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It's a little hard to consider a person a murderer for killing just one person when some people murder hundreds and the bar for what counts as being a...

I think it's a her... Could be wrong, but the uncanny resemblance between the word choices here and a certain campaign manager's word choices... the o...

Joining the ranks of the military requires having one's life be put at risk by the personal beliefs of the commander in chief... I wonder what those e...

What role does money lending play in keeping people poor?

So, there is a huge poverty problem in the US, and it is not solely due to lack of personal initiative.

Freedom of speech, up to date on current events, and very good practice for engaging the standard Republican talking points... Stick around.

Now you can go back to crafting and maintaining the predominant Republican worldview... :wink: A tool.

Ok. Let's try again... That survey was and still is irrelevant, for all the reasons I've mentioned that have went neglected. Another thing... The surv...

Credit card companies are allowed to charge upwards of 30% interest for the remaining life of the loan if the borrower is late just once. That is pred...

Those were not voices of the poor. Say things that aren't true, eh???

Coming from one who did not address the point I made, offered red herring instead, accused me of calling poor people liars even after I clarified the ...

Red Herring... It's not about the person's sincerity. We could grant that every person said exactly what they believe. We could grant that it was all ...

Outrageously expensive healthcare was and still is normal. The tremendous divide between the best and worst off is more and more normal. Worker abuse ...

A return to normalcy... :gasp:

All by itself too... no other forces were at work... it's all individual initiative... :roll:

You are mistakenly assuming that the destitute have the money, the knowledge, the method, the ability to implement, and the time it takes in order to ...

A change in the general consensus of thought regarding what the government ought be doing for Americans... He knows it is not a quick fix. Most people...

America is ripe for investment in everyday Americans... the building trades and manufacturing sectors are in dire need of American government who plac...

How well do really poor people fair when it comes to... I don't know... let's say intellectual property? You do realize, don't you, that a multimillio...

Easy to cast aspersions about the poor when one speaks from the pedestal of privilege... complete ignorance of what that's like.

Irrelevant. Do you have access to microbes? Then why haven't you discovered all the possible medicinal uses involving them? As if having access to the...

Indeed. That's quite true, and it did not even cross my mind upon reading it... I'm reminded of what Bush Jr. said immediately after 9/11. Spend... sp...

This is very interesting... seems a bit too shallow though. There's too much being left out of the discussion here. Real things. Everyday circumstance...

We need people who do understand which pieces of legislation have resulted in unnecessarily and quantifiably harming so many Americans. We need people...

Like his ideas about which pieces of legislation resulted in harming the most vulnerable members of American society? Like his ideas about what actual...

Maybe. I've not enough reliable true information at my fingertips in order to draw such a strongly expressed conclusion. Namely, I do not know what wi...

Maybe. I've not enough reliable true information at my fingertips in order to draw such a conclusion. Namely, I do not know what will be the determini...

Moderaters... moderate.

This is going to get very interesting... The delegate count will not reflect the voting. The super delegate count will most certainly not. We'll see. ...

Thanks. You too. You missed it, so I'll repeat it here... Learning the names of things is as basic as basic can be if basic belief is held to have pro...

Not existential dependence. A is either existentially dependent upon B or it's not. If A is existentially dependent upon B. and B is existentially dep...

(1) I see a tree, (2) I had breakfast this morning, and (3) That person is angry. All three of these statements of belief are about what's happened an...

Argh... I just cannot do it! I cannot bring myself to keep reading someone talking in terms of 'perceptual beliefs' and 'memory beliefs', when that ve...

I'm good Sam. :smile: I think I'm going to copy and paste a few of the criteria for "basic belief" mentioned in the link. May be interesting to grant ...

If someone believed that the government was corrupted by monetary influences and that Clinton is, was, and has been one of the ones reaping tremendous...

No, the rational choice is not merely whatever the person believes to be the case. The rational choice is whatever choice follows from those beliefs. ...

What counts as "the rational choice" is always and forever more determined solely and exclusively by virtue of what the individual already believes to...

It may be a more productive discussion if you would just lay out the problematic beliefs that many Americans have in a way that will compel those capa...

"Here is a hand" is as basic as it gets for talking about hands. So, that also seems to be basic in the same sense as "bishops move diagonally" for pl...

Well, I've actually already answered these concerns in this very thread. However, I do not wish to continue going on here about my own position and ho...

:wink: That one's hard(impossible to me) to deny. The trick, if there is one to be had, is taking proper account of the belief content, what they cons...

Touche. :wink:

All sorts of stuff that are now known as "projecting"...

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Talk of "further" and "beyond" makes sense in comparative measures of distance. It's unnecessarily complex in that it needs clarifying by removing the...

Sure, but first... To be clear regarding that 'loosening' bit, I was just teasing out some different possible meanings(ambiguity) of the notion of "pr...

The notion of "further existence" is fraught. A better question: What do beauty, values, and God consist in and/or of? Are they things that exist in t...

Anyone know what the current delegate count is?

Numbers are not the only names for quantities. They are names for quantities nonetheless. So... that criticism misses the mark.

I wouldn't argue for and/or defend my position like that, but I do not think that we're too far apart in general. I think the best path here is method...