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    Philosophy ... help or hindrance?

    Philosophy is essential to me in the same way as knowing how to read or drive a car is essential, only much more so. Every day, in countless ways, in work and play and family situations and social situations, one constantly must decide how to act, whom to associate with, whom to vote for, and so...
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    A questions to atheists

    Yes, because they are dear to me. In fact, even if I did not have a short time to die, I would definitely press a button that could save my wife's life or the life of my child at the cost of mine. There is no others for whom I would do this. The title says "question for atheists", so I assume...
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    What causes you to have low self esteem?

    The most common cause of self-esteem is the inability to deal with reality. It could be that someone has a problem doing things with a very short-term perspective, which they regret a little later: gambling, drinking, etc. Or, it could be that they are not good at doing certain tasks that they...
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    How big should the USA get?

    With all due respect, people can say what they like; that does not make it true. There is enough evidence for what makes economies thrive: look all around the world. Then, let freedom ring.
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    How big should the USA get?

    I agree. Politicians in countries like India and China have long blamed their population size for their problems. However, as could have been predicted, it was increases in economic freedoms that finally got their economies going. The US population could quadruple in size without a negative...
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    Americans, especially Catholics, approve of torture

    One cannot really ask some if they're "for torture". If you take the folks who said they support torture, and ask if they think that ordinary suspects in a robbery case should be tortured, you'll get a different answer. So, the reall issuse is not that "people support torture". More accurately...
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    What is a right?

    We come to know what rights are legitimate by examining the reality: specifically the nature of man. In other words, the process has to start with the question: what benefit does a human being get from living in society and what harm? This then leads to the question: how can we establish a...
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    What is a right?

    I disagree that rights come from society. Of course a society can recognize or not recognize rights and a society can violate or uphold rights. However, it would be wrong to say that a society decides on legimate rights. If the leaders of a society deny legitimate free speech and enforce this...
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    What is a right?

    As long as the basis is religious revelation, there is really no purpose in discussing or attempting to reason about rights. Expediency implies a "because". So, we then question the morality of that underlying reason.
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    What is a right?

    Yes, I suppose you're right. However, if rights are revealed (either directly to a believer or via a religious text), then there is really no point trying to explain them or justify them based on anything else. As the will of God, they just are. So, if another religion says that a thief does...
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    Evolution in KORAN as a way of creation

    Karim, While, I am not a theist, I think it is a mistake to try to take any religious text as being more literal than allegorical when it comes to such things. When a religious text tells a story or a parable, one can spend all one's life taking it literally and end up missing the underlying...
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    Common Good v The Individual

    A dangerous formulation, because it implies that individual rights are good because they benefit society. This is exactly the argument that every statist in history has used. After saying that, they will remove one particular right by explaining that that particular right does not benefit...
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    Living together before marriage.

    For anyone who believes in God and believes that the bible is the word of God, it would follow that fornication is evil. Of course the Bible does not contain the word "fornication", since it was not written in English. So, one would have to go back to the original text, understand the original...
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    What's your philosophy?

    Definitely not my sentiment. I love my life. I love the fact that I was born into this age, rather than into the dark ages, or the stone age. While I see a lot of problems in the world, I can also step back and see how every generation has had things better than the previous one.
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    What is a right?

    Rights only came from God in the sense that any other idea came from God. Saying that they came from God explains nothing. What one has to explain is the moral basis of rights.
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