I'm thinking of leaving this forum because of Xtrix. He is authoritarian, he is patronizing, he acts in bad faith. And now that he's a moderator, we c...
That's just the thing: It _is_ law. It is _Islamic_ law. The Islamic authorities disagree. Would you make the same case for hate speech? Wrong. It's n...
I majored in literature. An authoritarian endeavor it is. It's all dogma and power games through and trough. "Independent exploration" my ass. At the ...
Indeed, countries differ in how they treat flag desceration. In some countries, you can go to prison (for years) for burning the flag. (I brought up f...
Name one instance where it's not like this. I can't think of any field of human knowledge and endeavor where "independent exploration" is not consider...
If you were to burn the Dutch flag in public, what would be the consequences? It's just a piece of cloth, isn't it? IOW, it's not only some "primitive...
You don't get to decide that. Your response is typical for the way secularists approach the matter: They see themselves as authorities over "how thing...
Hence the recipe for a good marriage is 1 kiss + 1 slap in the face. That really makes one appreciate the kisses!!!! The idea that it is hardships tha...
It's how the recognition feels that depending on impermanent things for one's happiness is precarious. That is, you recognize that depending on imperm...
Why should the same kind of reasoning apply to other religions? Designating someone as a member of a particular religion is sometimes purely an artifa...
No. If we're believers in liberal democracies, we're believers in religious superficialism: "It's okay to be religious, you can be any religion you wa...
It could be that, or it's simply that such criticism would in some cases amount to interfering with the internal affairs of another country. Moreover,...
1. 2. Iran is a sovereign country. 3. Iran doesn't have a secular legal system the way Western secular countries typically do. For a foreign country t...
Ironically, both the antinatalists as well as the natalists are still firmly immersed in the pursuit of sensual pleasures, they differ only in which t...
To begin with, it's not clear how to quantify hardship and suffering (importantly, the two should be distinguished one from the other). Do you measure...
It should be your concern when those people act on those ideas, and you're on the receiving end, and not in a good sense. I wonder about that too. Cle...
Twisting of how language works... Conditions X are a necessity of Y state of affairs. Someone brought about Y state of affairs for someone else, which...
Your little eeyore video simply implicitly extolls common decency, while your religion/spirituality promotes the pursuit of sensual pleasures. (The pu...
Unfortunately, forums like this are the only place where this topic can be discussed in an at least half-way meaningful manner for ordinary people. Me...
But how come you're different than those people? You don't believe in, for example, "souls" and "life after death", do you? Don't you find it odd that...
This is a philosophy forum. This includes philosophy of science. The OP's problem comes precisely from a lack of appreciation for the philosophy of sc...
How do you explain that not everyone thinks the way you do about procreation? If your position is one of materialism or something similar (as it seems...
That can happen to you in war regardless whether you're a civilian or a soldier. It can also happen to you regardless whether there is officially war ...
@"rossii" What should I live for or how should I live? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/13302/page/p1 A person doesn't live in a socio-psycho...
Exactly. We'd have to venture into a more "exotic cosmogony" in order to be able to coherently claim that the injustice of birth is done _to_ someone....
Not enough return upon investment. Contrary to the belief of capitalists and assorted others, people do not have an infinite willingness to invest any...
Like I said, I'd love to discuss Buddhism with him. He said he understood the Buddha. To begin with, back in his day, there weren't many translations ...
No, it has to do with the belief that you are your body; and it has to do with the belief that when the body dies, "it's all over". Note: These belief...
Nor has anyone else. But the things you've learned from those individuals can only work because there is the assumption that those things work interpe...
That varies from country to country. Again, that varies from country to country. I agree that in some countries, elections are an exercise in futility...
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