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Nice illustration of the fact that folks are either lumpers or splitters. You're creating numerous selves such that our true self is "enslaved" to a l...

It still wouldn't be time travel. It would be recreating the past in the future. Just like recreating a natural diamond perfectly in a lab, doesn't ma...

Speaking of human beings... you do understand that each individual human gets to describe their god any way they want to, right? Thus gods are therefo...

Well, it's a politically expedient answer for a politician who doesn't follow the subject of philosophy speaking to an audience who doesn't know of an...

To paraphrase, based on her actions, she means: she's struggling with the fact that her culture tells her it's wrong yet she doesn't (personally, mean...

I don't disagree with your observations as stated, though in my experience success in this area is much more likely to be accomplished through more wi...

Well to be accurate, homosexuality is wrong by her (Muslim) community ethical standard, not her personal moral code (based on her actions). This is ve...

In your experience? But seriously, how do you define dignified?

The Philosophy of badminton is play aggressively in doubles and for position in singles.

Well, perfect equality is stasis, which essentially equals death. No, I prefer inequality. That's what makes life interesting. Everyone is better and ...

It makes easier (and more ethical) when the patient's interest and attitude aligns with the best legal posture for the staff and the facility.

Oh hey, Jack. Merry Christmas!! In my field, which has a zero tolerance of negative outcomes, guarding against the "worst" (and therefore accepting a ...

It's not about guns it's about fearmongering.

To you as well (we're still 14 hours out).

In my experience dealing with medical and personal risk assessments, I have advised those seeking counsel to compare the negative outcomes of either o...

Part of the problem with the subject of risk (prospectively), is that risk assessment is notoriously inaccurate, thus ignoring "known" risk can be def...

Churches saying that the purpose of life is to "do things for the church" is akin to Amazon declaring that the purpose of life is purchasing goods and...

Well English has more total words in it's vocabulary than any other language. In addition learning English as a second language increases compensation...

Hope you didn't get lead poisoning.

I don't mind if folks accumulate the identical wealth that they do now WITH an enforced income tax rate from say 1945-1963 plus a regressive estate ta...

In a conversation about the relative ethical standards of the pharmaceutical industry to other industries, the FDA isn't evaluated against how good it...

Eh, not really news. Don't get me wrong, the pharmaceutical industry is NOT inherently trustworthy, I agree. But then again no industry is inherently ...

Exactly. The more we CAN do (technologically speaking), the more we should ponder what we SHOULD do.

Got it. I can't believe that slipped my mind.

It depends on your personal definition of "total free will". What most subscribers to Free Will that I know believe is that humans can actually make c...

So if a cat prowls a "roost" building, what happens?

Right? I thought pigeons, like can fly from place to place. Not that they "infested" a single location.

Everyone agrees that various factors (say, being an autist) INFLUENCES decision making, sometimes drastically. However, abandoning Free Will says that...

The answer is the same as what's wrong with spending money on concert tickets? Someone who is not a fan of the artist concludes the concert goer has n...

Or which god? Even if there is a god, there's less than one half of one tenth of one percent that it is the god that an individual believes in, histor...

So true. Obviously, due to the difference in life expectancy, getting a dog equals dealing with the death of your dog. Definitely something to conside...

What's a pigeon problem?

It is a behavior profile that typically flows from one's psychological outlook. Thus CAN definitely change (along with one's psychology) though most d...

Thus the soul in your context, disappears when we die, right?

Don't be shy, what do you think?

I can live with your description if you can live with a "soul" being a reflection of one's behavior/outlook (as opposed to an innate entity that all h...

I don't disagree, though you're saying that "good" is subjective thus essentially anyone's chosen behavior can be labeled "good" if you equate intenti...

In order to define what is "fake", by definition one must define what is "real". As your counterfeiting example demonstrates, many, if not most common...

So... sociopaths have no soul?

Well you're right that personal identity of say, humans is fundamentally different from the 'ship of Theseus'. But the difference isn't because of DNA...

It's humorous observing the rewriting of such recent history now that the pandemic has been over for a year and a half.

Lagavulin man, myself.

Funny, I think of rain in the plain.

While everyone agrees with your premise as written, it underscores a different issue, namely that a leadership structure when faced with external thre...

Again, usually very true, but I'm not addressing the details of success (vs failure), rather that of crazy over the top success (vs plain ol success).

No I meant that say, Steve Jobs was a bright, driven individual with access to higher education (which makes him distinctly not average), but was in t...

Very true, but not quite the topic I addressed. Outlier-level success is neither evenly distributed in the population, nor the purview of the previous...

Most, including myself, learn different things differently. If it is a physical thing like a tennis stroke, I learn best by viewing an expert demonstr...

Yes, there has to be a reason that the US trails the rest of the world in educational excellence (by a significant amount) yet leads the world in prof...

It is a common misunderstanding that those who become outlier-level, extremely influencial or successful are also outlier-level "better" or "smarter" ...