Recent content by SergeantBrother

If that is how we are defining goodness, then goodness isn't necessarily desirable for humans. The worst atrocities could be moral if God approves them, the most benevolent acts could be evil if God disapproves. Now, I suppose this could be a definition that we could use, but it isn't...

I'm actually alright with there being no ultimate purpose. Increasing happiness, reducing suffering, family and culture, advancing truth and beauty - these are adequate purpose for me though they may only be subjectively valuable. Adding a deity to the equation doesn't necessarily add any...

If atheism is correct, then I would have to say that existence is tragic.

They need to watch out or they'll get this: Anyway, it's ridiculous to make Lesbos take these migrants. Or Greece at all. They should all be sent back. That goes for every European nation.

We really need to look at this not just as an individual event, but for the precedent that it sets. We have enough problems controlling our borders as it is, especially with huge portions of the government (including local governments) working to undermine our laws. If border control agents can...

If you throw rocks, which are potentially lethal weapons, against someone with a gun - especially law enforcement which are carrying out their proper duties - then you have it coming. Throwing rocks at armed guys is trying to exploit someone else's mercy, by using attacks that could be...

Maybe they think that they are presenting truth and virtue when they push a leftist agenda in their movies, even if they often lie to do so. Maybe they think that they are lying for serve some greater truth. Do Hollywood big shots think that they are acting virtuous when they molest child...

I don't believe that acting, or writing fiction for that matter, is inherently immoral. It does involve influencing people's emotions, but that can very often be done for the most noble of purposes, sometimes even to help the person whose emotions are being influenced. People, in fact, want...

Bloomberg even thinks that the police should hassle innocent black people because they look suspicious. That goes too far for me and I'm a racist, just ask Spacebattles. Can you imagine Trump advocating something like that and how the leftists would react?

That is an interesting question. Gold isn't very chemically reactive, so I don't know that it would have that much affect on chemistry unless it were so common that it got in the way of other chemicals reacting. The Earth's core is mostly iron, but if we had this much gold, I wonder if much of...

Gold is denser than lead, 19.3 g/cc as opposed to 11.3 g/cc. That is 70% denser, which is quite a big difference. Gold is slightly more dense than uranium. A gold bullet of the same size would be 70% heavier and so carry more energy and momentum assuming you achieved the same mussel velocity. A...

I think that there are a tremendous number of uses being overlooked. Gold would be far more common than any metal historically and would be easier to work than most too. Humanity may well develop metal working thousands of years earlier as cave men learn to work gold into jewelry or even tools...

There is one terrible feature that quite a few communist countries share that other oppressive nations often do not - communist countries won't let their citizens escape. Capitalist nations often have a problem with too many people wanting to enter them, communist nations have a problem with too...

I haven't said anything of the sort. I never said that the bad aspects of China are because of communism and the good is because of capitalism. You said that lots of poverty related deaths happen because of global capitalism, I replied that poverty has been decreasing around the world, to which...

Is the vast majority of that China? I'm not sure if that is true, but I'll agree that China is a major part of that. Here's a site with some information and a graph. This article is from 2018, so let's assume that anything on this graph from after 2015 or so is a prediction. As you say, much...