“More or less”? That’s quite vague. So I suppose they’re uninteresting as well? I’m not hypnotized by Heidegger any more than any other thinker I’ve l...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/climate/climate-change-ipcc-un-report.html (Time is running out to avert disaster, according to IPCC.) Adjacent sto...
Schopenhauer says that the will is the closest we can get to the thing in itself, without going beyond time (and thus any knowledge whatsoever). At on...
The "effectiveness of markets"? Demonstrated how, exactly? So not free markets, just markets. Meaning markets with state intervention, which is all th...
Yes, we all know that neither of you are serious about this matter, and come here simply to register your uninformed “thumbs down,” but what I was res...
Where have free markets existed? You’ve said capitalism hasn’t existed. By capitalism you mean laissez faire capitalism. So that hasn’t existed, but f...
Since capitalism, in your sense, admittedly has “never existed,” then any results you’re referring to is the product of a mixed economy. So once again...
Rand: (1) Laissez-faire capitalism is the proper socioeconomic system to aspire towards. (2) This has not yet existed. (3) But if it did exist, it wou...
Okay— I draw similar conclusions. I thought perhaps there were texts I overlooked. Well that’s obviously a very broad summary, but I did so to show th...
Well said. I think this is an important point to always bear in mind when discussing these social issues. It’s the other side of the factor I mentione...
No it isn’t, because it was perfectly clear from context. You miscomprehended it. A possible reason for misreading it is your adherence to objectivism...
Yes, you posted the definitions, and I'm telling you that the definition used in the original post (the one you responded to initially) was this one (...
This is what I meant by "disingenuous," above. If you read that post and thought, "By 'profits over people' is he referring to monetary gain, or any g...
No, it doesn't. It's one definition, and not the one which I used and which you responded to. I was using "profit" in the financial sense, which was c...
(Simple google search.) Again, if you wish to define "profit" as "any gain whatsoever," OK. That's your call. But that's not what I was referring to, ...
No, it isn't. Because, as I'll repeat for the umpteenth time, homeostasis, a physiological concept of mainlining equilibrium in the body, has nothing ...
What is so mysterious, exactly? Once you understand his nuanced language, it's not quantum mechanics. He's saying that since the Greeks, entities have...
Semantics deals with meanings. Definitions are meanings of words. Why you continue on like this is baffling. Exactly right. Profit: Totally different ...
Funny— I’ve offered to explain (and have done so) Heidegger several times. There’s no code to break. It’s not a mysterious thesis. Talk about Heidegge...
Meaningless. Homeostasis has a meaning, and generally a physiological one. Profits is basically an accounting term. It’s what is left after you subjec...
I didn't once offer a definition, so this statement is meaningless. :lol: The people being bribed are the "masters"? You're derailing. According to a ...
Homeostasis, a desire for food, etc., has nothing to do with profit. Nothing. If you want to define profit in some other way, you're welcome to. A sma...
A small minority of people, yes. The environment and the rest of the population -- not so much. There is a very clear distinction between people and t...
The US has far more guns than nearly any other country, per capita. The gun manufacturing industry, with their propaganda and lobbying, is behind it. ...
Philosophy and religion -- though neither are well defined -- care about (i.e., ask questions about) similar things, like what human beings are, what ...
Would it be helpful if I quoted linguists who follow Chomsky’s program? I could do so, but I don’t see any need to yet. My understanding of his though...
Agreed. That's fine with me. It'll take me a little bit to respond in any detail, but after reading your response I think the basic issue has become c...
These aren't metrics. True, there are birth restrictions and suppression of information. I assume by genocide you're referring to the Uyghurs. The US ...
On what metric? Let's be concrete. I agree -- I wouldn't want to live there -- but a lot has been overblown, while ignoring the good (it's often said ...
Yes, plus endless wars, overwhelming inequality, global hegemony keeping many nations oppressed, etc. And China's pretty bad too. Well there's a lot t...
As if property rights are handed down by God. Irrelevant. What is relevant is that they're legal rights granted and enforced by states -- i.e., a gift...
No one has claimed security guards are “law.” Quite the opposite in fact. The law is what grants property rights— in the real world. True, they could ...
Oh okay. So anything we do, we do because we have the right to. Got it. So if I slept with you wife, I did so because I have the right to. No wait, I ...
It does. Without military, you have no state. Without state, you have no property rights to protect and “enforce” through your security guards. Yes— h...
“Rights.” Turns out they’re magic. Who knew! Wonder how the tribes of Papua New Guinea function without this idea. Or literally everyone prior to the ...
Yet here I am sharing it. So much for that theory. Well done, Donald Trump. Take a claim that accurately describes your philosophy, then regurgitate i...
Go back to sleep NOS. Or go read more Ayn Rand. I’m sorry you don’t understand what property rights are, nor apparently what the law is. Yes, maybe if...
And push government to do more, which is its proper function. I recommend you organize with others and build your own roads, in the meantime. :100: Yo...
Private property is a gift from the state. I don’t care how many private security guards one has. For the millions who can’t afford bodyguards and pri...
More Ayn Rand bullshit, as always. “I feed my kids because I want to — not because it’s the law!” Yeah, no shit. I don’t help people because it’s a “d...
Yes, and often do. But I’m one person. I know others who do far more than me — and shouldn’t have to, in a country of such enormous wealth and resourc...
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