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Thinking about the moral justifications for monopoly on violence and realized a lot of them ultimately fall back on religion. The logical conclusion of most “that’s just the way it is” arguments is religious in form, at least, if not overtly so. Got me thinking: did the divine mandate ever...

Here in the US we have such an illustrious culture of racial slurs for almost every race imaginable and they are almost constantly present in social or political discourse. How people use them, who should be allowed or not allowed to use them, what they mean, all sorts of things. How well-known...

In each of your personal moralities, is it possible for the actions of a group or person to be justified in your eyes because you agree with the action itself, despite perhaps disagreeing with the motivating source of the action or the intended goal of the action?

Capitalism is trying to kill me with my own lifestyle and lately I have come to decide I don’t want to let it. Tonight I will begin a significant change to my lifestyle— I already don’t drink, smoke, or do any recreational drugs. I want to begin consciously taking non-meat options when they are...

So a few weeks ago French President Emmanuel Macron thrust his country in solid support of American imperialism by aiding the US in missile strikes against Syria. Some accounts have even claimed that Macron was the one who persuaded Trump to do this. But apparently he’s given some kind of...

Kendrick Lamar, consistently snubbed just about everywhere else, has finally got some props for his virtuosic tendencies— from the Pulitzers, no less, which is easily one of the country’s, and perhaps even world’s, most prestigious awards organizations. His 2017 masterpiece DAMN. won the 2018...

In the old Civ 5 Creation + Customization sub forum there were these threads where people would set up and participate in challenges for designing civilizations. One person would propose a Civ, or a mechanic, or a unique unit type, and everyone else would submit designs that contained the...

Would Philando Castile still be alive if he'd shot first, or pulled a gun on officer Yanez well before he was at a disadvantage? Put the specifics of the situation out of your head, since he probably wouldn't have managed to get off any shots before the officer did. Imagine he had been prepared...

Most people around here aren't really comfortable speaking beyond capitalism, so let's have a discussion about something that I've thought about recently that is more in tune with classical liberal thought; in fact, one of the most important and defining ideas thereof. What exactly is the...

I was recently on a flight where the complimentary napkins all had a list of scrambled terms on them. It said that unscrambling the terms would give me the idea for my next trip. There were four terms, the first three of which were scrambled versions of: Havana, Cuba; Coba San Lucas, Mexico; and...

Article 2, Section 3 of the US Constitution gives the President the power to recognize foreign governments (not exactly, it enables him to accept foreign diplomats, but this is interpreted in this way sometimes). The current President is known for lacking control over the things he says. Do...

How do you define freedom? Does freedom have an end? What would a free society look like?

Title says it all. Legitimate question. Why such value placed on the right of Nazis to do Nazi stuff, while so little is placed on the right of POC to live? Like, be alive?

Labor made my iPhone. Capitalism stole it.

Not trying to start discussions, just looking for some reasoning from capitalists, and I don't know many in the real world so I'm forced to come here, where capitalists seem to grow on trees. Which step do you think doesn't logically follow for each thing? Thing 1: On Problems (0/Given: the...

So I just downloaded RFCE a few days ago and have been trying to get it to work. It's not loading though. I can go from BTS screen to load it from the mod menu, and it exits out from the BTS screen and even goes to the loading popup, but then the screen turns black and stays black, the game...

I took a long hiatus from Civ 6 but I'm back now and I've seen lots of talk of the new civilization DLCs. Pardon my ignorance, but I got the Deluxe version and I'm wondering when I get the DLCs? Because at the moment I tried to download them and it wanted to charge me.

I thought it'd not only be fun to think about, but also would spark interesting debates, to ask: which civilizations have won their UHVs in real life? I don't know much about some civ's UHVs in the game, but Rome, China, Greece, Holy Rome/Austria, Vikings, India, and Japan come to mind. I know...

Consider this: Byzantium is nothing super special in terms of the civ itself. Fairly non memorable in terms of uniques and UHVs. Likewise, Rome, which I definitely think is one of the more important civs in world history, especially in Europe, has a UHV that is rather boring. Specifically the...