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I'm not a tax expert. I attempted to google some information on the socio-economic distribution of wealth in support of the idea of a growing middle c...

You construe people as pollution, but in fact no-one need have a carbon footprint. We don't have to use fossil fuels. I'm not confused. You are. We co...

I think it's cultural. Celebration of the criminal in black culture - particularly music, relates in turn to history, and the need to retain pride in ...

I see it but it doesn't exist! For the vast majority of time since the big bang, including the history of the earth, no-one has been here to perceive ...

You skip back and forth between UBI and environmental taxation. I talk about one, you talk about the other. Pick one, and stick with it.

How can one meet unreason but with unreason? If you're claiming everyone else owes you a living for the injury of bringing you into the world, there's...

Not at all. I'm describing life in a state of nature in the hope you might understand that your imagined values are civilisation dependent, such that ...

With all due respect, who cares what you think you're entitled to. In a state of nature you'd be driven from the tribe for refusing to reciprocate, an...

When I speak of reality, I mean to say the object world, existing independently of subjective experience. The nature of reality is almost a separate q...

Thanks, I do try. Just saying your deceptively simple question is in fact a huge and complex subject area that plays out right across society and the ...

off topic!

Your argument ignores the fact that, on the whole, capitalism produces that which people need and want. You disregard this to construe success as gree...

Banno is getting off on being a dick-tator. My post was chiefly about the difference between statistical fact and social media narrative; as it played...

I marvel at your inability to grasp the concept of Riparian Rights. Personally, I think taxation is not the right way to address this problem. It's th...

A stream flows in one direction - like time. If you pollute the river upstream, you are impinging on the rights those downstream. If you pollute the p...

Yes, certainly. Test tube. My sincere apologies. Bunsen burner. On topic from now on. E=Mc2. Or at the very least, a pretence of such.

No stress but, there's a distinction between German and Nazi worth keeping in mind - particularly given that our democracies, in the US and the UK - a...

Up yours! I'm describing Riparian Rights - as a metaphor for intergenerational environmental responsibilities. Google it igno!

So you can urinate in the river as much as you like because you don't have relatives downstream?

The question I asked is quite simple: why do you advocate genetic interventions - which are passed on through germ cells to subsequent generations - w...

I think: A: all human beings are members of the same species, and B: political correctness is identity politics in reverse, and it is totally racist, ...

I see, you're gonna go de-platform?

If I too ignore everything you say, I'm not interested in talking about, I have to say goodbye!

As recently as last week, 20/21 May 2021 - the G7 met on zoom and issued the following communique. https://www.g7uk.org/g7-climate-and-environment-min...

Children can't consent to be born - because they don't exist, and for a long time after they are born, are not deemed responsible enough to give conse...

Nor, apparently, necessary to address the problem.

After several moments googling a subject I know very little about, it seems that: "salaries, wages, commissions, and bonuses you have paid to the empl...

How so?

Government is perfectly entitled to tax as it sees fit, and to set minimum wages as it sees fit. Why reinvent the wheel?

I was referring to your book recommendation - Revolution Justified, and in particular the blurb. I've said much the same at least a sock full of times...

Why? You said: I asked you repeatedly about germline intervention. I wrote: Interfering in the human genome, so altering every subsequent human being ...

If I had a nickle...

From the 26 letters (sic) on my keyboard I can write more than a million English words, about 170,000 in common usage, and string these words into a v...

It's a good idea to pump money into the bottom of the economy, because money creates value as it spirals upward, however, I think a significant increa...

History is instructive. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed. I would say doomed to repeat it, but time is short. We are facing threats to ...

... Didn't you ask for responses from people who disagree with the proposition that science is good? Did you expect them to be intellectually rigorous...

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More enlightened in what sense? More enlightened than what? Your opinion means nothing without supporting evidence. It's just assertion, based in 400 ...

Typically subjectivist. Believe whatever you like. No evidence required. From Meditation IV: 2. For, in the first place, I discover that it is impossi...

I misunderstood your point? I can live with that - because you're wrong, and offer no evidence, or even argument that you're right. You are simply mak...

Descartes method of doubt is skeptical doubt. It's not reasonable to dispense with the object world by imagining some demon is deceiving him. Taking i...

I studied sociology and politics at university, and got into philosophy via political theory. I read Rousseau's "Inquiry into the Causes and Nature of...

It is wrong, and I forgive you easily. It's a complex argument with many moving pieces. I can quite understand how would not pick it up right away. Th...

This discussion has been declared off topic by the owner of the thread. I'm already on thin ice with Baden for my wanderlust, so I'll say no more on i...

That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying something like: If a police officer is going to arrest you - that's not your time to protest. Your time ...

See what you've gone and done!

I was responding to banno - who dismissed the idea that the Church has a problem with science; and I'm showing that this has been a problem for 400 ye...

I've addressed your remarks directly. I've addressed the article directly. I've addressed the concept of scientism directly. If I'm talking past you i...

If there was a reason for posting that wikipedia entry on Lemaître, I'm missing it. Perhaps you could explain - maybe when you respond to the post I w...

"The Pope Would Like You to Accept Evolution and the Big Bang." By Colin Schultz SMITHSONIANMAG.COM OCTOBER 28, 2014 Yesterday, Pope Francis, the head...