... pretty much... So your point of comparison is China? Not, say, Canada, Australia, or a European nation? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-ex...
An adult would be able to set aside their fear of a needle for the good of others. One begins to take an ethical position when you begin to use words ...
Those who choose not to get the vaccine. Let's be clear: they seek an advantage at the expenses of everyone else. You sound like a tantruming toddler....
Funny thing is, pretty much anywhere outside of 'merica, the provision of healthcare to all is taken as a given. And the world does not fall appart. T...
Folk do react negatively to freeloaders, yes. The vaccine does not prevent one from catching the virus. It may reduce the probability of doing so, and...
Too hard, perhaps. There is indeed evidence. Does it amount to proof? That'll be down to you. Oddly, those who need no evidence to be convinced that g...
This from the fellow who came up with the best response to any of my posts, and the funniest line ever posted on an internet forum: "Conchiousness exp...
My favourite Existentialist Comic: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/58 Camus and Sartre's disagreement is, for de Beauvoir, an entertainment. So, p...
@"Gary M Washburn" Sure, the argument is only valid because we mark it as so; but so what? If we mark it as so, the the argument is valid! Sure, these...
Yeah, your way of thinking is skewed. A discussion isn't going to help. You might face this: there have been ethical, well-behaved, productive atheist...
No. But that this is unthinkable for you is curious. As if children responded well to rational discussion. You missed the point of virtue ethics. The ...
The items I listed are not just preferences; they are factual. The wine is wine, the bread , bread; women can drive; homosexuality occurs in many spec...
Children match their behaviour to the adults around them. There is a vast literature regarding managing their behaviour and growing them into adults. ...
Sounds good to me. A trillion dollars is enough to give everyone in Afghanistan... twenty-five thousand each? A decent weekend on the Gold Coast, that...
No takers? I wonder what the situation might now be if, say, one of those trillions had been used to foster a very large number of Afghani teenagers f...
There's the rub. And @"dimosthenis9"'s asking for a "fundamental base of that moral system" misunderstands this. Suppose there is a "fundamental base"...
So folk think religion is problematic because the belief is unjustified; that there is no evidence to suport religious contentions. I don't agree. The...
Most folk are above average? I once had the task of explaining, to a director in the Department of Education, why we could not have more kids scoring ...
That strikes me as a mischaracterisation of Wittgenstein. It is clear that reason takes place within language, yet it is clear Wittgenstein held that ...
But an opinion is also what we believe to be true. To count as knowledge, a statement must be true, not just believed. There are, despite the ubiquito...
No, it wasn't obvious. God is a Social Darwinist and so somehow evades responsibility for his actions. ...and your subservient pandering to a tyrant g...
But that's what such muddled thinking deserves. It goes astray here: We don't need phenomenology in order to explain how a prism works. Indeed, it add...
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