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Of course it matters. You don't think that it matters whether or not you're making any sense, or whether you're committing a fallacious category error...

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That's more like it. But there's a noticeable problem with your very first premise, and this is a problem that has been raised countless times before,...

If it's Professor Brian Cox, I'm not going to be happy. And yet we can still spot a lie. Miraculous!

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Let's say that there's a problem with immigration. Okay, but what annoys me is that this is given priority over economic prosperity. These people comp...

The God claims are laughable tosh. But I don't get why the justification which I presented isn't good enough for you. It is good enough for plenty of ...

Well, in spite of all of your lengthy replies and insinuations, and in spite of my "huffing", the bottom line is that no physics class in any formal e...

Ah, I think I see what you're getting at. So we've resorted back to insinuations of Scientism, and that I don't know enough about physics to have any ...

Indeed. You just can't resist responding to my little pearls of aggression on occasion. But in all seriousness, that was mostly good advice. Except fo...

It just sounds a tad revisionist to me. Anyway, so Schopenhauer's great contribution was to take the findings of Newtonian physics, and give it a diff...

But for good reason, given that "will" is taken to be something quite different these days. It doesn't generally have the meaning that Schopenhauer at...

Go on then, what's the Mahabharata supposed to be? The capacity for doing work, which exists in potential, kinetic, thermal, electrical, chemical, nuc...

I own two books by Carlo Rovelli. In one them he praises Democritus and the atomists, whilst criticising Plato. Yes, I would shut down much of Augusti...

There are different theories. I have a book on quantum gravity, for example. What's your point? You think that the philosophy of Schopenhauer would be...

What? The cause of what? What are you referring to with "their"? The force would be the cause. Physics explains that.

Mediums of knowledge. And nothing in particular, just the general basics of physics, which I studied at G.C.S.E. level in secondary school, which I ow...

A force, like gravity. What I'm questioning is why anyone would give Schopenhauer with his Will or Newton with his God the time of day, instead of goi...

Not the description. It wouldn't attribute that to "Will", surely?

Yet I won't find that from any physics book. Why would you give old Schopenhauer more credence than modern physics?

Aha! Now I know you must be lying. Caught you red handed.

Last minute replacement. I was supposed to be meeting Professor Brian Cox, but instead I got Chevy Chase. You can imagine my disappointment.

They have quite a few similarities. Although, whereas Gove metaphorically knifed Boris in the back, Castlereagh literally shot Canning.

But there are some clear enough cases where we can tell. You're just setting the bar unreasonably high, as usual. And I don't think that it's intellec...

Well, if those numbers suggest that you'll be voting Labour, then you have my support. Where I'm from, we've been stuck with a Tory MP since 2010, and...

I could actually, because I could change my mind part way through. But this was a digression anyway, wasn't it? It doesn't even seem to matter. Not a ...

Ethical rights, not human rights. We are discussing a broader concept than human rights, specifically. And I don't need you to give me a rundown on th...

So, you claim that it's ridiculous, and then you respond by referencing way more ridiculous notions like natural law? Okay. Excuse me for looking for ...

Just hang 'em, then.

But the question is whether or not they're lying, and whether or not you can tell, not whether or not you're worried about it. Most of the time I'm no...

Do you feel better after that little vent? I clearly presented a foundation in moral sentiment. And those longer-term members who are familiar with my...

It would be an extremely remote possibility, so not something that I'd take seriously, because I'm reasonable like that. (As is Chevy Chase. He doesn'...

What? Wait, if this is some sort of subtle practical joke, given the title, then hats off to you. Yes, I do think that people can have some beliefs. A...

Seriously?

It can be difficult. It can also be pretty obvious. If I told you that I'm on the moon right now with Chevy Chase, would you believe me? Would you thi...

Well, close enough as a rough picture of how rights tend to work, and as a rough picture it's pretty obvious. But there are most probably deviants fro...

Hang, draw, and quarter.

Yes.

Jesus Christ. I'm talking about a world that must seem very strange to you indeed. I'm talking about the strange world of combining logic with your ow...

Oh, c'mon. I'd respond as you'd expect me to.

Academy Of Daft Ideas Academy Of Fuck Your Ideas Academy Of High Arrears Academy Of Great Big Ears Academy Of Fine Wine Academy Of Cheap Cider Academy...

I wouldn't disagree, because it's obvious. Isn't philosophy just great? You get to spend ages enquiring into things that you already know, and then, r...

If being philosophical means drawing no lines with regards to sensible enquiries, then I'm happy to be unphilosophical. But of course, it doesn't mean...

But it's the only possible justification. What's the supposed alternative? There is only subjective morality, irrespective of what you think moral sta...

Do you know how many discussions, and how much time I've spent, reading and participating against my own best interest? I only have so much self-contr...

Anyone else feel like this is spending too much time going over the basics... stuff we already know? I don't feel like I have been proven wrong over m...

We decide how we usually do, by consulting our respective conscience. I say it's wrong.

What of it? I already agreed with Hanover on basically the same point. In practical terms, obviously that would be a problem. Would it mean I'm wrong?...

Right, ethical rights can coincide with legal rights. They're not mutually exclusive. And it's no coincidence that they often coincide like that. Ther...

I think the answer's obvious either way. It's obvious that there are ethical rights in the subjective sense, and it's obvious that there's no basis fo...