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Trade Bob for smiley. PhilX 🇺🇸 Absolutely not. Instead, the UN must put N Korea on a smilie embargo. We must cease exporting this functionally critical comptuter technology to N Korea. In the same token, or with it, we must set our Internet satellites so that N Korea becomes incapacitated in sendin...

I would agree with these points. What we understand of "cause and effect" is strictly "causality" continually reflecting as a logistic memory. Repetition is structure, we see this within geometry through the repetition of points. I have no argument against this because, generall...

Is it time for philosophy to re-synthesize itself into something new? No, not at all. All philosophy is a repetition of itself. Human wisdom is fininte, capacity to be wise is finite, and has its limits cut out for us. We need to assimilate wisdom in a lifetime, and that span of time has been a con...

My Absolute Best Logical Argument To Support My New, Objective Definition Of Good And Bad Introductory Statement To My Logical Argument: Our positive emotions are an objective good and our negative emotions are an objective bad. When you experience the good value via a positive emotion, then it is ...

1.) Do you believe in God? 2.) Do you believe that there is some ultimate meaning or purpose to human life? 3.) Do you believe that everyone is morally responsible for him or herself? 4.) Is the scientific account of the world essentially correct? I don't believe in God, but I do believe in god. Or...

Hello. I know that This is very old post but I want to say that Humanists are atheists and agnostics who make sense of the world using reason, experience and shared human values. Right .... what is an atheist and agnostic that doesn't use reason, experience and shared human values? Could be a: vicc...

The posts on this site are hard to follow. I can't tell visually where one post starts, where it ends, where a quote ends, who quoted whom, what their names are, and this whole thing is just damn confusing. I find myself instead of pondering a philosophical question or consider a new way of looking ...

If we are altruists, then a foetus is a growing baby and future adult, with evolving sensations and sapience. And everyone including that foetus is a member of society that has to manage its welfare, which may include its abortion for its own and mothers good or least harm. According to this it is ...