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Don't sugar coat it Benkei, let us know how you really feel.:smile:

When was the last time a "new" political system was born? When were people not beholden to an establishment or an unproven alternative?

Again, Al Capone did eleven years for tax evasion. Not because it was heinous or uncommon or central to his criminality, but because it was the only t...

Ever read what Al Capone was finally convicted of? Was it unjust to put Al Capone in jail?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/01/17/fact-check-biden-had-authority-declassify-vice-president/11065345002/

Aren't we just talking about apophatic verses cataphatic definitions?

censorship?

self meditation?

So Joe, it would seem that your thread on this forum has been a disappointment to you. You also mentioned that Mods on other sites had problems with y...

Actually 295.

Hello Joe, I've been following this forum for 6 or 7 years and before that, the old PF. You now have 273 posts on your first thread. You have said tha...

Would anyone here agree, that there is a synthetic result of our making philosophical decisions that manifests itself in our behavior and thus our pre...

I guess what I'm saying is that what is manifest, demonstrated, instantiated by philosophy is the final accounting of it. And all of us are contributi...

But wouldn't you say that the praxis of it all, is that we then make philosophical decisions in our lives. And we make those everyday thus making up t...

The rioters were not going to overthrow the government, the republicans' were. They clearly did not want the riot at all. But tell me what it serves, ...

Then how did they persist? Then why did they do it? Why didn't they stop? How did it succeed? When we talk about determinism we are talking about dete...

People who commit suicide, people who willfully let go of the railing and throw themselves into the abyss, for reasons, however irrational, however un...

It's not unreasonable if it's what I feel (determined) I really want. We are not going to take a vote on what I "should" choose. I can be "determined"...

The shortest distance from my house to the convenience store is to cut across the park. But maybe I don't want to walk through a soccer game. Maybe th...

No, but you will from point A to point A.1. A smooth curve is a series of infinite straight lines. You were never headed to point B, you were going to...

Humans say the shortest distance between two points (of what they think they want), is a straight line. Math doesn't want anything.

Perhaps a better way to express it is that everything takes the path of least resistance. What Artemis might be saying is that humans will find the ea...

Yes indeed.

Whose information?, and how successfully is it being distributed and absorbed? And at what rate compared to the news cycle and what we can reliably di...

Others have pointed out that if our lifespan were only longer and our vitality thus extended, we could grow as a society past the problems of our egos...

The OP supports the idea that we are all philosophers (Gramsci). We all make philosophical decisions everyday that shape our world whether we realize ...

Well apparently you belong to the people that believe that: If cowardice is the opposite of bravery, are you doing something brave? Can you describe t...

We kill people daily, one way or another; we just don't eat them.

Then deontology would serve our necessary connection to the rest of the tribe which requires empathy.

Can you have ethics without empathy? The word importance implies a moral fact. Perhaps the realization that as a social animal, the lives of other peo...

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And humans love to think they are wise. Whether they are or not.

No. We do it because we can't do without it. Formal philosophical positions are just a light cast on what we accepted yesterday. And we will amend tom...

But don't we all make philosophical decisions every day? Don't we decide what events "are" and then how best to live with them? We may be wrong, or do...

Can you briefly tell me why that is?

Why not? Your boy Stirner says it's okay. Why don't you start a thread about egoism. I bet that's right in your wheelhouse.

Thank you Gus.

You might credit Wikipedia for most of that.

Well, both. But the last four years have severely tested a lot of the things that used to draw people to this country. At the moment I don't think our...

I wouldn't recommend it at the moment.

I think he was referring to meliorism. Certainly conditions change, but looking at the hole, are we in a progression or a procession.

Did you teach that to Counterpunch?

Well said. I am so often struck by the ratio of philosophical and psychological in posts.

The first part is wrong. Take out the word "me". The second part is a projection, a presupposition. You aren't working on anything that we can see, yo...

I’m sure Counterpunch wouldn’t mind if someone mentioned that magma energy is not a new idea and that it obviously isn’t his. It does have the potenti...

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excellent point. Are you just playing devil's advocate or do you see real ramifications for the difference?

If you do not vote in an election, you are still affecting the outcome. So you are not really involved in a non action.

The action would be to not interfere with the private actions of consenting adults who are not violating anyone else's rights.

I think the moral choice is not "for it" but to not stand against it. That could be defended as a moral position.