You should know how the conversation would go given what you wrote, especially before you edited it. If you want to be serious, be serious. If you wan...
So now you've just edited out rules 10 and 11 where you said you were always right and never to take you seriously, and which were part of the reason ...
12. Philosophical posts go in the philosophical categories. Random vaguely sounding philosophical stuff you thought up while sugar high on deep-fried ...
Can you beef this up with some kind of empirical support and a bit more analysis (like taking a position on your own question)? Otherwise, as @"Hanove...
I guess you can use this thread to discuss it. I've moved it to the Lounge from Feedback though as the discussion is not about this site but your proj...
Absolute deadlock in a Parliament which is against everything and for nothing, so the only way out looks to be a general election or a people's vote. ...
It's not all about being "smart" anyway. A lot of it is choosing the right topics to get involved in (i.e. those you know enough to contribute to), ma...
Although this new decoupling of the withdrawal agreement and the political declaration is apparently not the MV originally intended and it's a dog's d...
Yes. And sublime hypocrisy that the rejection of a second referendum (in favour of repeated attempts to get this through) is based on the idea that yo...
Important to emphasize you can separate liking or disliking a work from recognising its artistic merit. I'd rather read Lord of the Rings than Pride a...
I'd agree with that, certainly. They would also have a grasp though on elements of the work like plot and characterization that most wouldn't. For exa...
I added the below to my post in an edit btw: This seems to me to be uncontroversial and is similar to what @"NKBJ" is saying. Scholars are certainly n...
I would presume though that your interlocutors (including me) would be able to justify their opinions in more detail if it came to a conversation on t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_of_William_Shakespeare "In his own time, William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was rated as merely one among many t...
Maybe there's some talk at cross purposes then. As far as I'm concerned, anyone can make and should be allowed to make an argument re the artistic mer...
I think the example I gave explains it. There are certain preference claims that can't plausibly be argued against: It would be senseless for me to tr...
The false dilemma issue keeps cropping up. First of all, everything scholars say about Shakespeare can't be true because they disagree sometimes. Seco...
Then you obviously straw-manned him. There are good reasons why slavery was wrong (and why anti-semitism is wrong). Nobody is making an argument purel...
You missed the part where he said 'for no good reason'. There are posters around here who would, in the name of philosophy, point at turds in toilet b...
The final part of my argument above wasn't aimed at your points, but at the superficial skeptics extant here. Establishing that Hamlet is 'better' tha...
You become what you do. Act compassionate towards little potential-orphan Wallows and both of you will know compassion. (But don't forget to (metaphor...
No. That's where the neuroticism comes in. Most males will never be able to have a body like Arnold no matter how much drugs they pump themselves with...
The fact that it's been remembered and celebrated for centuries is evidence, if not absolute proof, that it's better than most at whatever it does. Wh...
Yes, it can, but there will tend to be costs in terms of social capital. The nail that sticks out gets hammered down. And so most nails learn a prefer...
You'd have to come up with some criteria to quantify levels of socialization. I'm not sure how you'd do that in an uncontroversial way. The US regular...
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