tom sarbeck

Robert, religion is of much use for people who want to take from others, especially for taking from unhappy others.

Strega, ten cents says that every kid’s getting a medal fools no one.

Winning is nice, but losing and having helpful parents can teach a valuable, “Your abilities lie elsewhere. Let’s find them.”

My parents didn’t close any paths. An occasional low grade told me I had low desire and suggested a path change. I changed my major subject twice bef…[Read more]

Davis, I agree that my posts are usually impeccable and insightful. That much of my writing for other audiences deals with law and those audiences include attorneys account for the former. That I have decades of experience in hardball politics accounts for the latter.

Your saying I know nothing of philosophy fails a truth test.

I apply Occam’s R…[Read more]

Davis, the shortest duck-and-dodge I ever heard was Catholicism’s “Error has no rights”. Your post deserves and will get better but not on April 29 at 2:55 am.

Hm-mm, 2:55 am where I am is 9:55 am in this discussion. Google says it’s in Greenwich.

That fossilized like buttons have not been found does not imply that none will ever be found. Ergo, suspend judgment.

Davis, another predilection of philosophers is the use of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of words to remark on what non-philosophers can say in a half dozen or so.

Davis, you opened with “Philosophy is alive and well….” and then argued for politics being alive and well.

Simon and Unseen will tire of their debate before they see that good and evil have value in the world only as political words.

Thank you, Zweifel, for trying to prevent philosophy’s suicide.

@Simon, it’s the people who are being manipulated for political purposes, not the terms.

I don’t know what your “but surely” clause means.

The words good and evil have a political use, which is the first purpose of government: to control large numbers of people.

They have synonyms, which are I like and  I don’t like respectively, and they are masks for the rulers’ motives.

Some non-human animals eat and/or fuck each other and some non-human animals don’t.

Fuck growing the population.