Such plebeian reasoning. This is a part of the problem: People talking about big issues and people in high places as if those were topics suitable for...
People need to rethink whether traditional nation states are even viable if the people in them wish to live a first-world lifestyle. One of the implie...
Such surgeries have always been unnecessary. Many heterosexual people have the same view of their own gender identity -- that's it isn't merely about ...
No. What "ignited furor" was the superficiality level at which the entire discussion should take place, and the bad faith in which it should be conduc...
No, people who have dogs and several other species of animals often tell them apart by their biological sex by looking under their tail/between their ...
Don't be silly. You're putting forward the same type of model as the traditional ones. So you're, basically, doing the same thing as those you oppose,...
And what if it's not failure at all? I asked you (and @"Tom Storm)" about this before, but you didn't reply. Namely, on the difference between I-state...
You used this line of reasoning to defend Nazis. So Putin's "failure of insight" is what exactly? That Slavic people are inferior and must let the Wes...
So if you live in a suburb, and dry your laundry by hanging it out in the air in your backyard, and your neighbor burns trash in his backyard, so that...
Why? People generally don't consider it very important to understand others. In fact, they generally prefer to see themselves as the arbiters of the o...
A country either has sovereignity or doesn't. If it cannot take care of itself, then it doesn't have sovereignity. It's not posisble to take away some...
Is it really philosophically correct to take for granted that the party who feels wronged is automatically the arbiter of morality? As the poor and th...
Ukraine's sovereignty? A country that slavishly seeks the approval and protection of others and which depends economically on a country it considers i...
The West has been intensely building up contempt against Russia for at least 80 years. For all this time, the West, and specifically the US, has made ...
Clearly, you don't understand much about Russia, or China. These nations may be capitalist, but they are not the kind of simple-minded, greedy consume...
Why do countries have so many so powerful weapons and so many soldiers, if not because they have every intent to use them? Nobody of any relevance in ...
Come, man, tell us what you know! Is "the ability to listen to opposing views without fear that we'll slide into a holocaust if you let other people h...
You said "without things like forgiveness and redemption, societies tend to accumulate hatred until people kill one another." What evidence can you pr...
Like others have said, there is the sense of entitlement, as a cause for not reciprocating. Another possibility is shame. If the person feels ashamed ...
Again: I think it's possible to think beyond anger and blame entirely, but we can only do this by giving up the aims that anger and blame serve, ie. w...
NATO needs a reason for existing. It needs enemies. If there aren't any, it makes them. And the West has always despised the Slavic people, considerin...
No, that's a weak defense. "People should be given something because they need or prefer it" is far too general, too open-ended. Evidently not true. Y...
Of course it does. That's the whole point. That's how there exist whole schools in religions, lineages where thousands of people are trained to discer...
The issue at hand is still scapegoating. What is different, in comparison to more traditional cultures, is that modern culture has lost all sense of p...
Still waiting for your reply. How does a person "stop being a big baby" and how does a person "grow the ability to listen to opposing views without fe...
I think such interviews are necessarily too short, too superficial, and too polite to offer any real insight into the person's religious choices, so I...
No, that's _you_ don't know whether God exists. Doesn't mean everyone else is the same as you. Oh, for crying out loud. You keep taking for granted yo...
It's been like that for as long as I can remember. Vaccinations, hormonal contraceptives, use of plastic, cutting down forests, failing to start build...
Bertolt Brecht, presumably so concerned with the poor working class, out of "solidarity" with them wore a shirt tailored the way the shirts of workers...
On the contrary, I think it's possible to think beyond anger and blame entirely, but we can only do this by giving up the aims that anger and blame se...
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