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I apologize for being difficult to understand. No, it is an objective fact that Germany surrendered in WWII. However, all nations, including the natio...

If using just "short of impossible" means: functionally impossible, then we're in agreement. As to theisticly originated beliefs, they seem at first g...

I'm a tad suprised that I have to point this out, but okay. Sure every society debates good vs evil, it's popular. However, what qualifies as "good" i...

Actually your comments don't counter mine. I said "good" is subjective, you're saying a majority have (subjectively) agreed on some common meanings of...

"Good", like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, that is, it is a subjective (and relative) descriptor. It can mean many and different things.

Veganism? A fine topic, I suppose, but hardly the yardstick by which morality is measured.

Care to elaborate or provide some examples/proof, beyond just conclusions/opinions?

IMO you are absolutely correct on the subject matter you stipulated, namely: what makes us "find a person attractive". My point is that what I believe...

It's a question of perspective. From the perspective of third persons, say your family waiting at home, you are arriving having been cured. For them i...

Two things. First, while some can try to appear "deeper" by declaring that in their opinion human "beauty" goes well beyond what an eye can see, that ...

I agree with you that media is saturated with beauty, but we agree why that is, right? Media seeks to sell stuff. Beauty sells. But do you really equa...

I get what you're trying to say, but in my experience beauty (you're talking about human beauty) isn't necessarily "valued" highly, if highly means de...

So having an opinion about an ad is drastically different than having an opinion about someone talking about an ad?

You're on the right track. A fake Mona Lisa is a reproduction than is tryimg to pass as the original (as opposed to a copy, which might just be an exe...

Of course humans can find meaning in the meaningless. Haven't you seen animals in clouds? Are you familiar with the "deciphering" of Nostradomus?

I think you're vastly overestimating the value of truth and honesty, or vastly underestimating tolerance of cheating and lawbreaking if it is perpetra...

Yes, the lag is real, but if you think about it a non-lag situation is essentially impossible. It's more about the size of the lag. I'm not equating l...

Why? Because of the definitions of the words. Perhaps you're proposing at a certain point a facsimile becomes indistinguishable from an original.

Great viewpoint. Basically is there a difference between experiencing last Wednesday in real time (on Wednesday) and remembering Wednesday on Saturday...

Exactly. The only unanswered question isn't: "is a facsimile an original?" It's: "is a person's self defined by more than it's physical body and it's ...

Well, if the transporter didn't kill you when you entered at the source (such that now there are two "yous"), everyone would call the machine a people...

Debating gun safety along the axes of murder victimhood vs murder prevention, while ignoring the reality that most US gun deaths are suicides, is miss...

No doubt, owning a gun decreases the average life expectancy of the owner. Mostly because gun ownership makes suicide attempts much more likely to res...

For the purposes of the OP, conservative means Socially conservative.

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I don't know what that means, I'll just delete it.

Great puzzle. I think that...

When folks play dumb, sometimes I buy in and explain, other times I don't bother. It's only mildly annoying.

"Painting" can be a noun or a verb. Rothko's red rectangle is a noun. The guy with the roller is performimg the verb.

I don't disagree with your observations, but having legally competent, but computationally suboptimal citizens excluded from a voice in how they're go...

Oh you don't need to explain Britain Trump to me, I get it. But the goal, in my opinion, when determining voter eligibility policy isn't to try to exc...

Voting should be restricted to legally competent adults.

Why? Because, the vast majority of the population has committed no murders nor rapes. You know this. Your theory is that a majority of folks would mur...

Well your scenario is that the perception of retribution is lost. So for the portion of society that 1) is prone to do "bad" things on a regular basis...

From my perspective, you're making an error by declaring that performing a (single) "bad" action makes someone a "bad" person. In my experience, all h...

By definition, no. If almost everyone does something, that makes them "average", not "bad" on a spectrum from "good" to "bad".

I'm not detecting answers to my questions, so I guess we can't converse.

So many details left out of the OP. Do you believe (as I do) that "good" and "evil" are subjective descriptors? If not, whose definition of the terms ...

Exactly. The numerous negative events that can and do occur contribute to great feelings of sadness and grief. While some can deal with these events a...

Let me put it this way. Do you consider it "normal" to experience depressive symptoms when addressing numerous events in one's life which are very "de...

Well, no one knows the exact mechanism of Clinical Depression (what I understand you're talking about). But clearly brain neurotransmitter levels play...

In my experience work isn't nearly as detrimental to deep thinking as raising a family is. So my observations are similar, but I ascribe them to a dif...

True. Though psychological theory is not limited to the specific diagnosis of depression, which the OP clearly wants to focus upon. Hence my comment a...

Not an expert but my understanding is that sympathy is feeling sorry for someone else's pain intellectually, whereas empathy is feeling someone else's...

Two things: first the diagnosis of depression is separate from the emotion of sadness and therefore the OP is akin to asking about the philosophical p...

Previously, folks commonly described themselves as "socially liberal, but fiscally conservative".

Probably the largest of the numerous issues with the OP is the reference to "philosophy", as if it is a single entity. Obviously there are numerous sc...

You can't. That's the job for someone with global influence. Keep your goals within your capacity to complete them. Be proud of what you've done. If 1...

Huh? Sounds like you're achieving your goals... at a scale appropriate for your level of influence. Kudos to you. Job well done.

No worries. Think of trying for the best as Offense and avoiding the worst as Defense. It's just a question of knowing when to defend (typically when ...