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But here is the Plutocracy's employment paradigm: Gig workers aren’t self-employed – they’re modern-day feudal serfs

Nothing in that proposal implied self-sufficiency; quite the opposite. Interdependence leads to trust and a better quality of life. But that is hard t...

Eliminating both taxes and services would be fairly straight forward - it's called serfdom.

Yeah, well, my inclination is more towards the social order being sorted so as to serve the "personal interests" of the populace. Suit yourself.

We should "sacrifice what may be in your personal interest for... ...what preserves the social order"? Fascism it is, then.

:meh:

See the topic? See how it is not "Floods"?

Cobbler's awls. No, I hope for a bit of conversation, some intelligent disagreement. I'm not insisting on agreement so much as enjoying disagreement.

Perhaps. Cool. So it's not that people make judgements that is problematic when you say" So your point remains obscure.

I saw quite a bit in the story, on which I have been expounding. It was my reading of Kierkegaard that first brought this line of thinking to me. The ...

So... you think you do not have very strong intuitions about how things should be? Then why did you respond to my post?

There are those amongst us who see faith, understood as submission, as a virtue. I am questioning that. I suspect you might agree, broadly speaking. S...

So Abraham was faking it? He knew all along that god would not allow him to kill Isaac, but went along so as to garner favour from the Lord? Moreover,...

That was my point.

Those values are not necessary, let alone peculiar, to religion. Nationalism is an obvious alternative. Both are somewhat parochial, even anachronisti...

Cheers. I hope what I have said makes at least some sense.

There's no argument here for that interpretation. You say religion is the believe in a set of common values, then in the next sentence replace "religi...

Came across this, from @"Wayfarer" long ago, while browsing... Elon's fortune is of this ilk.

Is it reasonable to truss up your son and ready the fire? Read this again, and reconsider: No, this behaviour is abominable, unjustifiable. Madmen rat...

Topics such as this require that we take great care with the language we use. So even if faith were necessary - and it isn't - that would not make it ...

Well at least now you are beginning to address what I actually argued rather than what folk expect or want to think I argued. Faith, understood as bel...

You may have been unable to recognise the argument. I pointed out and gave an example of faith, defined as subjecting a belief to its consequences, le...

You seemed interested in the topic, since you responded to Frank raising it. You argued that what is good is what is the law, or something along those...

It's not at all clear what the argument or counterpoint here might be. if there is one. There are good people of faith. I haven't said otherwise. I ha...

Again, ethics is not about law, but about what is good. Curious that some folk have such difficulty with this: that what is good and what is commanded...

Oh, and I don't agree that it was faith that delivered us to our present sate of enlightenment; recent history shows how fragile that enlightenment is...

Of course, believe whatever makes you feel good - whatever gets you through the night. (Should I link to the John Lennon song? Is it still sufficientl...

Thanks for the thoughtful post. You have heard of the Euthyphro? Is an act good becasue it is the law, or is it the law becasue it is good? You seem t...

People wrote the law, whether they thought they were writing the will of god or not. But, and over, that, if the law is unethical, you ought not do wh...

Yep. It's odd how folk keep imputing scientism to what I have said. First and now. Again, science does not tell us what to do. I guess folk as so used...

Just to be sure, I am here relating aspects of Popper's falsification, as elucidated by his student and supporter, Watkins. This is not a rejection of...

So what...

The science we have now is far beyond anything they considered.

Yep.

Take another look at the beads. I've claimed that {1,2,3} is extensionally equivalent to "...is red". Now, do you agree with this? Seems most folk do,...

Quite so. And it seems we agree that the belief is not of much import, it's the acts, what one does, that is to be counted and evaluated. But I will p...

I don't see a need. Planets = Planètes = {mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune}.

The explanation is that they are extensionally equivalent. Planets = planètes.

Folk find it difficulty to accept uncertainty. Others like the neatness of having god only on Sunday - they don't have to think.

Yes; and yet by some it is elevated to such heights that it is seen as the greatest virtue. :angry:

You are treating purpose as something you find. It isn't. Rather, it is what you do.

Well, is that so? I think it worth considering the logic of faithful propositions. Can we think of the adults in Elizabeth Rose Struhs' life as puttin...

I was thinking that Meta conflated energy and entropy in such a way that he things the energy of a closed system must constantly decrease as the entro...

Well yes - the planets. We may end up with "The number of the planets > 7" and "Le nombre de planètes > 7" both referring to the proposition, while ne...

Who is "they"? Is there someone you think can explain the origin of the universe? You? It seems odd for you to quote Russell, of all people, while app...

A better mind explains them. (How long are we playing this game for?)

Truth is neither subjective nor objective, but just how things are. As such it doesn't give a fuck about what you or I believe, faithfully or otherwis...

I've noticed that for some folk the desire to know the truth burns so hot that, perhaps in order to quench the burning, they grasp firmly to falsehood...

At the very least, give your faith pause and reconsider. Before the child dies. An odd post. Not at all sure why you linked my post to the law of excl...