Do you think that because someone says they like something at a point in time, it is good to encourage what they like? — schopenhauer1
For example, addicts of narcotics or opioids. They want drugs. Does that mean that it is right to just give them drugs because they want it? This is a different question than if it should be allowed as a law, just as an individual to another individual. — schopenhauer1
Get rid of mosquitoes and other creatures also disappear, like humming birds — frank
Is it permissible to do something on someone else's behalf because one has a notion that "most people" would "want this"? — schopenhauer1
is ethics then simply based on the current preferences of a particular group? Are ethics voted in by majority rule? — schopenhauer1
I’m not sure why the age difference would matter (unless someone is underage or something) — TheHedoMinimalist
A particulary important and still contentious discovery is Archaeopteryx c, found in the Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of southern Germany, which is marked by rare but exceptionally well preserved fossils. Archaeopteryx is considered by many to be the first bird, being of about 150 million years of age. It is actually intermediate between the birds that we see flying around in our backyards and the predatory dinosaurs like Deinonychus. In fact, one skeleton of Archaeopteryx that had poorly preserved feathers was originally described as a skeleton of a small bipedal dinosaur, Compsognathus. A total of seven specimens of the bird are known at this time.
It has long been accepted that Archaeopteryx was a transitional form between birds and reptiles, and that it is the earliest known bird. Lately, scientists have realized that it bears even more resemblance to its ancestors, the Maniraptora, than to modern birds; providing a strong phylogenetic link between the two groups. It is one of the most important fossils ever discovered.
Unlike all living birds, Archaeopteryx had a full set of teeth, a rather flat sternum ("breastbone"), a long, bony tail, gastralia ("belly ribs"), and three claws on the wing which could have still been used to grasp prey (or maybe trees). However, its feathers, wings, furcula ("wishbone") and reduced fingers are all characteristics of modern birds.
varying per one source from one tribe to another more than Chinese to English. — tim wood
All history is myth, designed to reveal ideals and enforce ideology. It is a political tool. Objective history is a video tape of events, no events prioritized, no events nterpreted, and no commentary provided. We embue with new meaning when we interpret. — Hanover
Some years ago I asked some very bright high-school students from one of America's better high schools just a few questions about American history. According to them, the American Civil War occurred in the 1920s, "Didn't it?" — tim wood
Two years later, Britain ceded India. Not a coincidence — Kenosha Kid
Empires started shedding their colonies in self-disgust. — Kenosha Kid
It's been about how people should be, and how they might become that way if they aren't so already. — baker
I'm not happy, not happy at all that I had to do your homework for you. — TheMadFool
I've been trying to decide whether I should try to make a comprehensive case for psychology as a scientific discipline. I'd considered doing that in the past but never got around to it. That would be the only potentially effective way for me to respond to your skepticism, but it will take some effort. Let me think about whether I've got the energy to do it right now. — T Clark
It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss.[8] The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes Candide with, if not rejecting Leibnizian optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds". — Wikipedia
what type of reaction do you think the police would have against a large non-mainstream protest against capital? — Maw
But Cuba. — schopenhauer1
Yet for some reason these people are painted as radical Castro-loving communists by the right. — Mr Bee
I don't think problem lies with Leftists per se, as some members seem to suggest (I think Leftists are far smarter today than they have in decades prior), but rather lies with the colossal structures of Capitalism, ideological bulwarks, state militarization, etc. — Maw
There are forms of Left Wing radicalism apparent in the US, but none so apparently emboldened as the Right's. — Lil
The very idea of there being an uprising is skipping steps, there isn't any other option than hard work by organizers and taking over local governments and councils — Saphsin
This is a serious issue James Riley, the younger generation is suffering and the Boomers ignore their cries of pain/calls for reform. Denying someone's identity is tantamount to genocide — K Turner
I was wondering if anyone could direct me to a source that could help convince me that technological progress and ideas are unlimited. — Maximum7
As a child, ever experience the rush of opening a Christmas present? — HardWorker
Why is it okay to believe in the theory of a higher-dimensional being but not God? Aren’t we describing the the same concept? — SteveMinjares
1. How have you arrived at your belief that God exists? Was it after some theoretical or logical proofs on God 's existence or some personal religious experience? Or via some other routes? — Corvus
I think a non-believer, were they to move to being a believer, would likely need to have experiences. — Bylaw
Famously (though perhaps not famous enough) the Cochrane trials only recently found most common paracetamol to be largely ineffective for the majority of people. — Isaac
It's now so lucrative for pharmaceutical companies to get an anti-cancer drug approved that could make a profit from absolutely any chemical at all and simply run sufficient trials for one to have a positive effect by chance alone. — Isaac
Pharmaceutical companies paid for 6,550 trials out of 7,598 in 2014. — Isaac
Same year that the Cochrane report found Tamiflu had little to no benefit in preventing the flu or shortening the duration of flu symptoms, yet had a chance of life-threatening side effects, including suicide. — Isaac
What kind of schizophrenic CEOs do you imagine are in charge of these organisations? — Isaac
So I thought I would ask here and see if anyone has any thoughts on what rules or attributes you would like to see in the civilization you participate in. — RoadWarrior9
To start off here are a few of mine:
Freedom. Being an individualist and somewhat of a recluse this is one of my most important attributes. This can be a complicated subject to fully define as it applies to beings but the basic idea is: You can do any thing you want as long as you do not interfere with someone else's freedom.
No taxes
Free quality health care for everyone
100% employment opportunities — RoadWarrior9
If we go to the root of all emotions and desires, we are not that different from robots. — Kinglord1090