Nope. You'd prevent their existence, remember? Hence they couldn't possibly benefit. So you can't possibly be on their side. That's a sound argument. ...
According to the office of national statistics, in 2016, the income from UK exports to the EU alone was worth almost as much as the income from UK exp...
That's a false dichotomy. It's not my only concern, but it's a primary concern. And prior to the referendum, we were not at risk of going bankrupt as ...
No, it's a matter of priorities. When comparing an open free-trading democracy to alternative democracies, my priority is what makes us economically b...
It's more of an ideological thing than a character thing. Trump obviously has a bigger stain on his character. There's no publicly available footage t...
No, that's not possible. You can't be on the side of the future person because a consequence of what you're advocating is that there would be no such ...
I don't know whether or not what you're saying is true, but if your purpose in saying it is to dissuade me from the notion that our membership of the ...
You can cherry pick stats until the cows come home, but I'm siding with the economists on this one. Sure, and you expect me to believe that you know b...
Whoosh! I see it's that time again. All aboard the truism train! By the way, a train is a number of carriages, cars, or trucks which are all connected...
The consent argument has been refuted so many times. It's unreasonable to accept it in spite of this. There are situations where it isn't possible to ...
After weighing it up, I think I'm against impeachment for the practical reason that it would lead to Pence becoming president, and for the ideological...
@"schopenhauer1" I have some questions for you. Q1. Whose side do you think you are on? As in, whose interests do you think you're defending? Q2. Do y...
I would say that that's optimistic. I seem to have thrown a spanner in the works. But I wish you the best of luck in that endeavour. It has certainly ...
Presentism as in only the present exists? I don't see how that's what I've implied. Or how that's made impossible by the axiom that events are caused ...
We're not just talking about a circle though. I can only make sense of an event preceding another event preceding another event with a sort of backwar...
I think you're just looking at it the wrong way. It's not about what is or isn't proven, and it's not about faith. That's jumping between extremes. It...
Whaaaat? :confused: Everything is completely still? That has perhaps puzzled me the most in what you just typed. But anyway, same points or not, dough...
But I don't understand. You can look up the scientific basis for an initial singularity. I just briefly looked into it myself a moment ago. For exampl...
Lolwut? God doesn't really have a place in this discussion. There is more of a scientific basis in support of an initial singularity than God. You can...
I think that the first statement is only generally true, not universally true. I can think of exceptions. Some people do drugs out of peer pressure, f...
Except I said nothing whatsoever about validity. I just rightly corrected your naive assumption that your view is universally accepted. And science ha...
I've answered that loaded question without playing into your hand. If it's a choice between a neutral option and a better option, then obviously the b...
What's funny about this is that you can't rule out an infinite regress without ruling out your "circular time" model. Under your proposed model, there...
No. Nothing - or maybe next to nothing - is universally accepted, and this is certainly no exception. What you're talking about is not an uncommon opi...
It seems to be a common misconception that the Big Bang supports, or contributes toward supporting, the cosmological argument. You would need to get p...
No, but that question controversially assumes or suggests that the birth analogy is a true analogy, and that has yet to be demonstrated. I would exist...
That wasn't what you originally questioned, and these are just more truisms. At the risk of stating a truism myself, I feel it prudent to remind you t...
No. Are you kidding me? That would require quite a big leap in the opposite direction from what I've actually been saying. Do you know what? Based on ...
It's easy to find a copy of Crito. It's tedious to go looking through it searching for the argument you're referring to, then breaking it down into ke...
Some drugs are more addictive than others, some people are more likely to become addicted than others, some people can cope better than others, and th...
I don't think I have a one-size-fits-all kind of answer. Rather, which of the two I consider more important would depend on the context. Sometimes, at...
No, I'm not arguing in favour of having no restraints whatsoever. I'm in favour of self-restraint and intervention when the situation calls for it. I'...
What don't you understand about it? I don't think I was saying anything particularly hard to grasp. No. There's nothing incompatible with taking drugs...
Why won't you simply say whether or not you agree with him? I've asked you directly twice now. At first you seemed to agree, but now it looks like you...
Yes, finding out the hard way, but that doesn't have to be the end of the world. You can learn a lesson and adjust appropriately going forward. It doe...
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