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It is a fact that there are wide disparities in outcomes of wealth/income. It doesn't follow from this that some groups have been victimized by others...

Fool #2

Don't be a fool. There's evidence all around you of people being motivated to production by profit. Your inability to admit it is an obvious sign of a...

There is a strange dialectic there for sure. Not unlike his choice of VP who previously called him out as a segregationist sympathizer. Or when he him...

I disagree with utopian visions. The mistake is in thinking that human beings are perfectible.

No evidence? :rofl:

Give your head a shake, Xanax. Take away the profit incentive and you get stagnation. By maintaining modest corporate and personal tax rates there is ...

Of course theft happens. My point is that just because a small group of people attain extreme wealth does not imply that it was ill-gotten.

It's not just physicists straying into philosophy. It's also religionists straying into biology, psychologists straying into legal analysis, and polit...

The 1% is an organizing principle for political agitation, and a scapegoat for those who lament poverty, or who resent wealth for a variety of reasons...

I view it as a religious question. Evocative of gratitude.

Best? Too vague. Jesus is the more passionate, but Gautama is the cooler customer. Most honest? According to the Gospels, Jesus was sometimes quite ev...

Your photos are very lovely and they are indeed more naturally appealing. I think there has been somewhat of a backlash that has emerged in response t...

That's normal; I am just a biogeography nerd.

This is too good a topic not to create a spinoff post. Fairytale Photos

There are several different phenomena that I have noticed. There is the above-mentioned "firing squad": http://www.weddingbells.ca/wp-content/uploads/...

That's good thinking and come to think of it that's the entire purpose of an avatar, which I now realize I completely overlooked when choosing my own....

It is an interesting portrait. Part of what is odd about the photograph is that it was seemingly taken at a high aperture so that the distant clouds a...

It has gone completely off the rails. Biology is the place where the theory of evolution is at home.

TLP Wittgenstein or PI Wittgenstein?

So despite your attempt at an open marriage, you have a monogamous one. That's life right there for you. If you're still holding hands, that's a very ...

What is it like to be a disciple of Wittgenstein?

Barred Owl (Strix varia). Why did you choose a North American species and not something native to your home region?

I think I can detect the source of your illustration being from Calvin and Hobbes, and it appears to be an object in flight. Maybe it is a figurative ...

Easily offended? Yes, you do seem to find it easy to offend people.

It was a mistake to admit it to what's-his-face because he just turned around and used it to personally attack me. Anyhoo, it's just a fantasy, not an...

How warped and cynical. Ah yes, Canadian treasure Margaret Atwood. I used to know her step son, Graeme Gibson Jr. He formerly ran a bird ringing stati...

You should only change your name to accompany a strategic change in your persona and target audience. Marketing. Otherwise stick with what you've got.

My understanding is that non-latex condoms are not an effective barrier to disease. I think the proposed legislation specifically mandated latex condo...

I would have sworn that was Frank Lloyd Wright art deco. I have definitely seen it before. I too like the aesthetic of it. Very orderly.

What question were you asked that prompted you to admit to possible bias?

We chide/mock/ridicule Clinton in part because his remarks were made in the context of his back-peddling from denials he had earlier made about his re...

People don't generally begin a romantic relationship with the primary purpose of helping to cure the other person's imperfections. More often it just ...

I hope I am not crossing the line by suggesting that you have a woman's perspective. That perspective is certainly welcomed by me! Is a bar the place ...

Perhaps. I urge you to try it and report back on your experience. Also, I don't need to be "educated" by you, so please avoid attribution of either th...

Good for you if it's not your fantasy. I now know that you can be counted on to seize the opportunity to allocate blame in response to an honest admis...

I envy him because it is a nearly ubiquitous male fantasy to have an endless stream of desirable sex partners. The only good reason I can think of to ...

Depending on the circumstances, I might modify my driving technique. I don't know you and I'm not judging you, but don't most people eventually move b...

Okay, so now the ten thousand dollar question. This transactional sex that you and your partners engage in - does it ever lead to regret?

Even if we assume there is a singular final cause of everything, without the intermediate causes we cannot bridge the divide and in any event a proxim...

I don't understand what you are driving at here. Some things happen for a reason in the sense that they are pre-meditated by a rational agent. Other t...

It is uncontroversial that the heart and the vascular system together perform the function of circulating the blood to and from the extremities of the...

No, it's not my intention to misinterpret you, but you are taking such a hard line that you will no doubt perceive me as an adversary. This embodies a...

Sex is aimed at a plurality of ends, but let's be honest: at its most basic the goal of sex is the satisfaction of a biological urge. Sex is not a rat...

Strictly speaking, it is a paradox when translated from Greek into English and given a logical reading. On a more generous reading, however, the parad...

The important difference being that genes have a basis in biochemistry, while memes have no physical basis whatsoever. Evolution by natural selection ...

Overall I thought what you wrote was quite persuasive. I suppose my difficulty with it can be summed up in the cliche that "no man is an island". The ...

Which was William James' infamous reply to this.

Is something going on in your life that is making you think this way? People should never have to live with evil being done to them.

One argument for rejecting hedonism.