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Oh, suffer. Poor you. If God is with you, who can be against you?!

You have an infinite supply of chips on your shoulder.

I did an experiment with the George Floyd situation: I didn't pay attention to it when it was on the news, and only saw the video of his arrest for th...

IOW, you approach communication in bad faith. What could you possibly expect in return??

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There are also technological advancements that have changed some aspects of sports. For example, instant replay on the spot so that a referee can look...

Based on what do you think that?? What have you heard about the Buddha, and which can reasonably be ascribed to the Buddha, that makes you think the a...

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I used to think so too. But in the last four years, I've been beginning to change my opinion. Being civilized is simply overrated.

Revenge!

Oh, orange is the new black ...

When put that way, what was the gist of the motivation for the debate about whether beilef is propositional or not? I got the feeling that it was abou...

Yeah, it's their special power to see things in black-and-white like that.

Then it's not true that "Everyone's in a position of power all the time." Sure.

To get a feel for it, two literary texts: Camus: The Stranger Sartre: No exit And: Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus

Well, I suppose some people want to control emotions for such a reason. But some people follow the path of the samurai. You're just not allowing for e...

Yes, obviously, this is what I'm asking. I omitted because I thought it was clear from the context that this is what I was referring to, since my ques...

Yes, I didn't remember the term for the bias, so I described it; but I clearly parsed the two sentences, each of which was about a different bias.

But how can this be proven?

So you're arguing for semantic holism?

If artists want to do pure art, art for art's sake, then they indeed must not expect to make money off of it. If they make music, paint pictures, danc...

There's another thing here when it comes to people in high positions of power who were voted into those positions: both their malice and their incompe...

You said: To which I replied: Were your girlfriends who were accosted by men when they were alone? Because they weren't in a position of power then. O...

Not on my planet. I'm sure some are like that. But it's important to distinguish between emotional sterility and emotional moderation. The two look th...

Two more things come to mind: One, lay philosophers sometimes (often?) have a real problem that they are trying to get some perspective on. Like a dff...

Because it's not about sports, but about entertainment. Truth and honesty would spoil the entertainment. Watch the film The Quiz Show for an illustrat...

Of course it is. It is designed to absolve Trump and co. from all responsibility for the riots.

Were your girlfriends who were accosted by men when they were alone? Excatly. What exactly are we talking about? Do you think I'm a right-winger? Good...

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Why disputatious?? This is the thinking of someone who is not a Buddhist. That's a bizarre claim to make in relation to a religious text. Religion is ...

Since I don't hold any position of power, it's irrelevant what biases I may hold in regard to others, as long as those biases aren't to my disadvantag...

To whom much is given, much will be required. A president, given his high position, should live up to high standards, and he should be judged by those...

Yes, humans are complex.

And how is that compatible with him being the president??

Why? What good would that do me? Actually, I'm undecided on most things.:p It's both a blessing and a curse.

Another reason for this is that people who don't have a formal education in philosophy simply don't know how philosophy is done. They might even think...

It can be based on that. But in my experience, it's just a general disregard for lays, as in "Ah, you haven't actually studied philosophy at universit...

But when such a case involves high politicians and other VIP's, this makes it a special case. Noblesse oblige. Another example, if a high-ranking mili...

Dude, lay off the drama. There are four kinds of entities that aren't into drama: 1. chatbots, 2. people who try to be like chatbots, 3. people who ju...

Exactly. I don't want to make this about Trump in particular, but it does apply to the situation with him. A poster said here: So ... I'm confused.

I just want to say that I feel stupefied, flabbergasted, stumped by Trump and his supporters. I just don't get it. I don't understand how someone can ...

I think it's a kind of classism, sometimes reverse classism. It's about "knowing your place". For example, the local university sometimes holds open p...

*hrmph* Two variations of Clarke's Laws come to mind: Any sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from malice. Any sufficiently advanc...

IOW, standard examples of the self-serving bias and the fundamental attribution error. I want to figure out how to best guard against them when they a...

I can see your point, but a few signs of token appreciation just don't do it for me. In fact, it has the opposite effect.

*sigh* If only the forum wouldn't have that nifty link feature that makes it super easy to track back who said what, where, when.

The point is that that's too general. Hence the methods for refuting irrational beliefs, such as Albert Ellis' here (I parsed and highlighted the text...

I think one motivation is also as a form of "philosophical self-help". Ie. when people have a real problem IRL and they are trying to make sense of th...

If you feel there are things you "have to take on faith", then those are not axioms. Axioms are things you're already sure of. With that inborn human ...

That's a false dichotomy. Throwing tantrums may be unique to humans, but it's hardly what makes one a good human.