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Pace preposition pa·ce \?p?-(?)s?; ?pä-(?)ch?, -(?)k?\ Definition of pace : contrary to the opinion of —usually used as an expression of deference to ...

Yes, just as I thought: more social conservative magic-talk. If one desires sex with one's partner primarily to gratify oneself, then one is "using" a...

More argument by assertion. I suspect we just have clashing intuitions on this matter. I am prepared to be bowled over by the force of your reason, bu...

You do realize that there are different denominations of Christianity, which differ in some aspects of their core beliefs? And assuming that the above...

How can one be deceived that one is enjoying oneself? This just begs the question (if you mean "good" in an ethical sense). Yet more bullshit invocati...

I agree. Yes. So? They may still be enjoying the experience. The fact that they're not actually nourishing their bodies has nothing to do with it. I s...

I didn't say they should have no say, but I should think that the person who assumes the greater risk and greater burden should have the greater say. ...

You do realize that women are the ones tasked with actually bearing children, right? Given that they're investment isn't equal, I don't see why both p...

You said that homosexuality is "on the fringe" of immorality (or was it just plain ol' heterosexual promiscuity that you were objecting to?). You clai...

I know this is way off-topic, but for the love of god, people: "its" is for the possessive. "It's" is a contraction of "it is." I give non-native Engl...

I just wanted to respond to this point, which, I'm sorry is utter bullshit, and a fanciful far-right talking point (along the lines of "every society ...

Right. The way that Trump "merited" the money inherited from daddy. I'm sure you've heard the analysis that Trump, for all of his bluster about being ...

First the demographics were "very different," and now you cite an article saying that the Republican group is "slowly-shrinking." I'm well aware that ...

Again, not totally sure what you're referring to. "Across the board"? In what demographics? There are more Hispanics, but even that factor may be over...

How so? Because there are a few more Hispanics in the country? What of it? (The demographics weren't "very different", whatever it is you're referring...

Apparently you weren't paying attention to politics from 2000-2008...

What sorry state of affairs would those be? The fact you don't view the rise of Trump as a problem and that you'd just cast a party-line vote for what...

Neither of the Democratic candidates in this election strike me as being particularly automatically electable on a nationwide basis. I don't think tha...

The GOP has no one but themselves to blame for Trump. The GOP has for years railed against "elites" and Washington "insiders," and inculcated an anti-...

Several scholars have written about the decline of so-called "social capital" in the United States in recent decades (Robert Putnam in Bowling Alone a...

You are quite hung up on insisting that the right acts out of "principles." I don't deny that (and, so far as I can tell, no one else on this thread d...

I realize that you are only giving an exposition of certain conservative views and the putative basis of said views, which doesn't imply that you your...

I don't think that those conservative precepts hang together without at least some tension. For instance, it is hard to maintain that one adheres to t...

Cripes, what kind of gay man are you? I suppose I shouldn't stereotype, but I always thought you folks were supposed to be snappy dressers. I know you...

Mmm, stir-fried pig brains. https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4134/4899429947_b60fb08e94.jpg

Excellent post.

As it seems a propos of the topic of this thread, below is a link to a video of a Munk debate on whether humanity's best days are ahead of it. On the ...

Yup. Here's another near-armageddon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

I recall reading somewhere that depressed people may actually be more in touch with reality than their non-depressed counterparts. Perhaps ignorance i...

Oh, don't worry: this is only the opening part of The Lord of the Flies, where everyone is still nice to each other. Man's primeval nature will emerge...

Unless you are speaking to an omniscient audience, then any negative answer to your question can only be self-defeating.

Yes, I had the same thought: in saying that they don't "believe" P, a person is sometimes saying that they don't merely believe P (that is, their beli...

The colloquial usage of "believing" something is often contrasted with "knowing" it ("I don't believe X: I know X"). But this doesn't really hold phil...

Then by that "guideline" your own argument ought to be disbelieved. Zingy or not, that's the breaks. X-)

Your argument is convincing, but there's a possibility that it may be false, so I'm going to disbelieve it.

Uh, ok. Does it follow that the NEH doesn't fund philosophy (again, I'm not certain that it does, but I thought that it, or similar funding agencies, ...

I thought academic philosophers did receive grants to fund their work (e.g. from the NEH or a similar funding agency).

There are many scientific fields and endeavors I would consider to be "pie in the sky" (which I would define as lacking immediate practical technologi...

There are philosophers who deal with the "problems of men." Peter Singer, for instance, is an advocate for the global poor and for animal rights. Othe...

Thanks to all of those who extended an invitation to this new forum. I am curious: who is planning on severing ties altogether with "the old forum"? I...