Philosophy Now Forum

There are a lot of arguments for and against the death penalty. One argument in favor of the death penalty is that in allowing certain scumbags to live, it taints the entire community. As Henry pointed out, there is also a desire for revenge against wrong doers. I'm against the death penalty myself ...

Following that "logic" of yours Henry, I can claim that you are obsessed with me.

Facebook's customer base consists of a lot of racists, anti-Semites, and conspiracy-theorists. Platforms like Facebook can claim that they want to rid their platforms of such people, but that will never happen, because it would be unprofitable to do so. Social media is basically a safe haven for vil...

Freedom does not preclude hypocrisy, which is what Ingraham has demonstrated. It's not Stalinism to use free-markets and free-speech to protest against her. In fact, all she did when it came to the kid was personally insult him. She couldn't even formulate a rational argument. Why anyone is followin...

Because calling people who exercise their freedom, "Stalinists" is an affront to freedom. That's why my position is not in any way hypocritical. It is hypocritical for Ingraham to claim that she supports freedom while calling those who exercise their freedom in a manner she does not like S...

I actually believe it is largely due to evolution.

But it does have something to do with her opinions. That's in fact why companies advertise with certain shows, they want their product associated with the image of the show. Under freedom, a company has the right to stop advertising with a show that it no longer feels is a good image for its product...

If sponsors directly sponsor her show, then there is a connection between their products and her show. This is not a YouTube arrangement where an ad may come up on a video in an arbitrary fashion. There is nothing dangerous about people refusing to buy products from a company that takes a political ...

She expressed an opinion that violates the basic principles of free-market capitalism and freedom of speech. It's about time that the right-wing in the USA be exposed for being a lot like the left-wing.

When the right-wingers called for a boycott of the NFL, because they thought wealthy black football players were being ungrateful, was that the right-wing engaged in Stalinism? It was certainly the right-wing engaged in hypocrisy: The same people who boycotted the NFL fully supported trust-fund baby...

Henry: She claimed that free-market activity was Stalinism. That's a sure sign that she has no clue what free-market capitalism is about. I'm willing to bet very, very few right-wing pundits will bother to point this out. The fact is that the GOP is in many ways further to the left than Hillary and ...

The hate is coming from both the left and right wing. It's just that while the left wing has always confessed to hating individual property rights and the operation of free-markets, while the right-wing claimed to support such ideas, we now know in the days of Trumpism that the right is just as much...

Logging on to the net this morning, I was shown one of today's "news" articles, which mentioned that conservative media personality Laura Ingraham referred to those who have decided to boycott her show as "Stalinists." This just illustrates how depraved the right-wing has become....

VT: You've also stated, and Henry can verify this, that because things change, he shouldn't mind assault rifles being taken away. In addition, you argued that since no one needs an assault rifle, it's okay to take them away from people. However, as I pointed, out, people also don't "need" ...

Perhaps it should be restricted to actual subscribers; however, paying for a subscription does not ensure that a person is capable of rational thinking. It also overlooks those of us who buy an occasional magazine off of a news stand at a higher price because we don't want an entire subscription, bu...