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Heisenberg is driving down the highway when he is pulled over by the state patrol. "Excuse me, sir, did you know you were going at 87 mph?" Heisenberg: "Oh great. Now I'm lost!"

Can you answer my questions please? And if you can do so without belittling my knowledge I'd appreciate it. So if one are fighting for the freedom of their people, then the targeted killing of women, children and civilians is not immoral? Or is it just a little bit immoral?

This looks to me like quite an advanced applied mathematics question and as such is beyond me, I'm afraid. I started wondering about catenaries for a moment, but I don't know what I'm talking about. I think @studiot may be a mathematician. I wonder if he has any ideas.

The neutral pion (which has mass) is its own antiparticle, so no, that’s not it.

Some northern German company bought that brand recently. They say now it will be made from Hamburgers.

May be you are referring to myself. I'm the only one here defending the "libertarian" current of philosophy on the subject in which "free will" and "determinism" cannot coexist at the same time. They would be mutually exclusive. What I point out is that there are deterministic situations sometimes and nondeterministic ones other times with some degree of freedom only because total freedom actually never exist. What I defend is that as there are undetermined situations sometimes the future is not determined and so as a whole is the case of "Indeterminism" and not "Determinism". I think all the discussions in the forum in all areas are about the real things in the world and in the universe and not how we would like them to be. I just say there are both, deterministic situations and nondeterministic ones and that because of the undetermined ones the future is actually undetermined. This has nothing to do with good/bad subjective perceptions.

Sorry if I gave that impression. You haven't offended me . ( not since the summer ) Glad to see this thread is finally taking a more even handed approach and Mistermack is showing his true colors. Palestinians wanted their own state, so Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005 leaving the PA as government; with a border ( fence ) separating the two states. Gaza could have built resorts along its beautiful beaches, drilled for off-shore gas, and have a thriving economy. They didn't even try. Instead they rejected the PA and 'elected' Hamas. A government that hasn't had any elections since, stockpiles food and medicine for its fighters, and builds its hideouts under schools and hospitals. Never mind the people. Some 'government' ! I remember the absurdity of D Trump saying "There are good people on both sides", well, in this case the opposite is certainly true. Palestinians elect Hamas, and Israelis elect Netanyahu and his kind. "There are bad people on both sides"

It clearly isn't. You will note that folks here are for the most part saying that the response even to that massacre perpetuated by Hamas is not justified. The deaths and violence in the West Bank has been mentioned a few times. What folks object to is taking sides in a situation with no moral high ground. This is not the same as endorsing any of the violent actions. The contrary, actually.

Just as our parents did fighting Hitler. But nobody doubts that they were fighting for world freedom. If a few hundred Jews broke out of Auschwitz and went on the rampage, killing Nazis, they would get plenty of understanding now. Gaza IS a concentration camp. Those people are living a lifelong torture. It's hardly surprising they produce some angry young men. But that's exactly what Israel wants. They LIKE being portrayed as victims, it gives them a free hand to pursue the final solution to the Palestinian Problem. You seem remarkably out of touch with the real world. Protests has been met with Israelis using them for target practice at long range. Including school children.

It would be amazing if it was common. They have identical genes, an identical gestation period in an identical mother, supplied with identical blood with probably an almost identical hormone regime. So whatever sparks of the difference was always going to be very rare. The fact that it happens at all though, shows that it's not just genetics at work. The story of "gay genes" is looking more complicated, it used to be an outright NO if you searched for it, but going by you link, there is some evidence of genetic influence in sexuality. It may be just a case of a statistical tendency arising from certain genetics, rather than an outright cause and effect. No ‘gay gene’: Massive study homes in on genetic basis of human sexuality (nature.com) This just gives the headlines for free, but it shows the other side of the research coin.

As mentioned before, all things considered it should be astonishing that Trump is in the race at all. But then the world has turned into a dark comedy with an idiotic script.

In an interview with Hamas leadership, it was re-affirmed that the violence and deaths are the goal to reignite broader violence for the Palestinian cause https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/world/middleeast/hamas-israel-gaza-war.html?smid=url-share What kind of disqualifies them as freedom fighters is the fact that they are a) killing non-combatants and b) sacrificing their own people to elevate their cause.

Good argument. Is there a causal relationship between the pixels of a monitor and the text you are reading on that monitor?

I’ll ask now for a 3rd time this question you’ve already evaded twice: If not physical and biochemical processes, what other variable do you believe leads to cognition and mentation? Bullshit

I don't know anything about clothing brands, but all dyes can run if not fixed well. Black, being so dark, will be particularly obvious when it happens. I have some maroon coloured bath towels (a slightly mad choice of colour by my late dear wife, hem hem) which still run a bit after 15 years, so I have to wash them only with other reddish items. But I also have a (Barbour) shirt with dark blue, green and cream colours in it, that is absolutely fine. Clearly, the manufacturer had the wit to realise that putting these colours together required the dyes to be well fixed, to avoid the shirt being wrecked the first time the customer washes it. Barbour is a good - and expensive - brand however. I suspect your items may not be the best quality if the black runs. However the good-ish news is that black, unlike say blue or red, will just make other items in your wash a bit grey, rather than changing their colour in an obvious and potentially more damaging way. It will probably be best to wash them with other dark clothes and not at a high temperature. There's a bit of explanation here from a detergent manufacturer, which may shed some light on the issue: https://www.persil.com/uk/laundry/laundry-tips/washing-tips/knew-one-colour-runs-wash-another.html

Victors write the history books and point the moral compass in their own favour.

No, you were talking about how Homosexuality didn't get bred out of existence. That's what I was responding to. I don't think there's any reason why it would, for the reasons I gave. In any case, I don't believe there is such a thing as a homosexual gene, or a repeatable cluster of genes. I think homosexuality is down to the natural variation, that occurs in almost every characteristic. Sexuality is a grey area, like many other characteristics. Shades of grey across the population, not black or white.

For an alternative take on the NYT/Siena poll published on Sunday, you may wish to read this article as well: https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2023/11/poll-watch-thoughts-on-the-new-york-times-siena-colleges-battleground-state-polling.html The article becomes a little technical at times, but the nub of it that the pollsters are accused by critics of having oversampled Republican voters, undersampled opposing groups, and then fiddled with the weightings to reverse engineer a pre-chosen result that has more to do with the current editorial leanings of the NYT than the current political realities in the swing states. Do you recall those pollsters who loudly trumpeted a coming Republican ‘Red Wave’ in the 2022 mid-term elections - which vanished like a mirage when the elections took place and votes were counted ? In the aftermath of that debacle, the NYT published an article called “The Red Wave Washout: How Skewed Polls Fed a False Political Narrative”. Their comments then make rather ironic reading now: “Traditional nonpartisan pollsters, after years of trial and error and tweaking of their methodologies, produced polls that largely reflected reality. But they also conducted fewer polls than in the past. That paucity allowed their accurate findings to be overwhelmed by an onrush of partisan polls in key states that more readily suited the needs of the sprawling and voracious political content machine — one sustained by ratings and clicks, and famished for fresh data and compelling narratives.”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/us/politics/polling-election-2022-red-wave.html On balance it seem that Sunday’s NYT/Siena poll is about as credible as Trump’s claim at a public rally in Florida just the day before, that he “Won all 50 states in a blowout” https://www.salon.com/2023/11/05/claims-he-won-all-50-states-in-the-2020/

Quit trolling. It's unbecoming.

No, I will not enter in such level of doubtfulness. Useless discussion, waste of time...

This is how mass murderer killing children look like: @Anonymous

Zawoooooosh !! Gotham City's newest superhero " Pedantic Man " zooms in to save the metropolis from the careless use of a word. Thanks, Pedantic Man !!!!! I meant often, compared to never, but you sure nailed me down with your pedant superpowers !!

No, your question includes inherent false assumptions, and your understanding of how the world operates appears to be badly lacking. Maybe you've heard of WW2 ? Harry S Truman ordered that about 200,000 mostly civilians, women and children included, should be blasted or horribly burnt to death. With the consent of Winston Churchill. You can still find their statues all over the place. It doesn't say immoral on the plinth.