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Obviously posts (and my limited time) aren't a good medium to set out my exact ideas. The idea these rights are "universal", I think is a Western narr...

I'm sorry but that's simply not true and it's not what Malik is saying either. Some factors are more important than others and the difficulty is that ...

Like to add : in Rawls' On Justice, it's not a given every society at every time reaches the same conclusion. I think his theory is a reasonable appro...

if you look carefully you'll notice that the use of light bulbs is more widespread than the believe in these western values. Which is part of the poin...

I've offered a couple of ideas in this thread. Some people (not you) think I'm part of the problem. For instance when I point out their "universal" va...

chickens and eggs. It's not about who started what but that it doesn't happen "accidentily" like bad weather. Terrorist actions don't happen out of th...

http://m.huffpost.com/ca/entry/8582482 Pretty much sums up my feeling about the whole affair (the embedded movie)

The Turks will agree to it when hell freezes over because they don't want the PKK to have sanctuary on the other side of the border. But who knows.

Because the last time we declared a new country in the middle of fuck all it went so well... >:O

frisky...

Interesting. Most people don't have time to ask existential questions to begin with so it seems that's more "how life works" than what we're doing her...

Well said.

Well, I did propose some reaction, e.g. police action. Sometimes, if you want something to stop, you should just ignore it. My reasons are as follows:...

I think two things need to be distinguished here. It's not that I'm against cultural diversity, freedom of speech, democracy and equality, I simply ha...

maybe you should read up a bit on how the process of radicalisation works. The EU has commissioned several studies in this respect and they're a worth...

yet, Western leftist proposals aren't implemented at all so how can they contribute to radicalisation? Just by talking about it?

Really? That's what you take away? The idea that this is somehow centrally planned by IS, can be tossed in the bin. It's an issue of radicalisation. T...

If you're done throwing a tantrum? How do you expect to have a discussion if you ridicule another person's positions or continually judge their positi...

I'm not just suggesting it. I'm telling you that these are most certainly very particular to our tradition and culture and therefore not necessarily s...

I did read it, I just don't find it very interesting or very relevant to the Paris attacks. You're privy to their plans? You know what they want to ac...

This thread is about the Paris attacks. All of a sudden it's about IS, hence, what is the problem you believe requires a solution?

Please define what you see as the problem? Is it terrorist attacks here, in the West? If so, then what should we care about IS holding territory in th...

First off, I'm not a Stoic but I do borrow from them. My take on stoicism (but really, Ciceronianus is the expert on this, you should ask him to reply...

Let me just start by copying what I said when Charlie Hebdo happened because it's again relevant: To this recent attack. I'm one of those "pansy liber...

Hmmm... I used Pneumenon's link. I'll check it out manually then... Edit: I get even less.

AK-47 for 29. Zeus for 27.

naked for 22.

Of course there are many other factors involved but "all things being equal", the more technologically advanced party will win from the other. The pro...

When Reagan got in the driver's seat, it all went to shit and never recovered.

That doesn't make sense. You started that "skirmish". Or war, as some people fondly refer to it.

Awww, shiiittttt. Stop making up rules!

That doesn't disprove my point. It does illustrate, in my view, the ludicrous idea that you can hold an entire country with 192,000 US soldiers. 192,0...

I thought the rule was nothing in "parentheses" and nothing in "italics". First one then seems to be "many other names"? What's the first link you use...

You need actual presence to hold land. The US doesn't commit enough personnel for that.

"Feces" loops back on itself I think.

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Lol, woops. Apparently I had linked through "quality" before via "consciousness" which made it darker and I couldn't see the difference with regular b...

19 for "contract". Infinte for "conscious" and "aware" because they loop back on themselves.

What exactly are you going to do with your handguns and assault rifles against tanks and planes of the army? I don't think guns will make a difference...

Your government hasn't helped anyone except itself. You're not spending trillions of dollars in weaponry to help anyone because all that buys you is d...

Interesting difference of interpretation. ;) I didn't see Stoicism as denying Will or flux, because that's undeniably there. To me it's letting go of ...

Who needs progress?

Thanks. We'll see how long that lasts. Busy life nowadays. O:)

@"ArguingWAristotleTiff" I was actually hoping for something different...

Nice post! I don't necessarily think Schopenhauer appreciated static above flux - I haven't read him directly (only second-hand sources) to venture an...

I think steady-state economics doesn't even stop economic growth; it would stop economic growth based on increased resource consumption. There's still...

PS: I trust you realised this was tongue in cheek! I'm convinced that isn't the case.

Certainly not in the context it was written... That's not the point and you know I already stated as much when I said "my life is intrinsically meanin...

Life isn't bad at all. Boredom is about as bad as it gets for me. :P There's no point to philosophy other than what meaning I attribute to it. Sometim...