Plastic recycling very simple does not work; only 10% of our plastic is recycled, If we are lucky. — maytham naei
In this way, a lie is just a slider that measure how close we are to the truth. — maytham naei
Maybe one idea cannot exist without the opposite of that idea. For example, you cannot have the concept of darkness without light. Although you can have a totally dark room, which is defined as the lack of co-existence of light.
Moving away from the light analogy. What I would like to discuss is that in a self contained boundary, a complete lie cannot exist, but in the same self contained boundary the complete truth can exist on it's own. — maytham naei
Give an example of a truth that can exist on it's own. — synthesis
I guess you cannot extract reality itself just to compare it with false or the absence of reality — javi2541997
Give an example of a truth that can exist on it's own.
— synthesis
If I say "I always tell the truth" that statement could exist on it's own. — maytham naei
It's possible for an individual to say "I always tell the truth" and actually always do say the truth. — maytham naei
What is the equal amount of good to the bad in the Holocaust for example? — DingoJones
Because it cost millions of lives. It really doesn't matter how you measure it, only that you apply it equally.How do you know the lessons will save millions? By what metric did you measure the bad and good?
In what way can you even say the lesson has been learned? By who? There are still genocides, still horrors of all the kinds so where exactly are these lessons saving millions?
And again, how do you know it ends up equal? — DingoJones
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