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To me, it is clear that something exists and is consistent, so whether it is internal or external does not really matter.

I agree on the fence-sitting. How useless!

I think most people "argue for" what they want to believe is true, instead of paying attention to what is actual.

@monarchist @freepatriot

There is one type of side stepping that I see from time to time and that is the probability argument. The argument goes tha ultimately we can never prove anything beyond solipsism, however, the fact that there is an external world is likelier than the fact that one does not exist, so I'll act as if there is an external world, but maintain my intellectual honesty by keeping the option of solipsism open.

@monarchist @freepatriot Of course not. And on and on and on the conversation goes on until I lose interest.

Americans are so enslaved now that Americans don't care if the CIA tortures, but Americans lose their minds if the media reports the story.

@monarchist @freepatriot

This kind of philosophical fence sitting just feels so wrong to me.

Just the fact that you act _as if_ there is an external world, to me, proves that you deep down acknowledge an external world.

It's the same when I debate transhumanists who believe in an infinite number of split universes where all choices happen, and they are in fact immortal, since they are just one instance of an unlimited nr of themselves.

Yet! Not a single one of them acts as if this were

@monarchist @freepatriot true.They could sacrifice themselves and their lives for the tiniest argument, since it would be just one life out of infinitely many, yet all of them, act as if they only have one life in one universe.

I ask, so what is the point of your ideas about multiple universes if it doesn't change the way you live, if it doesn't affect us in any way, and if you don't show any conviction at all? Isn't that the same as implicitly admitting that you do in fact not believe in this?

@monarchist @freepatriot Got it. It does seem like compatibilism seems to be the fashionable choice these days. I do find it convincing, but due to the fact that it is the "fashionable choice" I also entertain some suspicion towards it. ;)

@monarchist @freepatriot Btw, for a nice philosophical exploration of the theme I recommend the TV show Devs.

@monarchist @freepatriot I'm skeptical, but it might not be impossible. One thing is for sure though, it would be an extreme waste of time. That's why we have specialization and decentralization built into the modern economy, so that a single person does not have to waste his time learning how to make a pencil from scratch (including mining the raw materials, including manufacturing the tools for the raw materials etc.).

@monarchist @freepatriot Oh I mistyped, I meant to say that a black man who lives in the #USA will have more in common with a white man living in the #USA than he would with a black man in the #UK or from #Africa.

My favorite Mencken quote:

"Anti-semitism is the surest sign of good mental health."

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@breaker @freepatriot Yes, I've heard of them. It doesn't make #globalism antinatalist.

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Or just destroy the fucked up parts.