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Of what possible relevance to the real world is a counterfactual reality? I can think of a thousand counterfactual worlds sitting in an armchair for ten minutes, but a rational mind knows that none of them will manifest outside the window simply because they have been dreamed of. There is but...

Sure, if literacy in philosophy requires an abandonment of physics. Of course, I do not agree that it does. One can be a philosopher and still embrace science. One may also be literate in non- or pre-scientific philosophies without necessarily agreeing with them all. Your comparison of the...

I don't know about the "Big Bang", but the starting conditions of the universe did make the eventual outcome of that jazz piece inevitable. Only scientific illiteracy would lead one to conclude otherwise. That doesn't mean that your "Big Bang" composed the piece, only that it ensured it would...

The idea being that treating greater and lesser crimes differently encouraged those lesser crimes. Deciding whether to murder is an existential risk, deciding whether to shoplift is just calculus. So make everything fatal, and you eliminate crime! So goes the thinking. More than a thousand years...

I guess answering one cheap shot with another is fair enough, but I assure you that liberty, democratic rule, and individual franchise sit at the very center of my political philosophy. No one has a right to tell someone else what they are or what they are allowed to be. No one ever granted...

The "citizens" you think are the least employable people in the country.

So little confidence in the talents of your own people.

Yeah, fuck those young people for wanting to own homes and retirement accounts! Selfish little chits, doesn't anyone think of the greater good anymore?

Or economists. Or letters.

Oddly encouraging. Losing his self-confidence?

The longer you talk to a "classical liberal", the less liberal their views turn out to actually be. Ever notice that?

Is there... actually some part of America where people don't know what a fucking fist bump means? How out of touch can a person possibly be?

True. If they try put it off til October, both of them will be down with pneumonia.

They weren't. I've been wondering whether the commercial slots have something to do with it. If a media company is doing the planning, the answer is more likely to be money related than politics related.

True. I went to Catholic schooling as well, the ten commandments were not heavily emphasized. The seven deadly sins, on the other hand...

Trying to figure out how the decalaogue constitutes ten commandments as such is opening up a very ancient can of worms.

If the court system were to allow this law to be enacted, these states would join them in crafting simillar requirements: https://www.guttmacher.org/2023/01/six-months-post-roe-24-us-states-have-banned-abortion-or-are-likely-do-so-roundup

That's not how science works. It doesn't "constrain" anything. It simply observes, synthesizes, analyzes, and predicts "what does happen", noting its own successes and failures in doing so to refine the models with which we make our predictions. The "law" in scientific law is a metaphor, not the...

No one says that. And scientists for our part do not object to "compatibilists" until or unless they start to abandon the scientific method in favor of theology. We may think them rather silly, but I've got no problem with people who want to say "free will" and mean a deterministic universe. I...