natural selection is not random — wonderer1

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ. — Ephesians 6:5

Is atheism illogical? — Scarecow

If you say X is eternal and X is all there is and from X all new combinations and variations arise, how do you parse out your claims from the deist's? — Hanover

I also wonder about the possibility of 'no origins' ... — Jack Cummins

So what is leftover when discarding the aesthetic/metaphysical? — schopenhauer1

What is this impulse in philosophy for an aesthetic view?

What does it matter if the aesthetic view exists?

Why are some people drawn to it and some not?

Responsibility sticks to power. I rather suspect anti-Israel sentiment, and the relative downplaying of Hamas's nastiness (at least in this thread - it's not the case in most the media I've come across) has to do with the fact that Israel can, and indeed is, killing a great many people and destroying all the buildings and infrastructure, and Hamas is not. If the boot were on the other foot, I rather suspect we'd all be slagging off Hamas. But each cunt has its day, as someone famous might have said, and today it's Israel who is the cunt. — bert1

I don't think anything truly resolves the question of the origin of our existence. — Hanover

Anyway, done with genocide apologists. — Mikie

Personal preference and culture seem to be the source of our ethics. — Tom Storm

I don't know if the science of descriptively moral behaviors (the Science of Morality) will help with ethics. — Mark S

I fear that ethicists will not recognize its usefulness.

Does this science provide a foundation for morality? — Mark S

I regard this whole endeavor as a fruitless dead end. — Fooloso4

↪180 Proof Did you know that Jesus was a Palestinian? — Moses

↪NOS4A2, the Clown isn't anti-state. Just pro-Clown-state. — jorndoe

I am not trying to do ethics. — Mark S

For me, as a nihilist, I find the idea that there is no transcendent meaning rather joyous and exciting and one full of possibilities. I am unencumbered by dogma and doctrine and need not concern myself with following any preordained path. — Tom Storm

Do you have a conclusive argument justifying an imperative moral system? — Mark S

If not, what moral guidance would you suggest as superior to what I propose here?

In no way does the science of morality (as the study of what is and has been descriptively moral) make our ultimate moral goals an empty phrase — Mark S

Jews are one family. — BitconnectCarlos

Some blacks were fine with slavery & with their roles under the confederacy. — Moses

There is nothing threatening about opposing occupation and oppression. That is not antisemitism; you can agree with it or not. Even being anti-zionist is not antisemitic. There are hundreds of thousands, if not more, of ultra-orthodox Jews, including some who are in the Israeli government, who are anti-zionist but they are not antisemitic. They see themselves as the epitome of Jewishness and Jewish tradition.

So there is politics and there is prejudice, and if we don't make a distinction between the two, then what we are actually doing is enforcing a kind of silence over the policies that have been conducted by the Israeli government for a long time and that have ultimately culminated now in the utter destruction of Gaza. — Omer Bartov, Israeli-American Holocaust scholar

... There's been no strong response to these campuses protests which involve vandalism (and apparently now hostage taking) and protestors barring Jewish students from campus in scenes reminiscent of the 1930s in Europe. — BitconnectCarlos

What I can't figure out is, what Trump voters think they're voting for. — Wayfarer