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I don't know of any serious arguments that deny constraints or limitations, but if there is even the smallest degree of libertarian freedom then agent...
May 31, 2017 at 09:14
Even if that were true the obvious solution would be to cut compensation for shareholders and executives rather than working people for less than a li...
May 31, 2017 at 08:55
In many ways it has stifled progress in certain areas. It's interesting that while the 'great man theory' of history has largely been abandoned, the n...
May 31, 2017 at 08:41
OK, but that's still shortsighted because it's detrimental to overall well-being. Free riding can also affect your social standing and end up costing ...
May 31, 2017 at 00:37
And even aside from all the coercive bullying of consumers, competitors, and trade partners, just reaping those kinds of profits can rightly be consid...
May 30, 2017 at 23:50
Maybe hypothetically it's possible depending on the political economy you subscribe to, but I doubt you could provide even a single real world instanc...
May 30, 2017 at 21:59
I think that because it's true. The money supply has to expand with the economy or deflation sets in.
May 30, 2017 at 21:47
That tension is a conflict of the will, and will often fails, we end up doing things we will not to do or not doing things we we will to do. That's wh...
May 30, 2017 at 21:37
Well that doesn't really address anything I've said. We are perfectly capable of beginning space colonization, first the inner solar system, then in t...
May 30, 2017 at 21:13
Maybe in a very narrow sense, but ultimately you're creating problems for yourself that will end up costing you a lot more than the difference of the ...
May 30, 2017 at 11:01
Either way reducing poverty is in almost everyone's best interest. Poverty creates a lot of problems that affect all of us.
May 30, 2017 at 08:52
There are other ways to achieve a high social status that don't require conspicuous consumption, it just depends on the ethos of the society. And even...
May 30, 2017 at 08:36
My point was that extreme inequality is not a necessary evil or the best we can do. I agree that human nature is an obstacle, no doubt about it. Capit...
May 30, 2017 at 08:11
I don't know about libertarian free will, it's open question for me. I do think that regardless of whether we have that kind of libertarian freedom we...
May 30, 2017 at 05:57
Conflicting volitions are a common experience, you can't physically stand and sit at the same time but it's perfectly possible to be internally confli...
May 30, 2017 at 05:46
Are you implying it's not feasible or something? What's your point?
May 30, 2017 at 04:55
What's the source for this? It doesn't really make sense to value the total resources of the planet in terms of dollars. There's definitely enough for...
May 30, 2017 at 03:05
There are risks in colonizing space but it's much riskier to keep all our eggs in one basket. In order to ensure our long term survival we have to spr...
May 30, 2017 at 02:19
Strength is relative, even as small operations they had the leverage to dictate terms to desperate people, and there's always a surplus of desperate p...
May 30, 2017 at 02:09
That would just be riding out the clock and would pretty much guarantee our extinction. The earth is ultimately a deathtrap and the longer we remain e...
May 29, 2017 at 23:25
I guess that depends on the depth of one's self-identity. If you identify only as a specific individual then I agree that it's absurd, but if your ide...
May 29, 2017 at 01:52
Well yeah, but if we're taking anti-natalism seriously then it's something to consider.
May 28, 2017 at 00:46
You can still be politically liberal If you're just personally conservative on culture. Being a liberal doesn't mean that certain aspects of culture a...
May 27, 2017 at 23:24
Yeah, given all the natural and man-made existential threats our species is confronted with, and in light of the fermi paradox, the long term survival...
May 27, 2017 at 23:06
It's about time. I don't see it as a regression, we've been under an ossified paradigm of official narrative, pundit consensus, and pluralistic ignora...
May 27, 2017 at 21:11
I wouldn't say fodder, human existence has some intrinsic positives, it's just not entirely an end in itself. We're an evolutionary pathway for a proc...
May 27, 2017 at 20:28
I take it as a hypothetical imperative. The virtue of charity is necessary for our psychological, emotional, and social well-being so in order to take...
May 27, 2017 at 00:47
I think the endless possibilities are what makes it worth the going, but I agree that if this was it, if it couldn't get any better than this, then it...
May 26, 2017 at 09:33
The world is a tragedy, but it's not an injustice. "And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died....
May 26, 2017 at 09:16
You can't fix the world through charity, the system has to be massively reformed. The problem is people aren't interested enough in fixing the world t...
May 26, 2017 at 09:00
I think it's important to give wisely, out of an enlightened interest for the future and not from a misguided compassion. I think it's naive to think ...
May 26, 2017 at 08:34
The question is whether that's the cause or the effect. To be fair I'd say it's a bit of both, the system we have is in no small part due to the vulga...
May 26, 2017 at 08:21
I've heard this excuse more times than I can count. This isn't czarist Russia, we're not serfs here toiling from sunup to sunset, the vast majority of...
May 26, 2017 at 07:09
"Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves. Because ...
May 25, 2017 at 12:41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e8D_-oYfnU
May 23, 2017 at 13:28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTMR_jRWG_Y
May 23, 2017 at 13:18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBaSTozYLdI
May 23, 2017 at 13:15
There's nothing preventing people from viewing the world in a wider perspective. The average person is perfectly capable of thinking globally and acti...
May 23, 2017 at 11:44
If my posts in this thread are upsetting to you then I welcome the mods to delete them. It's not my intention to disturb already troubled people. I si...
May 23, 2017 at 10:51
Are you a psychologist? Are you a trained expert in this area? If not then maybe take it down a couple notches, eh?
May 23, 2017 at 10:37
In reality it's entirely up to the individual to seek help and develop those skills, it's on them to learn to deal with life. I'm not saying it's fair...
May 23, 2017 at 09:25
We have the political power to enact trade policy which prohibits trading with countries that don't have strong labor, environmental, and human rights...
May 23, 2017 at 06:15
Giving people a vested interest in maintaining and perpetuating the system was rather ingenious. Now the normal people are highly averse to any meanin...
May 23, 2017 at 06:03
The workers make their livings from these companies and live on their products, so they do share some of the responsibility. They also live in a democ...
May 23, 2017 at 02:35
They would still be culpable for their ignorance, but really who doesn't know that their iPhone was made in a sweatshop?
May 23, 2017 at 01:49
Really? Just think of all the working class people who pay into pension funds which are heavily invested in blue-chip companies like Dow or Apple. The...
May 23, 2017 at 01:46
I'll grant that there are certain instances where ignorance is a valid excuse, but it's pretty obvious that most of us wouldn't care even if we were m...
May 23, 2017 at 01:39
I think it is to a certain extent, despair could swallow any one of us if we let it. Some people just never developed good coping skills, that's where...
May 23, 2017 at 01:10
My advice is don't indulge in gloom and depression. A lot of people just like to wallow in that stuff for some reason and that is pointless. Cheer up,...
May 22, 2017 at 23:41
Thanks for the thoughtful replies and sorry I took so long to respond. I'm thinking of responsibility in terms of basic decency really. I don't think ...
May 22, 2017 at 23:17