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by atlantic 11y ago
You seem to be identifying consciousness with the physical structures that apparently support it. We read every day on this forum that correlation is not causation.
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by atlantic 11y ago
I see his point, but it's not very funny.
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>What does Dalai Lama have to do with Buddhism? The Dalai Lama is not the head of Buddhism but the head of Tibet The Dalai Lama is considered by religious Tibetans to be the incarnation of Avalokiteshvara, the Tibetan Buddhist deity that
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by atlantic 11y ago
Actually, the article you quoted does not seem to support your claims. There is a legal framework for targeted killings, but that framework belongs to American and not international law. Quoting from your article: >Philip Alston, the for
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by atlantic 11y ago
If there are clear benefits, then perhaps some of these species should not be classified as parasites any longer; it may be more of a symbiotic relationship.
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The problem is that the US is using drones to kill people inside countries with whom they are not at war. If you declare war on a country, that does give you certain rights under the laws of war. But if there is no declaration of war, you c
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by atlantic 11y ago
The obvious response is that you do not kill or abduct people located inside the borders of a country that you are not at war with. It's that simple.
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I don't think that physical and cultural genocide is exclusive to the Victorian era. How much difference is there in reality between the Victorian drive to civilize and Christianize, and the modern Western impulse to ram "democrac
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by atlantic 11y ago
That's a very considerable expense in itself - digitizing, creating and maintaining an archival site. Not to mention that there are copyright questions to be sorted out, which implies legal costs.
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by atlantic 11y ago
Exactly. Arthur C. Clarke's Imperial Earth (1976) comes to mind.
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by atlantic 11y ago
Well, in terms of economic theory, he has a point. Markets usually don't take into account so-called externalities such as the environmental impacts of pollution (or individual loss of privacy) when setting prices. Perhaps a better way
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by atlantic 11y ago
Actually, Gopnik needn't have looked so far afield. Leibniz lived just before Hume, and he was well versed in Chinese buddhist philosophy.
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by atlantic 11y ago
Actually, she needn't have looked so far afield. Leibniz lived just before Hume, and he was well versed in Buddhist philosophy.
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Even if it does, relocating motor vehicle pollution away from major population centres will still have a massive public health impact.
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Humility is never a bad thing. Better to own up to your mistakes than to keep going out of pride.
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Prosecutors should be focused on justice. They should not evaluate themselves, or be evaluated on, the narrow metric of conviction rates. Sometimes doing their job properly should mean being allowed to change their minds, to admit that mayb
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by atlantic 11y ago
This is a dispute in which only the direct stakeholders (countries whose territorial waters adjoin this area) or international institutions such as the United Nations should get involved. That the US thinks it has the right to barge in is a
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by atlantic 11y ago
You could make more than that doing remote vork part-time. That does seem like a very poor deal.
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by atlantic 11y ago
Judging by the tone of some of the comments so far, and in keeping with the spirit of the times, maybe we should include a trigger warning in the title of any Microsoft-related news.
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Whether to stop doing it or not is a political decision. Here we're discussing something else: an industrialist is preventing the facts from being established so that an informed political debate cannot take place.
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Coming to terms with death is an essential part of growing up. A prolonged engagement with the thought of impermanence and death adjusts your value system and life objectives, allowing you to identify what is really important in life and to
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by atlantic 11y ago
If anyone on this forum made that kind of sweeping generalization regarding matters of CS, he would be laughed out of court. Please leave this kind of broad statement to actual historians.
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So we should have an alternative to the legal system?
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European directives are often ignored by national governments, until they are challenged in court (often in the European courts) and actually forced to implement them. So any efforts by the various national courts and legislatures are very
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by atlantic 11y ago
>it's sheer insanity to prevent people from interacting consensually The modern state seems to have become little more than a huge and complex tax-collecting machine. Of course people can interact consensually, with or without the m
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by atlantic 11y ago
For me personally, it doesn't make any kind of sense to force members of other species to live miserably and undergo various forms of de facto torture so I can avoid disease and live longer. It seems a bit selfish. I understand other p
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by atlantic 11y ago
>If anything there is TOO MUCH regulation. If you entertain the possibility that an animal can suffer as much as a human being, then all the regulation in the world is not enough. Consider even the most humane animal experiment, replace
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> But an argument that demands that change only happen through meek, polite statements is in effect arguing for the status quo. That's a caricature. Change should happen through dialogue between the various parties involved, and tha
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by atlantic 11y ago
> In addition to your time here arguing to make sure socially dominant groups get their already-familiar opinions heard yet more. You seem to have fallen into your own trap. You've assumed that I belong to a particular social group

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