Year: 2016

  • Is It True That Immediate Family Members Are More Likely To Be Concerned About You Than Your Extended Family Members?

    It’s true that you don’t have any command of the english language, and are just wasting our time with your spam. “EXTENDED FAMILY” https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-immediate-family-members-are-more-likely-to-be-concerned-about-you-than-your-extended-family-members

  • What Have Political Scientists Learned About How To Actually Change People’s Views?

    You can’t. Our moral intuitions reflect (necessarily) our reproductive strategy. We vote our genes. We never really change political preferences unless the current voting cycle can be reduced to a single policy issue. https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-have-political-scientists-learned-about-how-to-actually-change-peoples-views

  • In Looks Are White Women At A Disadvantage To Latino Women?

    The data says that white men will prefer chasing latino women over white women because they perceive them as ‘easier’ and less ‘arrogant’. https://www.quora.com/In-looks-are-white-women-at-a-disadvantage-to-Latino-women

  • Why Is The Quality Of Quora Degrading?

    Because Quora pays teams in India to fabricate nonsense questions repeating popular themes. It’s the Quora equivalent of Gawker’s clickbait. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-quality-of-Quora-degrading

  • Has Communism Ever Been Successful?

    At killing millions. Yes. But for very obvious reasons it can’t: incentives. https://www.quora.com/Has-communism-ever-been-successful

  • What Will Have To Happen To Save The American Electorate From Itself?

    Revolution, secession, and the division of america into european style smaller countries, each reflecting regional norms. https://www.quora.com/What-will-have-to-happen-to-save-the-American-electorate-from-itself

  • Do We Need To Move Beyond Party Based Politics?

    No. Countries with more parties produce more consistent policy. https://www.quora.com/Do-we-need-to-move-beyond-party-based-politics

  • Why Do We Have Rights?

    We don’t. We only aspire to create them. And we rarely do. Because we will not pay for them with the necessary obligations. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-have-rights

  • Why Are You Marxist?

    Marxism is akin to fantasy role playing. Its cute but it was pseudoscience when he wrote it, and literary fantasy taught only in the literature departments. There are no marxist economists any longer. https://www.quora.com/Why-are-you-Marxist

  • Do We Have The Right To Have Rights?

    We SEEK rights. Rights can only exist if insured by an insurer.So we don’t CAN’T have the right to have them.We can on the other hand desire them.We pretty much need them.And we can work to obtain them. Although if you look at the present era, we’re lucky if we get negative rights and we…

  • How Would Donald Trump Have Acted And Reacted In This Campaign If He Were Calmer And More Reasonable?

    He would have lost early on. The public is done with the status quo. We are throwing the bums out so to speak. https://www.quora.com/How-would-Donald-Trump-have-acted-and-reacted-in-this-campaign-if-he-were-calmer-and-more-reasonable

  • What Does The Voter Rights Act And The Civil Rights Act Contain That The 14th And 15th Amendments Didn’t Cover?

    The 14th and 15th were disasters that were as bad or worse than the war itself.The 60’s legislation implemented reverse discrimination.Societies work when you just use rule of law and leave people alone to sort the way they want to. Both were catastrophes https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-does-the-voter-rights-act-and-the-civil-rights-act-contain-that-the-14th-and-15th-amendments-didnt-cover

  • Is 93k A Good Income To Live In Bellevue, Wa?

    It’s an ‘average’ income for an individual and below average for a family. Bellevue is among the top three cities in America to live in – in part because it never had an industrial center, and no black (or other underclass) immigration. So you pay for it. The prices in the ‘green zone’ keep the…

  • What Do We Mean By Human Rights?

    THE CORRECT ANSWER(Answers to this question show the tragedy of a late 20th century education.) Necessary (Correct) Definitions: Right: a contractual obligation by another party to perform some actions, and refrain from other actions Negative Right: a contractual obligation by another party to refrain from actions: to forgo opportunities for gains. Positive Right: a contractual…

  • Which Articles Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Are Positive Rights?

    The articles 21–28 were added to appease the communists who at that time in history still held enough political power to demand it or prevent universal declaration. (Although 24 is arguably nonsensical the way its stated.) Otherwise the declaration is nothing more than a list of property rights: all of which are negative rights. https://www.quora.com/Which-articles-of-the-Universal-Declaration-of-Human-Rights-are-positive-rights

  • What Is Liberal Political Theory?

    Any question in English, stated that poorly, is a poor investment in one’s time, since the answer will not be understood. No more bots. https://www.quora.com/What-is-liberal-political-theory

  • No estamos de acuerdo

    [C]uando decimos “no estamos de acuerdo” estamos usando una falacia retórica. Toda declaración puede ser verdadera, falsa o incompleta, estemos de acuerdo con una o no. No existen leyes de ciencia en sí. Hay procedimientos que han evolucionado que son utilizados para eliminar error, sesgo, ilusiones y engaños de nuestras hipótesis. Estos procesos no nos…

  • Sobre el chismorreo y el rechazo

    Post original de Vivek Upadhyay Traducido al Castellano por Alberto R. Zambrano U.  CHISMORREO El chismorreo es un medio libre de garantías y no correspondiente de mejorar el estatuí personal por medio del despliegue y la extrapolación de información seleccionada de la persona sobre la cual se chismea. Por medio del uso de declaraciones infladas,…

  • Why Not Spread Truth Telling?

    June 25 · Religion spread with farming and literacy. Law with money and trade. Rationalism with print and industry. Pseudoscience with academy and fiat money. Propaganda with media and student loans So why not spread Truth-telling and science with education?

  • Conservatives Cannot Be Honest Under Democracy

    Why? Conservatism is a eugenic social order. And the ‘good’ families are dwarfed in number by the ‘not good’ families. Western success is due in no small part to its adoption of eugenic institutions and policies in every walk of life. Puritan american was an attempt to create a eugenic civilization. But America, like every…

  • The Human Argument Spectrum

    Humans evolved on a spectrum from the more animal to the more human to the more super-human. And that just as animals cannot reason, some men can reason only a little and are dominated by animal impulse, some men find a balance between reason and animal impulse, and some men rely exclusively upon reason and…

  • Philosophical Crimes:

    0 – Ignorance 1 – Error 2 – Bias 3 – Wishful Thinking 4 – Suggestion, Loading and Framing 5 – Obscurantism, Pseudorationalism, Pseudoscience 6 – Overloading, Saturation, and Propaganda 7 – Deceit

  • Let’s Correct History A Bit

    (I will get hate mail over this rather grand deflowering) http://www.scientificamerican.com/…/how-2-pro-nazi-nobelis…/ Some of us have to clean up history a bit: (1) There is nothing strange about a popular political movement generating crackpots, and the state not shutting down the crackpots. I mean, world academia is full of them. We don’t even have to get…

  • A Letter to a Philosophical Excuse Maker

    LETTER TO A PHILOSOPHICAL EXCUSE-MAKER You see, you can build whatever contraption you want for your own use. You can practice whatever hobby that you want in your own home. You can say anything you want in your own living room. You can satisfy anyone willing in your bedroom. But you cannot sell a product…

  • A Conversation With Joseph Pierce

    (probably a distant relative) A well intended, reasonably intelligent fellow, who does have a grasp of what he speaks. I didn’t quite catch his meaning the first time through or I would have addressed it sooner and more directly. And that is, that CREATIVITY(free association for the purpose of opportunity discovery) and DECIDABILITY(truth for the…