WISDOMfromPO-MO

In other words, "Thank the Good Lord that some of his children are treated by their brothers and sisters as less than human".

That is a red herring. I did not say that any particular individual or group lacks empathy. I said that a particular group is always vilified and is n...

And all of the ideologues who use science to attack religion, attack social conservative opponents in debates over sex education, transgenderism, homo...

Where has anybody said that it is a requirement? Again, what does that have to do with anything anybody has said? The only thing I see being said is: ...

Straw man. I said that empathy is lacking. I did not say anything about things being "at odds". None of this answers the question. Is there, or is the...

How did they get the resources to do that? You mean there was a time when industrialization and climate change were seen together completely through a...

Yet, apparently their supposedly highly intelligent, highly rational opponents easily fall for the narrative that says that there is a significant ant...

I think that Election Day 2016 in the U.S. is a good example of what happens when "the feelings of the poor, gullible people that have been sucked in ...

Speaking of STEM, this is not rocket science. One's desire, determination, preparation, skill, abilities, aptitude, sacrifice, hard work etc. should d...

And we all know that short people and tall people are different. Short people are usually shorter. Tall people are usually taller. This is not to say ...

"One charge that many critics of the men’s movement bring up is that MRAs are disproportionately vocal: in other words, there are few of them, but hol...

It would not surprise me if feminists inside and outside of academia are at the front of the line to attack scientism. It would not surprise me if a w...

It does not undermine anything. It means do not rush to judgement like an ideologue in a candy store jumping at any opportunity to bolster his/her cau...

This is why I tell anybody I can to keep a record of everything he/she reads. Many years ago--probably the early 1990s--I read an article in Utne Read...

I was trying to illustrate that nothing can be taken for granted. A memo might be discovered showing that a male lawmaker voted in favor of legislatio...

Or he is in, oh, Oregon, the polls have closed in the Eastern time zone where most voters are, news outlets have already projected a winner in most st...

That it is futile to try to arrive at any purely objective reality. Agnosticism on steroids, kind of. I have also heard it this way: postmodern theory...

Or this has all been a dream and we will all wake up and see that the Earth was flat all along. The moment we stop asking (or allowing people to ask) ...

Depends on how it is interpreted. I don't recall any direct interaction with a radical feminist. Only indirect interaction, such as reading a blog. My...

They forfeit their rights when they commit a felony. That is their own choice. Yes, they should. The mentally ill are no more likely than members of t...

Which proves my point: it is foolish to depend on the government, especially with respect to things such as one's personal protection.

It is my understanding that anybody can sue anybody for any reason. That must be good for business if you are in the legal profession. The question is...

If you want your arguments to be taken seriously, a good start would be to respond to what people have actually said. I did not say "weapon". I specif...

I had not cited a case, let alone said that anything causes me any consternation. I already knew that governments could not care less about me as an i...

The more that I learn--and I have not stopped researching and thinking about this since the moment I created the thread--the more convinced I become. ...

You can't hold anybody accountable if you are dead.

A right is a justified claim. I am not aware of any conditions under which a claim to the possession of a firearm for one's personal protection would ...

I never said, "Civil lawsuits are a way to regulate conduct", let alone the best way, only way, etc. Your point is completely irrelevant. Nobody has s...

I don't know. It is beside the point. We could speculate for pages and pages about that. Among other things, one could take a functionalist perspectiv...

They are not my words. Everything that I am reading suggests that law enforcement discretion is the rule. And that the government has no duty to prote...

Some of these posts are flirting with denying dignity, equality and other ideals and values that the West supposedly cherishes. Maybe I have been misl...

Okay, so collectively there will be greater safety. Now what about an individual who, consequently, is killed or severely injured by a threat that he/...

No, it was not a reference to the 2nd Amendment. The individual-gun-rights-are-a-myth camp says that possessing firearms has never anywhere been a rig...

Nobody referenced to in this thread or directly contributing to this thread said anything about "vigilantism" until you brought up, let alone that it ...

Nobody has said anything about the right to sue, so you are attacking a straw man. What has been said is that when the police have refused or failed t...

Actually, it is transhumanism that is promising the conquest of death. Freedom from dogma would mean accepting reality. This is reality: none of us kn...

The biggest change that I think is needed is for people to be honest. Honest with their own selves and honest with each other. As completely honest as...

The sale is already made. The buyer and the weapon are then being monitored.

It would help to have examples that are from the same class as beliefs--maybe the class is "mental content"--but are non-beliefs. Maybe a feeling is m...

A belief is probably mental content that needs evidence to be disrupted in any way. The deeper the belief is held, the more evidence will be required ...

Being a repressed memory. Being in conscious thought presently and causing anxiety. Etc.

A belief is simply information/data that has found a place in the mind where it is rarely, if ever, deliberately, consciously questioned, scrutinized,...

Then when I go into a retail store and asset protection / loss prevention personnel are following me and watching me--and you know that they are doing...

The way that I understand it, background checks can result in a seller legally being required to deny a sale. What I am talking about would not be a b...

Theoretically, I would say that it is possible. GNP is what is used to measure economic growth. The only thing required for an increase in GNP is for ...

For a riveting account of how the most oppressed people in the world may be finding solidarity and moving beyond the kinds of problems you bring up, I...

The status quo is maintained by keeping people divided and obscuring the true causes of their strife, not by suppressing altruism. If people do not kn...

I have thought for several years now that when somebody buys such weapons that a point of sale interview should be conducted by law enforcement person...

What kind of perspective shows people that the mass murder of strangers accomplishes anything, let alone anything good? Where did this perspective com...

You mean "God gave you free will" and "You believe that you chose soup instead of salad" are interchangeable? Even if science could leave no doubt tha...