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Spirit12

['Member']Joined: November 30, 2019 at 12:34Last active: December 02, 2019 at 16:460 discussions26 comments

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In other words "good" censorship while effective in preventing large scale violence, is actually a symptom of an underlying social illness - discrimin...
December 02, 2019 at 15:57
I would talk about lack of balance in ecosystem and push dialogue toward asking what will really work at convincing leaders they have to do more to pu...
December 02, 2019 at 15:36
This makes me sad. Peterson is interesting and well meaning man. I don't agree with him on lots of things. His beliefs are interesting and some valuab...
December 02, 2019 at 15:33
I agree, there is epistemic responsibility to try and control output of dangerous idea. However, is very demanding to try and read minds beforehand an...
December 02, 2019 at 15:23
How would you feel if got banned from here? Out of curiousness.
December 02, 2019 at 15:09
Justification could be thing that was wrong, or maybe how much justice was wrong, maybe punishment not fit crime. Censorship is sign of weakness and m...
December 02, 2019 at 15:05
No. I mean general ability to disagree with self. Second and third guessing is considered useful in both short and long term. Is it purely disadvantag...
December 02, 2019 at 01:03
I can't help but wonder if there is evolutionary purpose for evolution to give us way to disagree with our own selves?
December 02, 2019 at 00:28
Yes I have felt shift. It is what make me come out of hermitage
December 02, 2019 at 00:27
What if happy man is man who is slave all of life and does not know better? What if culture not have words for "unfair" or "exploit"?
December 01, 2019 at 23:59
Link is broken? How much control you think you have and how much control you know you have? Stoicism is being average, Taoist being balanced. Is being...
December 01, 2019 at 23:57
Is being in state of denial not a form of suffering? Here I observe man to be happy. I don't know though. He could be happily walking into ambush with...
December 01, 2019 at 23:51
Ha maybe in future with cloning! But no, I meant the climate change. Whether the climate change is man made or natural.
December 01, 2019 at 23:14
Which demographic is biggest threat to mounting human defence for climate change? Natural or man made?
December 01, 2019 at 22:13
This raise question, can a happy man be suffering?
December 01, 2019 at 22:11
I like what you think, reading back it make sense. You have even included possibility of man suffering due to ignorance of a early asymptomatic cancer...
December 01, 2019 at 22:11
So you believe choice exists within suffering. In the cases where one does not have choice, is a slave to playing out the pain, then this is truly suf...
December 01, 2019 at 01:12
@"Pantagruel" I think punishment is the downside of reward and praise is the upside of blame As for responsibility how much accounting is there for in...
November 30, 2019 at 18:04
Function to mean what purpose does it contribute to and what are the consequences of blame itself?
November 30, 2019 at 17:51
I thought nuclear war was on trail because nuclear weapons exist and the authority keeps spending paper and numbers on them. People care about the shi...
November 30, 2019 at 17:40
Depends on how many different means can have same ends. These violent delights have violent ends.
November 30, 2019 at 16:23
When you have eliminated the impossible.
November 30, 2019 at 16:21
Depend on how you define foreign aggressors. If one is against an authority, through nothing but political ideology through civil disobedience, or a r...
November 30, 2019 at 16:09
Like if we are doing push up vs being forced to do pushup
November 30, 2019 at 15:03
What are the difference between constructive, deconstructive/reconstructive and destructive suffering?
November 30, 2019 at 15:02
What function does blame achieve when it come to result or consequence?
November 30, 2019 at 15:00