I think that's likely the only way. Get popular media to show people what actual anarchy is supposed to look like. Have scifi or fantasy movies where ...
The most effective thing anyone in any marginalized political movement can do is raise awareness, get people to care about the same problems enough to...
Something not being a physical object, but a state of a physical object, doesn't make the thing not a physical thing. When you disassemble a lego hous...
I used to be of that opinion (and thought it the natural conclusion), but I've come to think quite the opposite by now. You have to build an alternati...
This has probably been pointed out already somewhere in this thread, but the point of starting an argument by stating definitions is to clarify which ...
Given that such reciprocality is obligatory, such that if someone helps you you are in their debt, then yes exactly, because money is a way of trackin...
Additionally, even those who have the access, the leisure, and the innate capacities, still often lack the values that would incline them to pursue it...
The electron is kind of smeared out along its orbital path, which is not a nice neat ellipse like you would expect of an orbit, but one of several wei...
It's not surprising that that's in agreement with me, since I wrote that. (Most of the current state of that article is my doing from like a decade ag...
That's basically a toy model; it's not actually true, but it's a useful false visualization for learning purposes. Wikipedia on Atomic orbitals explai...
Quickly looked up some etymology of "objective" on Wiktionary and Etymology Online. The former has a second sense of "Not influenced by the emotions o...
The question is whether you take your point of view, or their point to view, or any particular point of view, to be the end of moral inquiry — i.e. be...
That's not a false dichotomy though, that's exactly what is meant by it: not "subjective" in the sense of relative to any particular subject. Even emp...
It loaded for me, and this is what it says: I’m actually responsible for that page being only a disambiguation page. It used to be a messy article tha...
Electrons don’t actually orbit, there’s some fuzzy quantum mechanical stuff that goes on there instead. Before QM existed, it was a problem in physics...
The difference of import here is whether a particular event, the same event, can be simultaneously good and bad to two different observers, both of wh...
I've lived in the US my entire life and associating lower-case "objectivism" with Randianism sounds very weird and parochial to my ear, like something...
In the orbiting object's frame of reference, it's not changing velocity. It's going in a straight line. "Straight" just looks curved to us who expect ...
Frame-dragging is what causes gravitational radiation. Basically, a moving mass moves what "stationary" is relative to it as it moves (this is frame d...
Just here to note that keeping is and ought separate doesn’t have to mean rejecting the objectivity of oughts. They can be addressed entirely separate...
So, if you can completely describe all physical states, you can also completely describe all chemical states; but you don’t have to understand the phy...
No, but every chemical state is identical to some physical state. But not the other way around: not every physical state is identical to some chemical...
Hedonism isn’t egotism. Utilitarianism is a hedonistic and altruistic moral theory. Also, even egotistic hedonism can support delayed gratification ou...
No one except basically everyone. If you model the physics of a system of particles that bind together into atoms and molecules that then interact wit...
You've just got the relation backward: mental states are a kind of brain state, and talking about brain states can tell you things about mental states...
Frame-dragging does very, very slightly slow down the Earth's orbit around the sun. We can see this more notably in the case of very very massive obje...
I'm using the terms as they are used in modern physics, for the "in principle" cases. The more colloquial senses of the terms that you seem to want ar...
People having privilege isn’t a problem. Other people lacking it is. The solution to privilege isn’t to take something away from those who have it, bu...
Different kinds of moral objectivism will give different answers to that. I’m not here in this thread to discuss my answer (already doing that elsewhe...
You could if you like think about it in different terms, without really changing anything about it. You could call what I call intentions "moral belie...
I’m asking about your views, so correct according to you. But not correct just because you say so, or because anyone says so. Just, do you think that ...
Not philosophy generally, but the "what is the meaning of life?" question is a curse. The analogy I used to make sense of it when I was finally strick...
You and @"Kenosha Kid" are the first two to come to mind. He really seems to go back and forth about whether he actually seems like a relativist in pr...
:100: :up: :clap: That sounds like moral objectivism as I mean it, then. :up: (To clarify, the "some" option before didn't mean that only some people ...
The question then is which of those facts matters for determining the morality of something. If several people disagree about whose well-being matters...
Sounds like a yes then. It was this bit that made me think you meant otherwise: As though the facts about well-being depended on who thought whose wel...
If you think that what makes a moral claim correct or not is whether someone agrees with it (so what those different people think changes what is corr...
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