Many people think in black-and-white terms. They are not interested in understanding things, but in taking sides. So even when they read a (would-be) ...
It seems the problem at hand is of a more general nature (and has nothing to do with animals, or comparing humans and animals). Namely, it's that it i...
What instinct? This isn't an argument. It's two sentences, the latter of which is a question. A syllogism yet needs to be derived from this, and doing...
No, the way to know God is not the way to know tables and chairs, or atoms, or anything else. Remember, we started with this: You started with the exa...
As long as the people involved don't decide on which narrative to go with, there is confusion. If we go with the "selfish gene" narrative, then we can...
In discussions of S/stoicism, the point is often made that one needs to distinguish between what one can control and what one cannot control. However,...
I wonder what you mean by "democratic". It seems you mean something like "being voted into a position of power, as opposed to inheriting it or usurpin...
No, that's how a polarized, simplificationist two-party system works. In such a system, what matters the most is whose will prevails, not what the iss...
Ergo, those who feel immortal, who have a sense that their life will somehow go on forever, have no biological desire to reproduce. Ha! A sense of one...
Do explain why. If we hold the Theory of Evolution, why taboo Social Darwinism? https://www.desicomments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Do-sharks-comp...
No, that would merely render the problem of suffering moot. It wouldn't minimize it, it wouldn't make an end to it, it would only make it not applicab...
Daoism originates in China. Study the history of China. Daoism seems to be a Chinese version of quietism. Of course the ruling class in China would no...
When there is noone to whom the injustice could happen, there is no injustice. When there is noone to whom the injustice could happen, you haven't pre...
Not here. In Slovenia, as of yesterday, the percentage of people who are hospitalized for covid and who are fully vaccinated is around 30%. In Croatia...
The main reason why I think this is wrong is because the only apparent benefit from this stance and this course of action is a certain satisfaction of...
You and several others have been viciously criticizing me over stances I don't hold. And nothing seems to get through to you. Nothing. I can't say I'm...
Multitude of opinions among philosophers is indicative only of there being a multitude of opinions among philosophers. Lack of consensus doesn't mean ...
No, I'm talking about divine revelation, not that "which one obtains from within", "intuition", or "mystical union". Divine revelation as in, holy scr...
That we know things couched in cultural terms is a given. The issue is the dichotomy as proposed by you, namely, "know thyself" vs. "know thyself bett...
Then why call it "harmless"? Also, what justifies the hatred and the contempt that the vocal pro-vaccers express for anyone who is in any way not enth...
That's nice to see then, apparently pressure from the public helped a bit. Still, the EU country I live has no compensation for damage due to covid va...
It is the case with other madatory vaccines. For every other mandatory vaccine, there is a safety net for the case that something goes wrong, but not ...
No. It stopped being harmless the moment the patent holder of the vaccine officially published its side effects, ranging from mild to deblitating to f...
Fair is fair, the system of higher education was devised for precisely this purpose. It's why the elites protested at the prospect of commoners being ...
Should actual lay people, Tom, Jane, Mary, Henry, be convinced to get vaccinated by the arguments given by the virologists? Do they have such an oblig...
It's a cognitive bias: The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when an individual, who is communicating with other individuals, assumes...
By all means, I can relate to that. “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would ...
Well, there was a time when I would here and there have nightmares about going to hell, punished by God eternally. It's been a while since the last on...
They don't. When you are eventually rushed into the ER with meningoecephalitis, with fever and vomitting and so on, they ask you, "Why did you wait fo...
Pffft. I'd venture to say that most people believe that "made up" and "subjective" are one and the same thing.* There surely is some reason why people...
How ironic. In some schools of Hinduism, Maya is a servant of God and she's in charge of the illusion according to which humans think that they are se...
No. Every self-respecting Christian has a personal relationship with God. Again, no, not in the case of God and people who believe in God (and whose k...
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