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Huh. If you can't change hearts and minds, on moral matters, calling in the cavalry becomes necessary.

What are you so worked up about. So do wars. So who wins this round?

From today's Wikipedia: "when a powerful person is accused . . . the reaction should be a presumption that the less powerful accuser is 'likely telling the truth, because the risks of going public are great.'" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement

Tomato tomahto. Agreed to disagree. I haven't seen it. We fought a war over the worst aspect of white supremacism in this country, because hearts and minds did not change. Nobody wants war but sometimes violence is the only reasonable choice, unfortunately.

All men are created equal. Tenuously. Without force of law it can't last. You can't change peoples' hearts and minds. But you can make the price for their immoral behavior very steep. Anyone who condones, even silently, the invasion of a human right because of race, is just as dangerous and...

Everybody. Israelites were huge supremacists. Japanese were and Taiwanese are. Germans (not just Nazi Germans, Nazism's supremacism found purchase in the German preexisting supremacist soil). And the indigenous Americans too. And nationalism is just the political ideology of supremacism.

Yes. And present. And all the other countries also. When push comes to shove, man is a supremacist species, absolutely, and Americans are men. Every single one of us is susceptible. It all starts at home, where we all to a man favor our family over those who are not in our family, and it...

Who have been the good kings throughout history? Absolute monarchism was the rule for millennia before republics and finally liberal democracies arrived on the scene, so if your thought is possibly true, then there ought to be examples. Charlemagne? I mean monarchs who left an unequivocal...

Every actual constitutional monarchy is a liberal democracy. Which is why the rule of law and all the other liberal democratic institutions are permanent requirements. Liberal democracy exists because the philosophers who first imagined it, and the American founders who first put it all into...

Excellent point. He could certainly have collected youngsters, male and female, rather than full grown adults, and fulfilled his command, and its purpose. I suppose it's also possible that even though juvenile dinosaurs might have been on the ark, that not all of the species survived the trip...

They are both concerned with truth, or with facts. With true propositions. I would say that science is concerned particularly with things that can be measured is all. But as I ponder your question I'll also now add that science is also unconcerned with ethics and morality, and philosophy...

Very interesting. So the idea is that the earth was created a solid hunk of rock, and that the flood caused its insides to liquify? So that means no earthquakes or vulcanism until after the flood then. Very interesting. Given this idea, and the competing idea, which let's just call the...

Is part of the nightmare the composition of the Supreme Court? Cos it looks to me like it's still 6-3 in favor of Republican nominees.

There's very little difference between a constitutional monarchy and any other form of liberal democracy. In all cases, the rule of law prevails, constitutionalism prevails, separation of powers exists, the regard for human rights prevails, and the military is under civilian authority, instead...

As opposed to a legal obligation I guess. I don't believe there are ethical obligations, though there are certainly conditional ethical obligations (e.g. if you want to reap a harvest you better sow some seed). Legal obligations that are not also moral obligations are temporary, while moral...

Who actually protects the rule of law? What is the backstop or failsafe for the rule of law? We all know that the Constitution is the highest law in the land, but what if the government established by the Constitution fails to uphold, protect and defend the Constitution? Then there is no rule...

I don't believe that you know the status of Page's privates either, so why are you commenting?

It has something to do with politics if law enforcement is involved in most any way. If anybody in the above is being penalized by the police, then politics are involved. Otherwise, politics is not involved, except that even if l e is not involved, it's not because they couldn't be...

I know nothing about this. For all I know, he or she or neither he nor she is a real hermaphrodite. If so, Page has the right to choose which sex identity he or she or neither he nor she is most comfortable representing to the rest of the world. Human hermaphroditism is a gruesome...

I agree. Philosophy precedes science chronologically and logically. Science requires philosophy, and not the other way around. Science became its own distinct discipline from philosophy, gradually I think at first, kind of beginning as philosophy of nature or natural philosophy. And ethics...