Not quite. I'm pointing out the reality that in the past those with ideological differences tended or tried to follow their ideology where ever it led...
Yes, the dollar's value can be "readily identifiable" after the fact, just as believers of gods can agree upon dogmatic properties of their gods. That...
The tragedy is the concept of unwanted pregnancies, which have the potential to result in unwanted children. Unwanted children are over represented in...
If you'd have read and understood what I've posted, you'd know that my use of the descriptor "Post Truth era" doesn't reference "ideological combatant...
I do agree that the numerous definitions of gods will "require" different proofs. Having said that, more importantly metaphysical entities (which the ...
Exactly. Before the rise of Fundamentalism in the wake of the Born Again movement of the 1970s, many if not most Christians were comfortable with view...
I don't disagree with your analysis of the relative roles of distrust as pertains to enemies in the Truth vs Post Truth eras. My point is that among t...
How much Truth (in the Truth era)? The exact same amount. What distinguishes the Post Truth era isn't the absence or lack of Truth, it's the marginali...
Nice thead. We are definitely in the Post Truth era. But having said that, I'm referring specifically to the way obvious lies are treated publicly, no...
No one said the majority moral opinion automatically makes an opinion "right", so I don't know who you're addressing. I said when viewed in it's own e...
What this overly simplistic, knee-jerk response fails to acknowledge is that if we lived In an era where the majority of people concluded as you propo...
Nope, people (regardless of "precedent") can and have successfully navigated competing interests and have overwhelmingly concluded that slave owner an...
Since the topic of the thread is the origin of the concept of gods, it bears mentioning that the issues of godly omnipotence and omniscience are relat...
Yes, folks focus (overly focus, in my opinion) on the life vs death of the fetus when addressing the topic of abortion, whereas the crux of the issue ...
If this was an exercise in all of the possible definitions of "house", then yes. But in exploring the agreements between the homeowner and the contrat...
The most common reason for advocating for abortion bans is not acknowledging that this topic is one of competing interests (fetus va adult woman). Thu...
Think it this way. A house requires an architect who designs it. A builder who constructs it using the materials from the supplier. A pile of building...
The OP implies that there is one entity called "love". However most agree there are different types of love. Some are described as a burning fire, oth...
Uuuumm, no. There is a societal concensus where "responsibility" lies. No personal injury lawyer will try to hold a citizen standing next to the lever...
The way the trolley problem is classically set up missed two important points. First, the trolley maintainance people are responsible for the outcome,...
Oh, I wasn't referring to the different subjective opinions on the "goodness" or "badness" of an action by various individuals, rather the reality tha...
In your OP, the second stipulated premise is completely dependent upon the perspective of the observer (specifically the labels of "bad" and "good"). ...
I agree with you that past racial discrimination has current generational effects. I also agree with the idea of current policies to compensate for th...
The fact is while your reality is worse than your estimation of "optimal", it's better than your estimation of what divorce has to offer, otherwise yo...
First, it is an error to use First World newspaper coverage as the measure of importance or human caring. Are Third World media carrying these stories...
I agree, the descriptors fair, just and lucky are all subjective, post hoc labels to help humans make "sense" of individual events by making them appe...
By stipulating that you are speaking specifically of the subjective experience of red (as opposed to the ability of objects to reflect certain wavelen...
Happy to hear I communicated accurately, yes the fretting thing. Also glad my observations (despite your, warrantless as it turns out, concern) turn o...
I apologize for being difficult to understand. I'm not dictating how Determinists think (since as a non Determinist I have no firsthand experience), I...
Not my point. Say you're absolutely correct. Believers in the idea that thoughts are "pushed forward by physical causality" could just coast along bel...
Exactly. Making the economic pie as large as possible makes it easier to give a meaningful slice of it to charity. Shrinking the pie requires a gigant...
I don't disagree with your posting, but that is worlds apart from the OP's notion that "it's immoral to spend money on products we don't absolutely ne...
The OP is incorrect that Determinists don't ponder choices in their daily lives, identically to how "non Determinists" do. Despite the fact that in De...
Alas, a non question. If everyone went vegan (highly unlikely, but it's a thought experiment), it would happen gradually. Thus as demand dropped over ...
I get that domesticated animals aren't exactly akin to a sickle, however they're not like a wild animal either. Their genetics were crafted by humans ...
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