I think that it was only a matter of time. The pursuit of censorship and subservience to an inscrutable "algorithm" was doomed from the beginning. Elon Musk is simply prescient enough to realize it.
It's really interesting to watch this unfold: with Elon Musk championing the cause of free...
Perhaps, faith that God will fulfill selfish desires is misplaced faith.
This is different from having faith that God will be as God is.
However, believing in a bright future can also be the first step towards fulfilling that bright future, if you hold to that ideal. The key here is that faith...
I feel like, to explain a joke is for it to lose its humor.
But considering that some people today have faith and other people today do not have faith, and some people may not have faith and will attain it, while other people have faith and will lose it...
it suggests, to me, that, as humankind...
If Putin controlled the area, then he wouldn't need to lay waste to it.
Perhaps Putin and most everyone should realize that Putin has nothing to lose by simply withdrawing from Ukraine and respecting Ukraine's sovereignty and that, if he does so, it will bring an end to the human carnage in...
Sorry, I still don't understand.
An example of one religion's core dogma is The Ten Commandments - none of which you listed and none of which are contradicted by your list of claims.
Can you provide an example of a religion that holds or not holds your list of statements from the OP as their...
Thank you.
As far as I know, both Nature and Nuture are used to attempt to describe means by which human actions are determined. It seems to me that compatibilists still have to explain how Nature and Nurture are compatible with Free Will in order to have a complete argument.
You didn't propose a peace settlement acceptable to both Russia and Ukraine.
I seriously doubt Putin will be content with any outcome in Ukraine, but it is nonetheless up to Putin to decide to continue to walk this path of self-destruction, misery, and futile embarassment or not.
It's...
will: the faculty by which a person decides on and initiates action.
free will: the faculty by which a person decides on an initiates action is not under the control of another.
determinism: events, including human action, are determined by causes external to the will.
The Problem: if...
Let me see if I understand your argument:
Some religious people make false claims.
Therefore, religion is simply wrong.
Hmm.
Some scientific people make false claims.
Does this imply that science is simply wrong?
If someone is nuking people, then the horrific implications of nuclear war are happening. You can't not start nuclear war by not retaliating when there is already nuclear war. But the people of your nation are dying and will continue to die the longer such a nuclear assault goes unchecked...
That would be a sort of computer way to look at it - to just treat people like numbers. But there's another way to look at it that examines people as people and not as numbers. People exist in relationship to other people. No man is an island. A president represents the people of his nation...
Actually, they stepped up their threat to use nuclear weapons by suggesting that the current situation may constitute an existential threat to Russia that would justify their use, but it is interesting that you read it that way.
As the President, I would likely feel morally and ethically obligated to retaliate because I would be the primary person chosen by my nation with the greatest responsibility in this exact regard to protect the people and uphold their values. I should not allow my people to be slain without...