FreeEmotion

Of course but then that framework cannot come about as a result of democracy in the first place. There has to be a cataclysmic event, or a revolution....

Name calling , i.e. 'clueless idiot' and is not really a hallmark of reasoned philosophical discourse, nevertheless I am content with that. At least t...

Thanks for asking my opinion. Yes it has. And if the East had been the dominant colonizing force in the world, that too would have been a disaster. Th...

I think we have to get used to the fact that there is a wide spectrum of opinion as well as opinion on civility here. I would never condemn any Presid...

This is an interesting line of thought, then. So democracy takes place in the moral climate of the country it is implemented in. This explains many th...

Maybe the constitution should stipulate conditions for citizens and voters as well as candidates for office, that would be the first step. https://www...

Well yes. The other countries that you mention seem to have a working system that is respected worldwide and within the country. All these countries h...

I do not think that a policy change can be equated to the above. The policy of the Vietnam war, for example, got a lot of people killed, but I do not ...

Take China for example. Capitalist fans are eager to point out China's economic growth was due to Capitalism. Forget the fact that they recently suppo...

Easy one first: OK, but in my mind any support or bias or influence I would say on a democratic country is not really good for a democracy, in my opin...

Hi Michael, true, but as a dyed in the wool idealist I really think this was not fair. Not that I am saying things would be better with Mrs. Clinton i...

This I have to agree with. I was very surprised even shocked that the announcement that the investigation would be re-opened came three days before th...

Interesting to know how this is really democracy if it needs an external party to prop it up:

I am curious to know why someone who wants to make America Great Again has so much opposition. My view is that those who do not like President Trump's...

"ssu"s points are good starting points, I would also add freedom from foreign interference. I broadly agree with these rights or should I say benefits...

I agree with those conditions are very important for what I consider as democracy, and what is generally considered to be essential for modern democra...

. Well yes, Canada is a democracy if you measure it according to accepted norms. However, I would feel it was different, on a personal level for examp...

Democracy is dying, then. But to paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the birth of Democracy have been greatly exaggerated.

I am not sure if these ideas have been raised before: 1. Eating anything, plant, animal, for example means that they have to be killed first, or destr...

To quote the Wikipedia article:

Technically it is not a Democracy, but Canada is a mild instance of this. There are other Constitutional Monarchies where there is greater influence f...

Well if you can provide some circumstantial evidence at least then we can accept this. In any case NOT democracy.

Further examining the link between best countries to live in and most democratic countries: Best countries to live in: Switzerland Canada Germany UK J...

But this never explains the block vote. The people who will always vote Republican or always vote Democrat, or perhaps always vote Trump. Propaganda w...

If Democracy is dying, the presupposes it was alive and well. Was it? After seeing many a video and article about Communism and Capitalism, for exampl...

I join the conversation as one highly unimpressed with Democracy. Look at the map again. Which countries are the best countries to live in? Not the mo...

That link, though obvious, yielded something more useful than the last time I looked at it. The Butterfly Effect in action? Right at the bottom of the...

I found some related web pages, did not read fully, but interesting: https://everydaypowerblog.com/2017/05/28/use-butterfly-effect-create-change/ http...

Supporters of any politician have a democratic right to vote for that person, even if he is a 'totalitarian politician'. It's all in the game. I would...

Ah yes, but that was not a popular vote, in the sense of it being nation-wide, like the census. It appears a small mob forced a politician to bend to ...

Interesting links. There are quotes such as 'Einstein was right" as if it some sort of a validation to prop up Einstein. I don't hear anyone say "Newt...

How widely accepted is the above view? When we hear that a certain experiment 'proves relativity' we get the impression that scientists are one step c...

So in the above example, it is possible to synchronize clocks, and it is possible to measure the one way speed of light?

I'm curious what percentage accuracy?

Why "compute" and not "measure"?

If we have the spatial separation between events E1 and E2, and know the times at E1 and E2, we can calculate the light speed. (not measure?). Why ass...

Any further reference on this? Feynman's lectures are quite insightful, it seems.

OK, but the distance and time to D1 is not needed, just take the event consisting of light reaching D1 and the event of light reaching event D2, and m...

I am simply looking at the previous explanations as well. This does clarify things somewhat, however questions remain: What is the underlying method o...

Let's take the first instance. You have a two detectors, that measure when light passes one and then when light passes the other, D1 and D2. You then ...

So there is no philosophical objection to light, or light waves or photons or whatever, being measured at the same speed no matter how fast the emitte...

I don't understand, can the same be said of the Ether? The Ether being the particular thing?

The Lumiferous Ether when it was thought to exist, was to serve the purpose of an universal frame of reference. A local volume of the Ether would then...

Does game theory have anything to say about possible options? If we assume both sides are rational, it seems to rule out war. 2013 article: http://www...

Take for example the train and lightning strikes thought experiment. I have always thought that one could tell which lightning strike occurred first b...

Could we define an arbitrary boundary based on a set of stars that move very slowly relative to each other? Within this frame of reference, we can def...

This forum is a much freer and more open forum than some of the science fora I have been on. Refreshing change. Thank you.

Does Special Relativity apply only to 'real time' events? That is, events where information is communicated only by the speed of light and at the spee...

So does this mean that the Relativity of Simultaneity does not apply to God? I would think he knows the Universe the way we would know fish in a fishb...

Thank you. What about Herbert Dingle's critiques? Despite criticisms, the theory, or at least the popular thought experiments and popular conception o...