling of an idea. It could be a nation, a race, the greater good, the co...

A collective that excludes the needs and wants of its own members is not a collective, least of all any sort of community. At best it is an aggregate ...

I personally do not think so.

I can tell exactly what you’re dodging by what context you remove from my quotes. At any rate, I’ve repeatedly said Trump was pressuring him to look a...