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Before Albert Camus was even born, America had its own absurdist: William Cullen Bryant. 🧵
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Marginal Merit
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Marginal Merit
@MarginalMerit
Necessarily biased thoughts on Philosophy, Literature, Art, and History.
Katılım Aralık 2024
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@DrFrankTurek Technically, the resurrection can be true and still Christianity be false.
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If the resurrection's true, Christianity is true. If the resurrection's false, if He didn't rise from the dead, then Christianity's false.
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@JoshuaLWatson And you are Cartesian in the sense that you think
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i am an aristotelian in the sense that i think contradictions are false
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If there is no God, there is no objective morality. There is only preference.
Your preference against murder is no more valid than a murderer's preference for it.
Atheism cannot answer the "why" of morality.
Only God can.
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Actually animals don’t suffer, and it’s not wrong for lions to kill so there’s nothing wrong with this, and maybe this guy just like really really enjoyed torturing monkeys
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement@ICEgov
ICE INVESTIGATION LEADS TO GUILTY PLEA IN MONKEY SEXUAL TORTURE CASE Francisco Javier Ravelo, a U.S. citizen from Coral Gables, FL, pleaded guilty March 2 to distributing videos showing adult and baby monkeys being sexually tortured and physically mutilated following an ICE @HSINewOrleans investigation. Ravelo created and administered online chat groups dedicated to torturing monkeys — in violation of the federal animal crushing statute. Ravelo personally distributed more than 40 of these obscene crush videos. @HSI_HQ
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The thought would be that if the conscious experience of virtue is a good, then experiencing compassion is a good. If what it takes to experience compassion is hearing of some horrific news, then we can produce the most good by broadcasting intense details of horrors on mass.
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The question arose from considering what the relevant goods and evils are, which would imply an ethical system. However something like virtue ethics (as opposed to consequentialism) would make producing outweighing goods incredibly easy in a theodicy (via propagation of news).
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Recently watched @majestyofreason @aujustinofhippo and their discussion of the Problem of Evil. After discussing with a friend, I have begun to wonder what moral system is implicit in most formulations of the problem? I would like to hear from either of these two and anyone else.
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I sometimes doubt that the world was designed with the welfare of conscious creatures in mind
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@RealAbs1776 @howertonjosh Why would we not see a steady increase in effects then? Why does it jump all of a sudden
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@howertonjosh Yeeeeeeeah - Go ahead and miss me with the “man translated it” BS.
The Holy Bible would NOT have this kind of impact on people UNLESS it were divinely inspired by the Father.
Period.
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Science is always catching up to what God has always said is true.
This one thing can transform your entire life 💯 🙌
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@howertonjosh @ChristineW7 Causing internal bleeding? Please provide the source of this information.
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The point of showing the video was to demonstrate the claims Good did not drive her car into the officer were untrue.
The fact that she drove a 4,000-lb vehicle into the body of a law enforcement officer causing internal bleeding after defying clear orders slightly slower does not change anything.
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This is a difficult conversation, but it's also an important one to have out in the open.
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@BrilynHollyhand Are you dense? Were either of those people killed by a federal agent who is publically being proclaimed to have "absolute immunity"?
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Hey Anti-ICE Rioters:
Why didn’t you burn down streets when an innocent father was shot on a college campus?
What about when an innocent young girl was stabbed on a train?
Oh wait... That would require you to actually care about the innocent, not just exploit tragedy.
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Her wheel is pointed directly at him when she floors it. He shoots her through the windshield as she is headed right for him. Clearly self defense. This is a tragedy no doubt but she brought it upon herself.
Megan Basham@megbasham
After examining the Minneapolis ICE shooting video from multiple perspectives, it's evident that the officer's decision to use lethal force was legally sound and appropriate. Confronted by a driver who disregarded direct orders, aimed two-ton vehicle directly at him, and appeared determined to proceed, the officer responded with gunfire only following bodily impact from the car and as it pressed forward, firing into the windshield. You can debate whether the driver truly meant to weaponize the vehicle. But, in the heat of the instant, an officer is justified in interpreting defiance of stop commands as preparation to accelerate, swerve, and cause severe harm. It’s just like a driver ignoring directives to show their hands and instead grabbing a concealed firearm. You have to assume the person plans to fire it.
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@EithanHaim Your two GSW discharges, were either of those wounds to the head?
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To understand the severity of the risk posed to this agent, consider the differences between auto-vs-pedestrian (AvP) injuries and gunshot wounds (GSWs) from a trauma surgery perspective.
Whenever a code 1 trauma comes in and its an AVP, I always know it's going to be a total disaster - would take GSW's any day of the week. And there is a reason for this.
You can compare the two using a the Abbreviated Injury Scale (scaled between 1 to 6; 1 being minor, 6 is unsurvivable).
At an average speed of 16mph, there is a 10% chance of having an AIS of 4+ (i.e. fatal or near fatal injury). This goes up to 25% at 25mph. To put this in perspective, the average GSW to the head or the torso has an average AIS of 4+.
And then there is the fact that GSW's on average spend less time in the hospital than AVP's and a not insignificant number of GSW's can be discharged from the ER - one study found up to 70% (may be a little high but even in my own experience I discharged two GSW's from the ER over the last few weeks).
This is all to say that AVP is serious business given the nature of the injury (big hunk of metal vs soft, squishy human).
Megan Basham@megbasham
After examining the Minneapolis ICE shooting video from multiple perspectives, it's evident that the officer's decision to use lethal force was legally sound and appropriate. Confronted by a driver who disregarded direct orders, aimed two-ton vehicle directly at him, and appeared determined to proceed, the officer responded with gunfire only following bodily impact from the car and as it pressed forward, firing into the windshield. You can debate whether the driver truly meant to weaponize the vehicle. But, in the heat of the instant, an officer is justified in interpreting defiance of stop commands as preparation to accelerate, swerve, and cause severe harm. It’s just like a driver ignoring directives to show their hands and instead grabbing a concealed firearm. You have to assume the person plans to fire it.
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@DrFrankTurek Bullshit Frank. You should meet some non-Christians as opposed to pandering to uninformed Christians.
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@SwellTakes I can certainly see that. There is a whole and very significant subsection of philosophical history called Post-Kantian, which I think might evidence a consensus with what you shared here.
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Well to preface, I’ve read a version of Phenomenology of spirit that was a selections and not the total reading. I read it twice, and definitely got a lot more the second time but it was still extremely difficult. What I specifically took from it: understanding dialectal movements, negation, and just general evolution of spirit within that time. It’s helped a lot with reading people who specifically retort and build on Hegel (Kierkegaard, Marx) and for that it was worth it, but Hegels himself I didn’t take much from (also totally possible I didn’t understand him will enough to appreciate)
Critique of Pure reason while difficult unlocked the world of philosophical discourse for me, so I’ll forever have a soft spot for it.
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Genuinely which is worse.
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
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Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (PARODY)@SEPlibrary
@iblamesummers literally anything is better than that
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@MarginalMerit There is no equal in philosophical literature to the Critique of Pure Reason.
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@MarginalMerit no CPR slander allowed
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