James Riley

If the Chinese want to cut me out of a conversation, all they have to do is speak Chinese. If physicists want to cut me out of a conversation, all the...

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Philosophy is science? I thought science was the bastard step-child of philosophy. :gasp:

Don't forget the God Particle. I'm sure there a bunch of terms that physicists pull from somebody else's discipline because they keep getting punked b...

True. You could lead with that. :up:

I agree with that. However, science often uses the language of higher awareness when discussing their conundrums. "Spooking action at a distance"? Com...

Great. I find a flaw in the foundation of logic, so I'm good with an illogical distinction. I just beg you, please make it. What is the relevant diffe...

Thank God! Now, try to answer the question: what is the difference between pulling the plug and pulling the trigger?

It is when you make it one. You said life support is not nature. Neither is pulling the plug on life support, or pulling the trigger on a gun. Since y...

This isn't about abstract logic, Gregory. As I've tried to teach you, it's very, very real to those involved. What is the difference between pulling t...

"Here we have sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find nature to be circumstance, which dwarfs all o...

No, because it's not my logic. Remember, you are the one who made an assertion regarding a distinction between pulling plugs and pulling triggers. I'm...

Some might consider it human nature.

Considerations of cold and melanoma aside, I think there might be a re-ordering of some hierarchy in society. Clothing is somewhat of an equalizer. It...

So, putting a body on life support is, or is not, nature taking it's course? And then taking if off life support is, or is not, nature taking it's cou...

I have great respect for pregnancy, I just have more respect for the pregnant. But again, that is irrelevant to the question, which has nothing to do ...

Snip irrelevant post. You said: "Putting a bullet through their head is different from taking away life support. Not noticing these distinctions . . ....

That's precisely why I disagree with you: there is no "very real difference." It's exactly the same thing for those faced with those decisions.

In Catholic teaching, an omission is a failure to do something one can and ought to do. If an omission happens deliberately and freely, it is consider...

I can't fathom finite.

Okay, I guess I was reading too much into your posts.

I know you won't talk to me Gregory. That's cool. But that almost sounds like a threat. Would you kill an abortion doctor? Do you aspire to the acts o...

Actually, some training methods have you focus on the front sight blade, not what you aim at. Also, situational awareness has you seeing the rest.

I think the tactics used to fight the War on Christmas could be used as Solutions for a Woke Dystopia.

I think your interpretation of my assessment is accurate enough for your purposes here, in responding to Gregory. If we were to dive deeper, I might d...

I don't believe black women are more violent than non-black women. But if they were, and if one were precluded from looking at one possible reason out...

Asked and answered.

I probably should have used another word, like "relate" or "I'm feeling it". Well, that's true too, but I was thinking more about how, if a person doe...

I don't know the answer to that, but, if true, I suspect it's not biological.

Even that is too cognitive. The eye for an eye thing is more visceral, and comes from rage, and anger, (which are really just manifestations of fear)....

There are female killers but it is possible testosterone plays a part in those too? I don't know. Hard to see it with a poisoning or whatnot. Heat of ...

P.S. My last was tongue in cheek.

Don't argue with me.

I saw a guy post a meme showing Roman roads still extant, and asking why our engineers could not do that today. My simple response was, it's amazing w...

I'm going to roll with that, because, I confess, I didn't understand the rest. But it is late in the day for me.

Taking testosterone out of the equation might help.

Yeah, I was not saying they are the same. It just "almost sounds like" in that the person is disclaiming responsibility beyond the tradition defenses ...

Yeah, if they read up on the Enlightenment, Liberal Democratic Theory and Radical Democratic Theory, and the merchant class and Jefferson's yeoman far...

Too fast or too soon could be instantaneous. Like something being over here and over there at the same time. It's all over my head but I like to prete...

That almost sounds like an insanity defense, in that the person lacked the mens rea, or an ability to control themselves. That is actually and argumen...

Yeah, that debate has been going on for a long time. I think we came down on the side of not punishing an innocent man.

I had a feeling there was more to it. :wink:

A lot of hard work they are probably not prepared or willing to do.

I don't think about is the intent. I think the intent is precise, or intends to be, even if it only comes close.

Yeah, like "liberal". So effective has the "right" been in spitting that term out like a curse that even liberals started to run from it, searching fo...

I think it might actually be a particle that we can't see because it goes away too fast and gets here too soon.

You are bouncing around within the parameters. I guess that's a good thing, since some folks wouldn't even acknowledge them, or keep their eye on the ...

:up: There's that Darwin thing. If you lock up in the face of an oncoming tornado, you might get removed from the gene pool. On the other hand, all of...

Some of us aren't that appalled by it, if it's proved out to our personal, subjective, self-righteous satisfaction. But that never happens so I'm agai...

That's a breath of fresh air. So many folks like to double down. If it turns out to be a Deep State Q plan to get us lined out with social passports, ...