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If you ever feel lonely, check out the online tab. You'll never be alone here. :eyes:

Let's all post there more then. Then problem solved, no?

It would be much more justified to kill the morally disabled as they are not just very often stupid but potentially dangerous. Whereas people with Dow...

Hm, we're hardly at a page a week now. At this rate, we'll never make it to the 1000. And by "never", I mean it'll take roughly another 3 and a half y...

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Expecting the principles of evolution to be of use in defining social policy is like expecting an earthquake to be of use in redesigning your house.

Tend to agree with @"unenlightened"'s common sense approach. What would also guide me would be the fact that all things being equal I would feel guilt...

OK, thanks, but with respect to issues of copyright, it's probably better to offer that link by PM, so I've edited your post to reflect that.

Ok, well, like I said, it would help all round. Thanks.

Can you please use the quote function by highlighting text and pressing the quote button or your replies may be missed (and it's messy).

It sounds like you're asking how any judgment of quality of argument that's not empirically verifiable is possible. And then asking for an empirical v...

Only the abstract is available. It might that you have automatic access through your university system. The rest of us don't though.

(@"Pseudonym" To clarify, no-one is holding up a completely objective universal metric here by which to make these judgements but supporting the idea ...

That's a strawman. We all know there's a difference between science and the arts in terms of empirical verification etc. The analogy I was making was ...

At this point I don't even know what your positive criticism is. That there should be no level of intuitive judgment at all with regard to so-called "...

But your argument is the one that's self-immunizing by continuously conflating any form of judgment with personal preference. But I already explained ...

No, it wasn't. You give the impression you don't understand how teaching, particularly of university-level academic English to non-native speakers, as...

No, I already gave reasons why it fit with my experience of pedagogy. See my first response. The word "democratic" doesn't apply exclusively to electi...

Christ, if we banned everyone who did that, we'd hardly have two members left to rub together to spark an argument... :grin:

You should quote the OP because this seems more about your objections to Street and postmodernism in general than anything he wrote here. For example,...

How does any of this relate to the example, which was pedagogic?

In other words, awareness of the issue of this type of degraded thinking in ourselves and others is precisely what should stop us doing the type of th...

Dismissing the results of thinking without analysis just on the basis you don't like them would be an example of the type of thing that's being object...

Not every university professor can maintain a positive sense of well-being and/or is a benefit to society and certainly not every given person with tr...

Well, I was responding to @"Pattern-chaser" and making a general point rather than commenting on what you said. But your clarification is well-taken.

Stephen Hawking was afflicted later in life, but he is an illustration nevertheless of how misleading the term "disabled" can be.

Yes, though it was part of the job to try to disentangle those two things as you mentioned. Linguistic errors (unless they obscured intent) were preci...

This rings quite true after my several years teaching academic English, essay writing, research and the like. Thought tends to follow the path of leas...

We might have to do some fishing, eh?

Allow me to complain about this mischaracterization. You haven't broken the rules, but the idea you've been unusually polite by the standards of this ...

OK, look, I think the objections here arose from a confusing and unconvincingly argued OP. Your recent long post seems to be an effort at making a mor...

Just saw this reply. As you didn't quote me properly, I missed it. Anyhow, that makes significantly more sense to me than the original.

*Bows gracefully* Is there money to be made from this type of thing, do you think?? :nerd: (Anyhow, in the absence of knowing what all this is about, ...

According to my dictionary, a panda is something which is "increasingly rare". And judged by his prevalence in modern philosophical considerations, so...

What can I say? It worked for me. Of course, that's pretty much smack on the type of thing I'm interested in, so I may be biased. :)

It's open. But there wasn't enough philosophy in it to justify staying in General Phil, so I moved it to the lounge. Maybe philosophy of religion is a...

That's torturous and awful all round. I don't think you're being selfish btw. Nor do I think is there any point in punishing yourself further by think...

Well, it's the distinction that jumps out at me, but there's much more to it. Criticism also covers, for example, literary and philosophical critique ...

Yes, but cherry picking one shade of meaning and ignoring the rest in order to make your comparison is a word game that we all can engage in to draw f...

Second that. As is this: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/3111/society-of-the-spectacle/p1 Which is high on my list for a reread. :clap:

By the way this is the actual primary Google definition of religion: "the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a person...

A complaint is an expression of disapproval or disappointment regarding a state of affairs and may or may not be directed at an agent. A criticism is ...

But you've just agreed that my sexual harassment example is an example of a bona fide complaint. Clearly this is justified in relation to normative ru...

Well, I only made the claim that one implied the other in the case of a complaint regarding an agent. But, examples aside, what is the specific semant...

It could be both. Complaining implies criticism when the complaint concerns an agent (rather than, for example, venting about the weather). It could b...

(There is some overlap between the two terms).

Which example of mine do you think would be better classed as criticism than complaint? And I'll try to justify my definition in that case.

I'm not sure. Are you saying you think I'm confusing "complaining" with "criticism".

I don't have anything against you that I know of or remember or care about and if you take offence at such mild criticism then you're being over-sensi...

Bit much to pin this on atheists. But it is a very poor OP that was saved by there being a few decent replies by the time I saw it.