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Do you believe laws cause your actions?

All of it has to do with free speech, whether restrictive or absolute. You care more about free speech than most, so I applaud you for that, but once ...

And if the US constitution was amended tomorrow stating that you had to walk around with your hand down your pants you would do it, given that the wor...

And if they changed the laws tomorrow you would dutifully follow it, given that the words cause your actions.

Police follow the code book. If you want I can limit our discussion to politics. Do you believe Article 19 of the Declaration of human rights?

Laws matter because they are enforced by the monopoly on violence. If the words written in laws simply made you abide by them, by sheer force of how t...

Call me what you want. You know I already said words have no more effect than any other articulated sound from the mouth. Also, this text has no more ...

That is correct. I do believe it is a pivotal issue. I’m not sure if this pertains to you personally, but the false belief I believe some people hold ...

I don’t know enough about quantum mechanics to have a position on quantum indeterminacy. What I believe is that each of us are the source of our own a...

I do like it, yes. As of now, my own statism goes so far as the so-called “night-watchman state”. It should defend rights and make justice accessible....

A lot of work and thought went into this Baden. Kudos. I must admit I struggled with the jargon a little bit and had to look up some terms, but after ...

One was the celebration of a 250 year anniversary that much of the press tried to pooh-pooh. The other was a hissy fit much of the press tried to glor...

Pundits have been arguing that Trump’s diplomatic efforts were a ruse to deceive Iran, leaving them with their guard down and vulnerable to attack. Bu...

Man, the organizers and all their acolytes in the press tried really hard to get people to notice the No Kings protest, and everyone has already forgo...

You’re a determinist. The choice to put yourself as the cause in all these events is completely arbitrary and linear, as any and all anterior states c...

Never doubt the neocons. But Trump had already urged Netanyahu not to attack a day or so before the attack happened, and to end the war in Gaza. And o...

They said that Israel used the drone-on-trucks technique, the same thing Ukraine did just a few weeks earlier, both of which took years of planning. I...

Israel urges U.S. to join war with Iran to eliminate nuclear program https://www.axios.com/2025/06/14/israel-iran-war-us-nuclear-program-trump Watch, ...

The military parade is amazing. There should be one every year.

The news also says he was targeting abortion clinics. Not necessarily a hard-left cause. I guess we’ll see his motives from the manifesto he was repor...

I’ve already stated my reasoning. The effects cannot be shown to reach as far as you say they do. The objects, structures, and energies responsible fo...

I don’t know, man, you might be right. But Personally, I would wait until all is investigated. It could be some disgruntled cop trying to discredit th...

I’m not so sure about that. The problem is you cannot point to anything else that determines sensing and heart-beating. So I fully dispute and disagre...

It’s the 250 year anniversary of the US Army and it will be marked by a parade. Many in the press erroneously call it “Trump’s parade”, despite the of...

It didn’t work, though. The rules of the deal never changed and was still in place.

Apparently pallets of cash for a whole lot of nothing. There were other signatories. They were foolish for staying in a deal which Iran would eventual...

According to the UN, Iran basically broke that deal. https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/06/1164291

USAID Official and Three Corporate Executives Plead Guilty to Decade-Long Bribery Scheme Involving Over $550 Million in Contracts; Two Companies Admit...

House passes DOGE cuts to USAID, NPR, and PBS. If it passes the senate it looks like the opposition will no longer be able to use tax-payer dollars to...

If the action potential is in the plant, then yes, the biology of the flytrap causes it to close if and when such a stimulus happens. That means they ...

I never said it was an application of agency. I used “agency” to distinguish between the human being and your analogies. But the fact remains that the...

You the entire planet Earth and all living things. It’s basically what you said.

Where do you come up with this stuff?

I’m not a dualist. The behavior of the sense organs, the brain, the nervous system etc. is the behavior of the whole. I reiterate this because pretend...

Physical systems vary in properties and behavior. Why would that be irrelevant? I don’t need to believe in non-physical substances to believe objects ...

But you set up the receiver and bomb. You programmed it to self destruct. It didn’t grow organically and learn to deal with the environment and others...

The "protests" are spreading to other cities. It looks like Americans are in for another “summer of love”, just like in 2020. The question is “why”? W...

This whole foray in LA is amazing in its effects. Anti-Trumpism has reduced them to defending illegals, MS-13 members, mobs waving foreign flags, riot...

You might be right; I do have issues with causation. But you furtively leave out the body as much as you can. You don’t mention that it is the body th...

What consequence? You haven’t murdered anyone. It’s true, you definitely could be charged with conspiracy to commit murder, even though your crime is ...

Descriptors can come from any angle, from any mouth, and can vary in degree from similar to opposite according to whomever describes it. Therefor it i...

Can you not do otherwise?

The rooster crows, the sun rises. Therefor the rooster causes the sun to rise. Like I said earlier, post hoc ergo propter hoc. I respond if and when I...

Then let’s try it. Use your words and cause me to take specific actions.

Human beings are organic, living, beings that have the capacity to move, think, and act, among many other activities. Radio receivers cannot do any of...

Sorry, I thought you asked why I was posting here. The point of a constitution is to define the founding principles of a state. No. No one cannot cont...

The reason you won’t make the bomb the agent of causation and put it in the subject position in your event is because it’s absurd. The switch touching...

I enjoy posting here. I enjoy thinking and arguing about such topics.

I’ve stated this before but each one of your analogies invariably put the human being in the subject position as the agent of causation. Man does some...

Bombs do not have the capacity to govern, control, and thereby determine their behavior. That’s why it is a false analogy.