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1. Understanding denotes conceptual reflection (i.e. metacognition) by which knowing is distinguished from, and contextualized by, not knowing. 2. Kno...

That's only information, not knowledge; even less a measure of (anyone's) understanding.

"Accommodate" is an understatement:

Convince enough citizens that a law is unjust (i.e. immoral) and then it can be changed. Until then commerce or bigotry or both prevail.

No.

My English is perfectly clear to educated members for whom English is their first language.

I ignore error and nonsense. "Ideas" are abstract and therefore are not in causal relation to facts. The rest are physical. Please open a high school ...

We have stone age brains which are ill-suited for everyday living in the information age we've inherited and find ourselves menageried within. Thus, e...

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Hell yes! Literary science fiction offers so much conceptual grist for the speculative mill but Hollyweird (usually) makes obscene bank on dumbing dow...

For me, I engage them only in the company of a third party or audience, not to persuade them but to expose the falsity of such claims before witnesses...

I watched the trailer this morning. I'm still waiting (without holding my breath) for a proper thematic sequel to the 1999 movie, and not just another...

Likewise. :sweat:

Ol' Jimbo was singing about L.A. (i.e. "Where the little grrls in their Hollywood bungalows ... and that's for the people / who like to go down slow ....

Which system of "western metaphysics" is that, and from which era? Presocratic, Hellenistic, Roman, Scholastic, Islamic, ...?

Clearly you didn't read the Human Rights Watch article and ignore the substance of my previous post. That's okay. We disagree, nothing more to add.

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I didn't "refer" to anything. I replied to your (not terribly clear or precise) questions.

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No. No. It's Euro-centric (mostly from Greco-Roman sources) and Europe was/is the western backwater of Asia. Okay. Perhaps in some ways but not in oth...

No, I don't think so. "Killing animals" (i.e. industrial meat processing) is not illegal, though its endemic gratuitous cruelty is immoral.

I'm not quarreling with you about experience of legalized prostitution in The Netherlands, just your generalization from that country's policy to the ...

I never claimed or implied this categorical statement; instead I referred specifically to physical systems, etc. Take issue with my "logic" all you li...

X causes changes in physical systems or things. Name a non-physical, or merely abstract, Y which causes such changes.

Whatever affects the physical is, at least in part, also physical. DNA, for instance, is physical, no?

What you say "seems" right only in a vacuum, not so much in many other recent historical and national contexts. According to Human Rights Watch (contr...

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Quirk of history – end of "The Cold War" from collapse of Soviet Union into oligarchic gangsterism and the fall of "The Iron Curtain" containing compa...

"Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story." ~Iris Murdoch

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_clock • 2nd millennium BCE water clocks • 7th century CE water clocks with gears

I get it. Your skydaddy's "Plan" trumps human integrity (e.g. Job contra his wife, Kierkegaard's teleological suspension, theodicy, etc). :roll:

Unlike you, I don't conflate, or confuse, "about" with "central to" – Jesus' "Love thy neighbor as thyself" plus his "Beatitudes" are just as morally ...

Taken out of context, you can apply anything to anything else. :roll:

If, as an old friend wrote to me this morning, "addiction is the devil", then "god" really is a concept by which we measure our pain. Another OD apoth...

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I never claimed nor implied that I "believe in the supernatural". Your OP references it ("God"). Reread what I wrote. Tell me why, without reference t...

:up: For the nonbeliever, in naturalistic terms, what makes suicide "always wrong" (i.e. categorically immoral without exception)?

"Not to be born" is not a preference. :roll:

Poverty breeds poverty. I was born in poverty, we eventually got out. Ask any actuary; we were a statistical fluke nationally as well as globally. My ...

Which do you think is easier: to get out of poverty with or without children? Or inversely: whether it's easier to remain poor with children or withou...

Why 'coerce' someone to live (or demonize a person) who compulsively needs to cease living?

To repeat: consumption, possession or distribution of child pornography necessarily requires producing it via criminal sexual assault / abuse of minor...

:cool: :up: Might not work but I'm all for running that sexperiment.

You are determined to make the argument. No "choice" is involved.

Like '5-sided triangles' and 'telepathic unicorns', the nonexistent g/G (i.e. skydaddy of theism) simply subsists. (Meinong)

You hastily misread me. I didn't claim it was wrong categorically, only under the inadequate conditions specified. This is why I wrote "iff" (if and o...

It's wrong to have children iff you are compelled to have them, or you're having them transactionally, or you deliberately have them even though you e...

I don't see legal harm (re: US penal or civil codes) in your descriptions of so-called "victims" of adultery, prostitution, drug use/possession, etc i...