:100: :up: I always try to chase things to their extreme and have concluded that it, and more (and less) than we comprehend, is all correct, and not, ...
I can believe the law must conform to an "assumed standard" of some kind, and isn't the law if it does not, while still not ignoring it. A refusal to ...
I have a rant on "gravitas." When I think of guys like Henry Kissinger, William F. Buckley Jr., Justice Scalia, and others like them, I perceive this ...
Credibility and legitimacy is relative. Thus, I would answer you question "No." They don't. Not necessarily. It certainly helps, but it's not necessar...
I disagree. Transparency does not translate into an ability to do anything about an asshole who is exercising freedom to shit in the river. Unless, of...
Yes and no. Yes, in that every social institution that ever was tends to want to get something for nothing from nature. But no, as between the members...
That's the thing about the social contract: it's a contract of adhesion and it exists whether anyone believes in it or not. I always thought "limited ...
I know new variants can and will arise on their own, but it sure doesn't help when all the petulant folks won't follow advice. No, it's not likely to ...
Yeah, I must live in a free zone. All of the curfews, stay at home orders, etc. were more or less strongly recommended, based on an appeal to citizens...
I disagree. Witness 500k dead, invasion of the capital, spring break parties, etc. I go to town and see the maskless, and Trump flags flying, and open...
In the special operations community we have a saying "Embrace the suck." A great cartoon (for the Army side of the house) is a grunt standing in the r...
I know some artists who view existence as bad art. But as artists, they try not to judge. They go create their own art. Sometimes they think their own...
This has probably already been said, but it seems to me that some antinatalists agree that life is worth living, if only because they limit the preven...
You are correct. I am embarrassed about that post and I regret posting it. Sad thing is, I knew I shouldn't post it as I was doing so. My point was th...
So true. I agree with all you said (and would add the Patriot Act and the subsequent NDAAs). Your last paragraph is exactly what the insurrectionists ...
The Trump crowd doesn't need to be violent when they sport AR-15s and the cops don't give them shit (Michigan, Wisconsin, etc.). But the chatter was a...
Thanks for the leads. I've had a lot of thoughts running around the old brain pan on the animal thing all my life. It will be interesting to see the t...
It ain't hell for one who craves center stage. It's the limelight, and heaven, and he loved it. He is in hell now, where no one is listening except lo...
There's a mouthful that's over my head. But I recognize the word trilemma from another thread, so maybe I should go do some reading and less typing. T...
I think of all the polite debates where that phrase is inevitably trotted out (on NPR and everywhere). It's usually followed by some quick platitude a...
And yet it happened. I suspect it happened, not because the apparatus wasn't looking, but because so many within it "stood back and stood by" while it...
Apparently not, though I'm trying to parse a hair here. First, I perceive a distinction in your words. There is your knowledge about X, on the one han...
Thanks. This is my first exposure to a philosophical analysis of antinatalism. Just as a nit-picker though, it would seem to me that a lack of self-re...
I pretty much agree with all of that. I know someone who is way left, and they were against the south-east Asia trade deal that Hillary and Obama were...
That's my view. I often have a hard time hearing what is being said in the lyrics. Sometimes when I find the lyrics to read, I'm disappointed. Sometim...
I'm not quite sure where you got the idea that the repair needs to be complete within one generation. Just no longer being destroyed will aid in the r...
True. It's the pendulum swing. The middle gets to say (quite rightly) that each extreme brought upon itself the subsequent slippery slope the extreme ...
If we plant the trees and get out of the way (i.e. don't cut the down again because our numbers demand the resource) then yes. No doubt. Two points: H...
It has been legal because those with the gold make the rules. Political corruption: see response above. I thought they were the dystopian fantasies of...
More thoughts: I think Logic determined that it would be illogical for Logic to place the burden of proof upon the student. I think Logic arrived at t...
No, it will not, not for trees. That does not follow. I did not assume nature was incapable of doing the sewing. Quite the opposite. If we'd simply do...
Benevolent motivation can pre-suppose the person is not aware of the down sides we are all waiving for them too see. But likewise, is it not possible ...
I can't speak for the scientists, but I wonder if maybe some of them feel an urgency, combined with a cynical but often justified perception of most p...
Regarding Trump's new venue, if you are dishonorable, if you are a coward, if you are a liar, if you are a petulant, whiny little bitch, then you migh...
It is incumbent upon the 1% to utilize their superior intellect in the strategizing for inevitable collapse. A critical part and parcel of this will b...
I agree. Who could be the heir apparent? Who has Trump's faith in the brand? He is the brand, and he rose to that position because of a narcissism tha...
Some of the scary shit it is in China. There's a name for it, but I don't recall. But when you play ball, you get consideration. When you don't play b...
That's not only me with my own mind, that's me with this computer I'm using and the car I drive. I do hope there are people out there who are on top o...
I agree that many don't have an understanding. But I think many do, and with mercenary intent. I used to not want my medical information shared, not b...
I'd like to add another thought, regarding the trajectory of the world making it not worth bringing a kid on board. I think of the shifting environmen...
I may not be understanding what your saying, but there are books on logic, the fallacies, *how* to think, as opposed to *what* to think. Is that what ...
When it comes to dystopia, The Q in me had me thinking the whole damn thing was a ruse put in place for this end game of control. After all, I don't p...
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