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You can't write down every single social rule for every single social situation. You could, however, say, write down an article describing bathroom et...

Yes, you could write them down. However, there's a ton of these social norms and rules and they change according to the specific situation, but noneth...

Yeah, this wouldn't make sense in an illiterate society. However, in an illiterate society there are still social norms (which was what first came to ...

Why is a document needed? If there were a document written up, what would validate it?

I think if you're a utilitarian this kind of judgment makes sense. Personally, I'm not a utilitarian so I wouldn't judge how morally good a person is ...

Why can't the guy who saved 100 million lives just go out one day and kill someone? He's still far in the net positives for moral credits.

This seemed kind of funny to me because it implies that if someone were to spend a year doing charity or building houses for the homeless or something...

Fair enough its been a while since I saw the movie. I tended to remember the poor family as the stronger of the two groups as well as the more ruthles...

I thought you were making a value judgment because you referred to picking out shoes (or fretting over shoe size) as "silly tedious maintenance" and t...

When they discovered the other family in the basement I remember thinking "alright, if you two groups can compromise and work this out this doesn't ne...

I was thinking about this and I do notice this general attitude among a lot of philosophically-minded people. The attitude I'm referring to is one tha...

I can pretty much guarantee you that if someone were to put a gun to your head or threaten you or your family with something serious that meaning you'...

What do you think of my idea that the inability in establish class unity was the downfall of the poor family?

I can get on board with this. I do believe love is humanity's highest aim and I do hold learning and teaching in high regard and I can see them as rea...

ok so i grew up jewish so... presumably still the abrahamic god, but the jewish god isn't this wonderful, all good, all loving father figure that chri...

I don't feel comfortable extending his conclusion that far. I just don't think he's saying that all workers are parasites. I can't imagine he'd portra...

ok thank you for conveying to me the creative explanation.

If you're just going to look at it from a marxist perspective then aren't all employers parasites? If he's a marxist or has that kind of weird perspec...

Yeahhhh that seems like a bit of a stretch to me. Maybe there's a translational issue, but it's just not really making sense to me. It would imply tha...

In science, a parasitic relationship is one where one group lives off of another and it's harmful to that other group... there's not mutually benefici...

Alright its been a few months since I saw this film so I'll do my best to remember. As far as I can remember, the downfall of the poor family began wh...

I understand countries have policies towards bitcoin, but enforcement is an entirely different issue. Strictly speaking, bitcoin doesn't require gover...

It actually is possible to send bitcoin without an internet connection. The technical side of it is beyond me, but people have sent bitcoin transactio...

Yes, especially in the case of a war which poses an existential risk to the state. I'm not entire sure what you mean by that, but Lincoln and FDR are ...

I'm reading a book about primitive warfare right now and interestingly in many of these primitive societies, in particular the native americans, the w...

That's a really difficult question that philosophers have been trying to answer for ages and I personally do not know. Well, the US is able to wage lo...

I am not saying that war is inherently rational. I'm just saying we need to judge its rationality in relation to some goal. Very often the stated goal...

I feel like you're just using the economic definition of "rational" here which is concerned with, well, economics. The philosophic notion of rationali...

I'm not even a Democrat and I'd be a little outraged if Bloomberg managed to buy the Primary away from Sanders. Bloomberg seems to be climbing at leas...

If I had to give my best guess about this I'd have to go with love - at least with humanity. I would very much reject any purpose that hinged on ratio...

People can actually knowingly commit evil, at least in the sense that they're fully under the impression that they're doing or about to do is wrong bu...

I was just basically saying that the discussion on intersectionality which traditionally focuses on race, class, gender and sometimes disability could...

I'm an economic conservative and this isn't what I believe. If someone argued this I'd think they were naive. Not everyone can be a doctor or a broker...

You're gonna have to explain that one to me. I was just trying to broaden the discussion beyond the usual race, class, and gender topics. I don't see ...

I always loved Harrison Bergeron. It was one of the inspirations for the thread, but the topic of the thread moved onto "what else should be included ...

I'm generally not in favor of giving power figures "free reign" even inside a functioning democracy like the US, and I think things generally work bet...

Are you really a psychologist, Isaac? That's cool, what area do you work in?

I would say that I was living out my principles at the time, which were moral nihilism. I do believe a true moral nihilist - one who actually lives th...

It's fine, you can doubt this. I've personally experienced this and I make that link when I hear the description of others but neither us have direct ...

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that article. I enjoy reading Kissinger, his book Diplomacy is one of - if not the greatest - work on the history of diploma...

Other motivations or drives would be jealousy, hate, a sexual motive, or just the implicit recognition that the life of the victim doesn't matter and ...

I think we can both agree that it is reasonable to be fearful of power. It is also reasonable to fearful of very large power imbalances. Centralized p...

Good OP - broad topic. There's a lot we can say about power. The older I get the more I tend to see power as something personal, or more like the asse...

Glad you asked: I've seen plenty of interviews with murderers and these explanations a couple of the more recent ones were "my mind blanked" and "I ju...

I don't know his exact brain state at the time of the killing. I don't know. He murdered his own grandmother with a baseball bat.... I think it was ov...

The guy knew exactly what he was doing. Not all evil is the result of ignorance.

Yesterday I was watching a true crime documentary where a man, after a history of robbing gas stations and stealing from money from his family, beat h...

Yes, but this isn't how houses get built in a free society. If you're putting a gun to someone's head or threatening construction crews with jail time...

no, i go by the majority, straight-forward view described in the stanford article you linked. this is going to me my last post before i go to bed, by ...

just to clarify, if by "law-bound morality" we're referencing that kind of "thou shalt not" morality which has its roots in the old testament then she...