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- Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: What is tolerance?
- Replies: 159
- Views: 1987
Re: What is tolerance?
Had there been no independent America from 1939 to 1945, would the British have defeated Germany on the "Western Front"? Would Russia have defeated Germany on its own and been in control of much of Europe by 1945? When you ask one of these fantasy alterntive history question you would hav...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:54 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: What is tolerance?
- Replies: 159
- Views: 1987
Re: What is tolerance?
Had we gone the way of Canada and Australia and been more patient in getting our sovereignty, I wonder if the world would be a better place? Thoughts? The world would certainly be a very differnet place. America would have had to abandon slavery much sooner. Trade banned 1809, and ownership anywher...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: What is tolerance?
- Replies: 159
- Views: 1987
Re: What is tolerance?
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/parliament-passes-the-tea-act On May 10, 1773, the British Parliament passes the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government and, thus, granting it a d...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:52 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: What is tolerance?
- Replies: 159
- Views: 1987
Re: What is tolerance?
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/parliament-passes-the-tea-act On May 10, 1773, the British Parliament passes the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government and, thus, granting it a de...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:49 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: What is tolerance?
- Replies: 159
- Views: 1987
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: What is tolerance?
- Replies: 159
- Views: 1987
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:16 pm
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: MTG could be the first WOMAN PRESIDENT.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 107
MTG could be the first WOMAN PRESIDENT.
Just listened to a discussion with Rory Stewart and Alistair Cambell on who would want to be running mate for Trump, as he has no one as yet. IMagine Trump won.... There are problems for any one wanting to be VP. You'd have to be resilient to put up with Trump's BS. It would be a poison chalice sinc...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: What is tolerance?
- Replies: 159
- Views: 1987
Re: What is tolerance?
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:56 am
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: What is tolerance?
- Replies: 159
- Views: 1987
Re: What is tolerance?
https://www.flgov.com/2024/02/15/governor-ron-desantis-debunks-book-ban-hoax-calls-on-florida-legislature-to-amend-the-law-to-prevent-abuse-from-activists/ Governor Ron DeSantis Debunks Book Ban Hoax, Calls on Florida Legislature to Amend the Law to Prevent Abuse from Activists TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — ...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:54 am
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: What is tolerance?
- Replies: 159
- Views: 1987
Re: What is tolerance?
I have the advantage of avoiding the indoctrination of American schooling. Rather then have all the childish myths of the American state thrust upon me, I heave learned my History as a Master's student in a Universith setting. For example most Americans beleive that the Boston Tea Party was because...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: What is tolerance?
- Replies: 159
- Views: 1987
Re: What is tolerance?
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: What is tolerance?
- Replies: 159
- Views: 1987
Re: What is tolerance?
I agree with Harbal’s point that one cannot assess a book for its age appropriateness without reading it, but I think it is only necessary to read from the beginning until an age inappropriate passage is found. Complicating the matter is the question of who determines what is inappropriate. A large...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 12:40 pm
- Forum: About this Forum
- Topic: Philosophy Now Forum Suggestions Box
- Replies: 225
- Views: 154013
Re: Philosophy Now Forum Suggestions Box
The Forum seems a little broken ATM
Response times are way down and often it is returning an error rather than moving on the the next page..
Are you doing maintainance ATM?
Response times are way down and often it is returning an error rather than moving on the the next page..
Are you doing maintainance ATM?
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 12:32 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: What is tolerance?
- Replies: 159
- Views: 1987
Re: What is tolerance?
Yes Tolerance was the watch word for Europe to escape and move on from the conflicts of the so-called Reflormation and Counter Reformation which left millions dead from religious bigotry. However for some people Toerance was not acceptible and many found the Americas (most North as the South was Ca...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 12:23 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: What could make morality objective?
- Replies: 9920
- Views: 1063487
Re: What could make morality objective?
Point is every claim is conditioned by its specific human-based language-game or formally, a FSRC. PH's language-game is a linguistic language-game [FSRC] which is based on ordinary language and their meanings which is not based on the physical reality proper. PH's reality of facts in merely a ling...