The changes do sound retrograde, which doesn't surprise considering who is currently in charge, although it seems education has, for a long time, been...
Banned @"gurugeorge" (eventually) for being a racist. We went to considerable efforts by PM to warn him and give him a chance to demonstrate he wasn't...
Agree. Definitions are kind of like snow anyway, or snowflakes at least, which we define as distinct entities, but when we try to get our hands on the...
It depends on who "they" are. If "they" are other relatively reasonable people as tend to predominate on this site then it's more productive to engage...
And we could do the word game with "white" too. Take the scientific definition of white: "White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue...
It started with our ancient ancestors popping out their urchins and no-one objecting to that because, well, they wanted to have children too and even ...
Well, it's a conversation about the worth about her ideas, I suppose. And I'm restricting myself here to criticizing this one. Anyway, your response a...
The counter-argument is every advanced social democratic welfare state. Is Denmark a disaster? Is Norway a disaster? Seeing as they are richer with hi...
Well, I wasn't presenting a hypothetical but describing a current reality. There's no "would" about it. That's demonstrably the way things are. On top...
Read Lila too and liked it. He did present his own philosophy more comprehensively there. Preferred the story and rhythm of the original book though. ...
I think it was antifa that got them triggered. Maybe it's that they feel more threatened by the left then they feel protected by Trump. Damn funny any...
That's an interesting analogy. Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" introduced me as a teenager to philosophy and of all the books I'v...
Devil's advocate type thing? Let us think about it. Anyway, to add another couple of cents concerning this discussion: Part of the problem here is, I ...
(For example, am I labeling someone a Nazi just to disparage and hurt them because I don't like them personally, and/or because I have no other argume...
I'm making the pragmatic point that many people are fairly impervious to reason and more swayed by rthetoric, so if "winning" in the marketplace of id...
There's a line between being playful, ironic and provocative on the one hand, and trolling on the other. It's not trivial to define the distinction, b...
@"Posty McPostface". I'd second what Pseudonym said above. Obviously, the primary focus is on philosophy, and, first and foremost, we want to make thi...
What resonates with me from Street's post is that there's a meta-battle for framing going on above and beyond any particular debate. Those who tend to...
I've missed several notifications (and thus replies) too lately, particularly when there's been a couple of replies in a row. This happening to anyone...
Oh, I actually missed this post and only got notified of the one where you rhetorically expressed doubt about whether I was a pedophile (consider this...
How many are on it now? Maybe you know more than me. I'm not aware of what majors the mod team are although I believe everyone except @"Hanover" has h...
It's not so much labels are the problem, but labels used deliberately and unfairly as a rhetorical strategy, which we can all be guilty of sometimes. ...
Surely, the warm and fuzzy feeling evinced from expressing true love and kindness (as opposed to the fakey manipulative kind) and witnessing its effec...
You can drop the "poor me" act. They're your words. And none of this has anything to do with whether you stay here or not because no-one has said you'...
And I sincerely don't care because the jig is up. Your insincere exhortations towards being kind and loving have been revealed as empty posturing and ...
You've just admitted to trying to assassinate the character of your interlocutors by making claims of their inferior personal psychologies. But anyway...
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