My response wasn't even originally in this thread. It has nothing to do with gun gun control as a policy. I was simply trying to explain the lack of a...
First: This is not saying: "If more people have guns, they are more likely to commit homicide." It is saying the "if more people have guns, there will...
It's possible; I've never seen it looked at that way before. Although, I imagine if the relationship was significantly stronger it would be a more com...
A bold choice for a dictatorship that won a slim plurality in a single election almost two decades ago to make for their people. Especially when so mu...
I've already posted the correlations between homicide rates and gun ownership, for the OECD, all nations, and all states. Your links are about differe...
BTW, the promise of mystical union with the divine seems to be a major part of the "Good News," that is neglected in contemporary accounts of the Gosp...
What do you mean by "mystical theology?" I find this to be a tricky term. Is mysticism just "experience of God?" Something like "knowing God the way a...
Yes it is. "The US has more mass shootings," can be true, and "fire arms ownership is not correlated with homicide rates across the world's countries,...
The comment was that there were areas of high gun ownership with very low crime, which is true. The entire state of Vermont is an example. The correla...
Right, this is exactly my point re religious attendance. Based a wealth of research in the social sciences, religious attendance seems to boost the me...
Sure. The relationship between gun ownership and assaults/homicides extremely weak nationally. There is also a negative relationship between gun owner...
Yup. And even when new thinkers make original contributions to older ideas, we have a bad habit of backwards projecting the new ideas onto the old. E....
This gets to an interesting question: by progress do we mean the metrics that technocrats tend to use: self reported well being, income, educational a...
I think I agree, if I'm understanding you correctly. The term "good," taken alone, without the possibility of anything being "bad," is contentless. Ou...
I agree with what you're saying, although I don't think religion has a straightforward relationship to the promotion of a libertarian and voluntarist ...
I don't want to get sidetracked. My point was merely that, according to peer reviewed findings in the social sciences, the gold standard of evidence i...
The statement was about "religion" generally. Neoplatonism is religious. Belief in ridiculous New Age hokum is plenty strong with people who hardly ev...
This hasn't been the policy at least. While people talk about "indiscriminate," attacks, I don't see it. Israel certainly has the munitions to do what...
October was the first month of the war where Russia fired less shells than Ukraine. Originally, Russia was sustaining almost 16 times as many fire mis...
The mechanics of compatibilist free will, as I see it, are the same as the mechanics of determinism. Questions about freedom are questions about: "to ...
There is also the humoncular regress to consider. If we "see representations" by being "inside a mind" and seeing those representations "projected as ...
I don't see a need to bring physical states into it. When we choose something, we either choose it for some reason, or we choose it for no reason at a...
The opening parts of Axel Honneth's Freedom's Right have a pretty good overview major developments in the philosophy of freedom. He develops a typolog...
It's seems to me that allegations of genocide have to come with actual genocide to be meaningful, not just "genocidal intent among some of the members...
Ah, I've misunderstood you then. I was thinking of the way in which a logic gate is deterministic in roughly the same way neurons, cells, etc. behave ...
I would argue that some sort of determinism is a prerequisite for free will. We can't choose to bring about some states of affairs and not others base...
:up: I figured it might be something like that. I've read the Tractus and PI, but not particularly closely (I don't think I ever finished the Tractus)...
I don't think it's that far of a stretch. They haven't delivered on any of their promises. They haven't delivered on good governance or quality of lif...
Nasrallah's first speech since the attacks did not sound good for Hamas' hopes of a wider conflict. Hamas has already complained about the ineffectual...
Right, there is a great deal of discrimination within Israel proper. I just don't know if South Africa is the best analogy for that given the ways in ...
BTW, this sort of general process, as applied to the traits that corporations, states, and cultures pick up is exactly the sort of thing that I think ...
Not being an expert in Wittgenstein, I wonder what he thought of people with aphasia, who lose the ability to understand and/or produce language? Sure...
I saw this paper too. It's an idea I've seen in a lot of places. "Selection-like" phenomena show up in all sorts of places outside biological evolutio...
Generally, when I've seen "facts" or "matters of fact," used in metaphysics, the term means "things that obtain regardless of what we believe about th...
I think this specific issue may be a problem of misleading demarcation and division; i.e., a definitional problem. We want to explain how phenomena ar...
What makes Israeli policy in Israel's borders similar to Apartheid? I always thought the comparison was apt, but for the Occupied Territories. Israeli...
BTW, I totally agree that an understanding of physics can't rob us of choice. If anything, it opens up more choices because knowledge and techne enhan...
Incomplete Nature by Terrance Deacon is an interesting modern attempt to recover Aristotlean formal cause through thermodynamics and thus to explain p...
I would see physics coming in for defining the boundaries of an agent. We tend to think that agents are "embedded," in spacetime. That being the case,...
https://i.ibb.co/M81Xzcm/F9y5-UAEXo-AA5-AKu.jpg https://i.ibb.co/4f4v3Bp/F9x-9n-FXo-AI78r.jpg Rough approximation of the area the IDF is holding, with...
More so when you consider the concentration of prisoner losses in the limited areas of offensive operations, (Bakhmut and Pisky earlier and Avdiika no...
"Hamas carries out attacks with the sole goal of producing an Israeli response that kills civilians so that Gazan and international opinion shifts aga...
For perspective on the use of prisoners, Russia's pre invasion prison population was 420,000. Today it is just 266,000. https://www.washingtonpost.com...
It probably would still be there, just in a less dominant position. The US did not give Israel much support in their most precarious war, the 1948 War...
The Jews continued to live in the region after the Babylonian Captivity, restablishing a Second Temple (Books of Ezra and Nehemiah) under Persian rule...
Hamas propaganda certainly suggests that they want to be seen as the "military of the Palestinian people," not as merely a terrorist organization inca...
The desire to defend their territory and the optics of launching a highly provocative surprise attack only to immediately hide in well supplied tunnel...
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