"Rationality is relative: if one accepts a model in which benefitting oneself is optimal, then rationality is equated with behavior that is self-inter...
Logic as a discipline preceded science, so I could see science evolving as a variation of logic. But everybody in this thread seems to treat logic as ...
No. Speaking for myself, when I say that race is socially/culturally constructed I literally mean that races in the human species are fictions that pe...
You are being extremely oversimplistic, in my humble opinion. A right is a justified claim. Rights depend on context. Something like voting in electio...
Society probably cannot function without gender. At least not at this juncture. Reproductive technology like artificial wombs might make sexual reprod...
There is nothing to acknowledge about stereotypes. People here are insisting that stereotypes are derived from biology. Gender is not biology. Man and...
I asked for evidence of a social role called "white". How do I know when I am failing at being a "white", I asked. Who would be a good role model for ...
No, I never said that living up to a stereotype is acting in a role. I never said anything about stereotypes. Somebody else brought up stereotypes. Yo...
The point I tried to make is that race is not biological and is socially constructed from arbitrary traits while sex--male and female--is purely biolo...
Cultures and sub-cultures are not social roles. Social roles are things like teacher, student, client, consumer, boss, leader, citizen, suspect, elite...
No. If "white" is a social role, tell us how one knows if he/she is or is not successfully acting in that role. Living up to stereotypes is not acting...
None of this tells me how I know if I am or am not playing this "white" role well or who would be a good role model for me. I do not believe that the ...
It is contradictory to say that determinism is true. If everything is an effect of an antecedent cause then that includes determinism. Therefore, with...
No. I know if I am or am not being a man--I am or am not opening doors for women; I am or am not being a protector and provider; I am or am not sexual...
I can see society without race. But gender seems to be too much a part of culture to be discarded. Among other things, there are not racial roles, but...
I do not believe that there are biological races. Race is based on arbitrary physical traits that do not constitute a unique biological group. Gender-...
Determinism says that B is an effect of A; nothing more, nothing less. A could have never happened and we would not have B. Something else could have ...
Like when colleges force students, faculty and staff to stop using certain pronouns? Like when activists, pundits, etc. use their positions to margina...
"In a fragmented global culture and economy of exclusion that deem entire peoples and the earth itself expendable, Francis insists that members of hum...
Theism is belief in the existence of deities. Please address how belief in the existence of deities is a mental illness, not arbitrary things like den...
1.) Everybody agrees on what one of something, S, looks like. 2.) Everybody agrees on what three of S looks like. 3.) You combine one of S with anothe...
What does any of that have to do with theism being--or not being--a mental illness?! If I asked if Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is really an illness ...
Sounds like the disciples of Ayn Rand I have known, not the disciples of Christ I have known. And Rand disciples like to make it clear that she was no...
Sounds like utilitarianism. Sounds like it is the consequences of beliefs, not their correspondence or lack of correspondence to truth and reality, th...
Chain links are objects, not events. But they are connected and there is space between them. You said that when something is connected to another ther...
There is space between chain links, yet they are connected. And we are talking about events, happenings, occurrences, etc., not about objects. That me...
How would you show that? How is it anything more than speculation? Again, how do you know? How can you say that? You are not saying that after A occur...
I think that this thread is based on a false premise. There is no telos in the evolution of life on Earth. At least not in Darwinian evolution by natu...
No. When something is seamless that means there are no gaps in it. You are saying that there are gaps with events being effects of events that precede...
They are not my words. They are Raymond Tallis's words. Editing is being extremely difficult, but I have the complete quote and the link now. What abo...
"It is easy to sympathise with those philosophers who have come to regard causes as, well, a lost cause. The venerable idea that everything that happe...
I get it now. It's our old friend "us vs. them". I believe that the more we can avoid "us vs. them", the better. Do you mean autotelic? I don't see a ...
If everything is determined, that includes illusions. If everything is determined, that includes determinism. Therefore, if determinism is assumed to ...
I can't even remember the last time I asked anybody about him/her and any label or category. I can say with certainty that I have never asked anybody,...
I am not convinced that the amount of resources presently spent on that regime is justified by the benefits. I am not convinced that people would not ...
That would not be the truth. Closer to the truth would be, "I believe that the box about which you are asking if I am inside or outside at best tells ...
It feels like we are obsessing more and more with our differences and building more and more divisions between each other. I'm not going to take a pos...
How about instead of asking me "Are you a believer?" asking me "What is your spiritual understanding?" and letting me convey my experiences, thoughts,...
I have never heard of such a thing. But when the masses rebuke such elitism (Brexit; the 2016 Republican Primary and 2016 U.S. Presidential Election),...
No. I am in every privileged biological category. Heterosexual. Male. White. Cisgender. That is unless left-handers and/or introverts count as underpr...
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