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On the contrary. It was the Church who was in favor of the separation between Church and State. The Church had good foresight: this separation is actu...

Irrelevant. Outsiders are not in the position to judge the contents of a religion or whether a particular religious person adheres to their professed ...

"Emotional maturity" that results in favoring Christians. Christians do not respond with the same "emotional maturity" when atheists want to do their ...

Don't forget that in some (Western!!) countries (democracies!!) the person doesn't actually have a choice as to which recovery program they will join ...

No, I'm talking at least about some Hindu doctrines of karma, Buddhist doctrines of karma, popular doctrines of karma. It seems you're implicitly tryi...

Seconded. It's meaningless to discuss "karma" without reference to a particular doctrine of karma (there are several of them).

Not at all. Already the "regular" use of scientific achievements is what causes pollution. Plastic waste is plastic waste, regardless whether produced...

What is "unnecessary"? Is refusing oneself the satisfaction of one's ego "unnecessary"?

Who actually fires the first bullet has only symbolic value. When a party makes it clear it wants to destroy the other, it's irrelevant who actually s...

No, I've never met a Christian who would actually despise himself or herself. On the contrary, they are enormously self-confident, self-assured, consi...

Holism, Mental and Semantic https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/MentalSemanticHolism.html

Does this look like self-contempt to you? It doesn't to me. https://www.lovethispic.com/uploaded_images/389364-Daily-Battle-Prayer.jpg

But Christian women go along with it. There was a feature on the news where a Republican politician said the overturning of Roe vs. Wade was a big vic...

Make that potentially about 20 billion examples. You're ignoring that sexuality and procreation have been by far the most regulated social activities ...

People are typically epistemic autoritarians. From the lowest plebeian to a philosopher with several advanced degrees, epistemic authoritarianism: "Th...

It's relevant because your argument is deductively valid only in a specific context, ie. that of Western culture (where people don't believe in (seria...

Keep to the text. "The harm" is the center of your phrase, and to this one I replied. As in, "Science created a million other harms." For example, all...

You seem to think it isn't trying to do that? It certainly hasn't worked until February this year. Make no mistake, I have no doubt that the West will...

Of course you still engage, but you can do it with a lightness (for the lack of a better word) that people who are still in the rat race can't.

No. In some cases, yes. Selfhood is one such example.

And create a million others. I think that the argument from the prospective parent's lack of existential qualification is stronger than the one usuall...

It's not like we're at a philosophy discussion forum, Deepak.

What is the rational reply to someone hating and despising you (for decades) and preparing to attack you with military force?

No. That's what I've been asking you, since you're the one who brought it up. I'm saying what the self can't possibly be. A triangle cannot be a circl...

But other people do the same kind of thing. Epistemologically, it's not even clear it's possible to do something else. An argument can be sound only i...

This is Pharisaic. It follows logically, but it goes against the spirit of love for children.

The Theory of Evolution, survival of the fittest. It's all the rage, we're all supposed to believe it, yet somehow, be very selective about thinking i...

The things that change about a person are not the self. The skin is not the self, the muscles, the skeleton, the body fat are not the self, the name i...

Western culture is "just the practice of using reason to find out what's true"?? Shall we look at a rap video with twerking females, as example of "ju...

Of course. How else do you think I have my opinion on the matter? Who is "we"? Hence, it seems you're after a universally applicable explanation of gr...

No. Just more educated villains. When self-help books titled to the effect of "The art of not giving a fuck" or "First take care of your own ass" get ...

You mean hatred and contempt?

While the West continues to hate and despise Russia, as it has always done?

Those who present contempt and hatred as good things, as virtues, should not be surprised by the consequences of what they teach.

By not regarding as self that which is subject to change.

No. I really don't think this is something to fear. No, it's precisely because I know I can't be that kind of parent that I don't feel qualified to ha...

This view is limited strictly to some particular Western worldviews, namely, mainstream Abrahamic religions and secularism. The vast majority of the h...

This is so cold. It's understandable that you might feel this way about some stranger or their children. But to feel this way about your own (prospect...

A fallacious ad populum. Empirically not true. From eugenics to some people regretting that they had children to antinatalists, some people do judge p...

Depends on the person or the topic. There are many things one doesn't need to experience for oneself in order to know one doesn't want to experience t...

Never look at yourself, huh.

It's no good being female in this world; and men cannot be relied on. Illness, old age, disease. Not being able to satisfactorily answer his existenti...

Good points.

Pffft. Educated villains are all the rage now.

The right-wingers have a plebeian mentality, regardless of their education status and wealth. They probably don't see it that way, but more in terms "...

Are you God? Else, on what grounds can you fret about what they do or don't do?

Show me someone to whom those teachings "appeal", and I'll show you someone who expects, even demands, that _other_ people should behave in line with ...

Oh, does it? Or are people just thinking hard how they can capitalise on the backwardness of others?

Yet the exploitative nature of the relationship between men and women never changed.

As long as men get what they want, it doesn't really matter whether abortion is legal or not, right. Both the pro-life stance as well as the pro-choic...