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It will be paid for by increasing corporation tax and income tax for people earning over £80,000. So that wouldn't be coming out of my tax money, and ...

Hey! Socrates! Leave those kids alone!

Also, "we don't need no self-education, studying and applying things you learn by yourself" wouldn't have been as catchy.

Well, I'm with Labour who've pledged to abolish university tuition fees. But whether or not it's really worth it, as things currently stand, is a pers...

We don't need no education.

Then he should have been clearer. The wording in the opening post and poll question is not that specific. And I haven't read the other discussion. I n...

Yes, but barely. Basic maths, for example. It's useful when doing things with numbers in the form of money, prices, and units of measurement.

Of course it is. You do understand that your question suggests a failure to make a reasonable assumption: that your interlocutor is using ordinary wor...

I wouldn't go as far as TGW, but I'd say they're partly right.

The usual way. Google it. Like I said, that's too specific for a definition of anger (even if it's an example of a desire which involves feelings of a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQBA9dF4rOE

I wasn't arguing against ideals. My criticism was that your thinking was too idealistic (at the expense of practicality). I understand the distinction...

You hope you made it pretty clear? Well, those first two paragraphs are not clear enough for my liking. Too vague and abstract. And what I can make se...

The argument as you first understood it is not the argument that I make, and I've ridiculed others for making it. It makes a fallacious appeal to natu...

That's not a good definition, because it's too specific. Anger need not be about that. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with anger. As with other e...

No, I haven't even read the Labour one yet, although I know a thing or two about what will be in it. I knew about the Lib Dem pledge to legalise canna...

No, it most definitely did not. It was awesome, like the first film, and these are some of the reasons why:

A sensible assessment. I was watching an Owen Jones video on YouTube yesterday, and in it, right at the start, he gave a good example of objectificati...

Left, and conceivably hard left.

I also answered in the negative. It's a "yes" in theory, but a "no" in practice. I've encountered many religions, yet none have been such as to inspir...

I'm not sure whether I'm best described as hard left or moderate left, but I'd say that it's either one or the other, rather than any of the other opt...

Is that another one of your jokes? /uploads/resized/files/5d/i8x43thkm2eh98wi.png This isn't the first time that you've had posts like this deleted. S...

It's tricky when it comes to jokes. We could just delete all jokes for being distractions from serious discussion, but that would be a tad extreme, an...

Yes, I accept that there can be problems similar to those you get with gambling, smoking, and drinking. But my position is the same with those as it i...

The same standard should apply to both positions. But you're the one who's been making a positive argument, whereas I've largely been questioning and ...

I think that our differences on this issue reflect two different ways of thinking: idealistically and pragmatically. Your thinking reflects the former...

But people can be used as a means to achieving desire in many ways without ignoring that their wellbeing is important. So, yet again, this is not a cr...

Well, ultimately, yes. But there's more to it than that. For example, there's a big difference between what some guy on a philosophy forum happens to ...

Here were go again, reading into something I've said, rather than addressing it directly. Please stop interpreting how I'm treating things, and addres...

No. Willow, you should stop telling me what my understanding is, because you do not understand what it is. I know my understanding better than you do....

But that's not a criticism of sex work. That's a criticism of sexual manipulation and its prevalence, which is understandably objectionable, whatever ...

Took me to task for! :D Okay, if you say so, Willow. Give yourself a pat on the back. If you don't even understand my position, then you have little h...

Now you're taking things out of context. That wasn't a criticism of a general view, but of a specific comment, which you seemed to express agreement w...

Ha! Simple common sense is simply not on your side in this debate. Your stance is quite far removed from simple common sense, and represents a conceit...

I'm not calling you anything, so don't make out as though that was a personal attack. It is a criticism of the position you just said that you agree w...

Yes I do. That's obvious. Haha, no, getting off is not an abstraction, and it's certainly not a myth. It's an activity that happens all the time. No d...

Then you too are guilty of a No True Scotsman. Sex is sex, and need not be about "deep individuation" (whatever that means). That's just an invented n...

Exactly. It's about context and appropriateness. Some people here seem to want to blur the boundaries. The simple act of watching porn says nothing ab...

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Frankly, I find that kind of talk to be nonsense, and reflective of a kind of naive, intellectual idealism. I don't have much of a fondness for such f...

Whether it's degrading or not is arguable and to some extent a matter of interpretation. And, of course, just because it was considered as such in the...

Indeed.

That would come under "objectionable in some way", would it not? I wasn't clueless as to what you might've meant, I just thought that there was a good...

Yes, like I said.

Perhaps you've misinterpreted my comment. I am in favour of consistency, but in the opposite direction; by which I mean that, if anything, they should...

Ah... maybe Trumpet Nose who lives above me has perennial rhinitis. He should really do something about it. I can't believe what I've been missing out...

No, the first rule of Philosophy Club should be cats.

One can reject a proposition because of a lack of certainty, rather than a belief that its contrary is true. In such a case, the degree of certainty w...

If mundane means a lighter workload, less stress, and general contentment, then it might turn out to be the better option. Low aspirations can be a bl...

Yes, I don't think so either. It doesn't promote any ideas about how people should be treated in general. Nor, typically, do videogames, for example. ...