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Yeah, well we had to ethnic cleanse out Nazis too. This pandering to Hamas terrorists is bullshit. Explain the logic of Islamists immigrating to liberal democracies from their shithole theocratic dictatorships and then working to turn formerly exceptionally beautiful lands such as Sweden, France, and Italy into sharia shit-holes. Culturally…[Read more]

Politicians and the Supreme Court Justice politicians for either side, entered office indebted to their benefactors and have auctioned off their morality long ago. The founders could not envision such wealth in the hands of so few who are happy to divide and conquer. The system was not designed to handle it.

There’s no illuminati-type conspiracy…[Read more]

Nah not going to watch a bullshit video with a bullshit title. Civilisation is not being destroyed. At worst, some things we consider important are being chipped away at. We are far from “destroyed”. The very language of the title of this video screams “watching this will rot your brain”.

The left nor the right is not destroying anything. A lack…[Read more]

Your boy didn’t mention that the top 1% of American earners now control more wealth than the nation’s entire middle class. Just a guess but perhaps that has just a little bit to do with why so many Americans are preferring a dictator to an elected leader?

Yeah, the left does so much stupid shit that is all too easy to point at. But it’s not the…[Read more]

unapologetic wrote:
In a YouTube vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaVIOCsJPjM A christian posed “10 questions no atheist can answer”. And the vloger ‘Rationality Rules’ debunked them with numerous fallacys of the questions. There is one morality question I would like to answer differently from his. Q: Atheism assumes we evolved from lesser…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert, The Japanese did that with tomatoes because their island nation is rocky with few natural resources. So they have get as much out of what they have as possible. And their swordcraft of flipping the steel on itself 30,000 times is what makes the Samuai Sword so strong and sharp.

At least when they beheaded…[Read more]

My method of getting lots of tomatoes all year is to plant a shit-ton of them and then not to fuss much. Let them scream. I have some peppers going on year 3 in pots, but I did put them in the barn during the one bad freeze we had. The extremes that Japanese will go to from making a sword to growing a veggie in frikkin’ clean-room are just not for me.

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
Tomatoes live about two years in the tropics or until a hard frost so not like they should be so worried, LOL. It’s not like meat animals don’t eat tons of plants that could feed so many more people directly. That is the real damage.

I don’t think a plate of what cows and pigs eat would make palatable food on your…

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Tomatoes live about two years in the tropics or until a hard frost so not like they should be so worried, LOL. It’s not like meat animals don’t eat tons of plants that could feed so many more people directly. That is the real damage.

Rob, the person who does whatever the hell he wants when it suits his needs, still reverts to his own set of values when the following happens:

When someone insults him

When he reads about someone being the victim of a miscarriage of justice

When he agrees/disagrees with his scheduled surgery being postponed because someone more urgent has been…[Read more]

I doubt that many people even have a “moral system”. Just learned behaviors like the monkeys we are. A guy robbing a store or buying a child-bride isn’t spending a lot of time “pontificating” moral principles.

Simon, I do have to say that you’ve certainly gained a much stronger understanding of common moral systems and the development of moral thought, but I think you still need to spend some time working out some of the concepts of your system, and thinking through a little more on what sets it apart from others. I would focus less on “competing” with…[Read more]

Sorry Jake, it was a big mistake to reengage on the topic. You have a truly extreme and radical position on the topic, are incapable of conceding a single point and are unwilling to recognise your extreme bias and double standards on a very complex issue. There is, simply, absolutely no point in engaging.

In fact, the only time I have discussed…[Read more]

Out of interest, how would utilitarianism, or Kantianism, resolve moral dilemmas in ways that are not crude, simplistic, and unrealistic?

They aren’t crude, simplistic or unrealistic. Deontological moral systems are complex in moral rule building, that is the opposite of crude or simplistic. They are only unrealistic when pushed to the furthest…[Read more]

Both Kant’s universalisation, and Mill’s utilitarianism, are riddled with problems and inconsistencies.

They aren’t riddled with problems and inconsistencies. Deontological ethics are challenging, in application, when confronting difficult moral decisions (where a moral law conflicts strongly with your personal interests or comfort). All moral sys…[Read more]