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Forum: Religion and Philosophy 11th February 2018, 04:18 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,276
Posted By mike3
Is utilitarian-style ethics an inferior type of ethics?

Hi.

I found this article from 2014, so it's somewhat old now:

http://www.science20.com/news_articles/compassion_and_euthanasia_dont_always_jibe_philosophically-137917

But the finding is what...
Forum: USA Politics 5th February 2017, 05:17 PM
Replies: 505
Views: 52,561
Posted By mike3
@Ed: The fact you seem to think "jew" is a strike...

@Ed: The fact you seem to think "jew" is a strike against someone = 'nuff said.
Forum: Skeptoid 24th January 2017, 10:40 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 15,958
Posted By mike3
(rm)

(rm)
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 29th April 2016, 05:30 PM
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Views: 457,134
Posted By mike3
(rm)

(rm)
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 29th April 2016, 05:28 PM
Replies: 3,273
Views: 457,134
Posted By mike3
OK, so why is the 0.1% of gullibles credible...

OK, so why is the 0.1% of gullibles credible WHILE THE 99.9% of engineers are NOT? Keep in mind that Engineers includes engineers from ALL OVER THE GLOBE. What, are all 99.9% "in on the conspiracy"?...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 21st April 2016, 07:57 PM
Replies: 67
Views: 8,169
Posted By mike3
I'm curious: Given all the controversy...

I'm curious: Given all the controversy surrounding "multiculturalism" here, I am beset by curiosity questions: regardless of the refugee crisis event, do you think "multiculturalism" in general is...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 21st April 2016, 07:31 PM
Replies: 162
Views: 25,430
Posted By mike3
I've seen some of the "Dana Ullman" comments....

I've seen some of the "Dana Ullman" comments. They were claiming that it was important to not dismiss "small" studies in favor of larger ones. Really? REALLY? Hint hint: if it only appears in a SMALL...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 21st April 2016, 07:21 PM
Replies: 221
Views: 23,856
Posted By mike3
I did not say impossible -- please do not warp my...

I did not say impossible -- please do not warp my words. As for "gobsmackin' big", I mean "a whole helluva lot gobsmackin' bigger" than the ones for Apollo. According to the math, which if you think...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 21st April 2016, 10:17 AM
Replies: 221
Views: 23,856
Posted By mike3
I had prepared a revised math that would take...

I had prepared a revised math that would take into account the shorter time. It reduces the power required but it still comes out to be gobsmackin' big. I could post the details if you want to see it...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 20th April 2016, 01:18 AM
Replies: 221
Views: 23,856
Posted By mike3
Let's actually try and do some math. I see a lot...

Let's actually try and do some math. I see a lot of claims thrown about here but no math to actually get a handle on what's going on.

Let us suppose the probe weighs 1 milligram (1mg). At 0.2c the...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 20th April 2016, 01:17 AM
Replies: 271
Views: 74,226
Posted By mike3
Yes, but if the device were a) proved to have a...

Yes, but if the device were a) proved to have a valid thrust effect by a space test and then b) the source of the effect were found, then c) you can probably improve upon it to make it better.
Forum: Education 18th December 2015, 05:09 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 5,598
Posted By mike3
It seems the messages must have affected a lot of...

It seems the messages must have affected a lot of people there. The focused nature of the app ("10 mile radius") would tend to concentrate the message on the college community, which has a degree of...
Forum: Education 18th December 2015, 05:01 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 5,598
Posted By mike3
Look at my other post. I said that the 6 or 21...

Look at my other post. I said that the 6 or 21 month penalty was excessive.
Forum: Education 17th December 2015, 09:51 PM
Replies: 42
Views: 5,598
Posted By mike3
The difference is that a fart is an involuntary...

The difference is that a fart is an involuntary bodily action, whereas a post involves some level of thought.

Why do you think it isn't hurtful or distasteful? It was said against a hashtag used...
Forum: Education 17th December 2015, 09:32 PM
Replies: 42
Views: 5,598
Posted By mike3
The comment does come across as insensitive and...

The comment does come across as insensitive and dickish to me though given the context under which it was announced. It wasn't like he was just on a dating forum discussing his dating preferences, or...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 17th December 2015, 09:29 PM
Replies: 867
Views: 117,517
Posted By mike3
Do you think they are?

Do you think they are?
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 9th November 2015, 01:42 AM
Replies: 137
Views: 14,302
Posted By mike3
So you think that's worse than getting a felony...

So you think that's worse than getting a felony record, right, with all the excessive (in these kind of cases) limitations it imposes? If that's the case, they don't need any criminal punishment,...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 7th November 2015, 08:02 PM
Replies: 137
Views: 14,302
Posted By mike3
So why should the girl get punished for the rest...

So why should the girl get punished for the rest of their life, as opposed to the one(s) preying upon them?
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 7th November 2015, 08:01 PM
Replies: 137
Views: 14,302
Posted By mike3
If a punishment is needed though, maybe what we...

If a punishment is needed though, maybe what we need is that there should be some class of crimes for which it automatically becomes illegal to discriminate on the basis of a prior conviction in any...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 7th November 2015, 03:16 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 2,985
Posted By mike3
Are you suggesting major psychological disorders...

Are you suggesting major psychological disorders are just a choice?! :eek: (OK, maybe mass murder.) Also, the things you mention can have genetic components.

Why would you say no genes are...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 6th November 2015, 10:33 PM
Replies: 137
Views: 14,302
Posted By mike3
Yes, so then why should they then be punished...

Yes, so then why should they then be punished with a life-long imposed punishment on top of the consequences of the photos? This to me seems like an act where the natural consequence of the action...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 17th October 2015, 04:15 AM
Replies: 94
Views: 10,320
Posted By mike3
However, if none of the groups are "superior" in...

However, if none of the groups are "superior" in any overall sense, what social import do any of these differences have? That is, what do they say about what is and isn't good social policy? If they...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 17th October 2015, 04:05 AM
Replies: 94
Views: 10,320
Posted By mike3
However, what's the social import in your view?...

However, what's the social import in your view? Like regarding discrimination, or regarding racially-distributed social problems?
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 14th October 2015, 08:58 PM
Replies: 94
Views: 10,320
Posted By mike3
As I mentioned, it's because this is what is...

As I mentioned, it's because this is what is believed by racists. Racists believe that the European culture is the best and greatest culture. I have seen it on places like stormfront.org -- they say...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th October 2015, 11:01 PM
Replies: 94
Views: 10,320
Posted By mike3
With regards #1, yes it's subjective, so it's...

With regards #1, yes it's subjective, so it's pointless to argue it.

With regards #2, "destructive" because in the worst case, wars get fought over this kind of stuff.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th October 2015, 09:53 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 2,683
Posted By mike3
So where does the line go between "convinced we...

So where does the line go between "convinced we can prove our case" and "HEAVILY invested in our beliefs to the point of intolerance of argument against them"?
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th October 2015, 09:49 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 6,565
Posted By mike3
So why haven't we built any of these engines yet,...

So why haven't we built any of these engines yet, or why doesn't it seem there is much serious research into really trying to build them? Politics? As maybe some of these could get us places faster...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th October 2015, 09:42 PM
Replies: 94
Views: 10,320
Posted By mike3
Anyway, regarding this thread, I'd like to say...

Anyway, regarding this thread, I'd like to say that I'm relieved to see that nobody here accepts all 11 bullet points to the very end where it gets racist.

With that known, is there any...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th October 2015, 09:33 PM
Replies: 94
Views: 10,320
Posted By mike3
So then would you say trying to argue for the...

So then would you say trying to argue for the idea that some race or culture is "superior" to another is stupid and pointless at best, destructive at worst?
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th October 2015, 08:30 PM
Replies: 94
Views: 10,320
Posted By mike3
Vast majority of whom? Maybe the ones I know best...

Vast majority of whom? Maybe the ones I know best are not in that vast majority, but only the most vocal members of a minority. E.g. is Jared Taylor part of the "vast majority" or not?
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th October 2015, 06:32 PM
Replies: 94
Views: 10,320
Posted By mike3
You are right. One reason is because I have some...

You are right. One reason is because I have some paranoid problems. In addition to that, it's because I have read a lot of stuff by racists who DO want them treated differently, who argue that...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th October 2015, 05:49 PM
Replies: 94
Views: 10,320
Posted By mike3
So if that's the claim, what do you believe about...

So if that's the claim, what do you believe about it? Also, I would take issue with your very last claim. That does indeed seem to be a common attitude given how many times I've seen them denigrate...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th October 2015, 05:28 PM
Replies: 94
Views: 10,320
Posted By mike3
(Well, by that standard, all extant groups...

(Well, by that standard, all extant groups surviving now are "supreme".)

I use it because it's what it seems racists claim should be the standard, and I am questioning and challenging racists'...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th October 2015, 03:36 PM
Replies: 94
Views: 10,320
Posted By mike3
I think I defined it: "These differences in...

I think I defined it:

"These differences in abilities and behavior take the form of a substantial difference in general ability, where "general ability" means the overall ability (the whole...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th October 2015, 06:28 AM
Replies: 94
Views: 10,320
Posted By mike3
???

???
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th October 2015, 06:25 AM
Replies: 94
Views: 10,320
Posted By mike3
What do you think of "biological racial supremacism"?

Hi.

I am wondering about this. I saw this thread:

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=298779

and it seemed a fair number of the posters there came out in favor of...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th October 2015, 06:02 AM
Replies: 81
Views: 11,701
Posted By mike3
@Dinwar: I'm curious. You mentioned how that...

@Dinwar:

I'm curious. You mentioned how that apparently, there are lots of "races", with more of them being in Africa than outside of it. What would a map of all these different "races" look like,...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 3rd October 2015, 04:11 PM
Replies: 89
Views: 17,165
Posted By mike3
Which begs the question: what is "understanding"...

Which begs the question: what is "understanding" and what is "thinking", and why can one type of information-processing system, namely a network-based electrochemical processor, achieve it, but the...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 3rd October 2015, 04:03 PM
Replies: 81
Views: 11,701
Posted By mike3
Right. Nothing here really suggests that we...

Right. Nothing here really suggests that we should bring back Jim Crow or something like that.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 3rd October 2015, 03:55 PM
Replies: 81
Views: 11,701
Posted By mike3
Yet if attractiveness indicates reproductive...

Yet if attractiveness indicates reproductive fitness, then does this imply that mixed-race people have greater reproductive fitness? Yet if that's so, then isn't that an example of "hybrid vigor"?...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 1st October 2015, 09:38 PM
Replies: 81
Views: 11,701
Posted By mike3
@Darwin123: However, the thread topic is about...

@Darwin123: However, the thread topic is about so-called racial "mixing". What sort of implications does what you say carry regarding the issue of so-called racial "mixing"?
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 1st October 2015, 09:31 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 6,565
Posted By mike3
Regarding other engines: The thing I mentioned...

Regarding other engines: The thing I mentioned here was because it can be used to launch lots of mass. Can these other engines even launch from Earth surface, that is, provide enough force to defeat...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 28th September 2015, 12:40 AM
Replies: 52
Views: 6,565
Posted By mike3
Why don't we resurrect Project Orion?

Hi.

I am wondering about that. Why don't we? You would have a craft capable of launching insane quantities of mass from the Earth, or launching lighter quantities at high speeds to distant Solar...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 23rd September 2015, 07:22 PM
Replies: 138
Views: 9,329
Posted By mike3
Correct, which is why we should be critical of...

Correct, which is why we should be critical of projects which advocate Western cultural norm-derived stuff in foreign cultures...

But surely, there's got to be some objective or near-objective...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 23rd September 2015, 07:05 PM
Replies: 1,071
Views: 176,718
Posted By mike3
And also it could be that the ones who do respond...

And also it could be that the ones who do respond and don't exist "briefly" but manage to survive for far longer periods of time, as part of changing their thinking they lose any pressure to expand...
Forum: USA Politics 23rd September 2015, 06:59 PM
Replies: 429
Views: 24,650
Posted By mike3
Nothing like that is in any religious book AFAICT.

Nothing like that is in any religious book AFAICT.
Forum: USA Politics 23rd September 2015, 06:58 PM
Replies: 429
Views: 24,650
Posted By mike3
I'm curious, but how exactly do the numbers not...

I'm curious, but how exactly do the numbers not say that? I suppose you could argue the sample is too small or not good, but:
...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 23rd September 2015, 12:40 PM
Replies: 138
Views: 9,329
Posted By mike3
Why couldn't it be both an illness and a crime?...

Why couldn't it be both an illness and a crime? If it leads to crime, it's illness, needing treatment.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 23rd September 2015, 12:38 PM
Replies: 138
Views: 9,329
Posted By mike3
Yes, and I think that should change.

Yes, and I think that should change.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 23rd September 2015, 12:35 PM
Replies: 138
Views: 9,329
Posted By mike3
The difference is that with LGBT sexualities they...

The difference is that with LGBT sexualities they are not any more harmful than "typical" heterosexuality. Pedophilia, on the other hand, creates victims by its very nature. Any exercise of...
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