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My apologies - I am not being clear. The simplest thing to do at this point is for you to go and read the Stanford Encyclopedia entry on "comensurabil...

I was using commensurable in the technical sense - able to be measured on the same scale. You can't measure medications on a single "promotes health" ...

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Consequentialism is related to practical wisdom - however, that's as far as it goes. They commonly aren't taken to be the same thing. You would need t...

Sorry 180 Proof - I didn't really consider your contribution when I was replying initially to the discussion. I guess what I would have to think in or...

The problem is though Consequentialism can't afford to be be limited by the extent to which we can make good predictions. It asks us to bring about th...

Not necessarily. In a more limited scenario, you can make an informed choice. I can make informed choices about what to have out of my fridge, as I kn...

I don't think I have quite made my decision - though I do appreciate your post, and the supportive tone in which it is written. I suppose I am afriad ...

I'm not sure a consistant consequentialist - whether negative or positive - would agree with you here. The whole point of this perspective is it gives...

Ok - well if you want to do that, I'd start with a short paragraph saying what you're doing.

So, has anyone here actually read some attempts to define what makes an economy capitalistic? Because it would probably cut down alot of verbage. I'm ...

So the people who roll in aren't safe or wealthy, and that gives them willpower to take over I wish my experience of people not having safety or wealt...

Yeah, that too. Or at least, both of us are glossing it. If you're specifically interested in it, definitely look into it. But don't worry too much if...

Just a minor point - it's disputable whether China is a capitalist state. The argument is this. In a capitalist state, privately own capitalist firms ...

However much stupid racism Marx and Engels came up with (not to diminish it) this isn't a good refutation of dialectical materialism, unless you think...

From what I understand about nuclear war, there would be very few people out of the world population left. And WW3 would most likely go nuclear. I mea...

Right, Elric, you've got a great name, so I'm going to call on Arioch to give you some persuasive power I've never read Ayn Rand, and I'm never going ...

My instinct is towards open borders - but then if trade between nations actually worked so all tried to support each other, rather than competing to p...

I don't really understand the purpose of this post. Could you explain a little, please, then others may benefit more

So, lots of points here, so thank you everyone. The first thing I would like to note is that no one seems to be engaging with one of my main interests...

I am familiar with that - thanks very much for your response Nickolasgaspar, I've got three immediate responses. 1. That's only considering the situat...

The most important thing is to avoid at all costs a NATO-Russia nuclear exchange. Everything else is secondary, and if anyone thinks differently - fee...

Jesus ... I don't really think I've chosen a friend in my life. They've just kind of come along, we've got on, and you get the feeling they'll be on y...

If we want to get rid of welfare, and not have some people simply die through lack of resources, then there needs to be zero unemployment. But capital...

Treason?! That's what I would commit against her majesty and her government, here in the UK. I wouldn't normally do this, but as this is a philosophy ...

Is the murder rate in Canada still much lower than the US? I remember it was from that Michael Moore documentary back in the day (Bowling for Columbin...

(without having read the entire thread, as it's massive). There are lots of clashing values here. The Ukranian administration obviously has popular su...

Right - thank you: I'll take you saying you don't advocate dictatorship as saying that you would condemn Franco. That's all I wanted - at least by thi...

I do not want anyone to be killed off. I am not so naive as to believe that people aren't going to make war in this world, and I may have take sides t...

To say that someone is sanguine about a fact isn't to say they deny it - it is to say they are at ease with it. You seem at ease with it. You seem unt...

So Franco wasn't a nazi or a racist - fine. You seem quite sanguine about the fact that he was a dictator who had his political opponents - and not ju...

I'm sorry, but Spain under Franco was a far-rightwing dictatorship. The only reason it wasn't explicitly fascist was because the fascists where one of...

Also, on the earlier comments about the USSR being reliant on trade with the US, how does this sqaure with what is related on the wikipedia article on...

So do you think there is anything lacking in the Nordic countries, from the perspective of a capitalist, or are they not capitalist enough, or actuall...

I explicitly stated that the eastern bloc was one version of authoritarian communism. Given that most attempts at communism have followed that model, ...

The way to investigate this would be to look at a retail price index for different kinds of goods. Certainly electronic goods appear to be getting che...

As an intro to this discussion, the novel Red Plenty by Francis Spufford is good - it's also a great novel. I hadn't heard about the extent of US trad...

I don't have much to add - I'd just point out that I remember reading that North Korea and China already provide mutual support, though the relationsh...

I'm sorry to hear you have been having a bad time. Just do whatever you can - that's all any of us do. After a head injury, I can't sustain prolonged ...

It's easy to get bogged down in this, but basically, I think your worry is well founded. If you think that this world - with it humungous disparities ...

Thanks to all the people who brought up the point that mass increases as velocity increases - exponentially, I guess, if it tends towards infinity (th...

Thanks for your comment, Gnomon. Your position seems compatible with free will allowing an arbitrary choice between options. But how does morality bec...

Thanks for your comments Aleph Numbers, and thanks also as I don't think I was clear enough. "If people have free will, they can chose to act on reaso...

Thanks for your comments, Friendly. On your first comment: I don't see how whether we are intrinsically malevolent or benevolent links to whether we h...

Thank you Enrique! I work through things like this slowly, as I often get tired using a computer, but I'll will try to work through these, then get ba...

Hello Ernestm, thanks for engaging in the conversation. Could I just check - your post implies Schopenhauer is disagreeing with me, but I couldn't see...

Well, I don't know off the top of my head. I know that some physicists think that there are more dimensions than the 4 standard ones, though I can't r...

Thanks for your comment Echarmion. So I didn't take it that I was giving an argument for Physicalism and against Anti-Physicalism, but I was trying to...

Thank you both of you. The one thing I would add Isaac is that I've tried not to assume that the explanation of consciousness would necessarily be to ...

I can't see any way to disprove the idea that we may have free will in the following sense: We have a will which is able to choose between two or more...