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Craving for a solution can get in the way of finding one. The pandemic occured because people are not cautious and are exploitative toward nature and ...
September 04, 2021 at 15:48
It's not news that vaccinating people who are already infected with the pathogen they are being vaccinated against can lead to complications, similar ...
September 04, 2021 at 15:40
There seems to be a limit to how much critical thinking and goodwill people are willing and able to engage in in a time of crisis, and that manifestin...
September 04, 2021 at 15:26
In Slovenia, there has for a long time been an unspoken culture of how to proceed in such cases, and people in general were expected to "make the righ...
September 04, 2021 at 15:07
In some EU countries, we have a mixture of privatised and universal healthcare. Here, the bottomline is that health insurance only gets you at the end...
September 04, 2021 at 14:44
*sigh* I'm not against vaccination in general, nor against vaccination against covid in particular. But I am against vaccinating people of unknown med...
September 04, 2021 at 13:35
You keep up. The official popular "Get vaccinated, or else!" narrative allows for no consideration as to why a person didn't get vaccinated. Such is a...
September 04, 2021 at 13:23
"Metta" isn't 'love', and "loving-kindness" is an awkward translation. From Thanissaro Bhikkhu: Metta Means Goodwill: /.../ Metta is a wish for happin...
September 04, 2021 at 13:06
How could these two questions possibly be separate?? - - - It's not clear what the term "virtue ethics" actually means, since "virtue" and "ethics" ar...
September 04, 2021 at 12:55
Is it really the case that power wants to censor dissenting views? Possibly not. It serves those in power to have dissenters, and some extreme dissent...
September 04, 2021 at 12:44
But what exactly were their roles in society then? What political power did they actually have?
August 31, 2021 at 20:12
Yes. In some of those countries, doctors and esp. medical nurses have been complaining for years that they are severely understaffed (and underpayed)....
August 31, 2021 at 20:06
And no consideration is given as to why a person didn't get vaccinated. It's quite strange that there are no contraindications for covid vaccines. For...
August 31, 2021 at 19:57
But when you put it this way, it's so vague that it includes Hitler and Mother Theresa, anyone and anything.
August 31, 2021 at 19:32
In religion, God is defined as that one being who does things by sheer power.
August 31, 2021 at 19:29
There is at least one further option, namely, that God is a tribalist, has a chosen tribe, and the objectively good is what is good for that tribe. Th...
August 31, 2021 at 18:47
It seems the OP is trying to make it about the God of philosophers. But then it's not clear on the grounds of what a religious idea should be given re...
August 31, 2021 at 18:25
That's backwards, you're talking about the God of philosophers, not about God as he is conceived of in actual monotheistic religions.
August 31, 2021 at 18:23
(I haven't read the whole thread, so ...) I think this pretty much says it all. From what I've seen, computer scientists tend to view information as p...
August 31, 2021 at 18:12
God's word has the power of creation.
August 31, 2021 at 18:01
Your request is as absurd as your accusations. My only hope for you is that you remain blissfully ignorant of what you miss out on in life and the dam...
August 31, 2021 at 17:58
He started this. He started this with misrepresenting me viciously and refusing to desist. He has always treated me like I am his underling and that I...
August 31, 2021 at 17:54
Meanwhile, your molars rot.
August 30, 2021 at 19:45
Guilty until proven innocent? It's not you who needs to prove your accusation, it's I who needs to defend myself against it and convince you otherwise...
August 30, 2021 at 19:44
For example, by some Muslim standards, Christians are atheists. But does that make them atheists? To go further East, there are many deities in Buddhi...
August 30, 2021 at 19:33
Of course. A particular type of atheism is usually shaped in reference to the theism it opposes, and so just like there are many theisms, so there are...
August 30, 2021 at 19:26
Don't think that your misrepresenation and your contempt go unnoticed. People like you make the world not worth saving.
August 30, 2021 at 19:10
I guess insane people can be consistent like that ...
August 30, 2021 at 19:07
In the EU, a covid passport is a paper or digital document with one's covid status (recovered, vaccinated, or tested) linked to an online database tha...
August 30, 2021 at 19:01
Buddhism is far too versatile to make generalized claims of this sort. For example, the Pure Land Buddhists, a major school of Buddhism, believe in sa...
August 30, 2021 at 18:54
No, literally. If poverty would in and of itself be a virtue, then gutters and prisons should be full of good, morally upright, even enlightened peopl...
August 30, 2021 at 18:49
That's because they take for granted that they will be saved. It's only the few scrupolous Roman Catholics who live in fear of messing up their one an...
August 30, 2021 at 18:40
What use is a philosophy when living by it makes you a loser?!
August 30, 2021 at 18:38
To what use, to what end? Unless one is omniscient, or gifted with enormous self-confidence, then how can one possibly know what is truly, objectively...
August 30, 2021 at 18:36
*sigh*
August 30, 2021 at 18:29
You're lucky. At pretty much any other forum you'd be banned for misrepresenting and attacking another poster like you do. But, hey, Jesus loves you!!...
August 30, 2021 at 18:24
In the end, irony will be the winner!!!!!!
August 30, 2021 at 18:21
All internal and international travel for EU citizens; it's not possible to enter a EU country without a valid covid passport. Then, depending on the ...
August 30, 2021 at 18:15
By being a member of the chosen tribe. IOW, it's not up to one's own choice. Sure. But we might still go to hell.
August 29, 2021 at 13:05
Much of a person's mental and physical behavior is habitual, ie. regular, repeated. So it's no surprise that there is a measure of predictability to i...
August 29, 2021 at 13:02
Perhaps you don't, but that doesn't mean everyone else is the same as you. If God is a tribalist, and a particular person is a member of the chosen tr...
August 29, 2021 at 10:39
In jurisdictions where covid passports are mandatory for many activities, the matter of whether it is moral or immoral to refuse to get covid vaccinat...
August 29, 2021 at 10:35
They both teach people to work hard, earn a lot, and support the clergy. Neither views poverty as a virtue when it comes to laypeople.
August 29, 2021 at 10:10
No. You're just sourgraping. How did it improve?? He became unfit to earn a living! Don't forget that he and his immediate followers lived off the mer...
August 29, 2021 at 10:07
But not in the case of this pandemic. Nobody gets excused, everyone is put into the same category. Right in the beginning when they first started vacc...
August 29, 2021 at 09:58
Surely you mean asceticism. But your thought is nice too. Heh.
August 29, 2021 at 09:43
It's a reference to this idiom: "The Only Good Indian is a Dead Indian" https://www.jstor.org/stable/541345#:~:text=%22The%20Only%20Good%20Indian%20Is...
August 29, 2021 at 09:34
... for what? Misery?
August 29, 2021 at 09:26
The purpose of wisdom is to improve one's life, and that includes improving one's socio-economic status. Agree?
August 29, 2021 at 09:25
God's standards. Think of God as a capitalist businessman or a tribalist. Now, because he's God, his perspective is all that counts, and if he happens...
August 29, 2021 at 09:18