IvoryBlackBishop

I've heard the same about Bentham and some others. So assuming he was unable to form a lasting romantic relationship, you're saying that he never paid...

Right, and I'm not sure that's solely limited to "fascism"; the "tribalistic" nature is definitely a part of who were are. Whether it's "fascism" or a...

I'm tempted to venture some aesthetic arguments against masturbation, if nothing else. And not specifically about "masturbation", but I'm not sure tha...

If one believes that truth "does not exist", then they believe that axiom to be "true", rather than false, right? So it's an oxymoron.

Every position, whether it is "religious, political, philosophical" or otherwise, begins and relies on some founding axiom or inherent principle, whet...

Legal philosophy holds individuals responsible for their actions; one can't simply reduce it to pure genetics; such thought also hints at scientific r...

Legal philosophy isn't based on "norms", it's based on harm and defined acts (e.x. murder, rape, and so forth), popular "opinion". is irrelevant. I'm ...

In the book "Between Good and Evil", the author asserts that the world is "in a war" between good and evil, and that evil "adapts" and takes on more s...

If it's not evil to destroy agency, then who cares, if that is what someone wishes to do (whether it actually means, anyway).

[reply="Any such discussion must include Hannah Arendt. It's about our humanity, not about any deity. As with any ethical tale, god is irrelevant. The...

It can be defined better or worse, as "perfectly" as pure mathematics, no not quite. One defining "good" as putting Jewish people in gas chambers, and...

It seems your conflating consequential decisions with "rightness" or "wrongness"; my argument is that a person choosing to "do" such and such a thing ...

Morality - priniciples (e.x. respect for others' property, personal autonomy, etc) Ethics - rules (e.x. laws and punishments for theft, murder, rape, ...

My belief is that while there may tend to be some noticible differences between "male" or "female" communication styles, as far as general "rules" or ...

I don't think the definitions are used entirely consistently; supposedly "ethics" deals more with specific "rules", while "morality" deals more with p...

Correct, I never see a consistent or honest definition of "religion" used, usually just a strawman or neologism in which it refers to "anything a pers...

Seems the topic has drifted a bit away from the OP.

Not to mention, for what it's worth, the vast majority of social institutions have been around for a comparatively "long time", maybe not thousands of...

Ideally a person would be moral enough on their own free will or personal accord that mere "fear of the law" would not be the sole thing stopping them...

For what it's worth, I was trying to be a little sardonic to prove a point, maybe I overdid and got too personal, I apologise.

What methodology of rating is being used? More people watch reality TV shows than reading philosophy books, and most media, including or maybe even es...

This is also why Machiavelli, Alinsky, Greene, RedBeard, Stirner, and similar nihilist morons are useless and unworthy of serious discussion, and the ...

Read Ray Dalio, Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek, or Meditations on Violence by Sgt. Rory Miller for a discussion of "power" that renders this dreck ob...

My knowledge of this subject is a bit sketchy, but if I recall from Plato and Aristotle: Plato was not a big fan of rhetoric at all (I believe this wa...

Nihilism is just for ugly people to justify wallowing in their ugliness, beastliness, and fertility, like a swine licking its own dung, and has always...

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"Sefl love" is a very ambiguous term which can mean whatever one wants it to.

Why do people watch Mystery Science Theater 3000? Me, I found it a good example of the "mass psychology" which trash like Game of Thrones is marketed ...

Game of Thrones is as reliable and realistic source on the subject as a Jason Voorhes film. Didn't even bother to watch. (The same with uglier and les...

It is simple and obvious demographics (below replacement birth rates by one group vs astronomic birth rates by another), and is not exactly a secret. ...

The law can't force you to do any of that stuff.

Most is marketed to the 6th grade reading level, and just considered "short form" information which at most is a "poor man's" or "lazy man's substitut...

What the heck are you talking about? For better or worse, we live in nation states, and the national birthrate determines what happens to them. And ye...

That's a good point; the fact that people have to demonstrate more responsibility or competence to get a driver's license than to have a child is some...

Either give me an estimate on how long, or please stop wasting time. Plus this is assuming that it continues that way ad infinitum, when in reality th...

The reality is that the vast majority of purchase and expenditures in 1st world nations are already above and beyond the purely "material", but fall i...

You can look up the birth rates, for example 1.3 in Italy and 1.5 in Japan. This and the accompanying problems are very real. And... how long would th...

What on earth makes you think they'll be closed down indefinitely?

Couple of generations, depending on how low the birthrate actually is, You really should familiarize yourself with some basic demographic facts. How l...

How long will it actually take, in theory, for the population of China, India, Europe, etc to disappear, assuming that it "stays" at whatever birth ra...

So hypothetically, if China lost 1 person per year, and assuming that the rate continued fixed at this with never fluctuating. Then, China's populatio...

Fair enough, assuming you aren't stating that war is always "ongoing" even when no "official" war has been declared or made known (e.x. the 90s Bosnia...

The only primary reason why irrelevant "free will" debates exist within the context of popular debates and media, is because idiots and lowlifes want ...

The Dissintergration of many a society happened as a result of the lewd decline into sexual depravity. The Romans had their orgies, the Ancient Greek ...

Thanks.

Society is a fabrication fathered by Socrates and Plato. All variations thereof have stemmed from this. I'm inclined to not believe that. in same ways...

I haven't seen anything akin to a cohesive mathematical approximation of any society, or the exact point where one begins and other ins, or the multit...

You made that assertion, but I have no reason to believe you are "right".

Sex is part of life, and how different societies address it has a big role in shaping them. The reality is that there are couples who married who "get...

You're not making any point. 1. You haven't lived in a "warrior society", and I suspect that much of this is over-romanticized in media and popular fo...