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People whose car gets stuck in the rails while they're crossing the railroad not rarely die in the collision with the train, because they refuse to le...

It is morally reprehensible that the government has left it to individuals to decide whether to get vaccinated or not, and with which vaccine. So many...

Either way, people get thrown under the bus. And that's apparently okay.

How?? He believed that there is no such thing as social injustice!

This kind of succintness is what makes Zen so easy to exploit and pervert, and to assume more familiarity with it than one actually has.

IOW, it's perfectly okay to throw a certain percentage of the population under the bus.

AFAIK, the system sends out notification based on the post as it is first posted. If the post is later edited, and new mentions of people added, they ...

The thread topic is enlightenment. Since when does philosophy concern itself with enlightenment or should have the final say over it?

From William James, Is life worth living? Meat eating can be justified ethically, provided that one lives honorably and does something worthwhile with...

Not just fear. It reflects the human craving for uniformity: "Everyone should do the same thing, be the same, even if in the process of becoming so, t...

You keep evading the question of the moral responsibility of pro-vaccers.

This is already happening here, though. Individual people report that their GP refused to see them if they are not vaccinated. History has shown what ...

MORAL RESPONSIBILITY. How strange that it works only one way -- the non-vaccinated hold a moral responsibility toward the vaccinated. But those promot...

Careful there. The going rate in Slovenia is now 40% of those hospitalized for covid are vaccinated. 20% of those needing ICU are vaccinated.

If he gets a stroke and becomes paralyzed, will you pay for him for the rest of his life?

Of course not. Even the one on the left doesn't have a bikini body. Or perhaps the joke is in suggesting that all three are bikini bodies.

A brave warrior -- meaning, someone who has killed many people. Thou shalt not kill -- except when you should.

Nah. The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. Jer. 5:31

Has Hayek himself ever been on the losing end?

I really dislike this. So politically correct. The rral world doesn't work like that.

Meh, kids these days. No ambition.

And you know this, like, firsthand? But perhaps enlightenmemt is a pain in the arse! If your guru says so ...

Then why don't they clarify it like that? Moreover, it is sometimes (often) not possible to describe the level of one's injury because one simply does...

Sure. I try this and that. I have a personal guideline that I can't cry foul until I have given something at least 100 good tries. For example, I mow ...

To me, the suttas seem relatable enough, it's the socio-cultural context in which they are provided (by this I mean various Buddhist venues, such as t...

If such is the case, if enlightenment is something different for every person, then all efforts to attain it are idiosyncratic. Then no path to enligh...

I haven't read the above sources, so I'm just going by your quote. This shouldn't be the case for a Buddhist, though. "The will to nothingness" is rou...

You can think about it like this: For most people (not just Westerners), their feelings or emotions for something or someone are conditional. People t...

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As if it is more noble or more realistic to think that enlightenment is impossible to attain. Except that "attachment" can do all that provoking and t...

Aberrations and diseases are things we want to get rid of, eliminate them. We see them as things that shouldn't exist. It's in this desire and effort ...

"Official morality" tells us to be honest, friendly, not to kill, rape, and pillage, to care about other people and other beings, and such. Yet people...

But what are blacks doing to you, or a book? Because this is where the matter of perceptions/affectings gains special relevance. You say there are thi...

Oh god. Showing your true colors.

As was made clearer further down the thread, the OP isn't actually defending naive realism.

No. Membership in the scout organization is not mandatory.

If patience is a necessary virtue for the Eagle Scouts, and the system of climbing the hierarchical ladder is such that the local scout master decides...

Would it be possible to obtain the position of absolute power without being absolutely corrupt? One cannot gain any position of power unless one is at...

So the blacks impose on other people that blacks are an inferior race? LOTR imposes on you that it is a good book?

It's quite ironic, because the people because of whom one loses one's faith in humanity can sometimes be the same people who demand one to have faith ...

For example, religious peple have been arguing about who has the right idea of God or The Truth. They even went to war with eachother for precisely th...

If you hold that everything and everyone is part of this world and belongs in it, then how do you explain what are considered aberrations and evil (su...

I think the OP is working on the premise that "facts of the world" are also such conventions (but the OP can't say that, because that would require a ...

Is this an epistemological or a metaphysical/ideological/ethical consideration? (Or do you believe that there cannot be one without the other?) I thin...

What good are one's high morals and one's high principles, if one is otherwise a loser, a slave, defeated and downtrodden by others? Are your virtues ...

All I can say is that we're worlds apart, and I'm not interested in bridging the chasm. It's too much work, and whatever reward might come of it doesn...

But not as something to be permanently deconstructed, overcome. It seems that in Nietzsche's view, there should exist a series of selves; one overcomi...

I love to watch when people argue about enlightenment.

I've always been puzzled as to whence the idea that Spock is "without emotion". Just because he isn't a drama queen like Kirk doesn't make him "withou...

Really, _that_ would leave Arizona in the stone age?