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There is only one condition for war. Government. So long a most people believe their life or fortunes depend on some agency of force and force is the right way to deal with other human beings there will be wars. If you love government, you love war. Neither the Hatfields nor the McCoys were particu...

I mean, it would be nice if, after Russia seizes Ukraine, we could all just sit down and get along after that. Let bygones be bygones. One could even make the argument that had Poland simply ceded the Danzig corridor to Hitler, then millions of lives may have been saved from WW2, hence making Brita...

1. Nothing is more profitable to politicians and the military industry than war. What if..The lucrative business of manufacturing Nuclear Weapons, which is just one of many other weapons of mass destruction that can be used to destroy life...gives licence to bully other nations ..already knowing th...

I mean, it would be nice if, after Russia seizes Ukraine, we could all just sit down and get along after that. Let bygones be bygones. One could even make the argument that had Poland simply ceded the Danzig corridor to Hitler, then millions of lives may have been saved from WW2, hence making Brita...

The Ukraine War is a Racket “ War is a racket , wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benef...

The Ukraine War is a Racket “ War is a racket , wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benef...

Reality is an epistemological term not a metaphysical one. I'm sorry, but that makes no sense whatsoever. All terms are epistemological. "Meatphysics," is epistemological. If you mean what a term means, i.e. what it refers to, reality refers to what exists, and actually means the same thi...

Thomas L. Friedman at the NYT 'Putin...is not just obsessed with holding his own power and ready to violate any norm to retain it. He is also obsessed with the loss of Russian power, dignity and respect — which resulted from the fall of the Soviet Union — and the need to restore it. His reckless de...

When no humans are left alive and no humans or dogs exist to remember humans then there will still exist absolute human experience which is not bound to past and future times. ---the White Queen said. "Of course it exits. It exists nowhere, at no time, in no possible way, and is just as sensib...

If it's a racket, what's the angle? I'm just reporting. There are two links. There are two angles, as far as I'm concerned. 1. Nothing is more profitable to politicians and the military industry than war. 2. Was is always put over by means of propaganda and the gross ignorance of most of humanity w...

Paradoxically, every action of a social person, or one living in society, is self-serving. ... where's the paradox? The paradox is that social actions are for the individual. Society benefits as a natural consequence. Everything that an individual does in a society (two or more) is self-serving to ...

The Ukraine War is a Racket “ War is a racket , wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benef...

No doctrine has ever been responsible for more evil than the doctrine of altruism. Here is pure altruism put into practice: The husband of the woman who blew herself up at Karachi University in Pakistan said her selfless act has left him speechless but he is proud of what she did. On Tuesday, an exp...

So, it's what you see that determines if your belief is warranted? No, not necessarily. Nobody said that. But in the case of "I believe it's raining," that's usually an adequate test; that, or sticking your head out in it, of course. It's more like, "what the facts, carefully assesse...

Paradoxically, every action of a social person, or one living in society, is self-serving. Except to those who swallow the altruist lie, where's the paradox? The only benefit one can possibly be to anyone else is determined by how well the achieve making thmeselves the best they can be. One who is ...