James Riley

I know as much about climatology as I know about epidemiology. So, I do what I always do and roll with the experts, the vast majority of which (as I u...

Two Rules: 1. Never treat non-state actors like a state; 2. Never treat a non-state actor like a soldier.

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When Trump first tried to misappropriate the moniker of “War Time President” he said we were at war with an invisible enemy. He was right, but the mis...

While I agree with your sentiment about the extremes, I think cloaking them in moderation is no better. Once you pierce the veil of high-sounding rhet...

He was wrong. Saying that "officially saying one thing and anticipating another" makes it sound like there was an intent to deceive. This was going to...

Maybe we (all of humanity) should drop the term "refugee" and just call them what they are and will be: "Immigrant." What % are going back, want to go...

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Asked and answered, at least by me.

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I don't know about the "officially saying one thing and anticipating another." If the Biden Administration had been officially telling Americans to po...

Yes, that too. :grin:

That's a good idea. There is a way. It's self-discipline. For instance, I never call upon the mods or admins to ban anyone. I just ban them myself. I ...

Yes. And? What planet have you been living on?

Nothing, other than they have a better capacity to fight back. In the U.S. we pride ourselves on having taken control of our own destiny and, while we...

You make the mistaken assumption that it is "their wealth" which we force them to part with under the threat of violence. We could spend time tracing ...

:pray: I worry about the boys, girls and women. But it's out of my control.

"said Masoud Andarabi, who was the Interior Minister under former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, in a Twitter post." I would not put it past the Talib...

True. I think I just read about two men in their thirties dying shortly after getting a shot. Of course, science must be done to determine if it was t...

:100: :up: A long time ago I read an intel paper written by Scott Ritter. It was about the complexities of the situation in Iraq, specifically, and th...

I don't know jack shit about Buddhism but in seeking an answer to the thread title, I would ask which one is more successful at getting it's adherents...

Good point. But you would just do "first come, first serve." At least you're consistent on that. It's not unlike the money deal. That's a self-own. Bu...

Asking the individual to do a group task without a group is to ask him to work against his interests. I taught you that with the gallon of gas example...

I'm not speaking out of school. I'm not telling people they don't need to vax. Or that other comorbidities should be looked at first. I'm not pretendi...

Because I'm not a medical doctor.

So you would delegate it to who? The private for profit health care industry? Who's going to pay? Who's going to provide? P.S. Such delegation is exac...

Regarding faith in the medical system, you can't procure more beds even if you have the money, when those with the money are undermining your efforts ...

I guess they didn't do the moral thing, as you suggested, and procure more beds. Hey, I have an idea that is moral: Let's make it a pay to play system...

:100: :up: It seems to me a moral person would champion universal, single payor health care for 8 billion people and then calculate how much kit and h...

I would not discriminate against the vaccinated. As to the unvaccinated: beds.

No, no, no, I agree they are part of the Biden Administration. I think we kind of did. We left them with a metric shit ton of kit. In an ideal world, ...

It depends. How many beds do I have and do I have room for a vaxxed person who might come in for some other reason, up to and including being too fat,...

So, you don't deny that you are a racist and a fascist. It's settled. Now the only question is, are you? When we empanel a jury, as finders of fact, t...

I don't think there is any. The presence of those things means God IS benevolent. He looks kindly on the micro-organisms that eat human flesh. Sounds ...

You must be unfamiliar with the concept of baseline. Look it up. But let's play your game: assuming for the sake of argument the system was not set up...

That's the point of the argument: They should. I'm not hearing any arguments as to why they shouldn't. After all, it's not any more burdensome than as...

Let's stipulate that there is a pandemic of other, non-Covid proximate causes. A bunch of them. Okay? Now, here's the distinction: our system is and w...

It may not be the right hypothetical, but it is the hypothetical you were presented with. Anyway, ask yourself about who (besides a virus) created the...

Choosing not to vax makes you an jerk. Choosing to get fat makes you fat. I like fat people more than jerks. I should choose. Make me king.

That's easy. If the proximate cause is being an obstinate, petulant, Trump-supporting, Republican "rebel against the man" then you don't get treated. ...

It is now. You know, on "The Philosophy Forum". If you can't entertain a hypothetical, then get back to work.

I know I wouldn't "tried to get arrested". Nor would I throw a tantrum or use money. I'm a firm believer in technology. Oh, and I would have no proble...

Ah, but Benkei's scenario said you did know. You aren't willing to address hypotheticals as you play on your key board today?

That's fine for you to think that. We want people like you to think that. It's good to have protocols. Until it's not. That's when shit gets real.

That is true. But what I'm talking about is the last few months in anticipation of what happened: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/30/h...

Which one is the first one?

Now that's a possibility.

Chuck and a good 50% of the people on the planet (at least!) could easily kick my ass in a fair fight. How about we stipulate to that?