Kenosha Kid

If the statistics are represented as statistics, even more so. I mean, you have mathematics at your disposal to do just that. Okay, so I guess what yo...

Rigid belief systems of any kind can and will thwart progress for the believer. That includes outdated scientific theory, if one makes a belief system...

And anyway it would have been their cadmium red. My red is not the same as my red, by the way.

Nope, not me. I'm happy to agree that that religion should make no claims to fact.

Wigner was roundly refuted by everyone including himself, including for the above reasons: necessitating consciousness for wavefunction collapse canno...

I've had quite enough nonsense for today, maybe tomorrow.

Will all caps help? WHETHER IT IS TRUE OR NOT (and it's not) YOU CAN'T DEFINE MORALITY IN TERMS OF PERSONAL HAPPINESS ON THE ONE HAND AND CONSTRAIN PE...

No, it isn't a reasonable assumption because it yields a circular argument. It's also insufficient to just make stuff up to make an argument hold. Eit...

Unless your definition admits the possibility that personal happiness can be consistent with the suffering of others and still be considered good, you...

I understand. My point is that this isn't useful. The axioms are just statistics. One can do away with them and just tell people the statistics and ha...

There is again a circularity. His awareness of the harm he causes others now apparently overrides even the feeling of happiness. But this is precisely...

I don't think it is fallacious. But it doesn't seem useful. Just as in morality-maximises-happiness all moral questions become questions about whether...

You have been corrected on what the Copenhagen interpretation says and been shown three thought experiments that demonstrate that your claim that only...

For sure, but in a moral theory that depends entirely on personal happiness, if you assume everyone to be lying about their happiness if the wrong mor...

Then you don't have a moral theory. You're merely deferring a moral judgement to one about happiness, while insisting that a person is not the judge o...

Then I put it to you that a significant step forward would be for religions to give up pretending they have facts about creation and history, admit th...

Irrespective of the views of the individuals, science is a secular discipline. It does not depend on the teachings of any church, is not constrained t...

But this has nothing to do with mind, nor does knowing have anything to do with being. As described above, the measurement collapses the wavefunction,...

Okay, so in that case it actually doesn't matter what the numbers and proportions are. If cops went on daily racial murder rampages, it would just mea...

How does this explain that unarmed black people are killed at over twice the rate of unarmed white people? So your current logic is that you can choos...

Unarmed. You cited the source, didn't you read it? Amazing how your demand for statistics ceases the moment you get them. I guess statistics weren't t...

Right. Now how many black people are there in America compared to white people? And how many white people have been filmed unjustifiably killed? The s...

Statistics are easy to find. You are twice as likely to be shot dead by police if you are black. Beyond statistics, there's a large number of reported...

Again, recognising no difference between lawful and inevitable killing and utterly unnecessarily murder. My issue is not that police kill. It is that ...

We are all genetically similar.

I'll rephrase the explanation. A system begins in state A. An automatic spin measurement is made and printed a minute later that says it is in state B...

Yes. That is not the same as saying the collapse happens precisely when we look at a piece of paper printed three days ago. That was precisely what I ...

That, in a nutshell, is the project of modernism. I disagree that the debate has been awaiting this sort of supply and demand. For instance, the relig...

The problem with popularism is that we often find bygone popular behaviour morally reprehensible. How much does it matter to you whether there is one ...

Yeah, I've never felt this sorry for religious people. NIETZSCHE: You should argue with- 180 PROOF: Thanks!

Comparing Copenhagen theory with panpsychism is like comparing astronomy with astrology. Copenhagen is a minimalist interpretation of quantum mechanic...

I did baulk at that one. One doesn't expect racism on a philosophy forum to be quite so overt as 'If you think white people have been bad to black peo...

Because he then went on to "prove" the existence of external reality by claiming he could imagine an infinite and perfect God who Descartes was too fi...

I think the first. For most people, even those in prison surrounded by murderers and rapists, solitude is something to be feared. I think that, on a p...

Is fraudulent reporting of symptoms to obtain heroin for recreational purposes legal?

Yes, to an extent. It's called psychological vetting. There is an extensive history of protectionism in the police, as well as a stubborn refusal to a...

I don't think you are. Your stated view is that the police who vet, recruit, train and arm the police who enjoy positions of authority over people hav...

Science and the internet have definitely helped.

Or maybe not. Trump has vocalised an intent to close polling stations in Democratic demographics to stop people voting, has incited his own voters to ...

It helps, when avoiding a deadly spiral into drug addiction, that drugs are not easily or legally procured.

Sounds terrifying. Like a limitless supply of drugs. Voted no.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/trump-alt-left-fact-check.html And yet the right-wing message, from posters here up to the President, i...

I agree, it's not an organised group like a police force. It's more like an identity, or a hash tag. I don't think it quite constitutes an ideology. M...

I don't think whether Harris' views on morality or free will bear on the question of the OP. One would expect the "smartest philosopher in the world r...

I understand that; that's not the problem I see. A verb is fairly specific, either denotatively (Hoover) or by some convention (adult). The properties...

You characterised the entire organisation as violent on the grounds of overbroad definition of fascism and cited as evidence a single person killed by...

And yet one guy dies during a BLM protest and every anti-fascist is a criminal. The hypocrisy is incredible. This is untrue.

That's not true.

All right-wing nutters agree with this. American police, you mean?

Was this based on due process? I'm joking. Fascism doesn't do due process. Allow me to rephrase. Was this based on the testimony of people who murder ...