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Clearly, you don't actually know his stance on Putin. This discourse is the same as the covid one: "He that is not ferociously with us is feruciously ...

A theist who glorifies himself and creates a god in his own image: "God is whatever I say God is". A self-styled "theist" who doesn't care a straw abo...

Haha. I used to think that people who are successful in their careers and who have "made it" in life had first figured out the Big Metaphysical Questi...

For that, you'd have to study the suttas yourself. But this appears to be out of the question for you, you don't see the texts as authoritative. "Misi...

No, it's not fine. My point is that you're confusing yourself with low-grade sources about Buddhism, and this leads you astray on many aimless tangent...

You need to be more precise. He didn't use the Bible as his justification for his actions in the Ukraine, nor did he argue that he is following God's ...

This is still part of the narrative "Putin is evil/a monster/bully/etc. and everything he says and does must be interpreted in line with this fact". T...

What makes you think Hitler wasn't being critical of himself? What evidence do you have, either from existing recordings of him, or what appear to be ...

How do we solve a problem like Putin? A person isn't a problem to solve. As for the situation at hand, the solution is simple, but people generally re...

Full of what? Answers to "Who gets to define the terms?" ? *sigh* This is a philosophy forum, not the watercooler. There should be more to one's moral...

*sigh* It's not an argument, it's an anecdotal estimate by a self-defense professional. Actual studies of these phenomena are relatively few, because ...

It's incoherent to love that which one hates or despises or otherwise considers wrong or substandard.

How?

You do realize that the implicit motivation for ending slavery wasn't some kind of enlightened "But blacks are people too!", but the capitalist motiva...

I think that at the core of your predicament is that you're too passive, you wait for too long, wait for others to tell you things. This has many cons...

I used the theme of the successful operation but with a dead patient to comment on your lack of concern for the people involved, and instead your pref...

I am quite certain that we are _not_ "approaching the same truth from different positions of perceived value structure". Anything that is less than th...

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-94e5a5e45282c93f67dbd5c4cf2b2a98-lq Would your grandfather (or other male progenitor) who fought in the great wa...

One person's "cognitive rigidity" is another person's "steadfastness" and "self-confidence". Who gets to define the terms? Humanist liberals with thei...

Nobody ever wanted them to begin with. They have always been treated as third class people. To whatever extent they were accepted, it was all conditio...

Not chew in particular, but to ingest, to eat. The real philosophical problem is eating, feeding.

Or else, it's a matter of being self-confident, which is a good thing. I doubt this generally holds true. Group psychology isn't just about mediating ...

Of course he failed her. She risked health and life so that she could keep the relationship with him at all, and it wasn't enough.

List three examples when the lowering of standards led to a better result. Besides, nowadays, we have more taboos around sexuality than ever. We are u...

And people who use such language should be regarded as arbiters of righteousness ........

Women. Absolutely by women. I heard from a facilitator of women's self-defense classes that according to their internal study, in about 50% of the cas...

One cannot simultaneously love someone and beileve they are mad. One of the two is not true.

An egotheist, then.

You're working with a fallacious reduction of options. There aren't just "either believe in God, or believe in mere chance". It's also possible to not...

I'm not that close to where it's happening. But the government of the country I live in decided it would be a good idea to get "more actively involved...

Reducing suffering and eliminating suffering are two categorically different things. I'll get back to this thread in the next few days, provided the c...

You keep complaining about the low level of public discourse. However this Ukr. situation ends, one thing looks certain: afterwards, in the West, this...

What a bizarre claim, mirroring the stance of the OP: "People are atheists because they want to." Anyway, the question was specifically for the OP.

Not only that, but also: You must have love, you must have sex. Sex is a status symbol, and also a symbol of psychological normalcy. It seems natural ...

It's not clear why it would be kinder then. Generally, I find men are kinder toward women than other women. If women would be in charge, that would po...

You dumped her. She was not a "loved one" of yours.

A woman. Please.

The idea often put forward is that men objectify women and that women are innocent victims. I point out that this isn't the case, given that women are...

Such is life in capitalist paradise. If a person cannot live up to a certain standard, then they should not live at all. It's what the whole pro-assis...

Not in the context of the patriarch's fallibility. An Orthodox patriarch is not the same as the Roman pope. If the pope advertises something, then thi...

You are forgetting the role of the power relationship between the parties involved. What is true and moral is decided by the one who has more power.

Ah yes, the old, "I love you, but you're such an idiot/loser/slut!" There are things that one just wouldn't say to someone one loves. If a person call...

You are forgetting that the Orthodox Church doesn't work the same way as the Roman Catholic Church (or the Protestant churches). The Orthodox do not a...

While more and more people in the Western capitalist paradise have to wear diapers to work and literally piss and shit in their pants because they don...

No, it has nothing to do with socialism/communism. It has to do with common decency.

The problem is that not all Americans (as in: American citizens) are the same, nor are all Russians (as in: Russian citizens), or all Germans (as in: ...

So the West is fully entitled to undermine the safety of others, but others may not even defend themselves?

Why are people theists? Why do people believe in God?

Like @"Tom Storm", I, too, have heard this type of reasoning before. The constitutionally given right to free speech trumps informal logic.

What do people generally believe is the percentage of those who are pieces of shit? Somewhere in the 90% + range, probably.