And you suppose wrongly, as usual. And as usual, you take your suppositions as facts about me. (Which you then hold against me.) The manner in which y...
You left out an important part of what I said: "People tend to condemn an act as wrong when it happens to them or someone of the same category as they...
It is wrong to think, though, that the modern religious pluralism and secularism is "more tolerant" because of some profound insight into the inherent...
How about we follow the money and suggest that what is going on is not a politization of institutionalized religion, nor a corruption -- but a correct...
What do you mean? Are you talking about the US? Are you talking about phenomena like national Catholicsm? In several traditionally Catholic European c...
The scope, what is at stake. Eschatological and soteriological traditions have the most at stake, precisely because they claim to be eschatological an...
Those are irrelevant in comparison to the scope of religion. Whether one is wrong or right about science, medicine, the liberal state, etc. has no bea...
Trumpism is already happening anyway. Look at a forum like this: even his fierce critics are using the same methods he does. Again, Trumpism. Who choo...
Not generally and not universally, though. That is, people tend to be tribalistic in such matters: "It is wrong to rape _my_ daughter, but why should ...
No, it doesn't necessarily operate out of such acceptance. I'm talking about this: If someone can come along and challenge me, why shouldn't I challen...
This depends on the local laws; some legal systems have laws or regulations for state officials and lawyers to exempt themselves from a particular cas...
Notice I begun that part of my comment with "For example" and concluded it with, "And similarly with so many other things." The theme was whether the ...
I actually majored in literature, but I never understood such formulations. Speaking of the audience as "we", or how "a viewer" understands or interpr...
Not without justification perhaps? Imagine you become the one who gets scapegoated, a witch hunted. How do you cope with that? What is a healthy way f...
Trump can't be accused of trolling, simply because he's not a minority, not an outsider. For something to be considered trolling, it has to be done by...
If you loook at online forums, the way an accusation of trolling comes about, it's a pattern like this: A community professes to hold to a particular ...
Rather, it's the other way around. The breakdown of trust and the cynicism can lead to various socially unacceptable behaviors. Tellingly, the breakdo...
I don't know the Buddhist book about dating that you mentioned earlier, but from what you said, it seems to be a humorous approach to explaining Buddh...
I think what makes them freeze is that they still haven't realized that they don't actually have all that many choices, realistically. For example, we...
Sure, but the socio-economic structure of religion is still hierarchical, and it is all about rank and authority. Even if the people involved are all ...
I think it's not about "too much freedom" or freedom being "crippling". It's that the institutions that we are expected to trust and rely on don't car...
Actually, it seems it was/is your general hopeful/positive disposition that is the most helpful factor for you. The cognitive science and phenomenolog...
"Ultimately your brain is not static, it is adaptive. But it only adapts when its predictions are challenged. And those challenges cannot come from wi...
I said it depends on the audience with whom in mind you're writing. If you're writing a children's book on some philosophical topic, the standards and...
Lotuses grow in the filth, and they kill everything else in the bodies of water where they grow. Ever seen how lotus leaves cover the whole surface, s...
Like I've been saying all along: Speaking up, when one is the wrong person, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, can have grave consequences for one...
As if people could not decide on their own. Of course they do, all the time. The issue here seems to be the justification of one's decisions, the purp...
In other words, you're not saying anything. You have a nice clause there about ignoring others which you can always refer to when other people don't t...
Yet somehow, this distinction didn't make it into so many Bible renditions in other languages, even when those languages have that same distinction. A...
Because it seems practically, pragmatically impossible to produce a comprehensive and concise list of such moral decisions. For example, while the Ten...
Only vaguely theistic. The moment you suggest, like you did the other day, that religion might well be merely a useful fiction, but that that's alrigh...
So morality is all about an intuitively felt righteous indignation? For the most part, this is wrong, because most religious people have been born and...
Because some rich and powerful people decided that way. Mostly because they wanted to be even more rich and powerful. This is absurd! One cannot "deci...
Sure, there are such instances. The problem with belief in God is, though, that one cannot actually choose to believe in God. God is, by definition, a...
@"Wayfarer" has the attitude of an old swami, that's what the problem is, as far as a philosophy forum goes. It's not that people resent the idea of s...
I think @"Astorre" is asking about something else, something along the lines of, "If a person is fully committed to a particular worldview (or paradig...
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