Shawn

Well, you've placed your Kantian hero on a pedestal and gave him some sort of authority over all matters pertaining to morality and ethics. Quite an o...

Fatalism aside, do you still feel that way to this day?

Wow, that's a lot to share. I will ponder over it over some time. In the meanwhile, try some meditation. You seem to be fragmented and have chosen to ...

Your concept of what constitutes a community is somewhat ambiguous. How do you explain the fact that certain states have opted for legalizing marijuan...

I don't see how that is possible. You have some options here: Turn inward and internalize the issue, leading to some future ailments or exacerbation o...

The most important question you could ask a hypothetical talking fish is what does the water feel like. Metaphysics 101.

Psychoceramics...

Well, I tend to treat this place as a theater where instead of suspending disbelief I suspend judgment. The only way to maintain one's views while int...

So, I think you can play devil's advocate for so long, so here's my take. Given that we prescribe in the great States, amphetamine or Ritalin to kids ...

Oh, did you. Do you think it is possible that Wittgenstein would have thought highly of these insightful sayings? I find them irresistibly concise and...

Finally, someone else said it. It's really a great saying IMO. Somewhere up there with a rising tide lifts all boats, and there's no free lunch. And m...

Yes, a box is enough entertainment for Oksa. How is she?

Haha!

I never said that and I don't know why Portugal opted for decriminalization. Perhaps they wanted to become the next best narcotourist hub or destinati...

Well, trying to reduce the whole issue to a matter of taste or preference really isn't going to fly in @"tim wood"'s mind. As to why this hasn't been ...

Anyway, S, I hope you test your drugs or MDMA and don't get a bad batch of 2-DPMP or 6-APB or 5-MAPB. Well, 5-MAPB is pretty hard to get; but, was ind...

Well, my second living deals with synthesizing and distributing novel research chemicals from China to the world, so I'm not sure why this would give ...

Good question. I don't know. It seems that decriminalization was an alternative to the conservative agenda over here in the US. I'm also from Californ...

Yeah, I already read your post twice or so. Still, not everyone lives in the US where we still have pot as a Schedule I drug. If I happened to live in...

Haha, I can't tell that. It's just a forum and I can't surmise what or who you may be.

Lol, then be facetious. Ain't none of my business what you take to get you through the day or night. Anyway, if one assumes such a nonchalant attitude...

Yeah; but, some (not all) drugs are dangerous and irresponsible to use. So, I can see some merit to his argument about harm reduction. Funny enough, y...

Depends on where you live, don't you think? It also depends on whether one is addicted to a drug or not. Some drugs are just flat out dangerous and ir...

I'm afraid you'll have to expand on why you think that is. I don't think I'll ever get around to reading Heidegger as there's so much ambiguity around...

And, I'll just point out that this is gibberish. Q.E.D?

Well, yes; but, they attempted at answering the unsolvable in their own way (through logic). But, if logic fails to produce a valid "methodology" at s...

For some reason, this sticks out, and my answer would be to look at others (like Tarski or even Godel) for any kind of elucidation at such attempts.

Not really. Apart from the logical positivists, which philosopher hasn't dealt with the metaphysical? Even modern day philosophers have to gripe with ...

At the risk of sounding nonsensical, why not? Well, Wittgenstein was pretty adamant about what can and cannot be said. His philosophy echoes Kant's dr...

And just to be resolute here's the other part that is missing which might fill in the gaps. https://i-6uf0utvje8gy-cdn.plushcontent.com/uploads/resize...

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Well, it's sort of those Banno'esk questions about whether we have expressed (adequately?) the meaning behind such a sentence as "I love you more than...

Anyway, it doesn't sound like a personal issue. More of the sort where society just doesn't want to deal with such epistemic and phenomenological conc...

The Vienna Circle thought otherwise in regards to his Tractatus. Although it is as if they overlooked the seventh proposition entirely.

Probably an adjustment disorder. Hah! You'd have to ask the fish that. Kant, hmm, not my first pick in answering the question. I'd have to refer you t...

No, I want to highlight that people can be tracked to the meter by modern day phones. Now, before you act instinctually and want to throw away your ph...

Not quite. I'd compare it to a fish asking what does the water feel like. A fish would never know the answer.

Since this issue has been raised, I'm going to tip my own hat and ask if The Problem of the Criterion has any import here to the discussion?

So, you have insight. Congratulations as this is very hard to come by, by schizophrenics. Before I cast any questions or complaints, I was wondering i...

I don't know your diagnosis or what landed you in a state institution, but you come off as a sane person. Hope things work out for you.

Back to wallowing, I guess.

Anyway, de facto it seems to me that conservativism is the new status quo. Since Reagan at least. Obama might have only been a blip on the radar; but,...

There is a distinction that ought to be highlighted here between popular (populist?) conservativism and something like the offshoots of conservativism...

Hayek ain't much discussed in undergraduate levels of education. At least it's only passingly mentioned his Road to Serfdom. That was my take back at ...

Never been much interested in politics, since always. Only things that scare me, since politics and fear (at least in America) are intertwined like no...

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Wallows is wallowing. Wallow wallow.

How so? I know I am professing sophistry here; but, it seems like the only logical conclusion to be had here. I mean, isn't it a contradiction to say ...

Maybe I should reiterate. A free will is not judged by the actions one takes; but, rather by the things that can be resisted from doing. So, therefore...

There seems to be the issue here of the absolute value of having a free will. It would seem quite obvious that prior to drug use having a free will is...