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You're missing the point. Yeah I find it much more preferable to spend the next 4 years fighting against Biden than Trump, those are the physical cons...

I'm leaving out explicit Young Earth Creationists, and not much different rebranded Intelligent Design folks who admit the Earth is old. Those are all...

"To vote for someone like Trump or Biden is to vouch for them." Yeah if you put that much emotional and symbolic attachment to the act of pushing a bu...

Reasons for voting Biden 1. Because Biden is obviously less bad. As horrible as he and the Democrats are, it’s pretty clear that they both vote along ...

If you feel shameful for voting, you’re putting waaaay too much emotional and symbolic significance into that one act. Practically contradictory with ...

Depends if they interfere with claims made by evolutionary theory.

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So he isn't a creationist, even "obviously" in your words. So why say it? Gould and Mary Midgley don't seem to see eye to eye despite the latter's cit...

Come on, that's a self-undermining polemical argument. I disagree with Gould on Non-overlapping magisteria, but creationism implies divine interventio...

Ah come on, you undermined yourself there. Anyways, leaving this dumpster fire of a conversation.

I technically care that Trump has been retweeting it, it matters that he's untruthful, and it's his method of building fanaticism. But I don't think i...

Voting for Biden is such an obvious decision, it's something the Left (or what I call the Left, the activists who are in tune with the reality of the ...

I really do think you can agree with Dawkins on disliking the connotation of the metaphor and get over it in 2 minutes, and then go and discuss the sc...

"Did Mary Midgley understand The Selfish Gene? I always thought she was attacking a straw man. Was I wrong about that?" - Nigel Warburton "I think she...

Dawkins said he regretted the metaphor and would have re-titled the book the Immortal Gene. I personally dislike him, both scientifically and his publ...

Oh I liked that Rainbow analogy he gives, quite a Nietzschean flavor to my tastes. But it's a small thing, and not particularly original.

There seems to be a somewhat pervasive misunderstanding, Dawkins hasn't really contributed much to the primary literature (except the part about memes...

Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry - Edited by Jeffrey Kovac, Michael Weisberg I've put Chemistry completely on the back ...

I have to say, these comments of yours are just summaries of your beliefs like a preacher on a podium instead of trying to understand why the people h...

There is something to what you’re saying, if happiness is achieved by having a list of ambitious goals and pursuits in which you expect yourself to be...

The most plausible explanation for everyone involved in checking in on Trump and reporting it is that it’s real. One facet of implausible conspiracy t...

Debate was 2 days ago right? Chances of both Biden and Trump being infected?

The Democrat elite are extremely incompetent and out of touch with American citizens, they’d functionally would lose the election than put real effort...

“Hmph, I’m not going to vote for you, so turn more Left-wing if you want my vote” says a tiny handful of people voting Green, and somehow the Democrat...

Third Parties like the Green Party are notorious among activists going back decades for wasting all their mental energy and funds every 4 years on the...

You should still sign up to vote Democrat down the ballot for non-swing states even if you don't care for the Presidency. That's what I'm doing in New...

I think analyzing the mind from the angle of a complex biological phenomenon is the right way to go. This is taken by some critics as back peddling to...

I mostly agree, I mean I pursue philosophy for self-improvement and pleasure that can’t be reduced to those concerns. Only I'm less hesitant to explic...

Can you explain what you mean by indexical and how it works that way? I mean I looked up the word and saw your chart above, but I feel clueless about ...

I'm not sure we should avoid the question of whether it has value to society, after all tuition and tax money goes into educational programs and the i...

If you’re a person curious about ideas, you’d probably find something you like in such broad categories if you dig enough. That is, if you’re actually...

Your response, I like the way it sounds. All the stuff about working hard in living in the present rather than pinning your desires onto dreams. But i...

I just don't know what you're referring to, you're using these words in a way that's kind of alien to me. When people are organizing to pass policies ...

I think it's worth fighting for a better future because there is at least a chance, and fighting for that chance is what it means to be an ethical per...

There are sections of technical analytic philosophy that I have to review over, but the parts I was able to grasp are very interesting.

"Meanings as Species" by Mark Richard, some provoking bits: "...Of course languages, lexicons, and individual words—like species—evolve. As one popula...

There are some things in your control, including "parts" of your external environment, whether in your immediacy or within reach. For the parts that a...

I'd go further than what Camus says as quoted above. I'm rather confused about what force an intrinsic/metaphysical "meaning" (whatever that is) would...

This is quite good and in tune with my experience. You just can’t browbeat people into voting for and campaigning for an awful candidate. Sorry, I don...

Super Tuesday post-analysis leaves me frazzled.

Jonathan Chait said back in the last Presidential Election that he hoped Trump got the Republican nomination because he would obviously lose to Clinto...

Also note we’re voting for Commander in Chief, not Speaker of the House. Foreign Policy is the President’s main job, it’s the area they have the most ...

Well their single-minded goal isn't to win against Trump....No one even knows who Klobuchar is outside her state, but she's a standard neoliberal Demo...

This NYT opinion piece here reports a testimony that the Democratic Elites actually think Klobuchar has the best chance of defeating Trump (of course ...

Sanders is the only Democratic candidate with a majority of people of color who support him while Warren’s support leans heavily towards a narrower wh...

I guess I'm one of the few here who knows something about the subject. There are "strong" women in anime. This goes way back to even Studio Ghibli, Mi...

It doesn't describe anything because it presents no information. You could have zero knowledge of what "x" is and still agree that x = x. That can't b...

This was what I was saying last year, and now a few more people are barely catching on. These days I'm more bothered that the people shouting this stu...

The Left should hijack the impeachment process and press their own causes. Impeachment can be about anything unlike RussiaGate, and since a lot of peo...

Modern capitalist countries will dip into a depression and harm people’s lives & stifle social development without continuous economic growth, that’s ...