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They aren't firing on all cylinders collectively.
Americans are completely insane now.
Americans scream that there would be no unintended consequences if millionaires were taxed at a higher tax rate.
Americans swear that if toothpicks were banned today then there would be no chance tyranny would increase in the future.
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I think it is a category split. Both "free will" and "absolute determinism" are too polarized. Determinism with some degree of choice is a reasonable position, but it requires accepting determinism as the basis and dialing back free will from a religious definition to a functional one.
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I just threw my MAGA HAT in the TRASH! This country is DONE! TRUMP FAILED US!
I just threw my MAGA HAT in the TRASH! This country is DONE! TRUMP FAILED US!
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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.
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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.
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@monarchist @freepatriot Of course not. And on and on and on the conversation goes on until I lose interest.
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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.
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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
