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But the primary relationship must always be with God. And in this perverse logic, giving to your wealthy church is better than giving to the homeless.

Not so fast... There are beliefs which it is unreasonable to doubt. That this is a sentence of English, for example. Such beliefs are foundational. Co...

Why would you want to do what?

You would cut out any other cyst without hesitation. The inconsistency is yours.

And here it is apparently distinguished from "what it's like-ness", and hence presumably also distanced from qualia. SO I guess a thermostat is access...

OK. I found the distinction somewhat opaque. Nor did a google search for access consciousness offer much help. It's not a common philosophical term.

Yes.

Depends on what colour your sunglasses are.

Sure - just don't use burlap.

So could there be a satisfactory hedonic experience that did not seem good? 'cause I'm thinking along the lines of Moore, that something might be plea...

A blastocyst does not have a face, hear sounds nor react to stimuli.

I don't know how many kinds of stuff there are, in your way of talking. But it seems to me that what we have here are two ways of talking about how th...

All that seems to have happened here is a broadening of the use of experience to include stuff that it would not normally include. So sodium experienc...

To whom? And if you say my (s)kin doesn't matter, but I say it does, who decides?

Indeed.

It may have been interesting to have done the same poll on the old forum. Here, less than half of correspondents have done any serious study.

This thread, Like Jesus, has returned from the dead. No good will come of it.

And that is abject bullshit.

That just does not follow.

Then it seems to me your OP is incongruous; unless you were pointing out that zoning laws are a neat way of demonstrating the poverty of the free mark...

Why?

Sure, neat idea, keep the poor near the factories, the wealthy can have the trees. Fucksake.

Ok. So don't come to this forum for help with your physics assignments. Bloody hell. What a mash.

Not do much. There's the wrong of pretending that aborigionality is not important, that you would perpetrate.

Yes, Harry. That's right. Now if you can put these ideas together in a coherent way,. you will have understood what we have been saying.

I'm guessing that the reply you might get from an Australian or Indian indigenous person would be that the white flea came, took the land, broke the f...

not so much. I’m not as polite as some.

nationalist liberalism. Dunno. but I'm sure it's not Australian Liberalism with a "L" - which is a pile of conservative stink.

I don’t see why.

Australian aboriginals were not recognised as the indigenous owners of the land; indeed, the land was notoriously treated as terra nullius. Hence, the...

I suspect that there is some comfort for us poor white fellas in the idea that all we have to do is ignore race and the issue is solved. Saves us from...

Oh, yeah. Hence my quoting Shakespeare...

Failing to recognise the indigenous status of an Australian aboriginal would lead directly to multiple issues.

I'm a white fella. I don't have to worry about my race.

So...?

You want me to tell you what to do in every case? It's a bit of an unfair question. You want a general rule of thumb? Acknowledge the difference and b...

Why would you find that surprising? Don't put your feet on the table in a Maori household.

SO literal. The left finger. Noticing someone's ethnicity makes a huge difference to how one ought act towards them.

As in ablest, not meritocracy.

Yeah, it is.

Immutable?

Earist.

What crap.

...and yet the colour of this skin is part of the content of their character.

Odd, that genetics is seen as relevant here. I guess it's a bias carried over from the predominance of Americans. Going back to the OP, That's a neat ...

That's brilliant, Harry. So erudite.

Love you, Harry.