People do not even stop to empathize with or listen to the religious fundamentalists they mock or to ask what are the historical and sociological ante...
Let's not forget that increasingly people are being thought of as--and thinking of themselves as--"customers" rather than as patients. There was an ar...
And conservatives' biggest hero, private business, would probably love it because it would treat businesses as equal partners in solving problems, not...
Don't assume that everybody has happiness as a goal. Don't assume that everybody has happiness as a high priority or thinks that it is important. And ...
It is finding the meaning/purpose of life, not the meaning/purpose of humans, the universe, etc. And where in the question "What is the meaning/purpos...
Why is that a problem? It may be reality. Ken Wilber puts it this way: 1.) The cosmos has great span. 2.) The noosphere has little span. 3.) However, ...
No. You have two political actors who want something and you have chosen a coin toss as "how" who gets what when. No moral considerations have been in...
There could be coin toss. Heads, capital punishment is the law. Tails, capital punishment is abolished. A disagreement could be decided by a duel (unl...
I would argue that social issues in politics are just another way that who gets what, when and how is decided. If nobody gains or loses anything--libe...
I can't find it again, but an article I read said that the U.S. didn't want to be like its enemies such as WW II Germany and later during the Cold War...
Politics is simply the authoritative allocation of resources?. Economics is supposedly the non-authoritative allocation of resources, but some people ...
I have heard people going farther than that and saying things like abortion (and probably infanticide) is people ensuring the reproductive success nee...
That can't be right. Some people sacrifice their own lives without having first reproduced. The explanation from sociobiology / evolutionary psycholog...
An idea that I have had for several years now is to end the firms/households binary and treat all economic actors the same. No longer would anybody be...
I don't know about the liberals you refer to, but the people I hear today identifying as "liberal" or "progressive" seem to have a really bad case of ...
End credentialism. We could still have institutions that award diplomas/degrees. But education should be a constant process, not something confined to...
I believe that a leader with the right skills could get enough people to work together to resolve problems. It probably happens all of the time in sch...
If one is thinking rationally he/she is going to ask how to best respond to suffering. One does not have to be suffering to want suicide. One could th...
I am sorry that you have gone through that. I did not mean to imply that I have a relatively high degree of misfortune. When I hear what other people ...
People had to take those loans for it to work. I'm? about to get kicked out of my apartment, I hear. Just moved in a few months ago. Not long after th...
I can't even figure out if I am poor, middle class, living in poverty, or something else. I don't really feel like I have much to lose. I don't own a ...
If you could travel back in time and ask for the definition of "truth" you would probably get different answers in different historical periods. In ot...
Politicians reflect their constituents. And your premise that people in power being more philosophically sharp would lead to greater good is highly qu...
We have people saying that robots would be better than humans at raising children, so the concern brought up in the OP is understandable. But without ...
Higher education, the place where philosophy has taken up permanent residence, has been corporatized. In other words, it's not that the current intell...
Power needs to be decentralized and given back to local communities. Do you agree or disagree? I am talking about a system that is global in scope. Ne...
Or the oppression of African-Americans in the Jim Crow South was simply transferred to other people such as those employed in Third World sweatshops. ...
In other words, using police brutality as an illustration, the solution to the police brutality in places like Ferguson, Missouri won't come from putt...
Neo-liberalism and it's pet project, globalization, are the dominant forces in politics. We can either spin our wheels trying to stomp out weeds such ...
I'm? not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing with Sheldrake. He is against physicalism/materialism. I personally believe that everything is interc...
Two possible scenarios: 1.) People are starved for new ideas and the intellectuals and leaders who will marshal those new ideas are preparing themselv...
Even if no brain = no mind, does your mind end at your skull? I believe that Rupert Sheldrake has suggested that the mind is a field like gravity and ...
Yes, the point is that the science of biology provides no evidence of "races" within the human species. There are no biological races within the human...
The irony is that it is likely people in those informal economies / black markets who are doing most of the stealing of the identities that government...
Context is missing here. Why would the robots be used? Is it simply a case of automation--replacing human workers with machines to save on labor costs...
As far back as I can remember thinking about work and life, I have looked at it this way: 1.) My goal is to constantly, tirelessly, diligently do my l...
Someone recently said to me that every so many years all material that a person's body was previously composed of has been replaced with other materia...
I don't know about personal identity such as "I think of myself as heterosexual". But with respect to impersonal identities, such as a Social Security...
I am sure that I could find a coin or a paper currency that is no longer legal tender but some collector would love to keep. And if it is dark and I d...
"There is of course no disputing that in modern Western society whites often oppress blacks and men often oppress women. This is bound to be the case ...
From The Powerpuff Girls Movie: "Middle Girl: Hi! Professor: (jumping backwards) Aah! Middle Girl: What's your name? Professor: Oh, um, my name? My na...
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