Why are you discussing my characteristics instead of the idea? I certainly understand if you don’t want to talk about the ideas, but why me? How smart I am is also meaningless, but I’m nonetheless interested in these areas of philosophy.

It’s a mistake to treat these groups as monolithic, and attribute specific intentions to them. I have no doubt that a large number of powerful Republican leaders would love to the demographics of district lines benefit the Republican party, but their main goal is to maximize their power and control over the…

Perhaps I’m wrong, but I’d be surprised if you found very many nihilists among people claiming to be members of the Tea Party. I suspect most of those people are religious and so, not only hold particular moral beliefs, but also believe in an objective foundation for those beliefs.

Well, there has to be some distinction between a “leak”, and people in power intentionally providing chosen information to a news outlet of their choice. This, of course, assumes that when we say “leak”, we mean to specify true information that the people in official control of that information want to keep private. …

So how do you explain that huge capitalist companies don’t have an overwhelmingly female workforce when they can apparently get away with paying them 22% less? Either the figures are way overblown, or the companies haven’t yet noticed what they actually pay their staff (very unlikely.) The issue is WAY too complex to…

You really do have to be very careful with any conclusions based on observational study. Statistical data cannot show causation, which most people are aware of, but most people do not seem to take that concept as seriously as they should. Correlation can form a basis for a hypothesis, but, most certainly, not a…

I doubt, very seriously, that the goal of most people following the Paleo Diet is to mimic the intentions or motivations of pre-agricultural man. In fact, it is very likely that these motivations are still very much instinctual in of the vast majority of people, and that they are precisely the source of the problem. …