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To summarize my objection (now that I've thought about it some more), we have similar experiences to perception like dreams, hallucinations, illusions...

Fields are just as fundamental, if not more so, than particles. Materialism is an incomplete understanding. The world is made up of more than particle...

Which is analytic philosophy at its most absurd.

Have we left the question of Wittty's finitism behind?

So you believe the infinite number line exists? What happened to construction?

The best is just to wear it on your head. It signals that you took the effort to don a mask, but you don't care enough to pull it down!

So there is a Shamwow mask! I post not simply to support our God-given right to own capital, but because those commercials were always fun. Finally a ...

We could discuss some of the philosophical ideas of Gnostic Christianity:

The great thing about arguing over virtue signalling is that we get to waste time arguing instead of ... ah fuck it, I'm going to watch Netflix. As to...

The 20th century. Communism has been tried.

By "at the moment", you mean the history of civilization? We're not ants, as someone once said regarding socialism. Good luck with that. I can see Nor...

What I love is how it's every fucking election anymore. You have to vote for the lesser evil OR ELSE. Don't dare vote third party. What that tells me ...

The American voting system has devolved into voting for the lesser evil, at least for major elections.

Question: are socialists for private property in general as long as it isn't being used for capital to exploit workers?

The argument would be is that it destroys incentive. But I was more thinking about the short term chaos of declaring all property public. A lot of peo...

I think it was more of what worked as a survival strategy for hunter-gatherers. Either way, I don't think using hunter-gatherers as a guide for of a h...

Which I would say is a good thing in general, because people want to own their own shit. It's bad when there's an excess of wealth and poverty. So I d...

FYI: I updated my reply before you finished typing your post, but you replied to the points I was making. Bad habit of mine. The problem with many of ...

I agree with this sentiment. If you're going to create the Marxist "utopia", then aim for one that offers the same perks as the capitalist one. The ma...

There is where the question of force comes in for a Marxist revolution. You can't abolish the capitalist system without having people give up all thei...

Sounds reasonable.

People value entertainment. Sports are just one example of that. There are other highly profitable entertainers. You can say all you want that they sh...

Back to the factory example. Say I decide to start a business. I purchase the land, have the building constructed, and buy the equipment. So now I off...

I'd be fine with that for sports leagues, given how the owners try to get the community to pay for their stadiums, and then move the team when the vot...

You seem to miss the part where the skill of an NBA player or top engineer is rare, and people are willing to pay more for that. If everyone gets the ...

Fine, so say Lebron James leads a socialist revolution in the NBA. The slave owners are pushed out and now the teams are owned by all the various empl...

What is the difference?

Then you could refute Witty's private language argument, except nobody else would know. I don't think a brain cut off from the senses would amount to ...

There's no perfect system, because humans are involved. And some humans will seek to be more equal than the others. It might be rich capitalists, but ...

Workers are free to start their own businesses, become contractors, seek other employment, or work their way up the ladder. According to Google there ...

What does liberation mean in context of the first page discussion on freedom where you concluded: Organizing people to push for reforms and better dea...

I think its fields all the way down. But on our level, the ordinary stuff seems material enough to call it that. But certainly old fashioned materiali...

The infinite set? If infinity is the set of all numbers, then infinity is a member, unless it's not a number.

That has happened as well, like with union busting. But in this case the property now belongs to the workers, so the state needs to back that when som...

That scenario works. Other scenarios might require force, like collectivizing family farms. It has in the past. But going back to the factory. What if...

But people have been trading for wants, like silk and spices, as long as groups lived near enough each other to exchange goods, or travel to other lan...

It's not difficult to believe in a country that already has a constitution protecting rights. Are we arguing over lower case socialism which reasonabl...

I hope socialists don't believe anything like that, but I worry that is the outcome, at least for the sort of Marxist revolutions we've seen. Theres i...

I take it StreetlightX is not found of such options and is not in favor of utilizing the power of the state if it can be avoided. The question I'm rai...

I didn't say anything about shooting striking workers. I said defending my property in the hypothetical scenario if the community organizes to come ta...

Good response. I can get behind that. I don't think natural rights exist on their own, but they're a desirable ideal to aim for based on, "the most fu...

Seems like the worst of both worlds. No thanks. China is authoritarian and highly conformist. If you're a Chinese minority, expect forced reeducation....

I don't know, but it's difficult to say that math is entirely made-up when it's so useful in scientific theories. Quantities of things exist, so does ...

The problem here is what to do with the people who don't agree. Say I'm a farmer or business owner and you want to organize the community such that my...

That's just disgusting. I wonder how many British tax payers were aware of this prior to 2015?

Setting side those never ending debates, what does it mean for a constructionist to be able to offer a proof for any conjecture involving an infinite ...

So how does a constructionist handle such a number? Do they deny that the set of all numbers is properly mathematical?

We are talking about alien invasions and Tom Cruise movies, so ... Same goes with the Trump comment.

We'd come to appreciate the little buggers, and would be happy for Covid-19 getting us ready for the next round of invasion. Depends on whether you vo...

It was just ordinary bacteria and viruses that did the aliens in. Humans had already gained immunity from all the past deaths. Of course Morgan Freeme...