Advance technology may improve certain aspects of our lives but it won't solve all of our problems because as we advance such technology will create n...
I guess that social media CAN make people more mentally ill, but i would guess that just about any form of media or propaganda that came before it is ...
This " disconnect between the philosophy and practices of torture" as you call it only exist if you discount the problem of the human condition. We ex...
Thanks. :) Wikipedia isn't all that reliable which is part of the reason when people are writing college research papers they are supposed to not rely...
I'm not sure who wrote the wiki page your quoting but here is a link written by a guy with a PhD in theoretical physics who disagrees with your assert...
Ok, I guess that is almost a good enough reason as any to start a thread but I hope that you understand through some of my posts how certain things li...
You may say it potato and I say it potato or vice-versa but there really isn't a difference as far as I can tell. The thing I read explained that how ...
If you wish to believe whatever you want to believe what you say might be true, but in order for what you believe to stand up to the scrutiny of other...
There are two issues with quantum fluctuations and why we can not claim that they do not create energy from nothing: * The empty vacuum of space is re...
No, I think you are having trouble understanding the issue. It is a given with everything we know that no natural process can create something out of ...
Either you are misreading something or I am and I'm fairly certain that I'm not. As far as I can tell the page your refencing says that ONLY nothing c...
I imagine the difference between emotional health vs. mental health is about the same difference between belief systems and systems of belief or betwe...
I don't think the theory of nothing really says much about whether "God" exists or not other than it may help explain the universe without using relig...
I'm sorry that I have not posted in the last few days as my other obligations have kept me from being able to visit the forum. IMHO I do not believe t...
I'm sorry to hear that. This may be a stupid question but if you have enough money to donate to charity then you might have enough money to pay for cr...
The truth is that you partially correct in saying that predatory logic that people use to today is used for "evil" at least when used in Western socie...
I just remembered an moral argument that might help you with you question. Immanuel Kant believed that certain actions are wrong (such as lying) and h...
I overlooked this part of your argument I think where you are talking about how our existence has the problem where we have to survive by killing/eati...
No problem. :D It isn't that I dislike the video, it is just that I like the doctrine of Anekantavad better explaining the issue. I'm not sure whether...
You are right in questioning your own logic given the circumstances you have presented but you can't rely on your emotions to tell you what is "good" ...
I didn't even notice the video but after watching it it kind of just going over what has been said several times before in different religions, scient...
In order for you so evaluate something as either "good" or "evil" you have to create some metrics to allow you to be able define something as either "...
"Good" and "evil" are mostly just arbitrary terms we give to different things according the metrics our morality/systems of belief tell us to assign t...
I believe you are talking about is do people still believe in Immanuel Kant Categorical Imperative or something along those lines. https://www.britann...
What you are asking is type of issue called a "non trivial problem", which means it is either very, very difficult to solve or can not be solved at al...
I more or less agree. However the corona virus has shown us one thing is security risk that comes with our reliance on China for vital supplies and wh...
Are you talking about liberal hippies in the following articles: Party Zero: How a Soirée in Connecticut Became a ‘Super Spreader’ https://www.nytimes...
There has always been a war on infections, viruses, outbreaks, etc since before any of us were born. The only problem is up until now there has never ...
I more or less agree. The one thing I'm pretty certain of is the worse things get the more likely the cultures and societies around the world will be ...
I hope that the spread of corona virus and the existential threat it creates is enough to show nearly everyone in the world the incompetence of our po...
Where I live in southeastern Connecticut we haven't been hit too hard by the corona virus yet, but we are surrounded by New York, Massachusetts, and R...
A prank like that is almost as bad as shouting "fire" in a movie theater considering the state of the world we live in nowadays but it would be still ...
What also might be feeding the toilet paper frenzy is the news and social media talking about the toilet paper frenzy. Many items have been sold out f...
I believe it is partly caused by people feeling like they no longer have control over their lives and (at least for now) they have some control what t...
A couple days ago I was joking about people might start fighting over toilet paper but it has become a reality.. Shoppers charged over toilet paper br...
Even if the WHO has declared Europe of the epicenter of COVID-19 the US isn't that much better off. As of today according to the New York Times: "The ...
Below are some links to information about the Coronavirus ...as well as some of the craziness that are doing while it is going on: Coronavirus Quarant...
In times of crisis people need to do whatever needs to be done, even if doing it can be a little unsettling. Wasn't it some American leader or politic...
Even a parasitic worm can at times help it's host in one way or another, but that doesn't mean it isn't a parasite because it does so. Corporations ar...
Riight ....because everyone out there is talking about mobilizing the military, enforced quarantines, and enforcing martial laws in hot zones which my...
You have it backwards: corporate profits are dependent on human beings and human good. This a given since human beings/human good have existed for hun...
I think I more or less agree. If you get a chance (ie. don't die from the corona virus in the near future), I recommend reading a book called "Economi...
The unimagined existential threats may be unlimited but the imagined existential threats are not quite so unlimited. During the time of the cold war a...
Which is why the corona virus pandemic is almost as bad as an actual bio-weapon being released:sure it doesn't outright kill a higher percentage of pe...
Isn't it nice in the light of everything you just said that in the US we have spent trillions of dollars on the war on terrorism, but have spent proba...
And I guess one could say the black death in Europe which is estimated to kill 33% of the human population at the time was kind of tragic but some hum...
A virus doesn't have to have a high mortality rate to kill more people than viruses much more people than it, it just has to be highly contagious and ...
If you don't like the way that statistics is done, then your free to cherry-pick or make up any numbers that you feel like but in doing so it will be ...
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