James Riley

I don't think you were banned for pointing out that black people commit a lot more crime. I think you were banned because so many people who raise tha...

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Reality is opposition. "Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find nature to be the circumstan...

I responded here, stooping to your level, deleted it, and will let it ride out of respect to those on here who try.

Yeah, that's what the fools said about the Carrier Pidgeon and et al.

Maybe not use it? What price would be paid? Could it be that a society free of crime is not a free society? There are dystopian stories about a future...

:up: I think I understand. It would be nice to put science to use trying to figure out why our society produces people like Adam Lanza. Maybe the "soc...

Being affected does not render the inanimate animate. Nor does that render the inanimate meaningless. But it is people that make for the meaning, not ...

That's got to be argumentum ad sumptin', right? If Hitler says one apple plus one apple makes for two apples, is he wrong? Bye.

That does work. Information is not going to help decide. People help themselves to information and then people decide. People use information. Informa...

Everywhere else is illogical. Besides, it's not a popularity contest. It's an inanimate object. If science is the information needed to work out what ...

I see science like I see a gun: It's a useful tool in the hands of people who have my sense of morality, and a horrible curse in the hands of everyone...

:100: We are not rare, and we aren't Earth. We are human beings of earth, and there are upwards of 7 billion of us, and we are destroying that which i...

I don't have that ability.

I don't think the measure of man is the only worthwhile measure, but for those who think it is, I will tell you this: Man will get more out of a horse...

Oh my goodness, I hope no one thinks that I think I'm going to convince a religious person of how wrong they are. I would never make so bold. You are ...

:100: They are not as important as they think they are. Once upon a time there were old growth forests in the United States. These trees had grown for...

:100: Agreed. In addition to guilt and punitive action, I would add reason. Sometimes the moral center makes sense to us, sui sponte, as reason enough...

I believe animals have a sense of what is good and what is bad. Since we are animals, we too have that sense. If there is anything that separates us f...

That's how I feel about the commons. Wilderness "untrammeled by man" is sacred, holy, to me.

Yes. I would. Yes. I agree. I'm only speaking of "religion" as I understand the term. If philosophers are using it as some term-of-art that I'm not pr...

Whenever one feels like they are between a rock and a hard place, they should stop and ask "How did that hard place get so hard, and is there somethin...

There is something in me that defaults to an assumption that someone is disagreeing with me when they respond to my posts. But search as I might, I do...

Because morality is nothing more than consideration of what animals have. Animals know good/bad. We just happen to consider it. It didn't take religio...

I don't accept the premise of the OP. It is not only possible to conceive of morality without reference to religion, the religious who claim to be mor...

I'm no expert, but I hear Portugal has had phenomenally positive results.

I know 180 and physicists want to slap me when I say stuff like this, but that's okay. I think time can indeed be an entity, and I think it can conver...

A vacuum being filled by another power (Russia? China?), and U.S. national security and/or strategic interests, are usually cited as reason for the U....

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I think you are confusing what people want to hear with what they need to hear. People like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, risk-taki...

Telling people what they want to hear has always had an easier go of it, especially with those a mile wide and an inch deep. (I'm talking about you.)

What are they? Or, more precisely, what were they before the recent response to immigration? The reason I ask is, I want some of that, and yet my fell...

Personally, I'm confused about all the slings and arrows toward socialism. When I look up the definition, yeah, I get it. But isn't socialism, like ca...

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:100: I agree, but I'm a'feared few others do. When we figure out we can't breath, drink or eat money, we might come around. Too bad about all the bio...

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This sounds like the thread on what is wrong with Individualism. Nothing is wrong with a single molecule of water, but a rock will stop it.

Thank you for your concern for me, Apollodorus. I will take this under advisement.

Looking at your chart, where do Libertarians come down on government limitations on personal responsibility?

The record speaks for itself and it's says you are a liar.

Here's the record. I will emphasis the relevant portions for you: "TL;DR: upon close inspection of the biblical god, it quickly becomes apparent it wa...

No, I'm thinking of the social contract. It's an unfortunate fact of life. Only the King is somewhat exempt. But even he has obligations, and breach o...

Agreed. I'm sure there are some folks who enjoy their work and figure "Hey, if I can get paid too, great!" I know I've had work where I couldn't belie...

No, you said "God". He didn't say God. He qualified his comment to the Abrahamic god. That's why I asked if you were Christian. I assumed you had your...

Thinking out loud. I'm not married to any of these ramblings. I've been thinking about prostitution lately. Leaving aside for now the issue of whether...

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There is one obvious answer: Get all domestic/private animals off public land. Better yet, shoot them in place so they can go back into the soil from ...

I saw that last post was two years ago, figured out how I got here, went back where I was, deleted this. I'm new. :sweat:

It was social media of some sort, and they don't allow me to cut and paste. I don't know how to screen shot, and I was too lazy to write it down. I wi...

I recently read a statement that went something to the effect: At the pizza party after work, one guy took three slices thinking it would run out. Ano...