Jack Cummins

I can't think why you would want a 'heterogeneous solution'. It sounds like a rather nasty affliction. Personally, I am a bit suspicious of any attemp...

I think that the whole way in which we process our experience enables us to create pathways in our thinking and enable us to move away from being pass...

I think that you are new to the forum, so I hope that you find some interesting discussions. I am in favour of awareness of the moment and I am intere...

I was crossing the road when I got knocked over in the High Street when I got knocked over by a bike. It was probably because I had a mask on, as I ha...

When I did my degree independent thought was considered as the mark of excellence. However, in courses I have done more recently independent thinking ...

I think that some people are better at trying to be robots than others. At work, I can remember how so many people just used to be able to be so alike...

I think that it is a good topic because we need to be treated as unique individuals. I would say that there is an increasing tendency to treat and exp...

I think that the whole idea of nature and nurture is a topic which can be explored by sociology but It is not simple when we try to look at individual...

I would say that it is not possible to determine whether someone's behaviour is derived from norms or not, but the best we can hope for is to give eve...

I think that I dislike sexism in some of its most stupid forms or what appear as stupid to me. In particular, I dislike the whole way in which shops d...

As I just said to Bitter Crank, I certainly don't believe that we are in an actual experiment. I am really speaking of how we can experiment to give l...

I feel a bit like Bart Simpson. As I know that you like music, one band which I would recommend is The Dream Syndicate. They have made quite a few goo...

I certainly wasn't implying that our lives are an experiment from any divine higher power. I had quite a bad yesterday and even got knocked down by a ...

I know that some people have criticised Carl Jung for a possible bias in favour of Germans rather than Jews at the time of Nazi Germany. In particular...

(I am giving short answers as perhaps that is what you are seeking.) I. Ultimate reality is beyond matter. It could be seen as a force and has been ca...

I would say that the whole spectrum of gender identities is complex indeed for some people. It is a topic beyond the scope of a gender rates poll and ...

I would be prepared to give you some kind of answer but you have asked 3 of the biggest philosophy questions ever, and some others. I don't know if yo...

I am not sure what you are trying to say. I am interested in discussing prejudice and I don't consider my background as being 'snug' or'posh'. I would...

I think that people are entitled to be whoever they choose to be. I think women shouldn't have to be housewives because of a social norm, but if they ...

The reason why 'other' is sometimes used on forms is to give room to anyone, who, for whatever reason, does not feel that they fit into a binary disti...

I think that your final paragraph gets to the core of the difficulty. How far can you let people go about voicing prejudices without condoning them? A...

I am inclined to wonder if you are speaking of the imaginary or imagination.

When you saw my unedited response to Madfool it should have read as mathsism rather atheism. I think my phone changed mathsism, possibly because I hav...

An interesting bit of debate going on here. I think that the idea of 'cleansing' of prejudice is a bit problematic as a metaphor. It reminds me too mu...

I don't know why you want to quantify everything. It seems like a prejudice of mathsism.The reason I began talking about literature and fiction is bec...

I would say that the value of any human life should be held very highly because each unique person is like a universe. Perhaps, in an overpopulated wo...

I am certainly not suggesting that you think that people should be treated as objects. From what you have written in your many posts it would not make...

Yes, I agree that prejudice is so complicated as it goes deeper into the unconscious. I do think that it is bound up with likes and dislikes. Also, th...

The idea of a ' cognitively slow' person raises a lot of questions in itself. What on earth does it mean to be labelled cognitively 'slow'. Also, the ...

But fiction isn't just about objects. It's about people and their psychological truths. To just view the people as objects would be a very flat level ...

I would say that I know many people who are extremely racist and sexist. I probably thought a lot about these matters when I studied sociology in sixt...

I can remember struggling over a Kant essay. I was writing about the whole issue of means and ends and the topic I chose to focus on for some of the d...

It is not about whether I give privileges on account of such characteristics. I try to see all people for who they are on a deeper level and so do man...

I really like your music taste and it is quite an interesting contrast. I love the Waterboys for when I am up(This is the Sea' album) and The Jesus an...

Okay, someone is born with biological characteristics of a specific gender or race and these are not privileges as such. However, the person is coming...

Fiction can't be translated easily into shapes. I know that it written in alphabetical shapes but it would be absurd to try to quantify it in this way...

Yes, I agree that equal opportunities are important for enabling equality. Unfortunately, I have seen situations where people pay lip service to this ...

You say that 'the recipient of privilege is never born with it', but that ignores the whole way into which can be born into an environment of privileg...

One thing that it is worth thinking about is the clear distinction between fact and fiction. Okay, with the person in the wheelchair that is something...

I still maintain that you are using the term bad faith to justify a whole process of seeing the bad in others. Sometimes, when we see bad in others it...

Yes, I think that the less we put people into little boxes the better. I don't want to become 'Jack in the Box'. We are becoming used to having to tic...

I am not sure that what you are talking about under the guise of 'bad faith' is not really a misuse of the term bad faith. I certainly don't think you...

The idea of being of emotion detachment being a requirement to certain professions is worth reflecting on. My own slant on it is one in which in some ...

The relationship between toxic masculinity is an interesting area. Because we could ask to whom is the masculinity toxic? In some senses it can be tox...

You speak of the importance of looking for the bad in someone. I would say it depends on what looking for the bad entails. One situation in which you ...

I think that quality is a concept which extends into all areas not just maths. However, I think that it goes beyond beauty. This can be superficial an...

You are right to say that being 'chilled out' doesn't make for fighting for civil liberties. I have to admit that I have been on matches for certain c...

Your example of the thoughts which can come into mind is an example of the way in which people can drift into prejudiced assumptions. You are able to ...

Yes, you make some good points. Also, some people are so patriotic in defending the British, getting heated as those in many philosophical arguments. ...

Everyone has privileges in the structure of the social world, such as being male, white etc. In a way, we could say that the most disadvantaged could ...