Yeah, people in hell want ice water. It ain't about want. Like I said, they are going to be with us whether we like it or not. Yes, cancel culture (ak...
Different arguments have been made support of punishment generally: Specific and General Deterrence, Incapacitation, Rehabilitation, Retribution (eye ...
My concepts are not abstract. They are very, very real. Very real. You don't understand anything if you think I'm a career lawyer. I haven't practiced...
As some wag once said, "They want the issue, not the solution." The issue is more important because without it, they have no importance. They are runn...
Yes, and one must be careful about picking the worst of the other side as a representative of it. Those who detest the idea of welfare will often drag...
People don't like being compared to horses, but I can find some use in it. If you have a remuda stocked with rough-broke ponies and the gentle trained...
Cockroaches will always exist. So long as they stay under the fridge and only come out at night, we might tolerate them. But when they are brave and g...
:100: I am hard-pressed to think of a single, solitary creation of man, currently embraced, and loved by the conservative mind, which was not, at it's...
The Founding Fathers were "a bit too idealistic" too. But they didn't overlook the agendas of subversive groups or foreign powers using local proxies ...
Or, we could always remember the higher ideals and aspirations of the traditional political culture, and try to live up to them. Maybe, also, stepping...
Well, life is not fair. So what we do, in pursuit of self-interest, is we try a little bit of socialism, a little bit of capitalism, a little federal ...
Right vs wrong. I get it. And there is something to be said for the friction, and maybe even the impending fire, but those who get to sit around it an...
A two-valued orientation would be saying that socialism is incapable of incorporating aspects of capitalism, and capitalism is incapable of incorporat...
Actually, I think it is the wisdom of nuance that keeps things "working." Kind of like natural selection. Cross thread points. https://thephilosophyfo...
The problem is the two-valued orientation, aka dualistic thinking, aka either/or, aka black/white; and the old fallacy of the slipper slope. And peopl...
Sounds like a man who has time on his hands. I used to be a Recon Team Leader in the Marines. One day, sitting around the squad bay, a peer said "I'm ...
Sounds like me. :up: I went to Google on "Holographic Universe" and "Books" and I found a bunch. If you were to not care about the possibility that I ...
Great piece, by the way. Thank you. With suns rising and bells tolling I'm seeing Earnest H, but only by the titles to his books. I have them on me re...
You would have been wise to read what I already said in debunking your understanding of law and biology. I stopped because the balance of your post ha...
That has been addressed in the argument regarding mother vs baby. The king may have an interest in future generations, but my thread of yarn was simpl...
No, it does not. Integrity applies at threat of unlawful touching (assault) and unlawful touching (battery). She gets to decide whether any touching i...
Personally, I think art is the only worthwhile contribution of human beings to existence, from any outside, objective perception (assuming there is on...
I agree it is no luxury. It is a necessity. But I do think it comes with leisure. When folks had a full belly in a warm cave on a cold winter day, the...
It always was and always will be. Well, since I'm not a rock, it's hard for me to know. Probably a lot less than what it already forgot. But maybe not...
Why are you worried about where I start? Look, apparently this is something you are still playing with. That's cool. I did a Google search and came up...
Whatever it is, doesn't mean we can't kill it, legally, biologically, philosophically, morally, or ethically if we want. All we have to do is place th...
I don't mind him writing in it either. I'm genuinely curious about "holographic reality" and wanted to learn more about it. But apparently it can't be...
I think of the health care industry, where people have devoted their entire lives to saving others, and in pursuit thereof, they have enhanced their o...
I agree. Now, how best to get the state to stop? Trying to make it work, where, when successful, it gets to say "see, it works!" Or proving it failed,...
Okay. I was agreeing that "doing the right thing" was being honest and humble, but I got hung up on the "obedient" part. Obedience in a corrupt system...
Okay. I guess I'm just having a hard time seeing how doing the right thing in a corrupt system benefits that corrupt system. They had to pay damages a...
Indeed. Some things just can't get done without cooperation. It cannot only be futile to try and do something on your own; it can actually be counter-...
So what are you doing here? I understand what it's like to not know a subject well enough to explain it to others. Sometimes books are a good way to s...
I did not address this before. You might be right as a general principle. I don't know. But as for me, I'm older, humanities-educated, and kind of ner...
I think so. But I also think there are alternative explanations. If reincarnation exists, then maybe the insight comes from another, and not from one'...
I don't get your drift. But I do like the word entropy. Once I thought I "got it" and then some wag made a case about all the examples in the universe...
Thanks. I'll have wait until I get to town because my internet is too limited to watch stuff right now. Wow, the holographic model must be pretty deep...
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