It's a funny dynamic. In fact, people have been shown to argue passionately for positions they were convinced by researchers they chose on a questionn...
Don't know if it's worth mentioning as he/she wasn't here long, but banned @"Zettel" for responding to a moderation request with an insult/refusing mo...
It's not that we are fundamentally shit or the world is fundamentally shit, it's that both attitudes are equally symptomatic of a cultivated lack of i...
Success pertains in the degree to which we can resist the system's conception of success in preference for our own. Success lies neither in being appr...
You did phrase it as a utilitarian argument. Maybe you made a whoopsie. But I take the logic of your position as deontological not utilitarian, i.e. "...
It's not luck that your loaded question satisfies you. It satisfies you because it satisfies your story. No more. And what validates or invalidates ou...
:up: A good example of this was when Bill Maher talking of the 9/11 hijackers said: "Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you w...
Often what's upsetting is the suppressed possibility that the other might be right. I think it's hard to get upset unless an idea takes hold somewhere...
Philosophy occurs when a community permits discourses that question its truth and necessity. When the "other" within is recognised and integrated rath...
Welcome! "Life is a competition" is a story that comes from the command "Compete!" But insofar as we are human, to give in to that command is a choice...
Yes, not a fan of Photoshopping except for very basic stuff. Nice to know this has a clear character anyhow. :) I go into these photo expeditions know...
"Free Speech Absolutist" is a binary category, which I don't see you fitting into according to your clarification. I think @"NOS4A2" probably does. Th...
@"Judaka" @"Metaphysician Undercover" @"Joshs" Much appreciate the clarification on where we agree and disagree. It's been very helpful in terms of sc...
Cheers :) . It looks very like a painting, but it's actually a photograph. I used a long shutter speed and moved the camera to get the effect (rather ...
Ok, well you have bitten the bullet. But it seems then you'd want to allow newspapers to publish a country's nuclear secrets even if it meant, in the ...
It seems to me folks are generally free speech absolutists in the way Elon Musk says he is, even though he's not really (his Twitter still censors / b...
The concepts are quite slippery but I'm clearer about your objection to how I'm using them now at least. I'll read over your posts again and come back...
@"Judaka" I don't think it needs futher explantion but to really spell it out to avoid running in circles again. From your own example: 1: "Social Per...
You need look no further than your own first post for an example of how inner confllct would come in.. We can't prove the contents of others' inner wo...
Unless you have a hard time seeing how a wire tap on the Pentagon could threaten America's security, you don't really. And it's not hard to translate ...
That's not the hypothetical choice I posed though. Prefer which: 1) 100% free speech and 0% security 2) 99.9% free speech and 100% security Just as a ...
Freedom of expression is an important social value. So is e.g. security. Sometimes, social values conflict. Where they do, a rational society prioriti...
(As in, I say identities are narratives and are open to manipulation as such--which manipulation (in the form presented) is bad. Whereas you seem to s...
In lieu of diving into this for now, while we both espouse a form of freedom as a goal, my impression is that your route primarily involves normative ...
(Culture is essentially political and so must any challenge to it be. And politics is the art of creating and manipulating narratives as tools to natu...
Turning my own commitment to pragmatism against me. I like it. :up: I don't know is the short answer. But it's a potentially useful avenue of approach...
A hierarchy is just one mode of organization and not how I imagine goals being organizaed in an identity, at least not in the strict sense, Identities...
I do pretty much agree with this. There's a lot to untangle and it is complicated. To reiterate, the specific dynamic I'm criticising is where masks b...
I didn’t say that actually. In the line we were discussing, I used the word “inaction”. However, I understand how that might be misinterpreted, so I p...
Let me just take this bit first as I already have some serious objections. Maybe you are taking the concept of narrative too literally. But even from ...
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