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i think black and white lies are popularly understood within a framework of consequentialism. white lies promote good outcomes and avoid bad, black lies do the opposite. so it's not arbitrary in that there is a rationale and intent is still being judged but it isn't really sound in terms of conseque...

if death is inevitable, do humans really want to survive? and procreation is arguably just an extension of this fear - of dying. how can someone really want something that is so irrational, that cannot be obtained under the circumstances of the human condition. i cannot help but think that survival ...

and what is the source of this diversity? are people really that different? and by really i mean, once you script away all the differences in upbringing as people are raised in little corporate cells to serve their purpose in society or the world as a whole, once you script away all needless genetic...

and by this i mean, if they had that thing, they would be eternally content.

thoughts?

also, if you don't believe that such a thing exists, what is your reason or evidence?

that paper is more relevant to my recent post in the other thread on how communicating ideas distorts their meaning this thread is more about how language figures in the conceiving of ideas - prior to communication - not the damage/distortion caused by communication, or the attempt to articulate ide...

language has always been a central issue in philosophy, and some branches have arose entirely just to deal with it, but one thing i notice is that this is often done after the fact - in other words, language and words are the starting point of analysis but i think the problem concerning language lie...

i would say to this doctor, why then don't we experience this when we go to sleep? yes, there is a continuation of conscious of some sort (awareness of our imagination while we sleep for example), but it is not of the moment before falling asleep, it is something else our mind has conjured up in sle...

someone who commits a crime in later life also has less to gain though, because they are older, they reap less benefit, both short-term and long-term (vs young criminals just starting off), so there is less incentive so while it's unfair compared to young criminals who get sentenced for the same cri...

neither? things are delineated according to their utility to humans, not as they really are to understand this this, a point about language must be made our language for some reason refers to 'things' as if these entities which we define exist as these things as we've defined them apart from us, but...

i like this sh*t

interesting

how did the EU even come to be? can someone give me a rundown as a native? (i am not european) i'm tempted to google it but i expect i might have to wade through some PC crap to get at the real story...wikipedia itself has a strong liberal and incidentally pro-eu bias or is there just one set of acc...

it is hard to separate the native country/tribe from the oppressor...anywhere whenever such a separation is made it is almost always done out of convenience and for the sake of creating a sense of unified identity in a people, whether for a coming election, a war, whatever, anything that requires a ...

post-modernism is anti-knowledge and cultural genocide, and is pretty much ushering in a second Dark Ages the limitations of science do not merit throwing the baby out with the bathwater; that said, science isn't going anywhere, most of what is being talked about in this thread is only going on at s...

i don't think so...everyone has their own hell. it never ceases to amaze me how personalities can be shaped to almost any priority some people equate intellectual starvation with literal starvation... sometimes though it's through associations via experience that create links between seemingly unimp...

depends on what people value most i think...which is usually shaped by circumstance, temperament, and upbringing if i were to name something that would move a person no matter what under most circumstances regardless of personality...i would say pain escalating torture will get most people to move, ...