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Moral dilemmas (Trilemmas, Polyleammas) are not meant to be solved. They are used in class or elsewhere to test theories and to see if you understood a moral theory. They are like the Kobayashi Maru test (before Kirk cheated). It is not about the right answer (there is none) but how you argue. Kohlberg made use of them, when he proposed his theory on how moral levels develop. No problem.

Let me counter that with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation

I run Xubuntu and Pc BSD. Xubuntu uses little ressources, and uses a well thought out GUI. Most people can use it without problems. If you want to run Unix i strongly recommend getting Pc BSD. Out of all the distros it is the easiest to install without giving away security features.http://xubuntu.org/http://www.pcbsd.org/

Most don't realize that Anarchism does not prescribe a certain ideology. It is a framework in which people people voluntarily live together in groups based on ethniticity, culture, religion, ideology. People are free to choose in which group they want to live in. The succesful groups will thrive, while dysfunctional will die out. One can imagine that Anarchist Socialists will not fare well in the free market of ideas, but only future will hopefully show.

I worked as an actuary for an reinsurance company. Ask away

What does vive le français mean? Have you ever been to France?

I strongly recommend getting headspace. The first sessions are for free and you learn basic mindfulness. You have to pay for the more advanced stuff.

I read Hoppe (all his books in fact). It is telling that he does not provide historical examples for his thesis. Instead, he constructs an alternate history a priori.

Great job! I use mindfulness a lot and I found that it has benefits for me.

Any empirical evidence for that? In a prioristic theory monarchy works fine. In reality, you have crazy degenerated kings coming from generations of incest, leading 'their' country into despair.

Popper fought essentialism in his books all the time. Having a clear definition of something does not create knowledge on this. You can get a clear definition of what movement is, but this won't help you. Science is the application of the scientific method which is a subset of Bayesian statistics. The scientific method is a framework. You make hypotheses and test them. You make predictions and test them. A theory is not scientific when it cannot provide predictions and / or hypotheses. It's also unscientific when there are no specific boundaries mentioned as to when it becomes false. While most people may think so, Popper claimed that all people are scientists. In fact, learning to walk, talk and everything else is about making hypotheses and testing them.

What exactly was Yeravos' mistake?

Along with any book by Wiseman, The Willpower is essential reading for me. I often suggested it to newcomers.

This is an army of strawmen. Any evidence of that? Companies search for profitable treatments, public funded science looks for high numbers of patients to cure.

For every man that dies from testicular cancer, 1000 women die from breast cancer. Breast cancer is a more pressing problem right now.

Sets and supersets don't depend on a finite or infinite universe afaik. Lets say you have a very simple universe with two atoms. This would like that in a set: {atom1, atom2}, The description in a superset would look like that {atom1, atom 2, {atom1, atom2}, {atom2, atom1}. Things get more interesting when you have an infinite universe that is countable. The superset of a countable infinite set is uncountable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinality_of_the_continuum

Omniscience does not work on a mathematical level. Let's take the position that there is a set of all true statements, past, present, conditional and unconditional. Let's call this set 'True'. If we apply Cantor's theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_theorem to that we can see that there is no such thing as omniscience. Here is why:A powerset is a set that contains all variations of a given set (subsets). When a given set has n members, the powerset has 2^n members.If we have a set of all true statements, which is the definition of omniscience, the power set of that is 'bigger'. Thus, the set of all true statements is not complete. Thus, it cannot all true statements. Another proof would go like that. You have the set of all true statements. You can take one statement fromt his set and see if it is contained as member in the super set. If the true statement is a member of the superset, you have additional information, and an additonal truth. Thus, the set of true statements is not complete. The same is true when the true statement should not appear in the superset.

With hindsight, you can see that he was wrong with Step #2. There were no attacks on Syria or Iran (with a bit of luck though). There are other scenarios that predict a crash in China.

Jeff has to provide some answers why he did not come forward with warnings as soon as he was kicked out from GGC.

It seems to be so. We looked it up and the advertisement did not mention any restrictions. Nor did they say that GGC was in a natural park, which makes some forms of agriculture impossible. We went there and had a look. We found that the parcels were overpriced and that it was really far off from the next big city (Valparaiso). If you did not have any background information you could have been mislead by the sales pitch imo. Plus, there were rumors about the person who started the projects and there were reports of heavy in-fighting with GGC. Jeff Berwick writes about that in a very in depth article.http://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2014/8/27/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-on-galts-gulch-chile.html?fb_action_ids=10152629429555041&fb_action_types=og.likes

Well, land in Chile, especially near Valpo is useless when you don't have water rights. It is a semi arid area and without irrigation, nothing grows there. In addition, there was a lot of in fighting and from what I know, Jeff Berwick was kicked out soon. There is more to follow, since Berwick promised to follow that story up. From what I can tell (we bought property in Chile too and we had a look at GGC as well) most people were not aware that you needed water rights in Chile. The land was way too expensive, even if it had included water rights.

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35591/Wendy-McElroy-The-Fate-of-Galts-Gulch-Chile/I can verify some of the facts that McElroy writes about. We had a look at some property at Galt's Gulch, but it was overpriced and as she mentions it had no water rights.

You can find the answers in history. The last three centuries were remarkable because for most of the time, China was the most powerful country on earth, be it economically or matters of military. Around the time of Alexander there was a major civil war going on. If you compare Alexander's army to those of Qin you will find that the one in China was almost 10 as big. In addition, they mass manifuctured weapons in factories. China was well ahead until the government decided to shut down innovation and to prohibit any research. For a few centuries China was isolated but still ahead in terms of living conditions. Things began to change when Major Western Powers traded with China. They imported Tea and Chinaware but could not expert anything from Western Europe. This caused a lot of problems since Precious Metals left Europe for China. This trade deficit caused a major silver shortage for some time. To solve this problem, Great Britian and France opened the Chinese Market by force and made the Chinese Opium as an alternative for Precious Metals. This is one of many examples where you can see how governments all over the world ruin a region.

Politicians think it is like a game of Risk. Central Asia is close to vast reserves of Oil and Natural Gas, in addition it is the centre of the most heavily populated area of Earth.

Russia's fault is being the major power next to the most important region on earth for geostrategy, which is the Inner Asian region. Whoever controls that region is in a comfortable position. Hence, every superpower tried to rule over it (England, America). The strategy we see now is to weaken Russia and to get access to this place.