We do know that no sound called a voice is moving the membrane, moving the bones, converting mechanical vibration into electrical signals as you just ...
If the biological act of hearing involves using the body to perceive physical sound waves, it cannot be said that a man is hearing voices in his head,...
I could also say he doesn’t hear at all, that everything is caused by activity outside the auditory systems, and that hearing is in fact a process of ...
I get it. You directly feel a cold feeling. You directly feel yourself indirectly feeling the arctic air. But I think you’re really describing how you...
There is always an intermediary inserted into the logic. In this case it’s “experience”. It cannot be that a perceiver is experiencing the cold weathe...
They are not reality because they cannot be instantiated. They are without a referent. If I ask you to represent your abstraction with a single instan...
You are sensing sensations. You see sight. You smell smells. It’s not reality because it doesn’t apply to anything in reality. All we’ve done is taken...
A single act of charity or sacrifice can bring tears to the eyes, much like a piece of music. So I think there is something to the idea that morality,...
Do you experience experience? Or sense sensations? It’s like saying that I walk a walk. In any case, it feels like we’re multiplying zeroes, at this p...
Sensations are by definition mind-dependant. As it is and as it was, it represents another layer of abstraction inserted between what is sensed and wh...
There is also a difference between leading by example and leading by dictate. There is a problem wherever you try to force people to believe what you ...
Conservative, communist, socialist, fascist, progressive—all collectivist. Besides some variations in rhetoric, it’s hard to see any difference betwee...
The mental act of moving a person into an in-group or out-group will breed the sort of hatred you’re speaking about. When that happens, all individual...
The reason we don’t know much about conservatism is because intellectual conservatives are rare and academia and the press are mostly captured by the ...
Not according to me because I never said anything close to that. I never said something is good or bad because it is natural or unnatural, which is a ...
I’ll try to make it more clear. As I said, rights are a kind of normative principle. A principle is a basic idea or rule. A normative principle is a b...
I’ve never seen a conscious brain and nervous system. And if I ever saw a brain and nervous system, perhaps in a jar or something, I’d be hard-pressed...
Rights are a kind of normative principle. We entitle people to act within a sphere of acceptable activity. These entitlements are afforded to others i...
Trump has landed in the viper's den, New York, where the two-tiered justice system is at its strongest and most blatant. I hope we get to watch this P...
Collectivism of the national sort does compel one to conform, and conformity does work well towards “social cohesion”. Many embrace it as it can give ...
I think that is a good point. What’s missing from both is the morality. It would be nice if we didn’t need both, either state-enforced cooperation or ...
I can’t blame someone for getting on the tax-payer gravy chain, vying for state contracts, and becoming ultra-wealthy thereby. But it is stolen money....
Oh dear. My rejecting of the “common good” and “we the people” does not prohibit me from using first-person plurals. What an odd little angle you’ve t...
The stupidest thing anyone has ever believed is that only taxes can pay for roads and infrastructure. Private companies build the vast majority of roa...
As you know I’m against taxation. You are for it. I don’t want the state to dictate anything. You do. So what’s the problem with the state doing just ...
I don’t know the details of the bill but I still don’t think race and gender ideology ought to be taught in public schools. Tax-payer dollars ought no...
I see nothing wrong with the Parental Rights in Education bill because it restricts the power of the state and expands the power of parents. State emp...
Changing election laws before an election is not suppressing a vote; it’s to ensure voting. All that dark money, those Zuckerbucks, were used to help ...
We are human beings. It’s the nature of state education to have its curriculum determined by the state. If you want to tell kids about sex I would adv...
Like I said, word crimes. He spoke and I felt some way, therefor it’s a crime. His opponents (who are of both parties) fundamentally altered election ...
The nature of Trump’s supposed crimes are invariably of the verbal variety. Word crimes. No violence, no criminal intent, just that his mouth made cer...
We use our reason, speech, and bodies to derive, confer, and protect rights, like any right that has ever been uttered. We observe human nature in ord...
There are no such rights because you refuse to give them. You will not afford anyone the right to life or the right to own anything. And of course you...
I’m sure you’ve helped plenty of children get off the streets. Let me guess: restricting everyone’s rights helps the children—unless it’s Hollywood. T...
What will a child do if they are forced to work because the rest of their family is unable to, but they are not allowed to work because some white nig...
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