Tom Storm

I'm in agreement with Chomsky. Corporations are part of our community and should be responsible to that community for how they conduct business and wh...

Yes. You make this sound like a bad thing. :wink: Humans practice speciesism which seems to be an aspect of our fairly robust and self-explanatory pro...

Great timing. I'd value your thoughts on this and Lawson - would you mind offering a brief assessment when you're done? I saw an extended interview wi...

I'm not a psychologist, or psychiatrist, so I can't really take offence. Err... what prejudice? What psychobabble? I work within psycho-social context...

Maybe you could start by making an actual argument with evidence? All I see here is prejudice - why else write:

No, I think that's just a determinedly negative view you've put based on what seems to be prejudice. You're certainly not alone in thinking this way. ...

Well I was talking about psychiatry, not psycho-social and peer support which is where this comes in.

The hearing voices approach is supported by all the psychiatrists and mental health services I know of here. I think it is well understood that not al...

Welcome Paul. Not sure I understand this argument. Not sure what this means. Are you saying behavior is innate? Which behavior is innate? Is some not ...

I find this normative interpretive framework notion an interesting and useful way of looking at the issue. It certainly assists in making sense of wha...

Of course. People on heart medication still die of heart attacks. My views are based on 30 years of working in mental health and drug services. It sou...

I'm sorry to hear that. Please accept my condolences. I have lost three people who have gone off medication and completed suicide as a result.

Sounds like I hit a nerve there. Did you have a bad experience with psychiatry?

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Perhaps do some research on this, it's fairly straight forward. I can tell you that for every 100 people I have known to take anti-psychotic medicatio...

Because the mental illness and the resulting risks are treatable. When a person with a significant psychiatric illness (psychosis) is taking medicatio...

That may be the case, but this is a different subject. You may as well pose this question about any human discipline - does science create facts, does...

Not really sure what you are asking. Madness and high risk behaviour towards self and others predates psychiatry. I've worked with a lot of psychiatri...

Yes, I think this can be very significant. There are others I've met for whom homelessness (despite all the deprivations) provides a sense of communit...

Yes, in some cases. Although having worked it the areas of palliative care, AoD services and homelessness for three decades what I have observed indic...

Ada is an equally stupid name for an incomprehensible novel by a genius which reads like Heidegger for people who don't like National Socialism.

We enjoy Hanovercorp's posts, particularly the early funny ones.

I met with Tony Abbot once when he was PM - he said something very similar. But he came from the land of Certainty.

Well, you have no evidence that it is Hanover who produces all these posts. I'm pretty sure Hanover is a handle used by a bunch of gag writers for Set...

Interesting and I am sympathetic to this view. How do you understand the kinds of suffering generated by abject deprivation or illness - living homele...

Great idea. Can the whole thing end at chapter two with an elegant mushroom cloud, sparing us all that interminable cod mythology? If only Tolkien him...

What does an unbalanced life mean and how would you demonstrate that this is the case? What does it mean to reflect? When is it done and how is it don...

Please don't curse in mixed company, it unsettles the horses. :wink:

My impression was that there was a lot of speculation about physics and the meaning of quantum matters on this site, with members holding a diversity ...

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\ :up: Got ya. I generally side with science and empiricism, but hopefully not to the point of fundamentalism. My version of science does not 'uncover...

My grandma following the war held much the same view.

Yes. Maybe I should have put the words in inverted commas - would that have worked? I often assume people get the tone I mean things in. Foolish...

Personally I'd say the relationship was equivalent just less evolved. How would you see the differences?

I was being ironic. Hitler and ‘perfectly legal’ mean human rights violations were encouraged towards certain minorities by the state.

I like Wolfe and he knows more about this than I do. There's a lot to unpack in the idea of 'defined by the relationship between...' it brings me back...

Generally I don't decide. I act. I don't divide the world into deliberations about what matters. I act. Now if in acting I get 'knocked on my ass', I ...

For sure. Many art and antiquity collections are essentially stolen property with cultural significance for the people from whom they were taken. My A...

What if you own property and art that was taken from Jews back in 1940? Perfectly legal back then and it was someone else who took the stuff and the o...

You may well start a flame war. :wink: When I studied economics, the key matters of capitalism revolved around the questions of: Who owns the means of...

I think that's a bit limited but we're getting there. There's also Person C: phenomenon A is intriguing but cannot be definitively described until the...

I didn't read @"joshs" response as an attack. He is generally testing the assumptions that underpin arguments here and this can seem provocative. Are ...

Thank you. Do you find Hegel's positions convincing?

Circular arguments make the world go around.

Yes. There are of course philosophers who would argue (Rorty) that humans indeed do not have access to truth, so this is correct. We simply use langua...

For Plantinga, who is a theologian and philosopher, yes. For Donald Hoffman, we live in a simulation. I think the takeaway message is that for many pe...

Kind of. Wayfarer was a big fan of this argument and I find it hard to summarily dismiss, although I don't accept it as a path to a transcendent truth...

I hear you and there is much merit to what you say here but I also think this is a limited notion of self-interest. It is impossible to read anything ...

Nicely put. I'm not against technology per say. But it does have a significant shadow side and many negative, often unforeseen consequences and tech s...

I agree. There is of course a view from some folk, who believe in transcendent realities, that it is impossible to elevate or enshrine 'the human' bec...