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You seem to be satisfied to do the same. I at least explained what the problem was with the argument. "I don't think so" is not any kind of improvement there.

Extinction does not drive evolution, reproduction does, and if a species' food goes extinct, they reproduce less, not more. Secondly, these animals aren't abandoning their niches, …

The problem with urban insurgencies is the people who don't carry firearms, not the ones that do. If you can identify the combatants, it is much easier to kill them.

That's a self-defeating argument. Your objection to the concept of ownership would apply to just about every concept, including your own morality, which leaves your thoughts about …

I have the opposite problem: I don't know what anxiety is. Supposedly it's an emotion people have (and it's certainly possible I feel it too,) but I have no way to identify my feel…

The fact that I like cake is not a conscious decision. My decision is whether I will eat it or not. You don't actually have to be with the people you're attracted to. (We all get o…

What understanding? If you can't do anything with it, what do you understand?

You called it a key. I said it is not unless it has a useful purpose.

So you're fine with a key that doesn't open anything? How will you know it is a key at all then? >We try to understand countless things without have a use case in mind at the time …

You are probably going to spend more energy than that just lugging around solar panels.

Under any practical consideration, free will is nothing more than an emotion; it offers you no capabilities, only a propensity to respond to things in a certain way. Without a usef…

Lots of people will question this stuff, but they definitely won't bring up their objections. People are incentivized to collect their paychecks and do what they're told, not to po…

So you're not really protesting unless you light yourself on fire? You understand that if everybody who protested the "big stuff" did so by doing extremely risky things, you're goi…

Sure, if you assume the only purpose of fingers is for counting.

They're considered separate fields because they focus on different problems which are amenable to different techniques, leaving their expert practitioners with very different knowl…

I don't think you've honestly tried to understand what I'm saying, and I don't think your attitude reflects the maturity I expect of someone seriously attempting to discuss ethics.…

I am not saying that. I'm saying that considering the government to act only violently is a gross mischaracterization of reality such that even if you define things such that it is…

I don't understand these distinctions. North Korea doesn't control its population with only boots on the ground, it controls it by controlling the border (with ships), the politica…

There is no position from the perspective of beings that don't exist, let alone a neutral one. It's always the beings that exist that make decisions, and it's always their perspect…

They all say wikipedia.org next to them.

Federal tyrants have access to nuclear weapons, missiles, aircraft carriers, tanks, drones, satellites, etc. How do you expect to fend off tyranny with asymmetric military capabili…