This doesn't tell me anything useful. What are the circumstances in which it is OK to defend yourself vs not being OK to defend yourself? It seems to ...
You've obviously never met an Libertarian and only understand Libertarianism as it has been provided to you by others that don't understand it either....
What is it to be Enlightened? To be enlightened is to find out that you were wrong in thinking a particular thought and instead of doubling down you c...
Did R deserve to be chased down by a mob and assaulted? It's not a matter of what someone deserved. It's a matter of do you have the right to defend y...
This is assuming quite a bit - like that what you have described ISN'T the way large-brained species with opposable thumbs normally evolve and manipul...
You obviously don't know what Libertarianism means. Strange. No Libertarians in power yet this is the government we are faced with and can be defined ...
Then R must be color blind because all three people he shot were white. What evidence do you have for this claim? Someone with a "D" next to their nam...
Two violent criminals are dead. I'd say the world is better off for his presence that day. Who knows what other violent crimes those two would have co...
You are only seeing things in black and white. There is a middle ground - which is Libertarianism. Libertarianism is for limited government, not no go...
So we will never defeat Covid unless 100% of the world's population is vaccinated? Then Covid will never be defeated because you will never reach 100%...
Really? When has AOC, or any Democrat, put themselves in a situation where they have to debate someone on the other side, or not on any side as they n...
Exactly. The naive realist is confusing properties of the mind with properties of some "external" object - in a sense projecting their mental states (...
How is abolishing political parties imposing limits on peoples' ideas? If anything, it removes those limits. You seem to be forgetting that you vote f...
Sure, it's convenient to still use the terms in this way when most people still believe that humans are special and separate from nature. You use the ...
Different languages developed because people segregated themselves from other groups. Languages didn't invade other languages. Groups of people invade...
For me, it comes down to causality. Are humans the effects of natural processes, and in turn, do they not cause changes in natural processes? If the a...
I think I could be fine with single-issue political parties. I don't think there would be much difference between that and no political parties. My ma...
My only gripe is of your square peg notion of humans, as if they are so different from everything else as to require a special term or meaning for a t...
Well sure, we each have access to a unique set of sensory data and memories that makes us individuals. That is the what it is like to be me - my uniqu...
I don't see where I even implied, much less said, that this would or could happen overnight. Any emotional aspect that you thought that I used was sim...
I doubt it. It's kind of difficult for a nation to abandon nationhood when other nations aren't, and I doubt that all nations would abandon it at the ...
The U.S. govt. is an elitist oligarchy after all. I'm still not sure. I think the two parties need each other and will try to hold the country togethe...
I think that most people use the terms "natural" and "artificial" in this way, but this is just a hold-over from the obsolete view that humans are sep...
Exactly. We could establish term limits which would then increase the frequency with which one needs to buy off a politician, but then it would eventu...
How do you know this? This makes no sense. If a human enters the world, then the world preceded the human entering it, and didn't always exist unless ...
Then this seems to beg the question. What does it mean to act at one's own discretion? It's as if free-will can achieve different things given the sam...
If artificial = unnatural, then how does something natural create something unnatural? It's the same problem in trying to explain how something comes ...
"Private language" is an oxymoron. There is nothing private about language as it is a social construction and social constructions are agreements betw...
How did most people develop a resistance to the annual flu - by getting it and now they have the anti-bodies? Why doesn't the same concept work for Co...
So you're saying science is like a religion and it's conclusions should never be questioned? I do know how science works. You only arrive at the corre...
Many people here think that they are experts. They imply that science is like a religion where it's conclusions are never to be questioned. As an exam...
None of this addresses the issue of why someone should be vaccinated. As I pointed out, even the vaccinated can carry and spread the virus. So again, ...
Both sides are the problem. I'm not on either side. I'm just asking questions that people refuse to answer and would rather nitpick posts than address...
If it was so easy to find the answers, then why not provide them here for everyone's benefit? It seems that you're more interested in playing politica...
What threat are the unvaccinated to the vaccinated? If there is still a threat even though you are vaccinated, then why get vaccinated at all? If I ca...
Facts are like truths in that they come in degrees. The relationship between some statement and some state-of-affairs is a fact/fiction or a truth/fal...
"what if the goal of a religion isn't to be factually correct?" Then religion isn't saying anything at all. Is it a fact that I will be born again, or...
Irrelevant to the point I made had you read the entire post (but history shows that you aren't interested in reading the whole post, hence the reason ...
LOL. Just go back and listen to how the left was anti-vaxxers when Trump was president. If it was a Trump vaccine, they weren't going to take it. Now ...
Ok, stop asking reasonable questions? How religious. The police don't know who has been killed until they have been called. Someone has to call the po...
Really? What if you're committing genocide/slavery against another group that is committing genocide/slavery against your own group? Many in today's p...
Trump ran on fighting corruption, like so many other politicians. Whether they actually did anything or not to fight corruption isn't what I'm trying ...
How are any of these the fault of relativism? These acts were often argued to be morally acceptable and objectively moral. It's the actual argument th...
It's not qualifiying what the goals should be, but whether any goal has a moral property of good or bad (goals are more than just being good or bad) i...
Another that has been solved is which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg - evolutionary speaking. Sure we do. Goals is the feature. If you di...
Stop thinking of it in dualistic terms and think of it monistically, or else you're left with explaining how physical things interact with ideas. What...
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