Synthetic Naturalism

subnatural:

Libertarian: The Free Market can create a better society. The consumer can choose what they want to promote. It can end war, because death is bad for business.
Me: But what about the inequality that it creates? The wealth concentrates at the top, as is the nature of…

Not in the slightest, no. I hate war. It’s organized mass murder. It’ beneath our natures as rational beings. This man had such unshakable faith in the free market, though. However from what I can see, capitalism is effective, but dangerous. 

msmarizalorenzoperez:

If ‘determinism’ is correct and we do not have any free will, could you hold anyone morally responsible for their actions? For example a person who murders someone could not be held responsible because the Hard Determinist could just argue that “we are biologically determined, and therefore the…

I have given this topic a lot of thought lately. Maybe I’m misunderstanding the topic, but the way I see it, morality would still apply if we decide that determinism exists. After all, we do not disinfect germs because they will to be harmful, yet they are.

We don’t believe that a predator wills to harm us as a human would, but we still take measures to protect ourselves. In the same way, laws and morality must be upheld to filter out the harmful individuals in our species who are given compulsions to use and harm others.

class-snuggle:

Just to be clear, this isn’t an announcement that they’re actually starting a military campaign. They’re saying that a “state of war” currently exists and that “ the DPRK will immediately punish any slightest provocation hurting its dignity and sovereignty with resolute and merciless physical actions without any prior notice,” and that from this point forward any military provocation by the US or ROK will be responded to with the initiation of a peninsula-wide war.