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by SpheresOfBalance
Sat May 28, 2022 1:48 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Ukraine Crisis
Replies: 1407
Views: 82012

Re: Ukraine Crisis

From the NYT: 'TOKYO — President Biden indicated on Monday that he would use military force to defend Taiwan if it were ever attacked by China, dispensing with the “strategic ambiguity” traditionally favored by American presidents and repeating even more unequivocally statements that his staff trie...
by SpheresOfBalance
Sat May 28, 2022 1:40 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Ukraine Crisis
Replies: 1407
Views: 82012

Re: Ukraine Crisis

What is the old saying, things change but ever remain the same? Once the old colonialism of the British and European countries enslaved the world being the ultimate powers of the time. With the first world war the power started to shift and British power transformed into American power and American...
by SpheresOfBalance
Sat May 28, 2022 1:36 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Ukraine Crisis
Replies: 1407
Views: 82012

Re: Ukraine Crisis

The Gray Lady takes stock: 'The Senate passed a $40 billion emergency aid package for Ukraine on Thursday, but with a small group of isolationist Republicans loudly criticizing the spending and the war entering a new and complicated phase, continued bipartisan support is not guaranteed. 'Avril Hain...
by SpheresOfBalance
Sat May 28, 2022 1:33 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Ukraine Crisis
Replies: 1407
Views: 82012

Re: Ukraine Crisis

The Gray Lady takes stock: 'The Senate passed a $40 billion emergency aid package for Ukraine on Thursday, but with a small group of isolationist Republicans loudly criticizing the spending and the war entering a new and complicated phase, continued bipartisan support is not guaranteed. 'Avril Hain...
by SpheresOfBalance
Sat May 28, 2022 1:11 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Ukraine Crisis
Replies: 1407
Views: 82012

Re: Ukraine Crisis

Going nuclear... https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/11/ukraine-war-expansion-risks-nuclear/ 'Talk of total victory aligns well with another recently floated objective: an extended bloodletting of the Russian army. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin asserted on April 25 that the United State...
by SpheresOfBalance
Sat May 28, 2022 12:59 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Ukraine Crisis
Replies: 1407
Views: 82012

Re: Ukraine Crisis

Nope, I still say to the extent that Putin isn't Hitler, let him bring the Soviet Union back together sans Marxism. You're wrong, he's killing people, innocent children, he deserves to die for his crimes against humanity. Yeah, that is no less a legitimate point of view than mine. Only I suggest th...
by SpheresOfBalance
Sat May 28, 2022 12:42 am
Forum: Applied Ethics
Topic: Abortion
Replies: 612
Views: 47706

Re: Abortion

I've come to realize the agenda behind making abortion illegal. It's a known fact that in the USA it's usually poorer, ignorant people that sign up for the military. 'They' know that unwanted children usually end up in poorer, under-educated, dysfunctional families, or in foster homes, often under t...
by SpheresOfBalance
Fri May 27, 2022 11:51 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: your penalty box
Replies: 203
Views: 24049

Re: your penalty box

I love being on peoples ignore list, it means my bite, hit the bone; my sting, made their ears ring. Look, I'm a stickler for kicking exclusivity in the teeth, and I herald inclusivity, I'm its hero. So if your exclusive in your thinking, watch out because I bite. I'm gonna bite your thinking, your ...
by SpheresOfBalance
Fri May 27, 2022 10:20 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: What could make morality objective?
Replies: 9752
Views: 1024884

Re: What could make morality objective?

Okay. let's unpack it. If morality is independent then where is it? I don't understand what you are asking. Lets unpack gravity. Gravity is independent. Where is it? Unpacking stuff is reductionism. That's a misguided approach for emergent phenomena. Where is climate? On our planet! Where is life? ...
by SpheresOfBalance
Fri May 27, 2022 10:17 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: What could make morality objective?
Replies: 9752
Views: 1024884

Re: What could make morality objective?

"and still doing it until Going for the One." I actually quite like that album. Have you heard Relayer? I own every Yes Studio album, and every Rush Studio album, and many of their live albums too. In my heart, I've always been a Progressive Rocker! And I always will be, it's where much o...
by SpheresOfBalance
Fri May 27, 2022 9:58 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: What could make morality objective?
Replies: 9752
Views: 1024884

Re: What could make morality objective?

"Sorry - I should have said up to Tormato, which I thought was mostly shite" Shit I like Tormato too. I don't think it's gonna work out between us, Peter, and I really think we should start talking to other people. Okay. It surely was a jest! At my expense?? Either way it really wouldn't ...
by SpheresOfBalance
Fri May 27, 2022 9:56 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: What could make morality objective?
Replies: 9752
Views: 1024884

Re: What could make morality objective?

"Sorry - I should have said up to Tormato, which I thought was mostly shite" Shit I like Tormato too. I don't think it's gonna work out between us, Peter, and I really think we should start talking to other people. To me the stand out on that album is On the Silent Wings of Freedom. But t...
by SpheresOfBalance
Fri May 27, 2022 9:49 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: What could make morality objective?
Replies: 9752
Views: 1024884

Re: What could make morality objective?

Thanks, Flash. Sort of. Rosy and flowery? If we want equal well-being for everyone - and I think we should - we have to overcome the things that get in the way - including the supposed need for economic inequality - which is just capitalist ideology at work: there must be richer and poorer people, ...
by SpheresOfBalance
Fri May 27, 2022 8:56 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: What could make morality objective?
Replies: 9752
Views: 1024884

Re: What could make morality objective?

A woman owns anything in her body, just as you own anything in yours. A woman belongs to herself; the baby in her womb belongs to himself. Neither, without just cause, has a claim on the other. You are right in principle with the above but I would not agree with your views and 'approach' to abortio...
by SpheresOfBalance
Fri May 27, 2022 8:53 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: What could make morality objective?
Replies: 9752
Views: 1024884

Re: What could make morality objective?

A woman owns anything in her body, just as you own anything in yours. A woman belongs to herself; the baby in her womb belongs to himself. Nope, WRONG DUMB-ASS!! The baby is sucking the life out of his mother, care for kippersnacks, pickles and icecream? All together pureed. Be careful in the deliv...