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If profit is removed from the system, then what would incentivize doctors to be better?. It has worked in the world long before money was invented. IN the UK each doctor gets paid. People pay in what they can, and get out of it what they need. This has given us the world's most value for money heal...

Time IS change. Saying that is like saying "Length is a pencil." You're confusing what you are measuring with the measurement. And indeed length is identical to the extension of matter (in this case in a particular orthogonal direction relative to width and depth). Length isn't identical ...

The article also claims that " it is clear that science and theism are not mutually exclusive." I had always understood that they are mutually exclusive because science employs Methodological Naturalism, i.e science can only accept a 'natural' answer for something, where god is by definit...

I don't find the article giving a very accurate description and examples of Occam's Razor. To quote Isaac Newton, "We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. Therefore, to the same natural effects we must, as far as p...

If profit is removed from the system, then what would incentivize doctors to be better? One doctor won't have the same success rate as another doctor, so why would the better doctor get paid the same amount for the same service as the poor doctor? My wife is a school teacher and her choice of health...

Time is not identical to the measurement of something. It is the something we're measuring. Time is a measurement - a measurement of change. In order to measure change, we need to use a objective measuring stick, so we look for cyclical, or consistent repetitive change, like the change in the posit...

Time IS change. Saying that is like saying "Length is a pencil." You're confusing what you are measuring with the measurement. Change is what is being measured, and we use time to measure it, just as some object has dimensions and we use length to measure it. The fact is that the measurem...

What do you mean by 'exist' or "not exist"? What does the word "time" refer to? Exist: Have objective reality or being. Time: A measure of relative motion between two object one of them is standard clock and another is subject of study. Time is not identical to the measurement o...

I would say that what she did is wrong because she doesn't own the medium in which she is using to make her art. National Parks are for all of us to enjoy and to experience the natural world without being exposed to someone's self-centered grab for attention. Why couldn't she just have drawn these p...

If elections were viewed properly (as hiring an employee instead of installing a noble) then voters, americans, america might get the kind of practical, minimalist, public service (and servants) it needs. But, noooooooo... There seems to be an unattractive aspect of the human psyche that craves 'le...

. Ultimately, Cleeremans believes that consciousness is “the brain’s theory about itself.” In other words, consciousness is simply being self-aware. But isn't this simply a result of how the brain categorizes experiences? A self is simply a category of certain experiences, just as trees, rocks, clo...

Of course incest should be legal. We already have gay marriage establishing the precedent of "If you love each other and are consenting adults, then you should be able to get married." People who get married aren't under any requirement to have kids. Gay couples who get married aren't bein...

If Solipsism were true, then why would language and communication be an idea or concept that the solipsist could even come to imagine? How would such an idea arise within it's solipsist mind? If Solipsism were true, then I am the solipsist and all of you aren't even human beings. You all are just te...

If you hold assumptions, that doesn't necessarily mean you don't have an open mind. If you are willing to be open to changing your assumption when provided with new evidence, then you have an open mind. You have to think about how an assumption is made and what it's origin may be. I don't think assu...