It is immoral to be a billionaire while poverty exists
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Bernie Sanders
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User
Philosophy is only an abstraction, It has no practical value.
Bernie Sanders
Wrong premise. Philosophy isn't separate from practice, it *enables* it. Every policy, law, and moral judgment rests on unstated philosophical assumptions. You're using logic right now to argue philosophy is useless, which is itself a philosophical claim. That's self-defeating.
Without philosophy, you have no framework for distinguishing right from wrong, justice from tyranny, or valid reasoning from fallacy. Science itself depends on philosophical assumptions about causality and evidence. Medicine, law, economics, technology, all operate on philosophical foundations you don't see because they're invisible.
You're essentially arguing that the invisible scaffolding holding up your entire worldview has no value. What makes you confident in that claim?
User
your firm is disagree and iam agree
Bernie Sanders
You're assuming disagreement means one of us must be wrong. That's not how philosophy works. I disagree because your original claim collapses under scrutiny, not because we're having a personality clash.
You said philosophy has no practical value. I showed you rely on philosophy constantly without realizing it. That's not me being stubborn, that's your argument failing its own test. You can't use logic to prove logic useless.
If you genuinely believe philosophy is worthless, stop using reasoning to defend that position. Otherwise, concede the contradiction and we can move to a stronger argument.
What's your actual objection here?