JohnRB

That seems unlikely since elsewhere in the book Rawls specifically endorses each of the other institutions that are listed. Monogamous family would ha...

My response is a bit long, but I think it's worth it to try and make the case as convincingly as I can... in the space of about an hour of my day. It'...

Thanks for the feedback. I can’t look up my references right now or be too detailed on my phone, but I think Rawls would not agree that our sexual pre...

That’s actually exactly what he says. Unless you want to argue that Russell thinks we should reject what science presents to us. He’s not bitching. He...

“Such, in outline, even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief.” - Bertrand Russell, A Free Man’s ...

Here is one quick argument that ants and apes don’t have beliefs about the meaningfulness of their lives: 1. Having beliefs about the meaning of life ...

No further explanation is required. Ants and apes don't have beliefs about the meaningfulness of their lives.

Your example actually demonstrates that belief that life has meaning is superfluous, from an evolutionary perspective, to large groups coordinating th...

That's right, but recall that the original claim was supposed to be that the ableism was suggestive of "religious thought" generally. The same would t...

First, you didn’t actually make this claim. You merely asserted that the post was “ableist shit”, illustrative of why religious thought is useless, an...

Actually this might be one of the few scenes in the movie that indicates a class problem. The old maid does at first plead to work together, sort of. ...

Fair enough. There is an interesting argument to be had here over over good or effective art and films. But maybe for another time. That was a bit cli...

Another great example of how it seems some are unable to not view things through their assumed lense. The movie makes no mention of climate change. We...

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I won't bother going piont by point either, because I think I would end up making the same point over and over si...

No, I guess that would be Okja... For this movie I expect people to be able to point to something in the movie and say "It communicates it in the foll...

I have to agree with what BitconnectCarlos has said here. It's hard to see how the rich family can fit the definition of "parasitic". You try to defen...

Not sure I agree with this. While their ultimate undoing was the other poor couple and how the poor family treated them, it doesn't follow that the mo...

Based on the director's other films, I don't think he is intentionally attempting to communicate anything conservative. In fact, it's likely that he w...

I don't see where the movie is critiquing capitalism. Do you have an example? And I also don't see where the rich are depicted as parasitical on the p...

You're not reading carefully. I didn't make any absolute claim about complex systems.

We need to distinguish between general competency and moral competency questions I mentioned earlier. Regarding the moral critique, if democrats were ...

That this was poor project management does not entail that it was not relevant to the government's or the democrats' ability to properly manage comple...

I should probably lay my cards on the table here too. I'm an independent, never voted Republican or Democrat. But my philosophy and sympathies are con...

Maybe I should have sought clarification first. When you mentioned "a subtle attempt to boil intersectionality down to the individual" did you mean so...

Ah. That's what I get for not reading comments. But I wonder if the tactic of trying to reduce intersectionality to the individual is guilty of a Sori...

The problem with the internet is that I'm not sure if you're trying to be funny and referencing Harrison Bergeron or if you're serious.

To say it has no bearing seems like an overstatement. If taken as a piece of data relevant to the government's (or democrats') ability properly manage...