The concept of personal property is almost universal. Even in monkeys you observe the precursors to property in the form of exchanges of food for...
If you insist that the soul is real, then I would say that the soul is roughly equivalent to the mind. If you destroy/alter the mind, you do the...
Its beautiful because it works. Even if there are people who aren't rewarded as much by the system (their job skills are poor, mental health...
Sure, but the problem here isn't that they are gambling, the problem is that they are in such poor circumstances that the boat. Consider the high...
Technically no, because God doesn't exist. But supposing he did, then yes, because God put him here for a purpose. If God was going to send him...
A mother is not omniscient and omnipotent, so I don't see the usefulness of the analogy here. Not to mention, creating humanity (and the universe)...
Because he is in a unique position to prevent them - he can stop them with essentially zero effort and has the knowledge and power to do so....
It is also genocide. You are basically saying "Genocide is okay, as long as they deserve it." You really have to love divine command theory to...
The president never has, and never will, "run the economy." If you dream of a president who can "run the economy" you dream of Stalin.
Does it really make a difference to ebola victims if a terrorist spreads it vs. an ordinary person? If someone is deliberately spreading ebola,...
Anti-gay christians think LGBT individually will literally burn in hell for their actions, so they see themselves as saving their souls by trying...
I think "harming your soul" in this sense means "becoming a bad person." This is why you can only harm your own soul. When it comes to killing...
In Denmark, people used to get unemployment benefits for up to 5 years. Now they can only get it for 4 years. Nonetheless, this provides us with a...
How many hours of leisure time do you think the president is entitled to? Of the time the president spends working, how much do you think should...
Any analysis of consciousness is going to run into the problem of other minds, if that's what you're getting at?
I would get rid of most social welfare programs and replace them with cash grants (except when financial need is highly variable like certain...
CPS is there to prevent abuse (whether or not the kid is in public school), you don't need a separate set of educational regulations here. You can...
Insurance markets have removed as much as is profitable to do. Car insurance, for example, protects you to some extent in an accident, but you...
As far as the social welfare system - I think this is an argument to reform the social welfare system rather than severely restrict low skilled...
Boundaries are certainly the beginning of a definition, but I don't think they are comprehensive. To use a mathematical analogy - you can put...
You can't - it is a contradiction. God doesn't need to follow the laws of physics, but the universe does. The universe cannot simultaneously be...
I would make the question broader and ask - if consciousness exists separate from the brain, why do changes to the brain appear to change...
A couple of issues with this chart: - Maybe drawing a line from 1996 to 2012 is okay, but this seems very fishy to me (there is risk of cherry...
I don't know if free and open communication will be the panacea you claim. Study after study indicate that people generally consume media that...
We could also have left Saddam in power and then ISIS wouldn't exist.
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