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Had a discussion on this with the philosophy department at my school yesterday. We have a moral obligation to assume people are doing their best and trying to be good. To assume guilt before it has been proven harms your very soul
Rewarding and punishing yourself isn't the best way to rectify your behavior. Truly loving higher ideals, trying to follow them, and getting back up without any self-hatred when you mess is is the right way. That's the gospel of Jesus Christ
Essentially, it's because Independence Day got there first. People were celebrating July 4th as soon as 1777, one year after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration was almost universally loved, so July 4th became the de facto holiday.
September 17th... well for one thing the Constitution was incredibly controversial when first ratified. I am a huge supporter of it and believe we should celebrate Constitution Day more, but it has never really caught on. The first time anyone celebrated it was in 1911, and since then it has mostly been something that those dedicated to law and history talk about more than the general public.
If you want to learn more, these two wikipedia articles are really useful:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(United_States)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Day_and_Citizenship_Day
Are you into coin collecting and gold/silver? Interested on your perspective there, since it often feels like too many bitcoiners feel a rivalry with the gold community
Cherish that. The fact that it tugged on your heartstrings showed that you're a good dad. There's too few people these days who really care about their kids, thanks for making my day
The law ought to protect Bitcoin and shitcoins alike. Equality before the law is essential for Bitcoin's long term success. Let the market kill the shitcoins, not the politicians
First off, thank you for sharing this link. I love the treatment of the trolley problem Less Wrong gives and would generally agree with it. If you want where my thoughts differ, here's a few ideas.
I'd argue that the trolley problem has social value, but only as a foil with which to demonstrate to others how overly simplistic and procedural many of their formulations or reality are. Whenever my friends ask me about the trolley problem, I answer that I cannot and will not give a categorical answer to it because morality is about people and the trolley problem is about robots.
Utilitarianism might say that you should pull the lever. Deontology might say that you should not. But what it cannot say is how a human being ought to respond, since both of those previously mentioned philosophies could just as easily be automated. If virtue is automated, it isn't really virtue anymore, is it? Less Wrong's treatment of the ethical issues involved in automating morality is fantastic, but I would contend that typical answers to the trolley problem not only distract us from larger environmental problems, but from individual human ones as well.
Most people feel terrible both about pulling the lever and about not pulling it. I have friends who refuse to answer because the thought of the thing makes them feel sick. The trolley problem is a situation that we ought to feel sick about, a situation that any truly virtuous person will weep over and toss and turn in the night for months after it occurs. There is no good and right answer to the trolley problem in the way that it is typically presented, and that is because it is not a true moral choice like humans actually face. Even in war and emergency response situations where choices akin to the trolley problem must be made there is a human aspect.
It's the mechanical nature of the trolley problem that makes it a useful foil. It forces us to remember that morality is about people, not math. Virtue is not a logical problem to be deduced, but an experience to be lived. Our responsibility is to use the trolley problem to teach that to others.
I'm not sure. MAGA seems more intent on abusing the political system than opting out of it. Besides, MAGA support of Bitcoin might not help our public image either, so idk that I want it quite yet
Darth, save your sats and stop putting words in @tomlaies mouth
Just curious, do you identify yourself as any particular philosophy now or just an indepent thinker/political agnostic?
Also, I deeply resonate with your experience there. Same thing happened to me when a friend introduced me to the word libertarian. Up until then I'd considered myself a conservative who didn't fit in with the conservatives. There's edges of the freedom movement that seem more interested in shouting matches then solutions, but the intellectual core is truly beautiful
lol, same. My dog's always been really defense about other dogs bc she got attacked by a pitbull when young. But humans? To her, they're all just big playmates :)