Mohamed

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[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

True, but its contradictory in a way to our own experience. From its nature, I can only speak for myself. I can believe that everything outside of me, including humans, have no free will or sentience. No contradictions there. However, I cannot believe that I myself am not sentient - it just doesn't make sense. I must be sentient. I dont hâve a good argument, its just that its so obviously true.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I think it is possible, logically at least, to have gods, free will and souls even if everything were physical matter, unless you define those terms specifically to be metaphysical but then its like a True Scotsman fallacy.

Physicalism might be the most viable, but that does not mean its viable enough. There are huge holes - we have no explanation for consciousness, sentience, free will, physics still doesn't explain everything physical, and quantum mechanics is such a weird aberration of physical matter I am tempted to not call it that.

However, nothing beats the scientific method for truth finding at the moment. And, at the moment, the scientific method is content with only giving us physical results.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

You prefer GPL?

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Me neither! Looks like I'm adding another service to my repertoire

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

I mean this whole ceasefire thing, especially at this point, is B.S PR. Its like if the Allies were asking The 3rd Reich to make sure they're feeding their concentration camp populations well, before they kill them.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 27 points 5 months ago

Wait till RFK hears that "mainstream" medicine is exploring psychedelic treatments as well - then he has ro disavow them to stay a contrarian.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

He lost a sprint race to someone who was alive, and now he is on a crusade against all alive people.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

My guess is that the US is threatening to cut away school funding, and so schools banned their student government from boycotting Israel.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Sadly, probably true. But my idea is also that making it only decidable by the Supreme Court means it will take a long, long time to revoke someone's citizenship.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I think that revoking a citizen's citizenship should only be decidable by the supreme court, and there needs to be a new trial for every single time the DOJ tries to revoke the citizenship of a citizen.

I think that because that means every triaé must be taken very seriously, and there cannot be summary revocations.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 21 points 5 months ago

That's called a subpeona, Mr. Trump.

 

This survey is nuts. Here are some quotes:

  1. Pierre Poilievre will lock up the worst criminals for life. Do you want safer streets?* Yes – Jail, not bail! No – I want dangerous criminals terrorizing my streets
  1. The Carney Trudeau Liberals have FAILED our military. Pierre Poilievre and Canada First Conservatives will strengthen it. Do you want a stronger military?* Yes - Warrior culture—NOT woke culture. No – Woke culture is more important

The * just means its a required field, if you are wondering.

 

I am genuinely curious. Some of my passing thoughts are below, if some context is needed.

I strongly believe that PR is a much better and fairer system than FPTP, and I hope it passes in Canada at least at the federal level.

The question. Are there any real disadvantages to PR compared to FPTP?

PR is obviously not a peefect system, and it has downsides compared to other forms of representation, such as Direct Democracy. But i cant find any real downsides when compared to FPTP.

I heard about:

  1. PR allows extremist ideas to be represented. This is maybe true, but I think it is blown out of proportion It is also probably not a negative. Allowing their representation means that these ideas can be challenged in public, rather than simply censored. It also could reduce feelings of not being represented among the public, feelings which might be a strong contributing force to the rise of authoritarianism.

  2. PR could effectively freeze government by not allowing anything to pass. This could be a negative, but in many cases it isn't. In case the majority is the extremist party, PR allows a sort of damage control.

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