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Ever read Ayn Rand?
Favourite answer:I've read her.
She writes like a Soviet, as if everyone in the story is blazoned with a marxist name tag or a DIck Tracy moniker.
10 AnswersBooks & Authors7 days ago - 31Upvotes of all answers to this question
why do people in nearly every country in the world have a very unfavorable opinion of people in the USA? is it true?
talking about even Latin American countries, much less european, asian countries and i think probably African countries also? why?
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Will we ever have a peaceful world?
Where there's little to no war, violence, and there's love and peace in its place. People also would respect each other's opinions and differences without engaging in any kind of conflict.
14 AnswersPhilosophy7 days ago - 26Upvotes of all answers to this question
Why was Chaucer a bad speller?
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smoking tobacco is good for your health yes or no?
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which was/is more real "The Holocaust " or Covid 19"? why?
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Do you annotate your books as you read them?
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What's the key of life when the Sun turns into a red giant and the Earth burns up and explodes?
Favourite answer:The key of WHAT life? There's probably other life in the universe to which the demise of the earth will be of no consequence. If you are referring to human life and you are also referring to the survival of the species, the "key" is not philosophical, it's technological. Can mankind migrate to another habitable solar system? Not likely given present circumstances.
10 AnswersPhilosophy1 week ago - 4Upvotes of all answers to this question
Are morals necessarily empathic and not logical?
Can we logically conclude what is morally right and wrong without empathy?
I feel like what is morally right and wrong is logical and doesn't necessitate empathy, but maybe I'm still starting from an empathetical framework.
For example, I understand that it is morally wrong to enslave, exploit, and slaughter animals for our taste pleasure (people eat plant based and are perfectly healthy, so eating animals is not necessary for health), entertainment, etc.
However, I don't care about animals. I have no empathy for them. So I feel like it's a logical conclusion, not an empathic conclusion.
Then again, I am basing my moral reasoning, I suppose, from my empathy toward fellow humans.
So is empathy a necessary factor for concluding what is morally right and wrong?
Can a society of sociopaths conclude what is morally right and wrong through philosophical discussions, despite not personally caring?
Granted, empathy is an evolutionary trait that helped societies survive in the first place so a society of sociopaths would not survive.
Or could they? Could they understand moral right and wrong, perhaps not actually care, but for the good of the society, abide by the rules?
6 AnswersPhilosophy6 days ago - 10Upvotes of all answers to this question
What happened to Gestapo Chief Heinrich Muller?
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Why can't I read books but really enjoy ebooks on kindle?
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Were you aware of how many tanks the United States Armed Forces had as of 1984?
United States Army
1,703 M48 Patton
8,987 M60 tank
1,483 M1 Abrams
400 M551 Sheridan
12,573 total
United States Marine Corps
550 M60 tank
550 total
13,123 grand total
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Why isn't it possible that Hitler actually escaped Germany?
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How did people live in The Soviet Union?
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Should the transgendered be kept at a safe distance from women at all times?
Many transwomen have raped or otherwise sexually abused women. They remain biological males regardless of whether they have a "sex change" or not and have no place in women's spaces. Keep them out of women's bathrooms and changing rooms, do not let them compete in women's sports, do not put them in women's areas of prisons, etc.
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