"The plans could be stolen with a number of intentions. Selling them as a historical artifact. Using them to blackmail somebody. Etc. No intention to ...
Right at this moment I'm listening to a song by Helix called "No Regret". Helix is merely an independent artist who published his work on newgrounds.c...
Then it is the good cause, not the thing stolen, that the choice to steal is based on. Or if we eliminate the good cause would the theft of the partic...
"You bring up some good points. What I am addressing is the folk psychology that basically says that the bottom line is that if somebody steals a tang...
"The reason we've pointed that out is that you're acting as if there is objective value, and that everyone does or at least should value everything th...
It is like they have no concept of there being benefits to choosing not to steal. --WISDOMfromPO-MO I think the heart of your problem and the issue of...
All of this seems to support what I have been saying. It is not the intrinsic qualities/properties of the good itself, but things other than the good ...
Basically, I assert that the value of never in one's life stealing anything would far exceed the collective intrinsic value of everything that is not ...
Are you kidding? The nuclear weapons, instead of being amassed by just a few super powers, are now in many different hands. The great fear of annihila...
Ayn Rand is (as well as many of her followers) are hypocrite since when she was broke and couldn't earn money she choose to live off of government and...
"Do you know this to be true, or is this just an intuition? I ask, because it's not information that most people have access to reliable sources for. ...
"Did you mean "sharia" law? " --Bitter Crank That could be the proper term for it; I'm not familiar enough with the middle east and their culture to b...
"I would guess it would be illegal to have a picture of a woman in even a ONE piece bathing suit in some countries. She might as well be naked. Howeve...
"I've always been under the impression that the porn world is full of cocaine users and criminal elements such as drug dealing, exploitation, and mafi...
How do you prove that nothing can come from nothing? I always wondered why so many people take this statement like a logical truth. My try is simple: ...
"Apologize for my idiosyncrasies. Sometimes I think evil is attractive. It's necessary in this world or else we won't be able to appreciate good. Can ...
"According to the linear no-threshold model, any exposure to ionizing radiation, even at doses too low to produce any symptoms of radiation sickness, ...
"Chernobyl may well have caused 40,000 cancer deaths. Is that not a big deal? Well, of course it is -- but 40,000 cancer deaths in a large population ...
"A competently designed, properly sited, and carefully operated nuclear power plant is an appropriate source of energy, at least for the time being. H...
"Yes. Our largest and least expensive new energy source is CONSERVATION." --Bitter Crank I agree that conservation is a good thing and I tip my hat to...
"From a bit of reading I've the impression that a lot of the harmful isotopes released by accidents like Fukushima and Chernobyl shorter lived than we...
While reading your post I get the impression you are a little more informed about some of the technology and issues surrounding the industry. :D I tho...
As far as I'm concerned, that answers the question quite definitively. Only two thousand years ago, Jesus was preaching. So global warming will perhap...
Although my training on what happens to nuclear fuel after it has been isn't that extensive, from what I know it does seem any more dangerous than the...
Bertrand Russell was once asked what he would say if he found himself standing before God on the judgement day and God asked him, "Why didn’t you beli...
At some point I read that there is no way to define law, or at least that is an opinion that is held. I disagree though. I think that laws are rules s...
I know this may sound strange but even though I'm an atheist, I think if there was a 'God' I think his mentality would be mixture between George Carli...
"I didn't ask to see the world through your eyes. You might as well just say that you don't know what the difference between empiricism and metaphysic...
You're not really saying that there are two types of Christian - fake Christians who don't really believe and hard core Christians who will kill their...
Well, why do you not doubt your own doubts? Our reason is limited, but to what extend is it limited? It doesn't follow that the reason is limited ther...
People don't believe in God based on arguments, because arguments are not the proper tools to establish the existence of anything. Arguments only unpa...
I'm just responding to your thread about belief in God; I'm not saying anything about agnosticism. But I agree with you; I think it's important to ack...
Belief is an attitude which accepts a proposition as true without evidence. As such, there is no premise which supports, hence; no argument which prov...
Why do you think that? I am not a Christian now, but I was one a long time ago and thought then that God listened to my prayers and communicated back ...
If you're asking "why do people believe in God?" And then proceeding to say that you're only interested in logical reasons, then I don't know if you'l...
Why is it crazy to believe that you have direct access to God? What would keep you from having direct access? Why would God restrict access? What's th...
According to modern laws of physics, you CAN'T get something from nothing or at least not as far as we understand how the universe works. Think of it ...
I just listened to Sam Harris's podcast with Jordan B Peterson, and although the epistemological discussion they were having regarding pragmatism and ...
Hi, I'm new to the forum :) Agnosticism is the view that the existence of God or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. According to the philosoph...
He knows more than you do. He has a masters degree -- in PHILOSOPHY! --Bitter Crank Whoever this person is that you are talking about I would like to ...
In conclusion, then, "science" has become an honorific term that is exploited and abused, including "scientists" themselves (to promote their social s...
It is funny, but the truth is an ACTUAL free market economy could be a good thing IF the powers that be would really let it exist (and in some ways no...
Well, without a transcendent God to tell us what to do, we merely have to reject salvation and become the homunculus we always have been. Such a proce...
I like some mystery as much as the next person, but sometimes it help to know how something works if you need to do something about it. The good thing...
I can imagine it may not make any sense to you if you can not understand the context/narrative it is used in but part of the reason I said it was to s...
After studying philosophy and science for a little while, I've found it harder to believe their is the possibility of real 'magic' (things spontaneous...
If you can give me a reply to my last post and/or as to why it is wrong for me to consider myself both an atheist and an agnostic at the same time. Wo...
I agree that under certain conditions when someone needs to do what needs to be done and/or break a few eggs to make an omelette, certain lesser evils...
I realize that I didn't explain that part of my post well enough, but nether did I consider it really all that important considering such things as th...
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