Of course, so long as 'autonomous, smart tools' are not sentient. Surplus (economically unproductive) billions of people, however, are ethically and p...
I didn't say that. African slave trade, resources plundering of the Americas then later Africa & Asia, administrated control of colonies by central st...
:100: Yeah, by all reliable accounts, racism is a historical aberration (mostly) of the northern hemisphere – per development of capitalism – post-149...
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/566511 ^ :up: Spot on! Our "intuitive" folk psychology blinds each of us to the fact that one is not...
I'm with the ancient Vedas and Buddhist dharma on this question – it's largely pointless. 'Thou art that' and 'anatta', respectively. Rather: what are...
Every cell in your body, every cell with a membrane that has ever been, seeks out nutrients to metabolize (eat) everywhere it can except where it can'...
In America (and probable elsewhere as well), the Bernie Madoff Principle applies: the rich & powerful elites only get prosecuted, even convicted and i...
Tell me how giving a post a single whole number 1-5 is any more "time consuming and complicated" than clicking an up-vote. I'm must be missing somethi...
It's not either-or. Go learn what you seek offline and learn what surprises you via discussions online. Good luck and safe travels anyway. https://www...
As long as someone keeps their evidence-free, faith-based, merely private beliefs which makes them happy to themselves, that will make the rest of us ...
Anonymity makes it cliquish rather than remotely indicative of quality. I also think the lack of down-vote makes the feature worthless. Ideally I'd pr...
Or you could suggest somone to affirm the proposition in your place who has no objection to debating me. I'm much more interested in rigorously explor...
Thanks for joining that chorus of slaggers. :up: But, truth be told, I've been a Banno-fanboy lately so what the hell ... less (dense style) is more, ...
As good a place to post the following as anywhere else (but Mods feel free to relocate as you see fit). In two years, with almost as many repeated req...
And yet, in the real world, this "inconsistency" you're babbling about neither makes any sense nor is relevant to a woman having to make the decision ...
Isn't what you're saying (the) premise of The Handmaid's Tale (book)? And yeah, Fool's "intentionally obtuse" (more devil's advocate, methinks, than n...
Yeah, but where's the victorious hegemon that's going to begin the process of denazifying the US the way the US had begun denazifying Germany (& Weste...
Well, "faith-based" believers are free to demonstrate that they're not "stupid people ... low intelligent individuals" on a site dedicated to philosop...
My position on abortion is usually the narrow empirical-based ethical one (re: personhood, homicide vs murder, etc). The much broader political positi...
The question is never about the "right to believe" but whether or not "belief in god/s" is rationally warranted. Philosophical discussions and argumen...
My read of American history during my lifetime (since 1963), which has been congruent with my lived experience socially and politically since at least...
The point of flogging this dead equine "the god problem" is not simply to piss on someone else's parade as "badwrongfun" or worse but, among philosoph...
Yeah, but what's the value of "happiness"? (Well-stocked) drunks & heroine junkies, or the lobotomized, are quite "happy" moment to moment. Smart & st...
"Everything is permitted" because there are no deities, or no transcendent lawgiver. This, however, "does not mean nothing is forbidden" by mortals wh...
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