There are social norms that needed to change. It's not illegal to point and laugh at a crossdresser , but it's still wrong and polite society should n...
Changing society is often a good thing. I think society should be more tolerant of trans people. It's a lot better now than it was when I was growing ...
Is that always a problem? People often have trivial delusions that their friends and co-workers humor. For example, someone might think they're a grea...
Did you guys have anything like separate-but-equal? I see systemic racism as simply meaning there are many racist people in positions of power in all ...
I agree, but isn't that a "woke" idea? I thought the anti-woke crowd, such as yourself, wanted trans people to have to use the bathroom of their sex i...
Yes, destroying womens' sports is nuts, but how would you enforce a bathroom law? Suppose Al has transitioned to Alice and looks like a woman. Do you ...
I agree with some of what you say regarding trans, but do you think there is still systemic racism in this country against blacks? Do you think the fa...
No, I'm talking about something much more fundamental. If we're both watching a sunset, and you're talking about it and I'm listening, how do I know y...
It would be nice if science worked that way, but it can't get around the fact we all exist in private worlds and other minds are essentially black box...
Well, there are infinitely many mathematical truths, so the realm they inhabit is going to be infinitely "large" (if that word even makes sense). Also...
Abortion rights are women's rights. https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/5265021-donald-trump-executive-orders-disparate-impact-civil-rights/ "P...
No. MAGA is dangerous. It's a cancer on the body politic. Their vision of a 1950's utopia would roll back women's rights, LGBTQ rights, and civil righ...
It's not like hating Mexicans. Being Mexican isn't a choice. It doesn't denote anything except the person is from Mexico. MAGA is a choice. It denotes...
What game? In a Venn Diagram, MAGA and Democrat will have a tiny bit of overlap. Maybe. The rest of their beliefs will be night and day with each othe...
If someone identifies as MAGA, you have a very good idea of what they're about: anti-vax, stolen election, climate change denialism, cultish adoration...
There are plenty of men who understand why women place such a high priority on reproductive freedom. This man, is not one of them. His posts are garba...
There's a problem with illegal immigration. It's immoral to turn a blind eye to people entering illegally so we can use them like helots. We have ten ...
Obama's election. Conservatives could not deal with a black man as president, so to cope they tried to "other" him and went down a rabbit hole of birt...
I don't think that kind of benign exploitation is what he's talking about. More like, should I boycott products that involve child labor or people wor...
Because you're a man. You take bodily autonomy for granted. And you also can't think. You will never be raped and forced to carry the rapist's child t...
The polio virus initiates the causal chain that leads to paralysis. That chain includes events like: the virus enters the body ? the immune system fai...
What if we swap out every part but his brain? He's obviously more valuable than the pig. What about after the brain injury that reduces his intellect/...
Maybe, but is it true for most people? It seems there's an obvious spectrum of awfulness to it: losing a one week old embryo is not as bad as losing a...
Well, let's consider an average human vs a pig. The human has infinitely more value, right? We can't gas the human and eat him. But let's swap out the...
But he does have a point. I don't see a newborn as a full-fledged person. They're close to being a person, but the loss of a newborn is not as devasta...
When, exactly, does a baby become a person? At the moment of birth? Well, what about two weeks before? A month before? Two months before? How do you d...
Yeah, the CD example wasn't that good. I think the Sherlock Holmes one is better. So what do you think of that? Isn't there information in the book ab...
At one point in 1984, Winston is confessing some horrible thing he did as a child that's always bothered him and Julia says: 'I expect you were a beas...
Let's say you have a compact disk of Mozart pieces. In a mindless universe, that disk is just a collection of particles assembled in a disk with a bun...
What about Trolley Car? The innocent is the target (or, you're slapping a big target on the innocent when you throw the switch which seems like a dist...
If someone is a flat earther, I don't engage with them. What's the point? Same with neonazi's, Qanon, electiondeniers, etc. They're not immoral, but t...
This isn't even true. What about hypothetical Jewish terrorists in Germany during WW2? Suppose German Jews had adopted a policy whereby Jewish suicide...
(1) has to be considered. Is it even true? What if the innocents are factory workers making bombers to be used against you? What if they're a bunch of...
I posted a poll awhile ago about whether Churchill would have been justified committing war crimes (e.g., using poison gas) to repel a Nazi invasion. ...
They're not just chemicals in the brain. All roads lead to the Hard Problem. The idea of consciousness arising from matter is incoherent, which is why...
What's the solution to the Trolley Problem? What's your take on abortion? Should the state compel me to save the life of a drowning child, if I can do...
Well, let's take an easy case: what if I said I know that if A then B, A therefore B will still be valid tomorrow. 2+2 will still = 4 tomorrow. Water ...
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