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Examples of I-value are: life, love, liberty, freedom, integrity, beauty, morality, sincerity, affection, joy, involvement, 'going with the flow,' community, transparency, mindfulness, happiness, empathy, and compassion I-value is also very important when it comes to defining "Ethics." Ethics is a ...

If you take such a question - you don't even have an idea what you are asking. Worse: you don't know WHY are you asking the questions that you are asking? Welcome to philosophy. Welcome to lack of self-awareness? :) Yeah. I understand the intention of every single question I ask. I have a "why?". Y...

For the sake of anybody else who can't make much sense of those unstructured rants. The doctors who were absurdly imprisoned for treating wounded anti-government protesters in Bahrain have all been released after completing their sentences . The 1st amendment will not be superseded by the new Israel...

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Sun Feb 17, 2019 2:59 am

You are free to BELIEVE whatever you want to BELIEVE, and, to have a concept of "good" as any way you want it to be.

Your abuses of CAPS LOCK and "scare quotes" amount to an indictable CRIME against "keyboards".

I have to say that my impression was that the Brits was were brutal, but less so than the Spaniards, Dutch and Portuguese. Not sure if that's how things are reported in the Anglosphere or if it was the case. that is my general view of the matter. Well you see, when people think of all the stuff the...

In the STRUCTURE book I claimed that a super-computer programmed with a "rule engine" could take a suvey and discard incompatible results to arrive at a common denominator of agreement. The size of the consensus pool would matter relative to the size of the over-all sample. Also, in another part of...

The actual consensus is that our imperial conquests upended many civilisations, some to more devastating effect than others; that in all cases the objective was to benefit ourselves, with a side order of enriching friendly natives who could help us gain what we wanted. so a great deal of harm was d...

Isaiah Berlin argued (correctly imo) that this is a misunderstanding of what philosophy is basically for. If you take a question where nobody yet knows what a correct answer would look like, that's a philosophical question. If you take such a question - you don't even have an idea what you are aski...

I apologize if I'm not being clear enough. my point has consistently been that colonialism is viewed by many as "nothing but detrimental". It's not just Zinn and Chomsky either. Frantz Fanon probably got the ball rolling in the intellectual world. You've heard of him, right? Google "George Orwell s...

Well, I'm not familiar with Zinn, but if he wrote what I said: "a nuance-free claim that western influence in the regions we invaded was nothing but detrimental", that would make him probably a terrible historian. Same goes if he wrote what you claimed first time round: "The conventional wisdom thes...

Of course all Colonialism is bad by default. Just thinking about history, and concluded that all the former Brit colonies: Hong Kong, South Africa, India, Autralia, NZ, Canada, USA, have a higher standard of living and more liberty generally than former nations of other colonial powers. why is that...

Philosophy is a tool like any other. You put on the hat when you need it. You take it off when it has served its purpose. Philosophers forget to take the hat off. Worse yet - philosophers forget to produce anything testable/falsifiable at the end of the heated conversation. Isaiah Berlin argued (co...

Whatever nationality he is, Flash, it's possible there is a concerted effort by far right interests. The far right in Europe is to be reckoned with unfortunately. I'm pretty sure there's no StormFrontFuhrer dispatching minions one by one to haunt a relatively small philosophy forum. There's just a ...

Veggie, Dachshund by his use of English reveals himself to be US American, probably from near the Great Lakes. He is male ; what is a dachshund bitch called in German? Hundin? His opinions are fairly extreme right wing. We have had several clones of the Dachshund sort visiting us. Ehh, he's definit...

In a spirit of cooperation with Flash Dangerpants, I am taking a suggestion he offered to initiate a new thread. I'd like to point out that while I may have suggested explaining and defending your underlying system, I did mention something that would help make it a worthwhile endeavor. So you shoul...