Are you going to even define socialist for us? Would you agree with the first paragraph of Wikipedia: So please, defend why "all socialists (at least ...
Why is Marx old news but not Adam Smith? Furthermore, Adam's Smith's invisible hand was about patriotism stopping capital flight from the imperial cen...
Yes, my point was to just learn the things you want in the dialectical manner you prefer; but perhaps get more structured about it. I.e. do what your ...
Then just learn on this forum. Assuming you want to learn philosophy as you're posting here, get acquainted with a philosopher or philosophical positi...
I'm not convinced of this statement, but that of course does not make it untrue. You don't seem to have bothered to have read the argument. Greater ha...
No need to apologize. We seemed on the same page, but it's a page worth discussing in fine detail in my opinion, which is why I asked more clarificati...
Thanks for clarifying further. Although I'm still not sure what your position is and where you disagree with my points. I was careful to chose the wor...
Yes, my point was simply to make the starkest possible contrast, precisely because you are here, on a forum right now arguably welcoming of critical t...
Republicans are good at running a tight governmental ship where nothing goes over budget? I understand the cleverness you thought you were getting at,...
Sure, but we can say the same about smoking, alcoholism and drug addiction, obesity, Trump's various statements (whatever you want to call the collect...
What do I say that contradicts this? My point is that if industrialization is not sustainable then, if you care about future generations (if you don't...
The issue is "what is good growth" and "what is bad growth". This requires an understanding of the system and where it's going but also a moral theory...
You haven't. My criticism is exactly the fallacy you continuously repeat such as in your next sentence: Yes, I get that your measuring things. This is...
This is exactly what @"Isaac" is saying in the what you quoted. I'm pretty sure he doesn't disagree that a metric can be measured, but to say that it ...
Yes I agree with your point about not equating money to capitalism, but your phrasing "It's not so much capitalism that unleashed human potential. It'...
But you can say the same thing about writing, or metal work, or the wheel, or essentially any technology required for our economy to work and the hist...
I've described them as changes in a metric, which I agree the various metrics discussed have changed in the proposed way (infant mortality, longevity,...
What then is dishonest? You've made this claim: I'm defending against this claim not by claiming that you believe responding to criticism is intellect...
What's dishonest about repeating my argument and dealing with criticism? How do you know it's not that you have missed the point and how is argument I...
Though we agree on what's wrong with Ayn Rand's arguments, I disagree here that Ayn Rand is "useful to get interested in philosophy". Ayn Rand is simp...
Millions disagree with a lot of things I believe, doesn't bother me. I'm pretty confident we can find many things you believe where we can see million...
This is the myth of progress in a nutshell. The mistake you make is "that these increases have improved life". This conclusion does not follow from th...
I don't accept it in the next sentence. I accept that some metrics have increased, that is not the same as saying there has been an overall improvemen...
I would argue Marx uses the term pejoratively (just not only pejoratively), and of course not using the sexual connotation "fetish" has today but the ...
This is really a poor debate tactic to avoid clarifying your position. I've already stated that if you're not making a distinction between capitalist ...
Wealth is a broad term, your share in public institutions is part of your asset base. Public institutions are assets owned by whoever controls those i...
"Wealth" is a very broad term, and proponents of capitalism generally only focus on privately held wealth, usually material things and their direct pr...
Well, you should definitely give Marx a go then, as this is one of his predictions: that capitalism definitely seems good at the start. This is up for...
Yes, to come to the conclusion that the military in question is using excessive force, it is necessary to observe, directly or indirectly, specific mi...
He is proposing the premise here that the specific military actions in question are unjustified and hence immoral to serve. That's the OP's premise. I...
Read the OP does it contradict my description that: The OP is talking about a real war in the real world, a specific collection of military actions th...
Yes, the subject is an entire war, a collection of specific military actions in the real world. The OP has asked what follows from their conclusion th...
Have you read my post? I already dealt with this: You are assuming the war is just and rules of engagement justified. If the war is unjust then all th...
Though how can a just war be managed justly runs straight into many differences between utilitarianism and deontology, in this case the OP has already...
You do realize you are "making a specific reference to society" when you are "factoring in the social contract the soldier signs up for". I don't know...
I am completely focusing on the soldier or citizen considering becoming a soldier. What I say is simply the logical outcome of concluding a war in unj...
It can completely work that way. It doesn't work for the people wanting unjust wars for profit or ideological zeal, but it works completely fine for p...
You and seem to be confusing the support for the idea of a military with the subject of engagement in and support for specific military actions. That ...
This is not the issue. The premise is of the OP is that the army in question is involved in unjust wars, not the general issues involved in maintainin...
Thanks for reminding me that I need to complete my next post explaining why Ayn Rand is no a rehash of enlightenment philosophy, on "Why Ayn Rand isn'...
This so mindbogglingly incredibly naive it is almost painful to read and respond to. By "everyone has access to whatever they wish" what you actually ...
The way you have framed things, there is no paradox just a direct contradiction in your premises. You say the army is doing unjustified harm, in which...
My question for you is why ask for criticism of the premises of your book here after, rather than before, publishing it. If you are trying to affirm, ...
In the very simple way that if you "squeeze the grid" so the space-atoms are a half unit a part, those space-atoms won't line up with a grid where the...
The table is in a frame of reference where the table isn't moving. This frame of reference isn't special, and lot's of properties of the table are goi...
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