Following a rule to not kill so as to ensure survival isn't the same as the proposition "we ought not kill" being true -- or is it? When we say that "...
And how does the "laboratory of life" show an ethical system to be true or false? What is the criteria by which we measure the truth of an ethical sys...
And how does one verify or falsify an ethical system? Is there a way to show that utilitarianism is false or that the categorical imperative is true? ...
Trans men, after hormone therapy, are stronger and faster than trans women, after hormone therapy. If the concern with trans women competing against c...
Is there empirical evidence that we ought not lie? Can we derive from first principles that we ought not kill? Do we even understand what it means for...
Are you referring to Tamikka Brents' orbital fracture after fighting Fallon Fox? She's not the only woman to suffer an orbital fracture in MMA. See Mi...
Because there are far, far fewer transgender athletes than cisgender athletes. According to this "less than 1 percent of the NCAA’s student-athlete po...
You're referring to this? Because I'm referring to actual transgender women, and in particular those who have undergone sufficient hormone therapy. ht...
So trans men should compete in women's tournaments? It's less about politics and more about ethics. If we just consider trans women for the moment, th...
Should it? Or rather, should it be the only authority? I think there might be more to the matter than just athletic ability. If trans women are forced...
A trans man is a person who was assigned female at birth and later identifies as/transitions to being a man. Did you mean to be referring to trans wom...
If the issue is just about whether or not there is an athletic advantage then an authority would be any scientist who has conducted a peer-review stud...
Is that the core issue? I don't know anything about the Israeli-Palestine conflict. I'm just reading what people are posting here, e.g. StreetlightX a...
A more accurate analogy would be that there were once four connected houses and that over time the walls between them were knocked down and a legal ag...
How is it silly? What's the difference between Scotland leaving the United Kingdom and England, Wales, and Northern Ireland leaving the United Kingdom...
I was asking what the difference is between England, Wales, and Northern Ireland all voting for their independence from the United Kingdom and England...
I don't care about my national identity. It's irrelevant. I care about how much stuff costs, how much I'm getting paid, how effective public services ...
It's not irrelevant. If Scotland has the right to vote for its own independence then England has the right to vote for its own independence, Wales has...
That doesn't answer my question. Would you be OK if the English, Welsh, and Northern Irish voted to leave the United Kingdom and form their own countr...
Would you be OK if the English, Welsh, and Northern Irish voted to leave the United Kingdom and form their own country? Does that differ from them vot...
I think that the rest of the UK should get to vote on the matter as well. I'm British so should have a say in whether or not my country breaks up into...
I've done that for you. Don't know why you limited it to just those though... My favourite too, probably because it was my first. VI is second favouri...
Perhaps not, but I don't think that the use of classical digital computers is central to any ancestor simulation hypothesis. Don't such theories work ...
Surely if something like the human brain and its resultant consciousness can come into being "by chance" (via evolution by natural selection over mill...
So as a very rough analogy, as I understand it, you think of experience as something like a footprint in sand that may or may not have been caused by ...
Although I think of myself as more of an indirect realist than a naive realist, I wonder if this is really the correct way to phrase it. Consider that...
To answer the question in the title, the vast majority of billionaires are billionaires by virtue of owning a large number of shares in a company that...
Hi David, Are there any practical examples of the types of changes you're suggesting in effect or is it all just theoretical? On the home page of your...
Are you suggesting that there were Democrat officials who were indicted/convicted but not counted and/or that there were Republican officials who were...
What is the correct interpretation of "I have won every game I've played"? 1. (?x: P(x) ? W(x)) ? (¬?x: P(x) ? ¬W(x)) 2. ?x: ¬(P(x) ? ¬W(x)) 3. Someth...
GOP Admins Had 38 Times More Criminal Convictions Than Democrats, 1961-2016 And as the quote says, the figure doesn't include anything from Trump's te...
The only realistic choices were Biden and Trump. They were the only two that could have won. And Biden is by far the better choice than Trump. No, the...
This is what you said: The fact is that he did receive more votes than Hillary and Obama. Whether or not voters were "tricked" into voting for Biden o...
Biden won 81,268,924 votes. Hillary won 65,853,514 votes. You're delusional if you think that 15,415,410+ votes for Biden were fraudulent. You might a...
Because Biden was competing against Trump, not Hillary or Obama. Democratic voters prefer Obama to Hillary, Hillary to Biden, and Biden to Trump. It's...
Hillary got 65,853,514 votes in the 2016 election. Biden got 81,268,924 in the 2020 election. You claimed that Metaphysician Undercover is fooling him...
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