Jamal

That's just a colloquialism. One's attitude is one's position, or orientation, either physical or mental (or both).

I think "attitude" is perfect (as well as being standard in philosophy), and I don't buy your separation of cognition and affect.

I think you'd have to argue for this, because it's very common in philosophy to characterize beliefs as attitudes, especially propositional attitudes.

Typical conservative. ;)

I went hiking in Canada and locals gave me all kinds of conflicting advice on what to do if you come face to face with a bear. I concluded that either...

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Good word. I used it yesterday non-figuratively, to refer to a goat I saw in a field.

I obviously wasn't explicit enough. I meant occupy my thoughts regarding political and social issues, or something along those lines. Kitchen safety, ...

I blame the drugs.

I think it's healthy to be repulsed by weakness, in the same way it's healthy to be repulsed by illness. Don't the weak strive to be strong? Isn't str...

I don't doubt that sentiments like these might be common among some Americans, but it's got nothing to do with my own preoccupations. "Dark-skinned to...

It's remarkable how often we hear that response. I might be more likely to die in the kitchen than from a terrorist's bullet, but it hardly follows th...

To be fair, he does see the need to solve the problem of global warming and believes we can do it. From a few days ago: https://www.theglobeandmail.co...

For me it comes a long way down the list below today's general election.

Say no more, or you'll summon the Trekkie beast within me.

I like Lomborg. As you'd expect, he's not popular with the Green movement, who have dedicated a lot of time to trashing his work, regarding him as "hu...

I think the biggest problem with it is that it's a truism. We tend to argue for our own views, so our knowledge about fallacies will obviously be used...

Just as well you post at double the speed of everyone else otherwise you'd never get anything else done.

Do you ever wonder if it's affecting you beyond watching videos? I mean, does it feel too slow when you're talking to someone?

Chomsky always rubs me up the wrong way. It might be the way he claims to be simply reporting the neutral facts of the matter, when he obviously has a...

@"Agustino" if he matters so little to you, why do you insist on talking about him? Why do you think anyone here gives a fuck that you don't like him ...

Yes, as it happens I said something similar on the last page:

I agree with most of that, and I have no trouble saying that the values of openness, tolerance, liberty, democracy, and so on, are superior to the val...

So the issue you think we should be talking about is: why do more conservatives dislike Muslims and Islam than do liberals? Maybe because being conser...

You said you thought it should be the main subject of discussion with respect to Islam, so I suggested you talk about it, thinking maybe you had somet...

What are you talking about?

Talk about it then! Sheesh.

Why do you want to be a Native American, Stan? As it happens I think some feminists have accused Caitlyn Jenner of gender appropriation. EDIT: Also I ...

Thanks for the vote of confidence, but note that on this issue I also disagree with our lone conservative mod (Hanover). I think both conservatives an...

Codswallop.

I suppose I assumed crocheting was a mere species of knitting. Maybe I was crocheting after all.

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As you may have noticed, I did anticipate that response. I think it's quite evident that their pro-Islamism has spread beyond their small circle, thou...

I don't worry about arachnophobia. I worry more about spiders.

I was in a knitting class once, and my attempt was held up as being by far the worst in the class, an example of how not to knit. So I put it on my li...

Cos...cos...Islamophobia!

Once again on this one, here's a link to a report on the alliance of the Left and Islamism, published by an anti-Islamist Leftist group back in 2013: ...

What you selling?

Yes, but alongside this deeper, or more general kind of analysis, people gotta fight for what's right locally, and that means addressing actually exis...

I agree. But it is the criticism of Islam, the religion, or of Islamism, the ideological movement in Islam--and not only bigotry--that is often labell...

Cool. I do think that Western military action--which I was against--opened up space for the growth of ISIS, but the knee-jerk explanation of Islamist ...

Do you, then, think it's justified to protect a religion from criticism?

I agree that it's important to try to understand the motivation of terrorists, but you are attempting to fit their actions into a template which I bel...

I've done my best to forget the incident.

Damn, that keeps happening.

Well, I may have misread you. When you said "It's not us bombing terrorists that's the problem", by "the problem" I took you to mean what is causing t...

But it's not straw-manning to say that these Leftist--I would say mainstream--sympathies, while they vary in degree, share a similar attitude that may...

But the thinking that leads some to deliberately kill innocent people having fun is the same thinking that leads some to throw gay people from the top...

I find it almost incredible that intelligent people are still coming out with this stuff.

There is lot of sympathy on the Left for radical Islam. Not everyone is so open as Eric Lifeson on Twitter though. The self-described egalitarian and ...