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    Re: On the morality of evolution

    We are, right now, present witnesses to events from billions of years ago.
    To look at the sun, one does not observe it as it is, we witness what the sun was 8 minutes ago. To look 1000 lightyears...
  2. Re: On the ethics of social medias: hate speech, violence, misinformation.

    Censoring something as broad, personal, subjective and nebulous as "hate" speech can only realistically achieve one thing: It gives martyrs to the targeted group. It adds a sense of injustice on top...
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    Re: On the morality of evolution

    I wouldn't say that precisely.
    There is a sense in which mores mutate over generations and those most suited to a given environment are propagated.
    Then again, memetics would be more relevant to...
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    Re: On the morality of evolution

    The real question of the thread should be highlighted. A few people seem to have missed it.
    I think we are responsible for future evolution. We can't help but influence the environment and effect...
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    Re: Original Sin and the Nature of Christ

    I'm going to zebra post, because it's convenient. I know people hate it. Soz brah.


    It seems that that is the essence of religion.
    Relatively innocent source material with layers of nefarious...
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    Re: Original Sin and the Nature of Christ

    Due to their inter-related and co-dependent nature, I posit that all doctrines require a suspension of reason.
    One doesn't get reasonable fruit from an unreasonable tree.
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    Re: Original Sin and the Nature of Christ

    Original sin is blatantly arbitrary and irrational. It is particularly incompatible with, utterly alien to, and even disgusting to typical modern thought patterns.
    But the same can be said about...
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    Re: Why are you afraid?

    Progress is essentially inevitable.
    The problem, as I see it, is technology progressing faster than our morality and the issues that will be found in the historical future are invisible to us. ...
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    Re: Trans Day of Visibility

    I do find it strange that trans identity somehow got contaminated with this non-binary business. They are irreconcilable opposites.
    One of these is the statement: I am the opposite gender to the...
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    Re: Abortion Rights MudPit

    When something is both "unacceptable" and "irrefutable," its primary descriptor is: unacceptable.
    To achieve widespread acceptance of your premise, it seems that you'd have to travel back in time...
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    Re: Trans Day of Visibility

    Yes, absolutely.

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    Intent is the bedrock of all ethics as the self is the bedrock of metaphysics and epistemology.
    Even in a schema that doubts this a-priori, it is a pretence as...
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    Re: Trans Day of Visibility

    That seems to be inevitable at this point.



    A typical woman might struggle when it comes to impregnating another woman... or peeing while standing up... being a king... becoming an American...
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    Re: Trans Day of Visibility

    Being capable of evil is arguably the ultimate form of good.
    If someone is incapable of harming another, it cannot be said that he is choosing good when he doesn't cause harm. He is merely...
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    Re: Trans Day of Visibility

    It is awkward and forced. But resentment does just as much damage to yourself as anything else.
    Eventually we will all have at least one trans friend, individuals can be understood and accepted. ...
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    Re: Islam is the heir to Abraham

    Yes, Islam is the heir to Abraham, but so are the sects of Judaism and the denominations of Christianity.
    Each of them twist and stretch the source material to suit their ends and fit their...
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    Re: Abortion Rights MudPit

    Guns are fun. Prohibiting fun and employing a militarized fun-police is one of the worst things anyone could possibly do at any point in history.
    But then again, the gun culture in America has...
  17. Re: Infant Male Circumcision is Genital Mutilation without Consent

    Are you familiar with the Hegelian Master-Slave Dialectic?
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    Re: Abortion Rights MudPit

    All legal citizens, upon reaching majority, should have their tubes tied, paid for by the tax payer. The money saved on social welfare and law enforcement would pay for itself.
    Reproductive...
  19. Re: Infant Male Circumcision is Genital Mutilation without Consent

    Through the process of manufacturing offspring we equip the universe with the very tools it requires to supplant us.
    I find it surprising that our pre-reflective/pre-emptive vengeance is limited to...
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    Re: What makes a villain?

    Often, it is a misguided sense of victimhood that makes a regular-Joe into a villainous-Joe.
    I struggle to think of a single exception to that rule, either in fact or fiction.
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    Re: Biden to Sign Executive Action on Guns

    Guns are fun, it's true.
    But based on statistics Americans have proven that they shouldn't have any.
    Also, based on the creepy and near erotic attachment displayed in this thread and others:...
  22. Re: Have we gone too far with computer technology?

    It's not technology that makes life miserable, it's the employers and the plutocratic nature of the ruling classes which makes them highly susceptible to lobbyists/bribery, which means at the expense...
  23. Re: Is BLM is more racist and dangerous than the KKK or Q Anon or Antifa

    Don't you find that hypothesis a touch condescending? Are Black people inherently incapable of articulating their issues successfully? I think we all accept that that is untrue. Other groups have...
  24. Re: Is BLM is more racist and dangerous than the KKK or Q Anon or Antifa

    Oh yeah, conservatives had nothing to do with it... sure... and certainly didn't benefit from it.



    Conservative voter bases are also distracted from wealth inequality by this issue and are...
  25. Re: Is BLM is more racist and dangerous than the KKK or Q Anon or Antifa

    Necessary?
    I think not.
    A natural response fuelled by tabloid/sensationalist media corporations capitalising on tragedies. Yes.

    Progress happens for a wide variety of reasons, historically...
  26. Re: Is BLM is more racist and dangerous than the KKK or Q Anon or Antifa

    There are two key reasons that I can see.
    1. BLM is re-activating old bigotries by deliberately and vigorously re-entrenching the archaic us-versus-them mentality, returning us to a scale of...
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    Re: The Myth of Reverse Racism

    It's rather mundane and common to be against capitalism in this day and age. As unremarkable as owning a hat.



    Indeed, it is the ultimate principle to be pursued concerning "race" and is the...
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    Re: Trans Day of Visibility

    Everyone should have the right to become who they are.

    That's the metaphysical beauty of the trans concept: ie. not one thing nor the other, but transitioning and becoming, bursting with...
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    Re: The Myth of Reverse Racism

    Lol, yeah. That's called being colour-blind and is considered one of the most heinous acts a person can commit now and is grounds for being unpersoned and cancelled.
    If Martin Luther King Jr. were...
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    Re: The Myth of Reverse Racism

    There's no such thing as "reverse" racism. Racism = Racism. The relative ascendency of one's "group's" power is irrelevant, as individuals can and do have power independent of their group's...
  31. Re: ‘Soup Nazi’ joke is no longer funny, a restaurateur learns - After an outcry, the owner of the new Soup Nazi Kitchen in downtown Everett is changing the name.

    Violence is the bedrock and function of all forms of power.
    Groups in ascendance cannot help but exercise it, regardless of how arbitrary. This is a truism throughout history, but what's often...
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    Re: What makes a villain?

    It's an unpopularity contest.

    For example: To the Greeks and Persians, Alexander the Great was their Hitler, the ultimate villain, the Daemon King. To the Romans he was a hero, the ultimate...
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    Re: Discussing the White Genocide Conspiracy Theory

    Surely the definition of "white genocide", through migration and intermarriage also eliminates all other races.
    White genocide is really just the demographic elimination of the traditional concept...
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    Re: Are you worth saving?

    The common doctrine of original sin condemns all through our inherent nature by definition/default and the chances of making the correct choice to overcome the inherent unworthiness one is born with...
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    Re: Are you worth saving?

    I really liked Messiah, it was a well thought out show and didn't deserve that silly backlash it got.

    Nobody deserves to be saved.
    Either goodness is measured in this material world along...
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    Re: What makes a villain?

    If that is required, then can it be said that we have a viable schema for determining what makes a villain?
    I am positing that without the psychic ability to read the minds of others and precisely...
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    Re: What makes a villain?

    What about brainwashing? Involuntary sleep deprivation? Acting on misinformation? Brain injury? Being a baby, mentally-disabled, senile? Being from a tribal society that never developed the concept...
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    Re: What makes a villain?

    I think we can all agree that this is not true in all circumstances.
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    Re: What makes a villain?

    In my view villainy and heroism are defined by their opposites, more specifically their capacity for their opposite mode of being. The viability of choice is the most basic requirement for any...
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    Re: Changing your mind...

    Neither.
    Either way, one necessarily has sufficient cause so to do. Otherwise, one could not have done so.



    Instinctively: Weakness.
    Rationally: Strength.
    But there is a kernel of...
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