Naw Carter is all ready being adequately punished for his idealism. He's building homes for poor people. As long as he's kept out of politics, we are doing great!

Xeno,

Concede it. You have been owned by Zarf. We won't think less of you for having humility.

> avogadro wrote:

> well, if morality is subjective; when a woman is raped, its her fault she's scared. if she wasnt so frugal; it wouldnt be a big deal, she's to blame for her own suffering.>

... You need help.

In my view, a philosophy is nonsense if it does not accommodate empirical facts, is not logically consistent, and is not written clearly. Philosophy becomes nonsense when we talk about things like monads with Leibniz, or just about anything with the continentals who cater to a popular audience, say ambiguous things to sound profound, but really say something meaningless like "truth is a terrorist." A lot of the philosophers on the continent of Europe offer meaningless philosophies, Hegel especially.

Sadly the Analytic tradition is fast becoming BS too.

It is also a similar case with politics. Realpolitik or political realism is very useful and it comports to empirical facts, but it really isn't as popular as the field of normative politics. Second, most empirical politics is done with polls and statistics, and there's no concern with an underlying theory behind it.

The tradition is that philosophy also goes in to politics.

Yes our state is crazy. We chose Al Franken.

Not happy Bachmann was relected though, but at least she's better than Tink.

BW,

You know, the economy of the European Union is $3 trillion stronger than the US, and in a few decades they could compete or even overpower us if left to fend for themselves. It's a good thing they have their entitlement and dependent culture, because if they didn't you know bloody well the Roman Empire would return somewhere down the road.

Lol there are intelligent Republicans, it's just that the ones nominated for president have been intellectually inferior as of late. Lincoln, Hoover and Coolidge were brilliant politicians, for example. Hoover's problem was that he was like "oh the economy will recover by itself" while appearing apathetic.

And, conservatives have produced the most brilliant politicians, politicians that liberals never matched. Examples are Metternich, Bismarck, and Kissinger.

I don't mind a Clinton in power, but the Clintons were deposed from power by Nancy Pelosi.

Yell,

Did you get laid yet?

> sKoE )= wrote:

> Either avogadro and Justinian are scum...or i really need to re-think my morale judgment :S.>

The one part I didn't add is that her marriage was an open marriage, something I learned days later.

Are you two ever going to stop insulting each other?