This is so pompous, pretentious. Where did you learn that bolding something makes it a better argument. It makes you look like a putz. I wonder how ma...
I always think of Keat's "Ode on a Grecian Urn." Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Sounds good,...
Typical Banno bologna. He transports into a discussion, tosses his usual smarty pants bullshit, then transports out without contributing anything subs...
I don't agree. I, like you, try to use as little jargon as possible. When I do use if, I feel like I've failed. If I need to use language that most of...
I posted this in the Knowledge of Good and Evil thread earlier today: But this is a bit different from the point I was trying to make in my post in th...
Don't forget the technological singularity. 2045. That's when our machine overlords will take over and crush us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oj7Z...
Agreed, but if you, as the original poster, define your terms carefully at the beginning, specify that that is the sense which will be used in the dis...
This is exactly what we don't need. There is already too much gobbledegook jargon in philosophy. Every philosopher or aspirant to the throne wants to ...
Or as Lao Tzu wrote: Recognize beauty and ugliness is born. Recognize good and evil is born. Is and Isn't produce each other. Hard depends on easy, Lo...
This is my old refrain. Most things that get people, at least philosophers, excited are neither true nor false. Examples: Free will vs. determinism Re...
I'm 69. If you'll promise not to call me a "senior citizen" or a "senior" and won't notify the AARP where I live, I'll admit to being old. 0.5 percent...
I'm guessing that Oog Eep in the cave wasn't thinking much about aesthetics. Maybe she was. Being so sure about what she was thinking is a presumptuou...
Prairie Home Companion was a wonderful thing that comes from where so many good things do - one talented and prickly person with determinism and a vis...
First of all, what "action" is being taken against anti-vaxxers? If you mean complaining, hey, that's what this forum is for. If you mean coercing the...
I appreciate that you are consistent with your views. If it is such an imposition, why is this becoming an issue now? Vaccination requirements for chi...
Is it an infringement of human rights to require vaccination of children against childhood diseases before they can go to school? If not, your argumen...
I moved this over from the "A Gentleman: to be or not to be, and when" thread because I don't think it belongs there. The primary reason why vaccinati...
We liberals and other lefties can gloat if we want, but what Anonymous did to Epik, China and Russia are doing to our power utilities and other infras...
The consequence I'm talking about is the possible infection of other people, which result from failure to be vaccinated whether or not someone makes s...
There is a long history of requiring vaccination before someone can participate in public life. The best example is the requirement that children be v...
I have no problem with you refusing to get vaccinated as long as you have no problem with being restricted in your behavior so that other people won't...
The relevant laws were established for large scale chemical manufacturers, refineries, and other industries that generate a lot of chemical waste. Tho...
There are many things wrong with American government, whatever you call it. I won't argue with that. When I say I am a supporter of democracy, I mean ...
First off, the acres behind the shop would be a great place for the shop owners to dump their waste oil. I used to work in a wood shop next to a railr...
It varies. There's no way to tell without doing your homework. Even then, there are likely to be surprises. On the low end, the costs might only be fo...
I'm not arguing against your position. As I've said, you are trying to participate in a different discussion than I am. For me, this is not the place ...
No, but I practiced as an environmental engineer cleaning up contaminated sites for 30 years. Buying a site that is contaminated or may be contaminate...
That's not the way language works. Words "drift from the meaning and etymology of the word" all the time. You may not like it, but "democracy" means s...
Before you buy any property like that, especially a commercial or industrial one, make sure you won't be liable for any environmental impacts to the p...
As I noted before, your usage of the word "democracy" is not consistent with its currently accepted meaning or its meaning when the Constitution was w...
Simple majority rule is not "the main premise of the system." Government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Notice - it doesn't say any...
Here are a some definitions of "democracy" from the web: A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typica...
My children are all at least 30 years old now, but I remember reading to them when they were little. There are a lot of crap children's books out ther...
Two thoughts. 1) What makes you think I want to be a gentleman? 2) If I were going to be one, I'd rather be one like Larry, Moe, and than whomever Tim...
I say it would be a disaster. You disagree. Let's leave it at that. As I noted, that fact that a system is not strictly majority rule does not mean it...
Not much Tennyson. A bit of Dickinson. I remember writing an essay about one of here poems in 11th grade English. I like her ok. Pick one of hers you ...
You're talking about where the items being sold come from. I'm talking about where the customers are. Amazon can't get out of the reach of the US gove...
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