It's not bravery. Police can't do much. The can put me in their little van hole. They can put me in jail for a day. They have to give me free food. It...
Nothing to apologize for. You got to go easy on yourself a bit in terms of what's feasible to accomplish. The movement to simply convince people slave...
As for Finland. While Finnish authorities coverup money laundering (including the Prime Minister and President involvement in money laundering and chi...
Unfortunate event, and understandably leads to existential crisis. Political engagement is not reducible to signing petitions. Things could also be a ...
Or perhaps the harder it is to keep doing things that led to your depression in the first place, but the easier it becomes to make some radical change...
Sure, but you have no proof. There is no proof she experiences anything at all, as you could be hallucinating this whole conversation along with this ...
Yes, I also didn't emphasize that it's "my unifying principle" as it's a pretty common unifying principle that is ancient, with many variations such a...
Thanks for the concern, I seem much better now. It is mentioned in the previous post as the protection of all life, as an example of a unifying princi...
Apologies for the delay, I have been fairly ill and moral philosophy was beyond my ability to focus on for the last few days. Not-ethical can be inter...
As points out, it's fair to the post-Marx schools, even Stalinism and Maoism are reasonable evolutions of Marx's original theory. When anti-communist ...
Yes, definitely, and also why there's the most amount of prison inmates anywhere in the world per capital in the US is to keep this segment of the pop...
I believe another poster mentioned Zizek. Based on what I know of Zizek's work, I put him in the category of Western intellectuals who wok on solving ...
Yes, but we are also in nature. A moral theory must demonstrate why what happens in nature (and really anything we could possibly do at all would be "...
People propose proofs of mathematical conjectures all the time, both experts and amateurs, that turn out to be wrong. I'm not sure what the most erron...
Key word reason. What's the reason empathy is a good quality to have in the first place? And assuming it is good, how does empathy translate into deci...
Which is what I mean by not really possible to prove anything, as in the context I make that statement you're asking a proof from me, so proof in the ...
Agreed. Is North Korea even so isolated now? My understanding is that by ejecting Russia from the Western trade system they have quickly integrated wi...
Then once Iran has the bomb they can be like "See! See! We were right all along! If only we bombed them harder!" Then, as you note with North Korea, I...
You haven't proved it to me though. Maybe you're a chatbot, maybe you don't feel pain and are lying, maybe you're a figment of my imagination etc. You...
I'm going to be honest, beyond some abstract comparisons, this seems to me an unachievable goal. Also debatable if the natural cycle of life is a bad ...
You interject into an ongoing conversation where people clearly seem to understand the meaning of anarchism in a way that makes sense in this context....
Certainly human life as we know it, but in terms of healthy ecosystems generally speaking, predation and a struggle for survival agains the elements i...
One caveat I may not have emphasized, but focusing on solar thermal is both a core component of a global viable strategy for the humanist-ecological m...
I view life as we know it a good thing, so the diversity and predation and so on goes along with life as we know it. Now in some sort of super abstrac...
I did not mean to imply there's no variation in your model. However, my argument is there is plenty of margin for deviation. Obama's diplomatic policy...
Yes, but we unfortunately we are not even at the stage of considering the textual or historical context of the use of a word, but are only considering...
Yes, there are other renewable technologies, but there will likely only be one that is significantly underperforming, therefore the optimum choice to ...
I didn't read ahead, but hopefully my expose on trees is some use and interest to the conversation. However, obviously we agree medicine is a good thi...
Natural death evolves when older individuals in a species are a hindrance to the younger individuals. The old must die to make way for the young essen...
It's an evolved trait that optimizes over time for the survival of the species. In terms of chromosomal continuation all species are functionally immo...
This is really not how it works. Cells can add more telomeres to chromosomes to keep them healthy. Of course, in a chronically unhealthy person that c...
The use of the word "however" is to to contrast with the fact that parties seeking their own gain at the expense of some collective gain (family, orga...
I'm not completely sure if you're disagreeing with me. By interest I mean people's perceived interest they are working on behalf of, which is (usually...
I was just about to cite this very paper as an example of people trying to be objective. The paper essentially makes the point that diplomacy is the o...
No worries. Slightly off topic but maybe others have the same question. The old forum had on the front page all the main forums and last-post of each ...
It's in the lounge, it's under "all categories". The lounge is where political stuff is put so that it doesn't show up on the front page. On the old f...
I have little time these days, but I am "fully in" the geopolitical theorizing. However, has extremely good points. A better framework that brings the...
The current Harvard estimate is 400 000 Palestinians "missing", in addition to starvation and all manner of trauma, in particular to children, from ph...
Palestinians did not protect Iran, but Iran tried to protest Palestinians from genocide. First of all. The nuclear facilities are civilian facilities,...
It is in no way disabled. The main capability is the designs needed to enrich uranium; those obviously aren't destroyed. Iran has developed multiple g...
Every Israeli that leaves Israel and doesn't return is a fatality in economic terms. Israel hans't banned people from leaving (except rich people on b...
I don't know what information you have been following, but Israel's initial decapitation strike did not work; commanders were replaced, Iran retaliate...
Weak and pathetic would be Iran unable to strike Israel: missiles intercepted, launchers interdicted, no common and control. Iran is defeating Israel ...
I had to verify it directly on Truth Social, be sure it's not a prank, full message: If this is true, turns out the code is that ALL CAPS is a bluff (...
US and Israel have teased if not directly threatened nuclear weapons use, so Medvedev / Russia is at minimum just counter threatening for the deterren...
For example of why keeping it "symbolic" is not a risk averse move, Trump's statement about Iranian retaliation was literally all caps and categorical...
We'll have to see how Trump responds. Why I (personally) would avoid such an attack if I wanted to avoid escalation, is that Trump may anyways react t...
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