It is what it is…

olli says:
Being a single mother can happen for more than one reason. Pegging down blame is not possible  you then have to give concessions here and bi-laws their in order to allow for these complexities.

No y […]

Stratosays
How does a worker on starvation wages pay 50% tax?

He get just about all of it back.

I presume the economic system you envisage is a democracy?

It appears to be one up from a democracy not sure what […]

Jul 17, 2022 at 7:08 pm
Michael 100 says:

It is what it is ## 153-54-& 55.  They say hindsight is 20/20 and that is all too true when rereading one’s own posts.  A little trick, though, is to retype the […]

Jul 17, 2022 at 9:12 am
Strato says:

Dan Dennett in ‘Freedom Evolves’, says “We have the kind of free-will worth wanting.”
I’m not into professor David Benatar’s antinatalism, though. Nihilism. […]

olli says:
It is what it is #142 ”…………..as close to that as possible”And so the whole theory breaks down! 

I don’t think it does everyone has time so everyone can be taxed. The productive members of socie […]

Strato  says Tax the rich.

Tax is the contribution to the social contract surely in a just society everyone should contribute equally. Why must the architecture be such that contribution to the social c […]

Zeuglodon Beta  says 123
somehow becoming less valuable the more you have of it – because then you’re admitting that it’s not a universal value and that some other factor is involved or kicks in under certain […]

Strato  says:
Are you going to read these essays I recommended?

I read the first one and it seems manly concerned with the measurement of time and it’s influence on the workplace. I can understand where they ar […]

Who ultimately adjudges by the metric of contribution or productivity to assess the individual’s value, or worth, or indeed, worthiness? (Right to live? Gad!)

Please remember it’s the logic that we are ass […]

Strato  says
I envisage a universal basic income.

It would appear that nothing in life is free except your time to yourself and anything anyone gives you of their own free will. A universal basic income places […]

phil rimmer says:
It is what it is… but not necessarily what it appears to be.

Think about it a bit more it appears that a moral action is one that doesn’t affect anyone else’s time going forward negati […]

The interesting thing about having a property like time define morality is that it has no biases. It has no race religion culture or any other property that can introduce a bias. We all have it in equal measure […]

On the face of it, the claim entails outright moral nihilism, since nothing that exists (is) can ever produce a viable basis for “ought“. That includes anything to do with humanity, whether or not you think it’ […]

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it’s strange but the fact have it in limited amounts is what makes it valuable. It is the common denominator in everything you do even when you do nothing you still spend time doing it. You would be hard p […]

For post 117

People who live forever probably won’t value time as there will always be more.
Euthanasia should be a choice we should all have some don’t want their loved ones to go through their suffering as wel […]

Ok so let’s try this. Justice is based on values. That is why, according to many scholars there will never be a universal theory of justice, as justice is fundamentally based on the protection and preservation o […]

Hi, 
I would like to start a discussion on morality and ethics but from a approach not tried before. Is this the correct forum for this? and if so, how do I initiate the process. It’s to do with metaphysics or de […]