Andrew4Handel

I am not putting forth an ideal society. I think the main reason for the division of labour is to speed up or streamline the exploitation of resources...

I think life is dystopian and the less we create the better. I think we should interfere to improve the quality of peoples live as much as possible.

No it doesn't I was giving an example of the division of labour and how it creates menial tasks. There may always be some division of labour under any...

Decreasing the population is responsible breeding. Unfortunately the worlds population is increasing. A country can easily increase its population ove...

I think it is possible to have values not based on emotion. Especially valuing equality. For example say there are 9 apples and three people and one p...

It is a bit late to be against colonialism when it already happened, apparently the term Propertarianism was coined in 1963. It is too late to claim w...

I think division of labour is problematic because it forces people into menial jobs and creates hierarchies So people are less free. Someone has to so...

Overpopulation is a fairly recent problem. These countries became poorer and exploited under colonialism and inherited the colonialists religious beli...

I have notice that this analysis of tribal societies is controversial in anthropology. Nevertheless I have not used tribal societies as a model for no...

You said The examples I cited of food being exported from Ireland and India during famines are counter examples to this. The point I am making about d...

I don't see how stewardship entails communism or is a central plank in its doctrines. Like I have said stewardship is a simple assessment of the impac...

I wasn't talking about violence levels but sustainability of life style and population sizes and famine. I think our economic system is violent and de...

I am the only one presenting actual historical evidence. What knowledge do you have of the Congo under Leopold and what explanation do you have for th...

Here is a book on famines under the British Empire: "Davis argues that "Millions died, not outside the 'modern world system', but in the very process ...

It is not hard to understand stewardship without a central authority. People have historically prepared food for the winter months by preservation met...

I don't agree but I can word it differently if you like. It can just mean to gain something in an underhand manner or by force. It doesn't follow anyh...

I am wondering what knowledge of History gurugeorge has. Lets dwell on the history of the Ironically named Congo Free State "owned" by King Leopold II...

My key point is advocating stewardship. If you live on a piece of land and own some great works of art and literature it would be vandalism to destroy...

Which came first Colonialism or capitalism? How much evidence do you want me to provide about misappropriation of land and resources which already had...

I think the contrast between science and the supernatural is misleading. For example think of the unimaginable evil humans have perpetrated like the h...

Statistics are an interesting example.It is quite easy to collect data but interpreting it is a different matter. There are flawed, biased political a...

There are a huge range of claims made in evolution beyond the general paradigm. I am thinking about individual claims as opposed to support for the ge...

What I am thinking is that science might be just a very diverse range of practises with no underlying metaphysical claim to be found or to unite it. B...

The main part of being sustained is having shelter. Technology is pretty useless if you are homeless. I don't see why you can't have innovation and fa...

I don't think science has to make any metaphysical commitment like naturalism. I think naturalism and physicalism are quite meaningless in terms of pi...

This seems implausible because we are the only creatures on earth that have technology. We must have survived on the land at one stage with no tools o...

I think rampant pessimism could be learned helplessness. It seems to me that facts about reality can not logically entail emotional response. The link...

I think there are lots of problems with the notion of just desert. The most prominent is that we are randomly born into our initial circumstances thro...

I think having children is making an unjustified claim on a limited resource.I think exploiting the earth for your own survival is completely understa...

Here is a related issue. "Unsurprisingly for a field that relies on calling happiness 'utility', economics students are the most likely to display evi...

Yes. If you cite Proudhon people claim you are a communist. I don't know much about communist theory but what I am talking about is rationality. Don't...

It would not be an issue of there were only a few humans so that there was more than enough to go around. I think everyone deserves a home, food and s...

The problem is people are blaming suffering on something just the wrong thing. I don't see the benefit of a no blame position. I want an accurate caus...

Yes but for some reason a lot of people do not seem to believe this and most people apparently will not blame parents for their child's suffering.

I think the reason suffering is tolerated relates to humans religious and superstitious past. In my very religious background humans were blamed for a...

There are lots of issues with meaning making. One issue is conflicting values. One persons meaning can easily chronically conflict with anothers (for ...

I don't think emoting or emotional attachment should be mistaken for meaning. I think meaning has to equate to semantics where something meaningful is...

Is it possible to live as a general agnostic? I think we seem to have to founded things on some false beliefs and emotions. I don't know where complet...

What disturbs me is the acceptance of inequality backed up by a denial of facts. The idea that failing is a personal flaw not luck. I think it would b...

I think that motivations can be valid and invalid. I think society maybe mainly created around invalid motivations. Take advertising for example. If y...

Is the point of logic to be detached? I would agree that it it is not easy to separate ourselves from our beliefs. But is our self rational? Logic app...

I think the problem is the limitations of our biology. There are things people can improve within limits but it is all a fight against our biological ...

I think to designate something a state is to attempt to quantify or describe it. This is hard and there are mountains of books trying to describe thin...

Everything is a mental state. I might qualify that by saying "everything we are aware of". I think that to be aware of anything means it becomes part ...

I had my first solipsistic ideas when I was thinking about gods in my mid twenties. I was brought up in a strict religious household with a hell and d...

I am not sure this follows. For example if your father tells you on his death bed that you are adopted. You have discovered he is not your father but ...

It seems to me that somethings appearance is a property of the visual system and not the object. For example people perceive colours differently and i...

I think some aspects of consciousness are undeniable in a similar way to pain. If someone is in pain it seems that being theoretically skeptical about...

It can only "look" like something if you have a mind. Different animals have different visual capacities and things look very different under a micros...

Nothing in reality is trivial. The phenomena we discover is all special and not banal and with weird properties. But I don't see consciousness being e...