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Sounds like a pretty nutty society. I take it you didn't watch any of the Chomsky video I posted? Maybe you'd care to elaborate on what you think is nutty about it. I wasn't able to watch the Chomsky video, but maybe you'd like to tell me who Chomsky is and what he has to say. Noam Chomsky is proba...

I'm more puzzled how government can act in any capacity with the chains that Bob would have them wear. The government has to provide social integration (whatever that is), without owning anything, without supporting anything, and without promoting anything: not even employees. It would not have the...

Chomsky on "for profit organizations".

https://youtu.be/NajQTN9qhXg

The biggest non-profit organisation in my country is the government, Bob. Should I stop paying my taxes? The government is the exception that proves the rule. However, under AEP theory, the only proper function of government is social integration. Government should not own, operate, support or prom...

I wasn't trying to present myself as a know-all pedagogue , Gary, just trying to set the record straight on a matter of historical fact. This particular history is one I spent a lot of time researching many years ago for a series of articles which I was working on at the time. You may also be inter...

Jesus of course had disciples and went around proclaiming himself divine. Don't believe everything you read, Gary. Don't forget Jesus had a shrewd PR agent in Saul of Tarsus and Jesus himself was a very pious Jew. It is utterly inconceivable that he would have made such a claim on his own behalf be...

Is he perhaps a modern day Diogenes? Or dare I say it, Jesus? I'm a non-believer myself but I was brought up in the Christian tradition and this part of the Christian message is a part worth hanging on to. If only god would keep his interfering nose out of things humanity would get along just fine....

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If - as indeed is the case according to surveys made by The Institute for Global Ethics - people on Earth when asked what it means to be an ethical person - a morally-good person - respond that it would be someone who is honest, fair (instead of cheating), and responsible [and these are all a matte...

"BLACK LIVES MATTER!" If so, then why do so many BLACK LIVES (and white lives and yellow lives and brown lives and ...) turn themselves over, lock, stock, and barrel, to be used as resource by the powers that be (public and private)? If you willingly walk to the abattoir then you're nuthi...

All that has importance here are the ideas, not the emotions. Hi Mr. Bjornstrand, Honest question: Do you believe it is the case that many of us (certainly including myself) may be acting on emotions which are unguided by coherent ideas? For example we see something that we don't like, or know is n...

I'm not a "subscriber", so I'm not allowed to read this article (but thank you for the opportunity to post in this thread :) ). From the short blurb at the link which I'm able to see, it sounds like a common affliction many of us probably have, to treat philosophy like a symbol of relative...

This requires the argument: Ban guns and only the criminals will have them. The argument is painfully true. An international ban would allow countries to develop hideous weapons to be used to control the world. Humans are sneaky , egotistical and passionate]. Shit would really hit the fan. Autonomo...

Saw this video posted on another forum I visit. Amazing courage and audacity on behalf of two young ladies who interrupted a Bernie Sanders rally in Seattle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BWOuCfdJYMM Here is a follow up article on some changes made to Sanders' campaign ...

Ban Killer Robots before They Become Weapons of Mass Destruction We need an international agreement to prevent the development of autonomous weapons before they threaten global security By Peter Asaro | August 7, 2015 Last week the Future of Life Institute released a letter signed by some 1,500 art...