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This was always the case. What has changed is the rise of domestic terrorism.

You’re early in your criticism. Give him a chance. I’m a European Bernite, never been a fan of Biden, but I broke in tears yesterday realizing that th...

It must be the relief of having a president who is not an evil, self-obsessed cretin. At last.

:up: Better quarantine the politically diseased to one thread only.

Me too! It's a sort of hidden protest song about the violence in the system and despair. The only tender verses are: He had a little girl in Saigon / ...

About the Galileo-Urban VIII relationship, this is from the Italian Wikipedia entry on Urban VIII: Maffeo Barberini, when he was a cardinal, had taken...

Yes, it would need replacing. Everything does after a while. Geothermic energy has been tried in places, and if it was some kind of magic bullet, I th...

Born down in a dead man's town And the first kick I took was when I hit the ground You end up like a dog that's been beat too much 'Til you spend half...

You're not the only one with plans, sweetheart... But consider that, whatever the technology you use, putting CO2 out of the atmosphere will probably ...

That's pretty good actually, as far as these things go. I'm not the man you think I am I'm not that kind of guy Beneath this sleek exterior There's le...

The irony is that the book that triggered Galileo's second trial -- the Dialogue Concerning the Two Main World Systems -- was written at the request o...

I'm not speaking technologically. Technologically we can send people live on Ganymede. I'm talking of what is possible politically, in practice, given...

Yes. This guy has an irrational fear of the commies. Or is raising a straw man.

The climate catastrophe is now inevitable. It's gonna start hitting badly by the end of this century only, if we're lucky. What form of 'civilisation'...

I agree that post-modernism opened a can of worms, which I suppose is fine but since the box hasn't been closed, the worms of post-truthism are now al...

Try again, that wasn’t interesting at all.

That lady was not a « Biden election official », and you are a liar.

I propose instead: "and sometimes one cannot be certain of it”. For I can say for certain that the earth is not a flat rectangle, for instance, or tha...

No, I only require the assumption that one can possibly say something true, even without being certain of it. The possibility of truth has to be assum...

In the second, you still believe something is true. So you believe you can possibly say something true.

Yes but note that in both cases you have to assume that you can say something true about the world.

Can you think of a single other explanation yourself? Take for example the incest taboo. Why would you think it is there, almost universally?

Huhun... While in science you can approximate truth asymptotically, there are still lies and statements that are demonstrably not true in science. So ...

If truth is impossible, why even bother thinking about it all? Just gobble up whatever Trump says.

The evidence is in the presence of punishments and rewards in all societies. Why do you think they exist and are so universal?

I agree. But it's useful to postulate the existence of an objective reality, and also to assume that we can say something true about it. These are jus...

Right from the start, my argument was that if what feels good hedonistically was always equal to what is a moral course of action, then there would be...

Of what?

These idealists must have assumed they lived in the same world as other people, then.

Well then, once again there would be nothing to agree or disagree about, and no collaboration would seem possible.

Oh, so you agree we all live in the same world? That's all I want to point out. If it's the same then the same things happen or are the case in your w...

Once again, if your world is different from mine, there's nothing to agree about. Like if you were watching some crappy TV show on channel 1 and I was...

Why should we want everybody to live in the same world if they don't actually live in the same world?

Of it? What does 'it' stand for in your sentence?

The world in which those people who believe the earth is flat are living. Nope. Without the idea that we all live in the same world, perceived by each...

You do need to agree that the world is one in spite of our different views of it, in order to WANT to resolve differences of opinion. Otherwise e.g. t...

You can analyse people's biases, it makes sense to do so. And hence you can start to resolve differences of perception. In today's post-truth wako wor...

Precisely because it's trivial. You could find some literature supporting pretty much any common sense position. In fact even the most non-sensical po...

Of course it's a trivial matter. It all starts (?) with Le développement du jugement moral chez l’enfant, by Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg, 1932, which...

I sense a great deal of denial in you, Brett. This movement is dangerous, violent, and explicitly so. Ignore them at your own peril.

That's what they themselves say. It's their culture, it's their alleged goal. I'm not living in the US, so I don't personally care, but the United Sta...

Too obvious for Isaac, apparently.

What makes you think I need that anymore than you do?

If what is wrong morally felt bad on a purely sensual level, there would be no need for morality. People would naturally do the right thing because it...

Quite an understatement... In that culture, there is this concept of 'the day of the rope'. That is to say, the day of the white supremacists revoluti...

And what do you go by in those situations, if not some 'philosophy'? (explicit or implicit)

Personally? This stuff helps me deal with all sorts of issues: professional, emotional, sexual, social... Professionally it helps me keep calm and und...

I can give you a few. 1. You can't deny that Marxism had an effect on the world, good or bad. 2. Whitehead and Russel founding modern math and the com...

It kind of depends on what issue is bugging you at a certain point in time. Spinoza, Voltaire, Marx, Popper, Freud, Merleau-Ponty and Bateson are some...

Philosophies are like everything else: there are good ones and bad ones. The good ones help you go through the day. The bad ones make life more misera...