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I agree it's a bit silly. I was a bartender for a time and couldn't even buy a drink from myself...

That's very speculative, and perhaps impossible. But that was the whole idea of my original point; since the brain can be reduced to simply the interactions between neurons, why should ...

That's very speculative, and perhaps impossible. I can only draw conclusions from the present.

"America has no functioning democracy at this moment," — ex President Jimmy Carter, on the NSA

Subjective mental phenomena are irreducibly complex. I would be careful before dismissing something as irreducibly complex. Our brains are just composed of neurons; I see no reason why, if we ...

Coud you elaborate on the difference between feeling and thinking we feel? Also, what do you mean by emotions? Surely pain and suffering are different things. Subjective mental phenomena are ...

If Martin had abstained from violence, this never would have happened. So Martin should have abstained from violence when he gets followed/ a gun pointed at him, but it's okay ...

Karzkin, what?

The jury has determined he didn't racially profile Martin, and he didn't *murder* Martin. My understanding was that the the Jury was directed by the court not to consider this. ...

Why would you want to choose your name? People choose names carefully. Everyone in my family is named after someone from a past generation, going back to England or France, ...

Karzkin, that's not what I'm saying. The prosecution only occurred following the media frenzy. It led someone to think there was a case to this. At the same time, the ...

I'm not really making a judgement on the stand your ground law, simply respecting that it is what Florida has decided to enforce. I'd love to discuss that law though! ...

@Audy: When the incident originally occurred, the Police found no evidence to suggest that Zimmerman wasn't acting out of self-defense. It was only after the media irresponsibly created this image ...

I think since this thread is specifically about America, it is worth noting American history. For America, guns are symbols of self-reliance, and in some areas they remain an important ...

I know right, I almost made a topic the other day but figured someone HAD to eventually. I think the fact that people in general / the media have made ...