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Being completely blinded by an irrational hatred for liberals and democrats isn't going to add any wisdom to the solution. Both republicans and democrats in office are now the servants of their oligarch masters. Which is why they do little to nothing to help common citizens, anymore. The only...

I don't think burning the house down to save it is a valid solution. Both parties, I think, are hopelessly corrupt, now, and the only solution short of a violent revolution at this point is for the U.S, voters to start throwing ALL THE BUMS OUT of office regardless of party affiliation unless...

We need to find a way in this country to stop all the lies and "opinions" from being presented as facts and news, because there is so much deliberate misinformation going on now days that people can't weed through it all, and don't know what to think, anymore. The question is how do we go...

No. I don't think the democrats have reached the point of "by any means available", yet.

Being in the pockets of their wealthy donors (just as are the republicans), the democrats can't actually address the real problems facing this country, i.e. the legalized bribery and subsequent corruption of our government by wealthy corporate conglomerates and the oligarchs that run them. So...

In my opinion what we 'believe' is a meaningless issue unless and until it effects the way we behave toward ourselves and each other. Proclamations of faith that serve the self-righteousness of our own ego but help no one else are just empty words.

Not if I wish to be honest with myself. Certainty is hubris, for we limited humans. It's why we have to live by faith. If we had certainty, we wouldn't need faith. We don't "comprehend" these things. We surmise them from what is apparent to us about the nature of being. "Facts" are bits of...

I don't think punishment/forgiveness is an issue for anyone but the Ukrainians. For the rest of the world it's a simple matter: Russia stops the aggression and we stop our counter-measures.

What makes you assume that an addict will not seek out the more potent drugs, in spite of the dangers? Especially if they are cheaper or easier to get hold of. And if you are proposing giving them access to safer drugs, why not make them cheap and legal to prescribe for an addiction? And stop...

I agree with all of this, but I would add that by definition, addiction refers to the point at which one loses the ability to decide to quit, and then do so. Addiction is the state in which no matter how intently one may want to quit using their 'drug of choice', they simply cannot. People...

When you can explain this presumption, logically, I will be happy to listen. Until that time, I see no logical reason that such a statement would require absolute certainty. Especially when the statement itself offers that to be an impossibility. The exact opposite is true. For me to presume...

Does man naturally have ability to Seek God ? Hmmm ... I would say that man has a natural innate desire to understand the 'great mystery of being'. And most would call the source/solution to that mystery, "God". So in that sense mankind certainly has the desire to "seek God". But do we have...

I don't need to be absolutely sure. I am a human being. I live with uncertainty every day. That's what faith is for.

This works for some, but not for most. I don't know why, but I do know this to be a fact. And blaming the addict's lack of faith is not a solution to the problem, either. Addiction, by definition, is the loss of the ability to stop engaging in a destructive behavior. So to whatever degree they...

The student's answer should be that it's apparently right. As we cannot know anything to be right, absolutely. They have not been taught that, at all, as philosophy is a methodology using logic to extrapolate the possible truth of things from the apparent facts at hand. Philosophy is not about...

Yes, and ultimately, that is inevitable. As we each have our own way of seeing and understanding the world. And we are bound to dismiss information that does not comport with our world-view, as irrelevant. Take it into consideration, how? We can only know what we know. And we can only...

There are many causes of addiction. And there are many ways that an addiction can kill an addict. Blaming any one or two is a waste of time and energy. As there is no single solution available. It's a complicated problem that requires a complicated solution. "Let them die" is not a solution...

Whenever we read any text, we are inevitably going to "cherry pick" the ideas being presented to us that we find important to us, or especially significant according to how we already see and understand the world. How could it be otherwise? We are who we are, and we see the world how we see the...

The claim that non-theists have no ideological basis upon which to establish ethical/moral imperatives is untrue. That basis is inherent to existence, itself: that it is better to exist than not to exist. As evidenced by the fact that everything that does exist, seeks to continue existing. And...