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How do you know whether a particular child has a bad/perverse nature due to genetics, or whether it is due to poor parenting?

Yes, and as long as capitalists are willing to adapt, this is not a problem for them. The kind of capitalist who just aims to have 100x more than a po...

This is extremely charitable! Based on my experience, the primary application of morality is to judge others. It's possible to ascribe intent, it's po...

It's a problem for that business, but not for capitalism on the whole. One business fails, and another one flourishes. That's capitalism.

There has been a long debate as to whether the text should be taken at face value or not: Interpretation of The Prince as political satire or as decei...

I'm saying you are the one looking for heaven on Earth, when you say:

Which is still not a problem, as long as the capitalist aims to be proportionally/relatively wealthier than others. Ie. for such a capitalist to be su...

In general, it is the Protestants who value faith above deeds, and the Catholics who place a greater value on deeds than do Protestants. See here: htt...

You want to meaningfully talk about pleasure and good/right without reference to people??

The downside of intensionalism is that intention is private and cannot be reliably known by external observers. A person can always say "I meant no ha...

As long as there are so many people on the planet, there is no danger to capitalism. People have always lived and died for ideas anyway.

I'm not talking about soundness, but content. Surely you can imagine that you will provide a different line of reasoning if you are asked why you pers...

Depending on the Christian sect.

You know what else is sinuous? Tapeworms. Eh.

On a general note: What is the purpose of antinatalist arguments? To convince people at large not to have children? To justify why one doesn't have ch...

In a Mad Max scenario? Oh, you mean it like that. As if Earth should look forward to becoming more like Triton ...

This is simply unrealistic. Those who have more power, more resources can afford not to respect the rights of others and get away with it. If someone ...

I'm afraid that this is a matter of ideology. How are people going to change their consumer habits if they don't first change their minds?

I'm talking about, for example, the state paying part of the price if you choose to buy an electric car or install a solar system on the roof of your ...

The problem is that sometimes, when people make their own decision and act freely, this results in difficult situations that they themselves cannot me...

No, they encouraged by state intervention, such as through subsidies for "green technology". The state, if it would be a moral agent acting morally, w...

Take, for example, Scandinavian countries and their use of electric cars. Seems nice and environmentally friendly, yes? Except that the damage is done...

What happened to other people (presumably,mostly men) who took such child photos in those times in England?

Of course. Natural selection.

Why did Keats' poem attain such a status in popular culture? This might answer the puzzle a bit. Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, /.../ When ...

That would be natural selection at its finest.

For whom? Says who?

In some schools of Buddhism, they would probably something like that, yes.

Which of these are not craving?

Makes us dumber ...

Many children are unwanted by their parents, yet their parents keep them anyway. Such children can end up with various psychological problems. How fai...

And you have some reason to believe that early punishment works well on children whose parents didn't want them, but had them anyway, and have always ...

What makes you think that the hardships and deaths that are and will be due to the lockdowns and economic donwnturn _aren't_ "natural selection"? Who ...

Of course. Take another practical example with two non-smokers: Tom has never smoked and has no difficulty not smoking. Harry, on the other hand, used...

What would you call a child whose parents didn't want him, but had him anyway, and have always sent him subtle or overt messages that it would be bett...

Actually, it's one of the most popular theses in the self-help genre. So ordinary, actually. Google "self quotes" and look at the image results. And a...

Or a social worker, a judge, or a parole officer. Or a mob boss. To name a few. That's not true, though. It is, for example, not solely within the pow...

So you, too, don't believe that the end justifies the means? For a more advanced example of the end justifying the means in religion, look at Mahayana...

The idea "the end justifies the means" and its opposite "the end doesn't justify the means" are too simplistic, that's why they are problematic. Whose...

Like I already pointed out on another thread here: Not all ad hominems are fallacious: /.../ Walton has argued that ad hominem reasoning is not always...

Oy, vey iz him! Not to put too fine a point on schadenfreude, but I want to say "I told you so!" I wonder how JP's unraveling will affect his fans. Ho...

I think that at least those religious people from cultures where their religion has been the majority religion for a long time are ambivalent toward h...

Of course, I think so too. (And not because JP said it, I figured that out on my own, living among Catholics.) In my experience, many religious people...

What have been some of your discoveries in these investigations?

I assume you exclude the poor from this, ie. people who due to lack of money have to invent lifestyles that are alternative to consumerism and offer r...

Oh, right.

There does seem to be some correlation between jaw width and aggressiveness: Recent research has identified men’s facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) ...

And what does she have to say about China and Japan?

Such as?

No, the point is that even the same woman can have different preferences in men, depending on whether she uses hormonal contraceptives or not. Hormona...