FlaccidDoor

With these books that you leave behind, how do you think the people who look at them will change their behavior? As in, how do you see people with the...

That's a greedy one. How would that look? would it be like an autobiography?

It can be anything as long as you can make it, but keep in mind that people will forget the more complex, lengthy and boring it is. As in, your audien...

So you'll leave songs for everyone to remember. I just listened to "Tangled Up in Blue." It was a nice song about two who were in love but couldn't be...

I think a major reason that pornification is as heretic a topic as it is is because western society is a majority monogamous culture. I see the concep...

Yes you can lower gun deaths if you can get rid of guns, but that in itself is very hard to make happen here, in the US. But then the real problem is ...

If a mass shooting were to happen, how would it stop without another person without a gun? The US is in a peculiar place that differs from places like...

I see probability as a count of all possible scenarios in respect to it's results. For example, suppose a coin is tossed. That coin, thrown randomly, ...

If we're talking purely about school shooters, as someone who is finishing college, I can see a few points worth empathizing. My experiences are from ...

I forget the origin of the quote and I'll probably butcher it, but have you heard, Even if we look at the same screen side by side, we are still looki...

Given an empty world, it stands to reason that for the world to be empty, a lack of existence needs to exist. A lack of existence in this case seems s...

I highly appreciate the explanations. Thank you. So if I understand correctly, then a modal realist way of thinking is like imagining the universe to ...

Forgive me for being ignorant but I am just a crayon eating web surfer and am not that book smart. Does the modal realist perspective consider worlds ...

The problem doesn't lie in how much we would be preoccupied about what constitutes a minimum provision, because it will change as time flows, creating...

Sorry, the wording was misleading. I should've said the minimum amount to maintain the country/society. So it would be primarily, if not entirely, law...

Having the democratic republic fight over what is the "minimum amount" is more preferable to trying to force in virtue based policies.

I am not talking about whether one thing is more evil than another. Rather I'm saying the taxes we pay to the government should be paying the minimum ...

I don't think we are disagreeing on much. I should've clarified that when I used the term military, I meant any organization wielding some sort of bru...

Is this ethical in terms of the abortion context or the slaughterhouse example? Or just saying that unnecessary spending of tax money could be ethical...

I will consider rephrasing my OP. My question was if taxation to fund policies that are not needed to maintain the society with taxpayer money is ethi...

Sorry I meant conversation about politic, not without. I agree that the philosophy forum should be treated as an exception where the divisive effects ...

I feel like there is no conversation about how antinatalism is based on the assertion that suffering is equivalent to an objective "bad." Why would su...

If you're calling the Big Bang a fairytale to describe how ludicrous of an idea we're told to take in, I agree. Not because it is improbable, but beca...

I agree that people on this forum tend to have a way of discussing that practical conversations in life lack. So you're saying without that, conversat...

I love it! I can't tell if it's bait or true. I suppose to some, gaining freedom is the same as losing security. The security of not having to take re...

I think people's nature is to pursue what they lack. Like the lawn is always greener on the other side, and that applies to freedom as well. Perhaps p...

You remind me of a character in an anime I'm watching. I enjoy it.

I guess it turned out to be a one sided speech than any conversation. That's unfortunate. I want to clarify that my family didn't actually beat me in ...

So you're confident in your knowledge in Sandy Hook! I was going to address it but I ran out of time earlier. Unfortunately I'm clueless to this event...

That's true. This community probably would disagree to the notion of being friends, and much less family. However if a community can exist with only d...

I guess you got me there. My argument really only works for theories you haven't confirmed for yourself, but instead put faith in, simply for its name...

That is an intriguing idea. I have a hard time thinking of anything that is worth taking more seriously than life. If we don't take life seriously, ca...

I'm curious. Did your sister and your South Carolinian parents hate the experience? or was everyone else who had to deal with it the most hateful of t...

Yes it is a theory, but perhaps I should change the framing of my argument. Have you ever been in a spaceship, and watched the sun, moon and earth mov...

I find that to be very funny, not to make fun of you, but it reminds me of my childhood. My family was Christian, and our family would have songs, bib...

You compare having opinions to claiming stakes over a territory. Do you believe that learning how to argue, even if it might cross another's territory...

I don't understand. I don't think I even came close to comparing you to Trump supporters, nor did I claim you might be ignorant of Q-anon. If I said a...

I've heard of them, but I don't know enough to speak anything of them. This discussion is about why people are increasingly losing their ability to co...

Yes?

I don't know even who Q-anon is. I was just saying that you don't seem to have the proper reasons to be able to say that, what you listed previously w...

I apologize for the lack of engagement. Was a rather busy day on my end. I will have a bit more time to respond in a few hours and tomorrow.

Well the thing is that science does not purport to speak any truths. I'm assuming by "actual truths" you meant scientific theories. I define scientifi...

Do you believe that freedom of speech and thought is increasing? I feel that many, at least in the US would disagree. Perhaps you meant in accordance ...

Thank you. It's really fun talking to competent thinkers from a wide variety of perspectives. I've only joined 2 days ago and I've had a blast so far.

I'm actually a big fan of Jordan Peterson as well. I grew up in a rather religious family, and he helped me bridge the gap I held between the world of...

Ok so your basis to call your knowledge "objective" seems to only be that Trump supporters are inherently wrong. I apologize in advance if I'm wrong b...

I feel like I understood what you meant. I am strategically acting in a way to lead this discussion to conclude "people can be civil about these conte...

I thought we were addressing Trump supporters. Whether Trump said that or not our presidents say a lot of things that aren't representational of their...

What's the reason you are able to be so confident in your knowledge? At least for the climate change argument, I think very few people argue this as i...

Maybe a good place to start is, political correctness. You said it was postmodernistic and neo-marxian, but is also comparable to my appeal for the sc...