I'm curious as to whether anything can be done, practically speaking, and without the use of force. Call me cynical, but it just seems to me that ther...
But why do you need an answer from me? So you can give me a lecture? Try to dissuade me? I'm already familiar with your position. We've discussed it a...
Facepalm. Yes, I am familiar with your views in that regard. What I meant is, why would it be necessary to torture the dog for the purpose of attainin...
No, they are either won are lost in the right context. Are you just going to ignore the context, or background, here? We've already had a referendum, ...
So, we'd need people to stop acting like people? You're wading into sci-fi territory here. What do you propose? Forcibly inserting a chip into people'...
Dream on. That'll never work. The world is too big a place, with multiple conflicting interests. There will always be a great number of those who woul...
Yes, I was aware of that. Although the result was to join, not to remain. Back then "remain" would've had a different meaning. But the reason I didn't...
It's largely tactical, I suspect. I think alternative voting systems threaten the pattern of governments alternating between Labour and Conservative, ...
There could be, but if so, it should only contain options about what kind of Brexit you want, because Remain lost, and that ought to actually mean som...
Don't you think I know that? That wasn't my meaning. But the metaphor is apt when you think about this in terms of virtue ethics. Virtue ethics has an...
That seems like a very remote possibility at this stage. But maybe if there's a major fuck up, it could happen. May has acknowledged the possibility o...
There's always lies in any political campaign, that's to be expected, and that doesn't warrant a second referendum. There has been overspending in the...
Yes, they've said statements like that, and I've acknowledged that they've said statements like that. But this is politics. It suits both May's and th...
I was kind of with you until that nonsense about David Cameron sabotaging the Remain campaign, of which he played a prominent part in promoting, and a...
My reply to this will be much the same as my reply to Wayfarer. Masterful prose? Perhaps. A very clever piece of writing? May well be. But are the key...
Unfortunately, the consensus is that we'll be worse off after Brexit, and to make matters worse, this shambles of a government hasn't handled it well ...
That's pretty funny, or pretty scary if you've really thought it through and stand by what you seem to be suggesting. It would still come back to age,...
What I quoted of you is both: obvious and irrelevant. And I doubt that many others will have failed to grasp this. Do you disagree? Because it's not m...
Actually no, but I do think that his response was not only humorous, but effective on a level that the likes of Berkeley could not have come close to ...
Oh, is it? I did not know that. I thought that Plato was a Pokémon or something. Although, that Berkeley must be wrong is a good place to start, in my...
Ha! Classic. How many years have passed by since the old days, and people are still making the same unintentionally hilarious claims. If you're talkin...
Is that really such an impressive feat in light of the consideration that Berkeley was the puppet master pulling all the strings behind the scenes? He...
These questions ought to be put into an appropriate context. If there was a mass demand for turning cats, dogs, and severely mentally disabled humans ...
Firstly, why would it be necessary to torture the dog? And secondly, if it was the same thing happening in each scenario, then there would be torture ...
Yes, that can be argued, but that doesn't seem to address my point. By a meaningful difference, I simply meant that the two positions should be mutual...
That's quite a long reply, which isn't necessarily a good thing. How much of it is on point? How much of it specifically addresses what you quoted of ...
That was my reaction also - that it doesn't really get to what I was talking about. His reply contains a lot of words, but what are they really saying...
So, why can't you just tell me what it means? Is it that difficult? Anyway, I'm wary of this "Being" malarky. Can't say I've ever had any need of this...
I thought you'd say that. That still doesn't give me an actual meaning. Existence is not the same as , existence is a subset of , but it doesn't exhau...
I asked you whether you thought that it was a problem. Is that a "no", then? So, you're okay with a position which doesn't really make sense, as it gl...
There's a reason why your face is hidden in shadow, Yaha. And no, it's not because you're so handsome that we'd lose all control if you revealed your ...
You mean like being an atheist of a sort, but at the same time pointing to problems with atheism? Yes, I've done that. Sometimes atheists get it wrong...
Yeah, you're a real gadfly, Socrates. Nooo. Please stop. Me just a stupey horsey. Me no like sting. You drink hemlock. Leave horsey be. :lol: It's jus...
So, to boil all of that down, basically, you say we don't know, we're ignorant, and ignorance can be good. Sure. But the question then is obviously wh...
As someone who has been a member of this forum, as well as the old forum we inhabited, for many years, and as someone who was a moderator here for a c...
Okay then, forget rejection for a minute. Let's do some examining. If no pretending is necessary, then how am I supposed to act as though I have no do...
It just means that I'm now more wary of what you moderators might do to a discussion of mine. That's the outcome of this. It has put me off. But if th...
I almost missed this reply. I accept that I could be wrong, but if the law of noncontradiction can be violated, then anything goes, literally, as per ...
So being intellectually honest involves being intellectually dishonest by pretending that one doesn't have a dog in the fight when one does have a dog...
Well, I've learnt my lesson. And other members beware. Don't ever create a discussion which is even vaguely or superficially similar to another ongoin...
Sufficiently similar according to your judgement, and I think that you've misjudged it in this case. It would've been better left untouched. It's not ...
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