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Simply amoral as opposed to immoral?

OK. So you think everything is honky dory where it concerns justice and fairness in your society, that it's equitable and that republicans best contri...

Morally bankrupt?

Are you suggesting there's a ranking of value? Which ones go first? Why? How do you arrive at that ranking?

How do you access knowledge of this standard? It's not a state of affairs we can observe.

I'm probably not very clear. Let's say the external reaction is disapproval but my own judgment was it was fine (eg. in accordance with my moral compa...

Tomorrow I will give my pitch for the financial services plan I developed with two friends. I know it by heart and now I'm starting to go off script w...

Enough for other GOP-members to refuse to nominate Trump as their candidate for the next election. But in fact, that should've been the case in the pr...

I know. At the same time I think voting for Trump was and will be a mistake on every level that matters: justice, fairness and equity. He's the antith...

The sad thing about that reply is that you seem to blame Obama and his administration for things caused by previous administrations (the last crisis w...

Ok, so let's say I'm anti-abortion and strictly religious. The racist Trump is anti-abortion but the Democrat is pro-abortion. I vote Trump. Racist or...

I'll spell it out for you. I think many more people will vote for Trump even if he's a proven racist than you think but not because they're racist as ...

They're - by and large - not racist and you insisting that they are just makes you look silly and sound like a hysterical left-wing fairy. You dismiss...

Thanks. I really do believe there is common cause for many people irrespective of left or right, conservative or progressive, with regard to certain s...

By that token, everybody that already voted for Trump is a racist. Which quite obviously isn't the case. If you're white, then racism isn't a real pro...

Isn't this an ethical rule itself? What makes it exempt from possible change?

Making friends I see?

I do it out of respect for what seems to be the norm on a forum with a strong US presence as seems to be the case here (When in Rome...). On a Dutch f...

I think a casual N-word on tape just verifies what we already know, which is why I think it's ultimately going to be immaterial. Plus, we're rolling f...

I'm sure there is some limit and the above is more of a parody than anything I've written. And the point I'm making is not a result of general cynicis...

We thought that with Bush the first time and his reelection. We thought that about trump the first time and let's make the same mistake again shall we...

Omarosa and Jack are lying pieces of shit. What proof? A venal vixen and a disgruntled ex employee?

I agree. You put it better than I do and my "the US is a pretty racist country" it's probably my own bias as I associate it with the stereotypical dun...

Or they trust in the checks and balances, accept the racism considering the lurch to the right we've already seen it's only a small step. The putative...

that's gobbledegook I'm afraid.

Let's ask. Hey @"ArguingWAristotleTiff" and @"Hanover". Would you rule out voting for trump again if he has said the N-word? The democratic candidate ...

Mexicans are rapists. Disparaging remarks about a Mexican judge. The birther thing. Disparaging the Khan's. The Central Park 5. Nobody cares.

This is old news and known during election period. It's not going to change anything. People continue to surprise me when they think trump's behaviour...

I didn't posit this though.

Were satellites involved?

"Being alone" is the one thing we all have in common. Nobody but me feels my pain and my joy, nor do they digest my food or breathe for me. I can conv...

They were never good but I do feel old.

That might be the case but you were talking about banking transactions not cellular to cellular calls. Cellular networks don't need to transmit to sat...

He's rereading the Gospels to reorientate himself on the morality of stoning people to death.

A second post on optimistic and pessimistic philosophy. Let's take as pessimism: At first glance, we can wonder whether there really is optimistic or ...

From what I understand of the psychological research is that optimism is dispositional, so it's behaviour that you can learn. Optimism is what we do n...

I had a website for a while devoted to articles. Then I had kids. You mean the blessed life, which was something I wrote off an unpublished article of...

It happened. The Dutch intelligence agency saw it happening. Stop grasping at straws trying to have reality conform to your worldview and instead let ...

Jesus Fucking Christ. Stop wasting your time on the Randroids.

The first four aren't true. That's all landlines. The last one is greatly helped by GPS but not dependent on it.

This has exactly zero bearing on whether Trump colluded or not and the Russian intereference in the election. It's a red herring.

I know you well enough not to bother. Especially when you start like this.

:rofl: Sure mate.

That's false. You can reopen without telling the world about it which is how it generally works. That decision was clearly made to damage Clinton. You...

That's the wrong conclusion. What would happen is that these women wouldn't be allowed outside anymore.

Even if we assume they are all oppressed there's a serious problem with critical thinking if people think the solution is State oppression through a b...

Forgiveness is the power to separate the sinner from his sin. Repentance allows the sinner to become justified in the eyes of God. Repentance is not a...

You're so gullible. That's what they want you to believe but where's the evidence Comey didn't do this for bad faith reasons? And let's apply your sta...

From a European perspective it was only 63 million. That gives you a rough idea what we think of Americans in general. :naughty: