That could make a good story: Boy steals ring; boy goes on quest with ring; quest reveals boy shouldn't have stolen ring as halfway through quest boob...
Not true. It did not continue "unabated". Here are the numbers for the last years of the war. It's no coincidence that its winding down coincides with...
That's my impression too. The only positive thing I can say about her is that she wasn't a bad stylist. She could actually write decent sounding sente...
Christ, if everything is about short-sighted self-interest, let's just continue selling arms to Saudi Arabia so they can bomb school buses. After all,...
I'd have to be pretty desperate to think myself a mug for not stealing someone's wallet. Maybe if I was homeless and starving, I'd have a greater resp...
Which sarcastic one-liner just underlines my point. I hardly know any poster here who's been less civil and thoughtful in his attitude towards the tar...
You better hope it's not me and I look around mate! Seriously though, I expected you to have a bit more of a social conscience on that one considering...
Sure, but it's fine for you to demonise and mock young people interested in a fairer society as "SJWs" and teachers at universities as despised elites...
? If someone walking in front of you dropped their wallet and no-one but you saw (so there was no issue of you getting into trouble), would you pick i...
On a similar note, someone I know lost their phone recently. It was on so we could trace it, but before we could get to it, some thief picked it up an...
You must be in pretty bad company. If it wasn't intended for you as part of the transaction, to keep it would be to steal it. There's no ethical ambig...
What @"fdrake" said, and to reiterate that by using the term "SJW" disparaging, you're buying into a phrasing invented and pushed by people who don't ...
"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me." I have no idea what it's about, but it ...
I didn't know all that, but it fits. :up: :up: It seems to be a fairly exclusively American trope as is thankfully. I can't imagine it gaining much cu...
Oh, it resonates with some broader issues, so the criticisms are not aimed at you personally. Also, there are different strands of conservatism not al...
Exactly. It takes a massive and dedicated effort at perverting the social sphere to get to where you can make people (other than manipulative elites) ...
(It should also be clear that my criticisms in other posts are made primarily of the right in general and some positions taken by @"gurugeorge". I don...
Nowhere in my list did I suggest you secretly wanted anything in the article to be true. It's perfectly legitimate to post an article like that in sup...
Nothing in the post you replied to was directed at anything other than an analysis of the article you provided. What do you think I was insinuating ab...
I tend to agree and I'm happy to leave that (mostly) to the comedians. The reason I came into the conversation really was less to be on the offensive ...
Yes, for the same reason people buy branded products of a lower value/price ratio than alternatives, the right buy low-value branded right-wing tropes...
Thanks for the link. It seems like a misleading article to me though. For example, one of the reasons Gen Z are more "moderate" and "conservative" abo...
You could. And by the same principle you might, if you identified as being a member of the opposite sex, be considered in some societies as being poss...
No, young people who want to see social justice are, on the whole, not ridiculous. They may sometimes be over-zealous and mistarget and get things wro...
Gender dysphoria and gender reassignment surgery are socially situated phenomena. You don't get to make personal choices outside the prevailing social...
I go along with the criticisms, but what Republican politician ever rebuked members of his audience at a rally in favor of the opposition candidate? C...
Speaking of keeping things rolling along, this was as uncomfortable as it was funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxTzMzY7z4Q&t=12s Since the vid, ...
The Shoutbox is still here and it did go through lulls before. We also have "The Last Word" discussion. And I'm sure most of the regulars will still b...
Yes, noticed that. Especially re the Shoutbox. It has been dominant for a long time though so a lull is not necessarily a great loss, and will give us...
Isn't it the case that in so far as a philosopher has a coherent body of work, a coherent philosophy, he/she is attached to a theme? And that theme, b...
Here's an example of the type of thing allowed in the old forum and allowed here with regard to logic problems: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discuss...
No significant issues arose because, apart from logic problems, homework help was strictly banned in the old forum too. Again, posters can learn from ...
Having been a teacher I can tell you the way we tend to look at it is that if you have made a full effort and in order to get further you need help th...
Well, it was a category rather than a thread. Maybe those two were lumped together though. Those aren't mutually exclusive though. And if someone mere...
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