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I purposely structured my OP to provide a scenario where I didn't harm anyone else.

Your post was a request asking people to donate to a charity. There wasn't anything philosophical about it yet you posted here in the ethics forum. It...

A douchebag's number one weapon is their ability to charm. We need to explain to people who are easily charmed that douchebags don't give a fuck about...

a) Panpsychism is wild guesswork. b) Panpsychism is wild speculation. c) Panpsychism is a wild conjecture. d) Panpsychism is wildly misguided. e) Not ...

Is 'conjecture' any better?

I'm sure you can think of a better word.

There's no possible experiment you can do to show that a rock is conscious. Panpsychism is complete speculation.

It's called 'self-destruction'. Another reason to always be on guard.

I don't exist either. I am merely a fragment of your imagination.

I'm pretty sure David Hume invalidated metaphysics 300 years ago.

It's actually related to Marxism. :smirk: In The Communist Manifesto of 1848, Karl Marx describes how the bourgeois or monogamous two-parent family ha...

It sounds more like societal norms than an actual requirement. I have nothing against BLM talking about nuclear families, but to say that nuclear fami...

We need a criteria for judging media.

That’s a really, really good question.

Much better than a lot that’s out there, but not perfect.

No, not everything The New York Times writes is bad (I hate using that word).

What is your reason why you say The New York Times is a poor newspaper.

‘Bad’ is a subjective judgement. I shouldn’t have used that word.

Okay.

That doesn't mean we can't do anything about it. If a media source has a reputation of deceiving its viewers, it is up to the viewers to stop watching...

There is no nuclear family structure requirement. This whole thing is bullshit.

What exactly is the problem? I choose media based reputation. Determined by your ability to argue about the news with others.

It shouldn't be different than shopping for clothes. There's always room for improvement.

It's very typical for humans to blame our problems on others. I have a suggestion, instead of placing all the blame on the media market, we could play...

I agree with you on math, disagree on politics.

True, but not limited to the so-called mainstream media. There's biased media all the way from Democracy Now! to CNN. Also from Infowars to Fox news. ...

Because I'm insane. I don't know.

I lied.

Do as you will.

Okay.

Let’s get back to the beginning. I don’t know what to believe.

That’s not true because I didn’t agree to any of this. You asked me a question and I answered it.

It was only advice.

There’s no obligation to prove anything.

Don’t get Wood involved, I’m only trying something out.

Prove that I don’t know.

I know.

Yep. A lot of people don’t give a shit about what happens to black people. They’re constantly dehumanized and called names.

No such things as deities.

In the years since, we’ve committed to struggling together and to imagining and creating a world free of anti-Blackness, where every Black person has ...

It’s fine to believe that. Good.

Okay, the founders have something do have to do with the movement. I’ll give you that. Do you blieve that the KKK and BLM are equivalent in anyway?

This whole debate is very stupid.

Is it scary? I think you are overstating the dangers even if you believe it is nonesense.

What is a trained Marxist?

Because of the decentralized nature of the movement. The founders dissolved their own leadership.

I got that impression from you!

Nowhere do I see the word “replace”.

What does Karl Marx have to do with an activist movement with no centralized local leader? The phrase "Black Lives Matter" can refer to a Twitter hash...

Can you provide a source for your implied claim that BLM want villages to replace nuclear families?