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It's not independent. Ukrainians rely on Russia to give them work and natural resources. If they hate Russia so much, then why do they go to work ther...

But this doesn't say anything about the content of this ethics. The "Golden Rule" is far too easy to exploit for it to be of any relevance, other than...

Further, it's a strawman that leaves out that someone who has lived their life killing, raping, and pillaging isn't likely to repent on their deathbed...

People typically try to earn a living by what they do. It's hardly an ignoble outlook. As to how much they earn with their art, this is not within the...

I don't listen to music while driving. I focus on the road, the traffic, the engine. A recording is mastered for optimum sound. What you hear in an ac...

I had a Gary Oldman moment, like here, in The Professional, starting at 2.40. I've always been fortunate enough to get good seats. The programme was p...

Do you see humans as "the measure of all things", that humans are the ones who decide what is and could be, and humans get to decide this for all othe...

The link I see between solipsism and atheism is this: In theism, knowledge of "how things really are" is received from others, and, presumably, origin...

Not 21st century reality, but American mentality. They've been hyping themselves up with anti-Russian paranoia for seventy years. It's a miracle they ...

But whence this idea that Russia wants to invade Ukraine?? This is pure provocation on the part of the US and their EU allies. They've been treating R...

Then hurry up, because I have less and less time for this forum.

Because Kinkade had the formal education that enabled him to paint in a variety of styles, yet he chose as he did. I'm quite sure that he knew full we...

By now, I know my place. In the past, I would regularly go to the monthly concerts of the resident symphony orchestra, the chamber music groups, and t...

For me, it's quite different. Growing up, we would watch three national televisions (in three languages; it used to be normal here), now it's two (the...

The question was how come you said this thread was a nightmare.

Why do you say that?

So you believe that there is suffering, but that potentially, there is no respite from it, no end to it? I think this is nowhere near the problem that...

What do winners read (or what films do they watch)?

What are you, this person's boss? Then you should get thusly educated.

Of course. My point is simply about the relevance of seeing life as a struggle for survival/the upper hand. As opposed to some more humanist ideas abo...

Gladiator games as catharsis for the masses. A logical continuation of the ancient tradition of tragedy, but tailored for the masses.

Why else would one watch combat sports, if not for the pleasure of bloodlust?

To monotheists, "God exists" is an axiom. To someone who is not a monotheist, it's at most a hinge proposition for the purposes of a particular conver...

There are already criteria in place for selecting recipients of organ transplants. There is an official waiting list and a board of doctors who decide...

At least in the past, convicted felons were not rarely used in medical experiments. It's how they can be useful to society. This practice is nothing n...

When Donnie resumes power, we will have a new triumvirat: Donnie, Borrie, and Scotty. Firmly holding the entire planet in their grasp. Horrible things...

You you you you you, you, and your you language.

For example, in our culture, it is considered moral that women should use hormonal contraceptives (despite the known dangers they pose to the health a...

No less, or it could even be worse. Something being seen as a social event doesn't automatically make it good or at least unproblematic. This claim wa...

Your dog most likely wouldn't play hide and seek with a random stranger off the street. Instead, she'd probably behave more like an alligator -- fight...

If anything, humans appear to have an enormous need to feel special and to deem themselves above animals. This way, they can justify the horrific mann...

Why do you consider this a matter of awareness, and not of something else?

More far-fetched than either of the above is the conviction that by answering the above question, we will find the meaning of life and end suffering.

How do you know that animals aren't aware?

Rejecting god is an infinite offense, an infinite evil.

What the OP @"Banno" and D. Lewis are forgetting is that in no major monotheistic religion is killing, raping, and pillaging an automatic disqualifier...

Again: Is the Darwinian struggle for survival immoral? If you don't think it is, then based on what can you consider the literal interpretation of the...

It's still not clear why you consider it immoral. Is the Darwinian struggle for survival immoral? If you don't think it is, then based on what can you...

This discussion has been hopelessly hampered by political correctness.

Yet this is the level that matters. I refuse to just let religious people get away with this. Oh, I don't think they are "bad" religions. It seems mor...

In another discourse, they are called axioms.

No: In a culturally homogeneous setting, psychological analysis poses as the mode of self reflection.

You can't speak for me, nor can I speak for you. So who actually is "we"?

But why blame Djokovic for this? Why blame Djokovic for the privileged treatment he received?

Who is "we"?

Winners don't read those books or watch those films. For them, those books and films actually are fails.

Who is "we"? Ha! The placebo effect says it can.

Actually, the Holy Ghost is the most immediately pertinent for the people, and thus should be discussed the most, for it is the Holy Ghost that grants...

That which we have learned to do so, and to the extent or expanse which our learning permits. That's because you're not getting involved in it, you do...