Baden

And I think many who take up arms against political correctness probably feel the same way. Makes me wonder sometimes where the points of disagreement...

For example, I don't think it's appropriate to call children who have learning disabilities, 'mongoloids' or 'retards'. I, like most people, prefer PC...

You may have a point there. I still don't think the overall critique of political correctness is very powerful though. Attacks on it almost always ten...

Ok, well, I have no sympathy for her considering her background whatever his motives were. But it doesn't seem a very good illustration of why politic...

Where did I say I disapprove of the prank? He embarrassed her primarily for being a racist not for being politically correct. It makes zero sense othe...

Hehe, good call. :eyes:

The video has nothing to do with political correctness and everything to do with embarrassing a minor celebrity who has made past racist comments. Btw...

It's Ok, no-one is listening. Most likely outcome now is a delay followed by UK capitulating further to customs union arrangement or final say referen...

I'm superficial snooty common decency daddy. The TPS must be catching though.

The deep salt-of-the-earth guy with Tourette's posting syndrome.

And then Badenetta's daddy mysteriously expired on 9999 posts. True story.

Wonder where your phobia of anything that smacks of common decency springs from? Let's analyze... :eyes:

On the one hand, the rebuke could be seen as a purely political decision devoid of any real ethical basis. On the other, anti-semitism is very real, v...

Thanks @"Noah Te Stroete". :strong:

Good to hear. You're both decent blokes (except for @"Hanover", of course).

Depends on the OP, but certainly more effort in writing with clarity and precision there would help offset the issue. For example, a couple of lines a...

Agreed. Here's my burnt offering: What is the night if not a cartwheel on the frenzied bust of day? A shape scraped from concrete longings To stay the...

:sparkle: :pray:

Delete the posts in question. It's inevitable you'll get posters talking past each other especially as a lot of posts here are likely written while mu...

No, rocks are not always just rocks. And I'll thank you not to try that one on again.

So, if degree of harm intended and achieved is relevant to morality, what is your justification for bracketing out emotional harm given, apart from co...

Not necessarily. So, I posit they can't. OK, so morality is about degree of harm then?

It's possible to emotionally torture someone to the point where they commit suicide. And you are saying you wouldn't consider that immoral? Simply bec...

Apropos: General: https://rsds.org/physical-pain-emotional-pain/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-causes-chest-pains/ https://ideas.ted...

Ok, that's fair enough.

You will never reach an exhaustive qualification of criteria. And there's little point in trying. The point is there are cases like the one I gave tha...

You'll have to ask them. But in general, we all try to walk the line between being permissive and illiberal, and someone will always be unhappy.

Sounds like a false dilemma fallacy there. Things can be more or less immoral. The examples you gave are extremely immoral due to the physical violenc...

One discussion out of hundreds does not a stinking hellhole cesspit make. If every discussion, or even a significant minority of discussions here, wer...

The physical characteristics of different human groups aren't determinative of any ethically relevant behaviour; ergo, racism is first and foremost a ...

You don't need to apologize. For most, it's not at all confusing. A very few people might not understand what it means because they look at -ism words...

No worries. :up:

You can redo it if you like.

I think so, and I think it would have been better if you'd put that in the title too. As you said yourself in the conversation, the title was misleadi...

Not in the sense of command of the language or anything. That was totally fine. But I think paragraphs like this: "So, is Climate Change real or could...

I deleted it because it wasn't a very well written or clear OP, didn't seem to be going anywhere, and your last post was, and I quote "I regret starti...

Just so this is crystal clear, racism refers to a set of behaviours as well as a set of beliefs. The behaviours are not some separate thing and parsin...

Dictionary result for racism /?re?s?z(?)m/Submit noun prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on t...

Looks like he's determined to be Agu's successor to the 10,000. And you're likely to pip me for bronze. Unless I keep making posts like this... :chin:

Here's a much more accurate definition: Definition: A noun is a member of a syntactic class that includes words which refer to people, places, things,...

That's just a pedagogical shortcut. For example, "nothingness" is a noun.

It's one discussion out of hundreds in the Lounge. Just ignore it like most of the rest of us do.

It's the Lounge. That is all.

I wouldn't take it too seriously. Within the past few days, he's held up Socrates as a hero and railed against Kant as a purveyor of nonsense.

My sister's an actor (though not major and not involved in politics), so I readily admit to a possible bias in their favour here!

Foe very major actor, there are a thousand minor ones. And for every major actor actively involved in politics, there are probably a dozen who aren't....

Missed the boat on this question a bit, so excuse me if I'm repeating stuff others have said. Anyway, I'd want to avoid a situation where you have ide...

Anyhow, late and got work to do. Talk more anon.

I'm ok with using that term*. It doesn't affect the gist of what I'm saying. I'm in line with this: If that helps. *The "deciding" is in the figuring ...

Again, I mean in principle, not necessarily in practice. There doesn't have to be a decision on meaning only the theoretical possibility of one to all...