Thank you for granting me admission to your stopic group. One dillema I am trying to resolve right now ( hopefully this will not offend you) is this. I happen...
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Robin Turner
selgusni
Dec 5, 2006 10:03 am
... This is really two questions: the first is when it is permissable to use violence; the second is what our attitude should be towards other people. The...
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mattomoran
Dec 5, 2006 3:09 pm
... <snip> ... You said "Thus there is no qualitative difference between you and me, and pimps and pushers." If you are a slave to brain chemical rewards, like...
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Robin Turner
selgusni
Dec 5, 2006 5:10 pm
... Interesting. I'm curious as to whether they felt good about themselves per se and the bullying was incidental, or they felt good about themselves _because_...
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Uncle Fester
mtravis9999
Dec 5, 2006 10:37 pm
toroloki <toroloki@...> wrote: ... are there any guidelines anyone can give me , which would justify the use of physical...
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redkittyspaw
Dec 6, 2006 2:02 am
"....believe that it is our duty to resist evil. ... Seams reasnable to use force in self defence, the bounds OF self defence might be somewhat elastic (is it...
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jan.garrett
chrys1943
Dec 6, 2006 2:52 am
Interesting that the Forum should be discussing nonviolence and nonviolence, just as I happen to be doing a little research on Gandhi. I found this a...
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jan.garrett
chrys1943
Dec 6, 2006 3:11 am
There has been some discussion recently about whether some people are so low on the moral totem pole as to be *qualitatively* inferior to most people,...
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jan.garrett
chrys1943
Dec 6, 2006 3:30 am
I've made a couple corrections: Interesting that the Forum should be discussing nonviolence and violence, just as I happen to be doing a little research on...
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Robin Turner
selgusni
Dec 6, 2006 10:04 am
Thanks Jan, that was an interesting article. My own take on "inherent worth and dignity" is that from a Stoic perspective, everything (not just people) has...
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Keith Seddon
khs10uk
Dec 6, 2006 4:11 pm
About a week ago I saw Richard Dawkins (the evolutionist who in his recent book is so proud that he has disproved the existence of God) on TV saying: ...
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Grant Sterling
fccmoose
Dec 6, 2006 8:11 pm
Keith, et al: I have seen the identical quote, as well as a version that uses "ethics" instead of "philosophy" attributed to biologist Steve Jones. Dawkins may...
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Uncle Fester
mtravis9999
Dec 6, 2006 9:53 pm
Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are polemicists to be sure. But to the lay person who thinks of themself attempting to lead a somewhat rational existence (I...
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Keith Seddon
khs10uk
Dec 7, 2006 2:52 am
Ah-ha. I can answer my own query... After a lot of searching, I have found: at http://members.tripod.com/~hswc_1/quotes-2.html Steve Jones -- This is the...
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Keith Seddon
khs10uk
Dec 7, 2006 3:05 am
Hello Mark, Thanks for your response. <<<What is it with "God" that makes people want to blow themselves up and kill as many civilians as possible in the...
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jan.garrett
chrys1943
Dec 7, 2006 3:47 am
Actually, Robin, rather than dignitas being a translation of an important Greek term, it is one of those Latin words that resonated uniquely with power and...
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Robin Turner
selgusni
Dec 7, 2006 11:16 am
... I think we can point to some ideas within religion that make indiscriminate killing more likely, but it's a tenuous connection, as shown by the recent ...
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Grant Sterling
fccmoose
Dec 7, 2006 3:33 pm
... I agree with Keith--nothing. Any more than there being something about soccer [football, if you prefer] that makes people act like hooligans. ... This is...
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Steve Marquis
marquis95960
Dec 7, 2006 3:46 pm
Robin wrote: ______________________ I think we can point to some ideas within religion that make indiscriminate killing more likely, but it's a tenuous...
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stillcircle
Dec 7, 2006 9:14 pm
Dear Keith, et al: Firstly, in order to observe the protocol against long posts, I have broken this response into three parts. As a theology student and...
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stillcircle
Dec 7, 2006 9:16 pm
(continued from Part I) In a sense, I can understand the rabidness of Dawkins' claims and the manner in which he asserts same; he is, afterall, really just the...
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stillcircle
Dec 7, 2006 9:19 pm
(continued from Part II) Of course, many people who believe in God have reacted hysterically and stupidly to the revelations of science. But that is because ...
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Robin Turner
selgusni
Dec 7, 2006 10:33 pm
... "Time"? (Sorry, can't do diacritics in e-mail.) Robin...
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cherokee_purple
Dec 7, 2006 10:37 pm
I haven't spoken up in awhile, partly due to lack of time and partly due to having nothing to say, but I think it's well worth saying that Richard Dawkins is,...
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Robin Turner
selgusni
Dec 7, 2006 11:32 pm
... Unfortunately if you want to make the transition from being an ordinary academic to a pop-science superstar (or even a big player in the lecture tour...
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jan.garrett
chrys1943
Dec 8, 2006 12:21 am
OK, maybe "time" (eta, or long e at the end of the word) is within the same range. In most translations, say, of Aristotle and company, "time" is rendered...
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mattomoran
Dec 8, 2006 1:07 am
... Any recommendations on Steven Pinker books? I really enjoyed The Moral Animal by Robert Wright as an evolutionary psychology intro. Thanks, Matt...
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jan.garrett
chrys1943
Dec 8, 2006 2:46 am
In her lengthy glossary at the end of The First Man in Rome (New York: Wm Morrow and Co, 1990), Colleen McCullough, who was as thoroughly immersed in the...
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Uncle Fester
mtravis9999
Dec 8, 2006 3:31 am
Talk about 180 degrees. Dignitas has gone from something that some people might have, but only if they were born in a position to achieve it. And its growth...
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redkittyspaw
Dec 8, 2006 5:59 am
"....lack of time and partly ... that ... camp ... Heard him on the radio- he came across rather like my brother who has Asperbergers- grumpy and indignat at...
