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  • The existence of the divine is unfalsifiable, so it cannot be rationally proven or disproven. Still, something may exist even if it cannot be proven. Some classical arguments do not prove God outright, but may make the existence of a creator slightly more probable than not. The strongest of these is the cosmological argument: since the universe appears not to be eternal, it suggests a cause or creator beyond it. If such a creator exists, then the creator is not identical to what is created. Therefore, nature is not God.


  • Yes, but you can’t say that you made money before the sum of the dividends and the reselling price is superior to the buying price. If you invest 100€, the probability to loose 100€ is small; but to loose some of these 100€ not so much. If you invest well, the probability to lose money at all may be small, but if you gamble intelligently on sports it is too.

    It’s the same equation: more risk=more potential profit, less risk=less potential profit. I fail to see the difference with gambling.







  • You pointed to China punishing corruption as evidence of “your capitalist country” having “less corruption.”

    No, I didn’t. I say two things but never used the first as a proof of the second. For someone who tries to look like an intellectual, you seem have reading troubles… like when you thought that I said that classes don’t exist while I said the contrary.

    we are talking about class, not income, which is not useful for our purposes at all

    It is though as, on average, higher classes have higher incomes.

    Also not sure why you abandoned the point about large industry and administration being necessary, did you just silently concede that point?

    Because it’s irrelevant. The question about the necessity or not of hierarchies is an other debate. Something can be bad and inescapable at the same time.