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I suppose if I published an article on how to build an atomic bomb in the local newspaper it might be a bad thing to do and worth it to keep it from being published. There is nothing secret about how to build an atomic bomb. Different countries keep specific designs secret of course, but the princi...

Sculptor wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:24 pm No she implied that the rich were dishonest actually. Nothing she said began to imply ANYthing about poor people.

So anyone who is rich is dishonest, and anyone who is poor must be helped by the dishonest. You have wonderful view of the world.

It's the task of honest men to change reality for very poor people. Poor people aren't honest men? It is dishonest to try to put your words in my mouth. You made a distinction between on class of people, "honest men," who had to change reality for another class of people you call, "t...

I think the suppression of speech question is closely related to the lying question; when is it permissible to lie. Free speech, like lying, is so valuable in so many situations that it is almost primary. However, there are situations where speech or true would bring on such negative consequences t...

Belinda wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 10:27 am It's the task of honest men to change reality for very poor people.

Poor people aren't honest men?

It's often true anything worthwhile is going to take hard work, however there are other dimensions to success than the one simple dimension of hard work. Cannot you see that? There are endless other dimensions, but without hard work, none of them matter. Most people fail because they do not even do...

Physicalism is the philosophical thesis that everything is physical and that there is nothing other than the physical. It means nothing exists that is not physical or that cannot be explained or attributed to the physical. What is physical? One difficulty of the physicalist view is identifying exact...

It's often true anything worthwhile is going to take hard work, however there are other dimensions to success than the one simple dimension of hard work. Cannot you see that? There are endless other dimensions, but without hard work, none of them matter. Most people fail because they do not even do...

I call obesity a disability because it causes diabetes, heart disease, and shortens their lives by as much as ten years for men. You are too cavalier about stopping eating so much. You know little about it. Most obese people wish they were thinner. Is it somebody's choice that they get ill ill with...

I call obesity a disability because it causes diabetes, heart disease, and shortens their lives by as much as ten years for men. You are too cavalier about stopping eating so much. You know little about it. Most obese people wish they were thinner. Is it somebody's choice that they get ill ill with...

If you are born to an impoverished immigrant mother and have a deprived childhood, is it your fault and would you become successful if you only try hard enough? Deprived of what? If I use whatever it is you call a deprived child as an excuse to become nothing as an adult, that is my fault. There ar...

So if you are born severely autistic it's your own fault for not snapping out of it? So you consider being autistic a fault? If someone has a handicap (and 99% of those who claim them just have conditions others have without compliant and live quite successfully), does that mean someone is at fault...

Almost 90% of "every aspect of one's own life" is what we are thrown into. You did not choose your parents, your childhood, your native country, the truck that knocked you down, the colour of your eyes, most of the people you encountered during your life, the rules and regulations made by...

Not exactly.There is no distinction between moral good and efficient good, apart from social reality. Social reality is sometimes influenced greatly by an individual such as Moses, the Pope, Muhammad, St Paul, Martin Luther, Trump, Murdoch, Mandela, Florence Nightingale, Mao T'se Tung, and Genghis ...

The important words being, " assumed ," and, " intrinsically valued ." Since there are no intrinsic values (nothing is just good or bad, only good or bad for something to someone) such values have to be assumed, because they cannot be deduced rationally. Rationality is about ind...