It's not quite a fair comparison, considering Obama won the popular vote by a good margin and Trump lost by a good margin. But I agree that what you p...
I think the contention is the vote count would have been different without the democratic establishment heavily supporting Hillary (in particular frie...
What are the philosophical implications of relativity? For myself, I don't see any other than the question of whether the universe is somehow a priori...
I think we're in agreement on substance, but I think the term "left alone" can be misleading to people who have never been to Scandinavia. I agree tha...
You seem to be either arguing against a strawman, or then that the fact there are other means of oppression as well somehow dilutes the ethical implic...
How are you sure others haven't deceived you into having such a belief (i.e. that the philosophy "deception in all it's forms is good" is unfounded, b...
Optimal for what purpose? Optimization requires a specific objective. So, the optimum strategy will depend on what the objective is. If you do not ade...
Yes, this is my central contention, that psychiatry/psychology is a better tool of oppression than plumbing, that there will be more attention paid to...
I outline a "cause / effect" relationship. If the conditions I present exist, then I argue my expectations would follow. I do not say "we can achieve ...
Did I say anything remotely like this: that only in a utopian state can psychologists (or anyone have input) into the democratic process? Yes, we agre...
Though we are in fairly good agreement, it would be misleading to say Scandinavia leaves private sector alone in the sense of deregulation. The govern...
I like your points, but I would change the above to "Advocate for more and use whatever effective walking, bicycling and mass transit systems are avai...
And you would say this of all first world nations? Please revisit my points. I do not say an effective democracy is without flaws and humans would be ...
Yes, I am interested in what principles, if any, would be true in all circumstances. I am not so interested in morally evaluating you, Dr. Israelstam,...
Which individuals? Please point them out. to make my point perfectly clear: are you referring to individuals such as you and me specifically, or indiv...
How so? Please read my comments, I am pretty clear that my view is psychiatrists/psychologists are agents of oppression in an oppressive state, and th...
Really? That's what you understood from my comments. I say "But even if your statement is true for you and for me , I am largely an adherent to stoic ...
This is another issue, certainly warranting debate. However, in this discussion I'm only interested in establishing that an oppressive state will natu...
Great attempt at deflection, but in this conversation your point isn't even factually correct. I cited Leo's mention of Nazism and explained why it ha...
At least as much as anyone else. This is one of the central issues. To what extent is "feeling bad" a mental health issue, and to what extent it is a ...
Since you're continuing to participate, I'll assume you're serious about your proposed moral standard of "not as extreme as the Nazi's". Please educat...
To be clear, the point of my comments is to point out that US libertarian or conservative proponents can't in one context claim Scandinavia is an exam...
This is your starting point ... And your end point is: So ... in other words, Scandinavian social programs are incompatible with US conservatives unde...
No and yes. No, I avoided using the term "community values", because an oppressive state generally doesn't reflect "community values. I'm sure you're ...
So when conservatives in the US characterize universal health care, free education, and other state run social programs as "socialism", this is just p...
Yes. The predictions of special and general relativity come true at the scale of a space ship that goes anywhere in the universe other than inside a b...
There is a thesis (that I find correct) that what you're referring to is "ecological theater" which puts on stage ecological principles without solvin...
I'm disappointed that no one is arguing for the free-market solution I propose to the problem: of letting people act with their own wealth, as it is m...
If you review this thread, please consider the possibility that you are cherry picking (selection bias) engagement with only the most extreme anti-psy...
What elements of the scenario do you base these conclusions? The scenario seems to be constructed that each have an equal "expected return" of people ...
Your analogy is self contradictory. Contradicts: We do have information, which is some small boats have a much higher chance of some people surviving....
You realize that "what seems to you" is fairly incompatible with "officialness". What's your standard for deciding a debate is no longer productive? A...
This is I think the core issue, and deserves more unpacking and critique than the erroneous understanding of voucher systems vs actual free markets (w...
You're saying smoking does not lead to ill health for both smokers and anyone inhaling second-hand smoke? You are really ready to ban everything that ...
Since you are replying to a Kenshi who's replying to me, it seems implied that you are referring to my "blaming capitalism". However, please correct m...
If the motivation is not arbitrary, then the action is not arbitrary. You can just say "increasing the cost decreased motivation to buy". The only rea...
Yes, I alluded to in an above comment that functional time does not exclude metaphysical definitions of time. For instance, the time between clock tic...
When you say "meant to be" do you mean "actually are"? Do you mean arbitrarily increase the cost? How would you arbitrarily increase the value of some...
Do you consider Scandinavia well-fare state (free education at all levels, universal healthcare, high taxes on the rich) as socialism or capitalism? A...
We've been over all these points before. If the MP's voted for another referendum, that would be working within the system. If the MP's voted for May'...
There is no functional definition of time from the photon's entangled state. No clock can be built to tell us this event happened simultaneously; we c...
I've already presented several arguments that a 2D universe could actually exit. First, there could be another universe that actually exists detached ...
You quote me saying 2 dimensional universe is possible, asking why I "would you believe something like that", I responded why I think it's possible. N...
I thought we already went through this. S and and Benkei are just pointing out that votes do not necessarily entail "will of the people" or democracy....
Also, to be clear, it's likewise possible to argue that functional time equals true time. For instance, there is a position in the metaphysics of phys...
Yes, this is what I mean when I say "some mechanism that determines where a particle actually appears", such a mechanism could be a hidden non-local v...
It's entirely possible our world's true substance is a 2 dimensional hologram. It's also entirely possible a 2D world really does exist somewhere out ...
That's my point, the particle does not exist in a classical sense between events; we are still free however to suppose there is some substance and som...
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