@AlkyArchetype The fear of death rules many lives, but the will to live rules others.
We may want the company of others so they don't die alone, but we may want company to share life. Not the same at all.
@ImmanuelllKant No doubt Kant recognized that happiness can be real, but he never came to America or found that happiness is a duty. The Declaration of Independence was a Rococo Manifesto.
When it comes to moral goodness, happiness has nothing to do with it.
@cosmepolitics Sorry, but part of the meaning of abnormal is flipping our mind every five minutes... Being normal for five minutes is not normal. It is perhaps polar, for instance. The craziest people can have serial normalcy.
@akafacehots When they have jobs, SS taxes are taken out, but they will never be ble to receive the benefits. All SS benefits (for the rest of us) are based entirely on how much we put into the system; this keeps it solvent. It is not a charity system--it is our own money that we put aside .
@jamtoastaurchai Why would you study under a teacher you don't agree with? Find a teacher that agrees with you, and you will make good grades. But if you want to learn things you did not already know, find a teacher who knows things you don't know.
@PenTitan Doesn't any contract tell you what you get and what you don't get? Marriage is not the only contract where a lot of people sign it before they read it. Contracts are not bad, but they all define limits.
@JohnLockeQuote Men and women have pretended in visible performance to love one another for millenia (and pretended to believe each other).
Many employees show honor and respect for those who in their private thoughts have none.
@Kingdom0DTE@Wealth_Pill Americans are serial polygamists. But no matter how many marriages they have, they have always been single more times than they were married.