"American libertarian and tax protestor. Larken Rose was sentenced to 15 months in prison for willful failure to file income tax returns in five years...
I am quite sympathetic to elements of the psychodynamic/psychoanalytic aspect of mind. We don't always understand our own motives and unconscious or f...
A command can be followed or ignored. I follow the instruction manual on a new device effectively. How do you intend to preserve positive legal presid...
I have found that studying philosophy made me less nihilistic. I think that some existential dilemmas are mistaken and combine with low self worth to ...
Another thing is that the law actually protects large groups of vulnerable people by giving them rights and protections so it is probably indispensabl...
I cannot object to people trying to improve the quality of life including if this involves constructing some kind of moral guidance like the legal sys...
I think that creating children is the source of all human harm. It is the only way human harms can enter the world and creating a new child is not a s...
Is this a moral claim and are there any other invalid institutions? Are you a prison abolitionist? I support prison abolition but recognise the need t...
I don't know how you reached this conclusion and what supports it because it is certainly not my experience. The words you have written have acted on ...
I did a degree in Philosophy and Psychology so I am aware of the major positions in moral Philosophy . Such as deontology, Kantian ethics, virtue ethi...
This seems to strip any relationship between a human and the external world. But as we know we are subject to physical and mental illness affecting ou...
I mentioned elsewhere that I was brought up to believe that radio and television were immoral and shopping on Sunday and women cutting their hair etc....
I believe that the outcome of a thorough moral calculation would be to condemn wide spread swathes of behaviours and why not? Are we assuming a moral ...
What you seem to be referring to is problem solving. I believe there are optimal ways to solve problems but I don't think that this requires the label...
But morality does not mean harm reduction or "do no harm" that is the arbitrary linking of the word morality to another phenomena in my opinion. Harm ...
At least 700,000 people commit suicide each year and I suppose it is convenient for others that they don't stick around and complain and demand a solu...
In my opinion we don't have an explanation for human volitional action and how thoughts can lead to behaviour. But we know that language can cause or ...
It doesn't explain my moral values and also my moral skepticism. I grew up with a biblical morality enforced on me which included edicts such as don't...
As someone who grew up in a severe branch of the Plymouth Brethren, that has made me value the truth. We had to read a chapter of the bible and pray e...
You could say that there was a hierarchy of truth. I believe that fundamental truths about reality would be valuable to all in terms of a framework fo...
Why? That seems arbitrary and tautologous where the term morality is attached randomly to one set of behaviours or concepts. We can reduce harm withou...
I think that morality has a tautology problem. For example a lot of words refer to things like "Cat" and "Kitchen sink" and mental state words like "P...
Yes people can lie but the point was that when verbal directions successfully get you somewhere you want to go then they must be transmitting truth. W...
I was feeling like this yesterday. There is potential infinitude of facts and perspectives with different layers of truth. But in my latest post I hav...
You could look at it like this. Every moment or so we are faced with information in our experiences and have to decide what to do with it. So the requ...
No I actively disbelieve in any current religions and gods. I believe they don't exist because the evidence points to the fact that they are man made....
I don't think so. Imagine if someone is suicidal for mental health reasons. I would want to give them a reason to live. They may have formed the belie...
One issue about the truth is what to do after you have discovered it. How would you react if there was proven to be an afterlife? And how should we re...
I am not talking about peoples bathroom preferences and I don't know why you think I am. I am a male I do not get a choice of which which bathroom to ...
Ideally fundamental truths like: What is consciousness? What is the right thing to do? Is society fair? Is life meaningful or meaningless? Who is tell...
I do not think the truth has to be what is instrumental or what makes us feel comfortable. I think that no after life has problematic implications for...
Women's spaces and identities are for biological women. If a trans woman is in a womens toilets, or prison or sports they are no longer single sex are...
Would you ask this to computer scientists, a rocket engineer or surgeon? Obviously there is a successful method to do successful surgery and design a ...
Morality has failed and we have lost millions to war and genocide and preventable famine etc. And quite a lot of this seems to have been based around ...
You did not preserve the substance of my post and show how women's rights and identity are not under threat. If you believed woman's rights and integr...
The problem that I see we have is that we cannot say "genocide is wrong" and that be a factual statement. This could lead to moral nihilism. The truth...
By acknowledging that it is a set of preferences not facts divine or otherwise and not taking any claims for granted. I am in the position like a lot ...
I am not explicitly trying to campaign on here but in order to explain the issues or debate the issues you have to try and explain the real world issu...
I gave an example in a previous thread where I said that we know language works because we can say something like "I live in the house with a red door...
Let's take ethnic or racial or sex differences. I think in the case of the sexes and races I think it has been important to clarify where men and wome...
People are misrepresenting other people's concerns on this so it is pointless having a discussion based on false premises. But there is a lot of anger...
I can just post some random quotes and you can tell me what you make of them and I give my take. For example this seems to be saying that the truth is...
You have no right to give away women's rights and safe spaces and nor has woman the right to give away another woman's rights and spaces. Why would yo...
Men are already accepted as women and it has led to men winning awards aimed at biological women including in sports, it has led to them entering dome...
Do you mean I should quote published philosophers on this like pragmatists and relativists? I watched the below video involving Rorty and in it they r...
I believe that there is a fatal conflict between women's rights and identity and the concept of a trans woman. I do not understand why people cannot g...
What are you referring to? Intersex conditions are disorders of sexual development that affect people's development, reproductive systems among other ...
I just explained it to you. In many ways. You are not listening and now you are spreading motivated propaganda. Jack Turban is financially invested in...
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