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@Rakeshhkumaar Despite socialists allegedly intended goal, nothing is produced and everyone starves. If feeding ppl is the goal then Capitalism is what gets it done for everyone except perhaps the lazy wife beating drunk but heh let’s not leave them behind if most ppl can be productive.

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@MrExaminer Interesting stuff!

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@0xDavecryps Reality ties all needs to costs, it’s not as if entropy only exists in the economic systems that you dislike. There is no such thing as a garden of Eden so grow up and get a job.

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@raylehmann Um, no. Go to Zillow and lookup any $450k home in St Pete and the 2024 taxes are $5900.

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@MrExaminer This is an equivocation on the word “freedom”. Identity can’t limit freedom of action as it sets the terms for all possible actions. IOW, ppl are not omnipotent, there is no alternative universe where one’s whims are unconstrained and realty then decides to limit them.

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@MartinTweats The sufficient affirmation that “x does not exist” is to merely point to the absence of x. God (and all its EFFECTS) is not present ergo god does not exist. A 100% certainty until and unless it is refuted by positive EVIDENCE. Which theists can’t point to, BY DEFINITION.

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@MartinTweats No. It does not go both ways. Not if you actually understand what *proof* is, which is a reduction [of an idea] to perception. The non existence of a thing cannot be reduced to perception as there is no *thing* there to be a cause of any MEASURABLE effect.

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Why the head on a man's penis is larger than the shaft?

Several years ago, Great Britain funded a study to determine why the head on a man's penis is larger than the shaft.

The study took two years and cost over 1.2 million pounds.

The study concluded that the reason the head of a man's penis is larger than the shaft is to provide the man with more pleasure during sex.

After the results were published, France decided to conduct their own study on the same subject.

They were convinced that the results of the British study were incorrect.

After three years of research at a cost of in excess of 2 million Euros, the French researchers concluded that the head of a man's penis is larger than the shaft to provide the woman with more pleasure during sex.

When the results of the French study were released, Australia decided to conduct their own study.

The Aussies didn't really trust British or French studies.
So, after nearly three hours of intensive research and a cost of right around 75 dollars (three cases of beer), the Aussie study was complete.

They concluded that the reason the head on a man's penis is larger than the shaft is to prevent your hand from flying off the end and hitting you in the forehead.

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@EpistemicWorld @MrExaminer All conceptual knowledge presupposes free will.

The claim to “know” a truth is the claim to have directed one’s conceptual faculty towards a chosen goal ie a conclusion that corresponds to the facts of reality. Can’t do that without free will.

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@EpistemicWorld @MrExaminer This smuggles mysticism as a standard into epistemology. Presumably, only a GOD would or could have a “means” to “experience” a thing “directly” by non-perception. Meanwhile, as a human, you *know* this how exactly?

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@EpistemicWorld @MrExaminer How would you *know* this if we have no access to objective reality? This is a fallacy of self exclusion.

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@ebarenholtz Nope. The confusion here is the denial that consciousness or “awareness” is an emergent property of the brains integration of sense perception. Reducing that down to mere“feeling” loses that fact. One does not “feel” a forest from a tree.

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@ToKTeacher @TOEwithCurt No need to guess at all. Looking around you here and now is sufficient proof that the laws are universal. For if they were not then the “here” and the “now” would have no meaning. Literally.

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@atabastiat @MrExaminer Corpses don’t act so ironically praxeology causally can’t exist unless ppl are already successful at surviving to some degree or another. Rather than acknowledge this fact, Austrians pretend it’s unrelated to the field they study.

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@MrExaminer @yaronbrook Wow! Damn good article. Read both and well worth the read. On a first pass it seems well integrated and consistent with Objectivism. Thanks!!

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@FeserEdward 100% justified, especially now that we have established that Gaza was never any kind of “open air prison” but a cesspool of death worshiping rapists and barbarian religious fanatics. They deserve what they got and much much more.

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@DrScotMSullivan Proper philosophy ought to start with metaphysics not ontology. Before one can contemplate being or classifying what exists (epistemology), one first has to identify that things exist, that one has awareness and are what they are.IOW, existence,consciousness, identity.

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@ToKTeacher @MrExaminer A necessary prerequisite to capitalism is objectivity, especially in ethics. To the extent that is absent or denied resolves the front/side orientation.

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@MrExaminer I agree, they reject the possibility of objectivity so one’s “mental rankings” are necessarily excluded from that category. Any idea qua idea, rankings included, are subjective. They can’t think beyond that.

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@ToKTeacher @MrExaminer Yes, and one’s personal preferences can ALSO (but not necessarily) be epistemologically objective as well. That is the difference. Teleology ie value hierarchy is epistemologically objective when it’s aligned with life sustaining/advancing actions or choices.