dimreepr

I don't know about mini me, their arsholery seems roughly equivalent; that of 'Cartman' (from south park) an 8 year old mummies boy, with a devious mind. They're are but pigmies when compared to the statesmanship of Nixon. 😉

There used to be witches, why not call her Karen?

He's not here to ask but, I think, more importantly his answers to the question wasn't to a confidante, and so were filled with political niceties/necessities. IOW, Was Einstein a Christian? is a question between him and his god...

Your not the only one that thinks that, this debate is well worth a listen.

Ok let's go back to the start, your OP in my view isn't a problem, it's a question. This is my first post: In what way does this not answer your question? I want to understand you, but that doesn't just happen bc we text the same language, we need a mutual experience to set the stage for the 'story/play/theater' to happen on.

I've found a reasonable work around, before you leave the site to gather information, highlight a word and click the link button; it mostly, work's.

Perhaps, but right back atcha. My point is, money is not a measure of arseholery, it just looks like it is, bc of this western drive to the bottom of the pile; reducing taxes is the mantra of the uber-arsehole. I think your target is wrong...

Bolded mine, indeed but it's not a problem for morality either, so what is the problem? Ethically, doing wrong is a double edged sword; for instance, a rich man is morally obliged to provide employment or alms to the poor, so they aren't put in a position where they're forced to break the moral convention.

Building a wall is kinda the playbook of the fascist's, climbing the wall is all I can do to stop them... 😉

I think, you don't understand the numbers...

Bc they don't understand why getting the highest number is a problem for other's, but only arseholes understand why and do it anyway, and that's got nothing to do with money...

So the problem/question is, what would you do if you're hungry enough or alone enough or etc. to step over what you now consider to be a moral line/imperative? Not really a problem you can intellectually investigate, it's more of a physical examination of one's price...

Which one of us is claiming to be religious?

I'm not trying to be superior, I'm trying to find out what the actual problem is; I doubt even a diety could understand his imagination...

Your religion isn't very popular, how many followers?

Like I said morality is what one can get away with, in the situation one finds oneself, sure there's a cultural moral imperative involved; a soldier for instance will withstand much suffering upto and including death, bc he knows that if he surrenders his knowledge of the secret plan, to kill 100,000 + of the other side, then his family and friend's are at risk; the other side of that moral coin is the interigator, who knows that his family is at risk, if he doesn't make this 'professional killer' suffer enough to force the truth of the millitary build-up, out of this enemy. I'm not sure which one would suffer the most, but I'd put money on the torturer suffering the longest (assuming that neither are outliers on the spectrum of humanity). Killing or making people suffer is much easier when there's a barrier between the action and the consequence.

If that's all you've got to say, then, I guess, there's nothing more to discuss; good luck with your imagined problem though. 🙏

Try putting a pressure cooker into a microwave?

Morality is generally judged by what we can get away with at the time, it's like a spouse that loses their partner before the horror of understanding their humanity; they're forever a Saint, despite their humanity... Is that ironic? Or is that the excuse?

That's the problem, it's not a problem; the answer is 42, what's the question?

What problem? I have read it all and I stand by my posting, there is no conflict between us, you just don't know how to answer my questions. Listen to this, as opposed to reading it; it may give you a little understanding of the difference between our approach to comprehension. Where does hate stand in a philosophical argument? Can I driver there?

It is for them, philosophically it's about asking ourselves question's; it's kinda like morality, what can I get away with, if they don't speak the lingo...

This reminds me of Will self, trying to describe Einstein's block universe; trying to compress 3D into 2D is easy, we do it every day with a map, we can do it in 4D but only individually, i.e. x and y is the map and z is the time spent in each portion of the map.

That's exaclty why you're wrong, philosophy isn't about a school of thought it's about the nature of thought. Simply put, a school is to teach a child how to live in this culture; a graduate of philosophy question's, why this culture? This certainly means you don't understand what he means in that quote. I published my assumption just to confirm your meaning, now that you have, it's no longer an assumption... 😉 Indeed, money is no substitute for actual friends...

It's often the only explanation that work's.