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The issue is applied psychology, as it is applied by people in positions of power, whether they have a degree in psychology or not, and the legal powe...

But in the meantime, there are real consequences for people from psychologists. People get stigmatized with psychological diagnoses, lose jobs, get th...

And, of course, there was once the Democratic-Republican Party. Such an ironic name.

I guess consolation and justice also have a Gaussian distribution, at large enough sample sizes ...

Following what said earlier: By Buddhist logic, if you buy products that you know were produced in an unethical way, you are innocent of any wrongdoin...

At this point, we can't know if it was a scam. He had a history of pedophilia and sexual assault, so this should be cause for alarm. But some politica...

Have you seen Blue Jasmine? I generally dislike Allen's work, esp. the early stuff, but I appreciate Blue Jasmine. I also find Wonder Wheel interestin...

An intact male convict was allowed into a female prison, simply because he claimed to identify as a woman.

One of the heights of this political correctness was this: /.../ This meant, that for the first time, legally male prisoners with fully intact male bo...

This part: suggests that that particular conversation took place in an atmosphere of trust, even if it was just temporary. Even a generally bad relati...

Yet the antisocials and the freeriders can do extremely well in life. How do you explain that?

Jostein Gaarder: Sophie's World Terry Eagleton: The Meaning of Life

Hm?? I'm agreeing with you.

I agree. I've seen this phenomenon in, for example, meat eating Buddhists. Now, these peple vow not to take life, so they wouldn't kill or order the a...

If only there wouldn't be so many schools of psychology, so many different theories about the same thing!

That depends on whether the relationship is already bad or not. In an already bad relationship, adding more authoritarianism will not improve the situ...

And, of course, this whole conversation with your parents took place in an atmosphere of mutual trust, which made the conversation a very specific one...

And age is also a statement regarding one's legal status, and everything that comes with that. For some things, some peple truly are too young, such a...

I'm not distracted by the competition. It's hard to fight when it's not clear what the weapons to be used are and what counts for victory. And we'd ne...

You want to do philosophy for philosophy's sake?? And Schopenhauer was a spoiled trust fund kid.

We used to have them at home, on a farm, they were free to roam around. They were such smart and amiable beings. I would cuddle and play with them. So...

The thing is that what the OP is talking about is just one way, one-sided. The LGBT+ person walks in, tells everyone how they want to be addressed, bu...

And so many fucking likes!! Back when I was growing up, into my teens, one considered oneself lucky to be considered a person at all. Also, when adult...

So this is specifically about those "people who claim to be in support of the LGBTQIA+", but who don't get the pronouns right?

Oh, come on, you have got to be more creative than that!

Social Darwinism, as always.

Don't "love your enemies", because what comes of it is not love, it's passive aggressiveness.

How do you propose to guard aganist subversion and sabotage?

I heard birds have no satiation instinct and can actually burst from overeating. (Young kittens and puppies also don't have a satiation instinct, but ...

Always when reading your posts, I try to figure out why you have a Taxi Driver reference in your avatar. I just don't get it.

Yes. The forum's stakeholders need to decide on the direction in which they want the forum to go.

Standards for Forum Debates I have a question: What is the purpose of a debate? What is attempted to be accomplished by a debate?

I so want to do it, either side, and my posts on this are scattered all over the forum. But I just don't have the time, I can't even log in to the for...

First of all, some (or many?) people will not be able to afford the automation and will have to make do the old fashioned way. Secondly, some people w...

I think that you'd first need to decide what you want this forum to be like, what direction it should develop in. For some purposes, the reputation sy...

Not to be glib, but you're supposed to feel that truth in your heart. Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales ...

It's not clear that this is what all actual monotheists mean by God being necessary (apart from those in particular who argue like the above). Rather,...

Why must it be broken? Justify.

As I've been saying all along. Yes. A hinge commitment. Taken into consideration by whom? Deciding by whom? What exactly is being used: those texts, o...

So this is the real issue then? Namely, that we got taken in by our own greed, and since China has been feeding it so cheaply and so abundantly, we've...

Whom exactly are you asking this and for what purpose?

I'm reminded of this scene on learning how to swim from the film the Glass Castle where a father is teaching his daugher how to swim: https://www.yout...

But are those truth claims really unwarranted? How can we possibly know?

But this way, we're attacking the theists' constitutionally given freedom of religion. How do you propose to get around that?

Why should any entity be benign??

It should be possible to exemplify this within the same language, to better pinpoint what we're talking about. For example, by comparing Shakespeare's...

We can see that many words have a cross-language translation relationship like this (L: language, M: meaning, ): Word in L1 M1 M2 M3 Word in L2 M1 M2 ...

Of course. I had actually compiled a reply to an earlier post of yours here, but lost it in editing. I used the English word mother and how in English...

*tsk tsk* That would work in a fair, democratic system where all the members would clearly, openly agree to jointly work toward a common goal (and one...

This doesn't address my concern. The fact is that some apparently very bad people have it very good in life. You say justice is made by us. Well then,...