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Clause (a) in combination with his free speech absolutism means that he's contradicted himself.

Well, I suppose we could end up a republic before the Queen gives Royal Assent, but that's not a realistic possibility. The only realistic possibility...

Or, rather, it would count as free speech, but it would be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law...

You're talking about your own favoured conception of free speech, which to be clear you should be calling absolute free speech. That's the version for...

That's a nonresponse. Address my points properly or don't bother replying.

If you're disputing what I said, then you are factually incorrect. It wouldn't count as free speech under U.K. law. I cited the law to you earlier, on...

Yes you are, and I would have no qualms about telling him so, except that it wouldn't count as free speech under U.K. law, so over here he wouldn't be...

There will be. If not, we'll cut off her head. Or maybe stick a red-hot poker up her arse, like we did to Edward II.

But they don't really or simply mean belief, they mean religious belief or having faith in their religion. So there's ambiguity in your question which...

You're once again confusing the advocation of free speech with your extremely unreasonable absolutist nonsense.

The question doesn't seem to make sense. Belief is a necessity, and is no more or less a virtue than breathing. Perhaps you mean something else.

No you don't, and you should be deeply ashamed of yourself.

You're right, despite how it may have sounded, we all know you're too obsessed to let the matter go. And yes, you really, really, really, really don't...

Actually, he's an ardent physicalist who claims that everything is physical, including that the mental is the physical, so he'd be inconsistent in den...

Are you defending the Nazis and their vile and condemnable hate speech?

It's 180 Proof! :gasp:

Sounds like you're coming around to the idea that these discussions you keep creating are pointless, as it has been done to death. You already know th...

New Labour's, and our current leader opposed it. Did you know that the current leader of the Lib Dems almost always voted for the bedroom tax, consist...

Ha! "No deal's better than a bad deal"? But realistically no deal is always going to be worse than a deal. A deal worse than no deal is merely hypothe...

The same Lib Dems who propped up a Tory government for five years?

Thereby undermining his own strategy.

Fantastic opening post.

What number is this one? 74?

Then, like I said, you need to restudy logic. You can't validly derive the conclusion that you shouldn't give birth from the premise that it's impossi...

Lol, no it isn't. It means the argument fails. If you think that conclusion follows, then you need to restudy logic.

I can read. The conclusion doesn't follow, consent is an irrelevant category error, and repeating things in all caps doesn't help.

Yes, because of the consequences of the action. No, because they can't consent, because consent is inapplicable. It's a category error.

Impossible hypotheticals won't help you. It's impossible. And it therefore makes no sense. Consent is a legitimate concern in legitimate cases, but no...

No. It isn't plausible at all because it doesn't make any sense, as I've explained. Just as it doesn't make any sense to talk about consent in relatio...

The phrase "dumbing down" is just an emotionally charged way of saying "simplifying" or "putting clearer".

You weren't "pointing that out", because it isn't true. I explained why consent is irrelevant, including in the example you gave which you thought sup...

Exceptions don't demonstrate that there isn't a link between hate speech and, ultimately, in some cases even war. The history of anti-Semitism in Germ...

No need to call the cops. I'll hand myself in later today.

Yes, this was brilliant.

No, you're wrong. If it's impossible to get consent, then consent is completely irrelevant. I'm not suggesting that coercion isn't wrong, but it's wro...

Definitely clearer. No. This is Mww we're talking about, after all.

I don't think that we should have to ask. I think that you should write clearer in the first place to avoid that scenario. If something is excessively...

I'm from England, and I really have no idea, but here goes. There'll be an extension, then a slightly modified version of the withdrawal agreement, wh...

Yeah, I wasn't suggesting that my preference was to leave on the 31st of October. That was some dark humour suggesting that my preference was for Bori...

Yeah, we do. We're exercising it right now.

Seems a fitting way to go for Mr. Johnson.

Would you like an aspirin?

:lol:

The username under the quote is a link to the discussion. You'll also find my brilliant parody.

Here is my submission: It's one of those passages that you can read three or four times over, and yet still be like: what the fuck is he saying?

The Sokal affair seems relevant to the topic. I think it was one of the best things ever.

Yeah, I do. I'm exercising it right now.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Too much guns, religion, celebrity, flag waving nationalism, egomaniac, warmongering, stupid constitutional rights obsession. The U.S. is like our def...