It's all over the mainstream media and both sides of the aisle- democrats and republicans seem to agree on the basic facts here. Soleimani's complicit...
The hardliners certainly hate our guts. Sometimes people just hate your guts. yes, we will occasionally share interests with groups that we aren't nor...
The guy is sticking pins in us because he genuinely hates us and has been hating us for decades. This is the regime, not the people. We can play nice ...
I don't want a war. We don't have a war, at least not officially. You're acting like this strike just started a war out of nothing and that's just not...
No one wants a war, but given these facts: -The general was behind hundreds of american deaths in iraq. -He was behind the recent embassy attack. -Was...
Gary Kasparov had an interesting series of tweets: What is happening between the US and Iran is a consequence of what I describe in Winter Is Coming: ...
I didn't say it was going to lead to peace. It's probably not going to lead to war either. The strike comes after a long string of Iranian offenses. O...
I'm not calculating anything. We use "cause" in a variety of ways in the english language, and I can't think of any of them that directly attribute in...
I get it, but we're talking about causation, i.e. which events led to X. It's just how we understand this concept. If I ask you "what caused the hole ...
That's funny because I really don't discuss this topic very much if at all in philosophy. Certainly haven't discussed it that much around here. If you...
Inaction isn't a cause. If I ask you for a cause I would expect to hear a series of actions or events. If I were to accept what you're saying the upsh...
Could you give me an example? Under the banner of philosophy you have everything from Hobbes to Rousseau to Rothbard to Marx. If you think philosopher...
If we're in an argument or discussion and I post a link to a 3 hour lecture or 20 page paper instead of explaining that's just bad etiquette. It reall...
If someone phrases something really well or makes an argument really well - say, better than I could offhand - then I'm happy linking to a source or a...
This is a really good post and I'm not really in disagreement with any of it. I do think though that on a practical level just self-teaching oneself p...
We can think about it from an individual or communal standpoint. I'm limiting my points to discussions about healthy people here and not those who are...
Personally, I don't engage in philosophy because I want to be seen as caring or a good team player. I think most of the more serious philosophers or s...
I'm not going to address your argument about anti-natalism because we haven't settled the more fundamental issue of you understanding NAP and NHP. The...
I'm actually interested in this. A couple questions though: 1. How would legislation work? Would everyone vote on every proposed law? Would it be majo...
Ok, so if my government pushes me to round up and execute Jews in ditches that's just a political thing and I have no moral culpability in that. Ok. I...
Lets take the case of an extremely contagious bio-chemical hazard or disease where we have the vaccination, but some people are refusing to be vaccina...
Alright, so I'm someone who's also more libertarian in how I think and if you want to identity "autonomy" more with negative freedom that's fine with ...
I only mentioned having sex with... not being attracted to. Many gay men report having sex with women, do you think that doesn't make them gay? If a s...
Yes, thank you for the last definition. So much clearer. This is Kant speaking, not me. I feel like you're channeling Kant here, but Kant's idea of au...
I feel like we're just not agreeing on what "gay" means from LGBTQ. I'm from the US and in the US a gay man can still have sex with a woman and still ...
This is a good response to Jacob. I want to point out that the intentional bombing of civilians almost certainly DID help shorten the war; case in poi...
https://books.google.com/books?id=EftT_1bsPOAC&pg=PA179#v=onepage&q&f=false Page 179 on Ovis Aries. Last time I checked bisexuality is part of the LGB...
All right, well this is how I would approach it. Feel free to disagree, ask questions, clarification, etc. Utilitarian "maximization of utility" and K...
I know I'm not involved in this argument, but this stuck out at me: You need to read up on penguins, sir, plus countless other species if you don't th...
I think if we're going to progress in this discussion we need clear definitions. Maybe I haven't fully understood your argument so I'll do my best to ...
If the machines are doing "the essentials" and humans are doing services there's still room to innovate with services. You could invest in a business ...
Ok, just keep in mind when you keep bringing up terms like "maximizing well-being" or "minimizing suffering" you're strongly, strongly hinting towards...
They could invest that money, loan it out, start a business with it, save it, gamble it, etc. there's a billion things they could do with that money a...
Ok, all I'm saying here is that negative ethics can be viewed through many different lenses. A negative ethic could be as mild as don't murder or stea...
I haven't read through the entirety of the thread... it's 10 pages but I'll give some of my initial thoughts. I feel like you're conceiving of this id...
I never got a response from you. I asked what is wrong with robots largely taking over production/manufacturing and humans moving into more service-re...
Okay, let me try a different example. Lets say you're in an art museum and you go into one of the rooms there and a couple gallons of sewage water pou...
I'm a moral realist so I do believe moral claims express propositions; they can be true or false. In regard to an exact rational system to sort moral ...
As a guy who loves probabilities....assigning basically everything probabilities would be pretty absurd/hilarious. I mean how sure are you that, for i...
Ok, I'm making an honest attempt to understand this from a socialist perspective: Why would someone give a loan if they're unable to change interest? ...
I'm actually thrilled with your first statement and I do agree. I wasn't seeking to lay out an entire political system based solely on this premise ab...
Yes, we will always need producers, but I just don't see what's wrong with robots taking over much of that production (more things that are tangible a...
I'm happy to respond to you, just be aware that we are do seem to be on very different sides of the political spectrum so I wouldn't expect anyone's m...
I think we can all agree that AI/robots/automotion will take jobs, but I think most of us also agree that new jobs will be created in other sectors. I...
I don't think it's abstract at all; we see it throughout history. In my discussion with Siti he only asked me to list one immutable fact of human natu...
Sure, someone could devise a system that fails because it fails to take into account human variability, but I also believe in certain unchangeable fac...
Because I believe that there are certain facts about human nature and if a system ignores or directly contradicts these facts it is bound to fail. I d...
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