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you don't have the right to make laws that violate other people's rights.

You, who have actually read her work and given it an honest moment's thought, have been down voted by people who don't viciously know far more than you do about her work without th…

They can be valid experiments that reveal important insights about the workings of human consciousness and still be utterly irrelevant to the question of free will. With 100% certa…

This was the intent behind Political Correctness - a term cribbed from the Soviet Union's ideology and popularized in the United States at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. It'…

The simple fact is that mathematics is derived from nature first by observation of countable entities and then a process of abstraction from those observations. The natural numbers…

> Life just isn't possible if you try to 'do no evil'. Shouldn't that indicate something about the validity of one's view of morality?

Piketty's data doesn't prove any such thing. Even the poorest people in the US can now have an iPhone, a piece of technology that was unavailable in any form to anyone just ten yea…

To put your point in other words, Newtonian mechanics isn't wrong . It's a system of measurement that is only useful at certain scales. Imagine a yardstick that is only marked at f…

How is notifying the Iranian government that Obama doesn't have the power to make any deal without their approval a violation of the Logan act?

If he's so concerned about America exhibiting the signs of a Fascist dictatorship, perhaps he should take a long, difficult, critical look at the ideology that actually accomplishe…

Meads are possibly the easiest thing you can brew yourself, second only to things that start fermenting when you don't want them to. The problem is that straight honey mead is just…

This is the kind of advice you give to people you want to compete against.

You have to understand that no proposal for the government to enforce specific outcomes is ever an attempt to solve an actual problem. It's always, in every case, someone's attempt…

Mathematics is not a-priori. No form of knowledge is.