It's misbehaviour. If you catch kids running around with scissors, then the first thing that you should do is stop them and take away the scissors. Wh...
Exactly. Guns for civilians are as essential as verbal communication in public and breathing. What would we do without them? I don't know how I'd cope...
Would you like a glass of water? I'll get you a glass of water in exchange for a slice of pie, although I must insist that John Lennon was the best Be...
I think that putting the two together like that is too simplistic and suggests a lack of due consideration. Not only is it bad analysis, but it can so...
If you were at the back, then I bet you'd feel doubly shat on if struck with the reality of being both disadvantaged and judged negatively on the basi...
There's so much that's wrong with this kind of thinking. I'm not guilty of the sins of my ancestors, and I haven't stolen any benefits. By obstructing...
No, not an equation, a logical consequence. Something is either factual or it is not. And if it's not, then you shouldn't be calling it a scientific f...
That's just laughable. You do realise that other people here can see what you're saying, right? No one has been appealing to God throughout the discus...
No, I'll quote you if I so desire. No one is forcing you to respond. You're free to reply or not reply as you see fit, as am I, and I'm going to exerc...
That reaction is a symptom of viewing what I said through moral blinkers. What I said was that I can live with the death of plants and other animals f...
You've missed the point. What I said might be "completely false" if it contradicted what you say above about the ability of other animals to experienc...
The justification as a whole needs to be good enough. You can criticise the justification as a whole. That in itself is not a problem. But taking part...
Sure. And I don't even exist. Neither do you. Nothing was said at all, and none of this is happening. If it makes you feel good to deny what's wrong a...
That's the most accurate replication you gave of what was said, and it's offensive too, for the same reason. It's prejudiced to judge a group of peopl...
I think that's it's rarely, if ever, a purely intellectual matter. It's almost inescapably a psychological matter too. If you understand the psycholog...
Ah, but Baden, you seem to forget that, as I have argued elsewhere, guns kill people of their own accord. So, even if they were going to plant flowers...
That a whole situation involving a chicken could be analysed by looking at each and every particular detail in isolation, one-by-one, and concluding t...
I'm guessing that you read the Wikipedia page on the fallacy of composition, since you quoted from it, so I'm also guessing that you read what it says...
That's a weak and disappointing reply. You asked me whether I am a speciesist. Since you didn't provide a definition of what it is to be a speciesist,...
No, it's definitely not consistency. It's the hidden presupposition upon which you're judging consistency, which seems to be some kind of equality amo...
I don't kill other sentient beings. Other people do so for me. And killing them is necessary for there to be meat available for me to eat. With the fi...
That's arguably a consequence which arises from the endorsement of an equality of kind which neglects a difference in degree. Other animals can't unde...
Your method for assessing the justification for the conditional necessity of killing other animals is flawed, as I've explained, because it is an exam...
No, I'm not a speciesist, because I judge situations which are similar in other respects differently in light of relevant differences between species,...
Wait! You're going too fast. I'm not just randomly jumping off to talk about a subject with no relationship to what you're saying. You've just said th...
I think I'd prefer the New York style of cheesecake, because then I could eat it with my hands like a real life savage of New York, instead of fiddlin...
All I know is that I want cheesecake. But if I had to guess, I would say that it has something to do it being Marx's 200th birthday, Marx being born i...
So you don't think that the two situations are analogous? Because earlier on you seemed to be trying to blur the lines, focussing on the similarities ...
My eating the meat of other animals doesn't inherently entail a moral good or a moral bad which is anything other than relatively minor at best, and d...
No, that's not right. You seem to be erroneously assuming that others must accept this hidden principle of an equality of sorts among species which yo...
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