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September 02, 2019 at 13:14
No, you're putting words in my mouth. The conclusion of anti-natalism is that it's immoral to have children. There are justifiable grounds to reject t...
September 02, 2019 at 13:11
I'm claiming that anyone with half a brain can work out the implications of what the judge was saying, and that your typical response of requesting an...
September 02, 2019 at 12:54
I find your tactic of trying to gain the upper hand in this debate by making unreasonable requests of very specific and explicit statements of your ch...
September 02, 2019 at 12:46
Nah, it's that you repeatedly make the same error of wording statements stronger than is warranted, then get called out, then backtrack. You'll probab...
September 02, 2019 at 09:19
It's just anti-natalism with a different premise. The conclusion in itself warrants rejection.
September 02, 2019 at 09:13
Okay, Mr. Pedantic. Then why do you think that? Yes, it says that it seems to me that it's more supportable for reasons x, y, z, and your reply says t...
September 02, 2019 at 09:10
:smirk: Not too bad. Work's alright. Could do with exersizing a little more self-restraint in my hedonistic lifestyle outside of work. You?
September 02, 2019 at 08:55
Anyone with half a brain can work out the implications of what he was saying.
September 02, 2019 at 08:49
So you'd rather have his speech published to a wide audience, which is exactly what he wants. And if, out of that audience, a number of people are con...
September 02, 2019 at 08:46
What on earth are you saying "yes" to? Are you talking to yourself? Because I said nothing of the sort. No, it wouldn't. Think it through. The media p...
September 01, 2019 at 16:49
Do you think that you know better than the judge that presided over the court case of Anjem Choudary?
September 01, 2019 at 16:43
Sorry old chap, it appears I beat you to the punch in my edit.
September 01, 2019 at 16:40
Yes. And a slug is just a tiny, toothless snake. Or a tiny, toothless cat with no arms or legs. Which is a different way of saying the same thing.
September 01, 2019 at 16:36
And that's not enough of a basis to reasonably draw any relevant conclusion. If we didn't have hate speech laws in the U.K., then we might have had ev...
September 01, 2019 at 16:32
I know. The idea is to prevent terrorism, and where intelligence work can and does fail, there are other potential means. No, there's not zero evidenc...
September 01, 2019 at 16:29
Intelligence work failed to prevent the acts of terrorism mentioned in The Guardian article, whereas the enforcement of hate speech law at an earlier ...
September 01, 2019 at 16:06
You're talking about me, aren't you? :smirk:
September 01, 2019 at 15:43
You've offered no constructive criticism. Could hate speech legislation be improved? Possibly. And the way to go about that would be to get expert adv...
September 01, 2019 at 15:37
It's 84.25%, actually.
September 01, 2019 at 15:16
Right, so in your world, law enforcement is out of the window with regard to terrorist inspiring hate speech produced by the likes of Anjem Choudary, ...
September 01, 2019 at 15:05
You're welcome. :ok: I put it just fine, and you responded with unconstructive worries. "Ooh, but what if the wording isn't quite right?", "Ooh, but w...
September 01, 2019 at 14:55
Page number thirty-find-it-yourself.
September 01, 2019 at 12:45
It doesn't need to be foolproof. It just has to work well enough, which it has done in securing convinctions like that of Jayda Fransen and others. Wh...
September 01, 2019 at 12:43
But he's making perfect sense. Allow me to relay his argument for free will: You know how ships travel behind the horizon and back, and that that impl...
September 01, 2019 at 12:37
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U-turning faster than you can shout, "Get off of my fucking laptop!"
September 01, 2019 at 12:23
You two are on a bit of a tangent, anyway. Forget about noise complaints and plaid shirts for just a minute. The crux of the matter is whether or not ...
September 01, 2019 at 12:15
Perhaps I should ask my cat about free will then, given your reluctance.
September 01, 2019 at 11:59
We can forget about the appeal to funny feelings, or "innate understandings", as you call them. Just get on with describing these observations and put...
September 01, 2019 at 11:34
Pearl necklace!
September 01, 2019 at 11:30
You've changed your tune. I thought that it was an "innate understanding", i.e. a funny feeling. Those are your words, and I don't see why my interpre...
September 01, 2019 at 11:12
Then there would only be what seems to be will, but isn't. And that's the point: from what you've said about the idea of free will, you don't really k...
September 01, 2019 at 10:33
It's not drastically different. Anyone with extreme enough views about climate change will agree, and anyone who is already an anti-natalist for diffe...
September 01, 2019 at 09:40
No, not thousands. The search function narrows it down considerably, and in this case, you only have to scroll down to the end of the homepage to find...
September 01, 2019 at 08:56
Oh for goodness' sake, not another one. Just read the numerous discussions on this topic that we already have.
September 01, 2019 at 08:36
As mentioned earlier, the case of Anjem Choudary. It says that he was convicted of terrorism offences, because they were obviously going to nail him f...
September 01, 2019 at 08:05
Okay, so you also think that will is only partly free. Can you do any better than Shamshir at providing an acceptable basis for how you supposedly kno...
September 01, 2019 at 07:59
Your cat has yet to evolve arms?
September 01, 2019 at 07:54
A cat with no arms and legs is a snake.
August 31, 2019 at 19:46
Thought of what?
August 31, 2019 at 19:31
No, you were supposed to reply, "That".
August 31, 2019 at 19:25
Yes, and God would be considered to have broken the genocide convention.
August 31, 2019 at 19:17
So my left foot is autonomous? No, I still think that that's just wordplay. And there's no case for free will, anyway, if it's just a feeling.
August 31, 2019 at 18:58
I found out recently that Herodotus is known as the father of history, but also the father of bias. I guess that would make you something like his les...
August 31, 2019 at 18:56
A woman of questionable sanity.
August 31, 2019 at 18:48
What's not true at all?
August 31, 2019 at 18:39
I am, because it isn't free, only partly so. Why not call it "determined will", on that same basis? So it's as I suspected: just a feeling. Nothing su...
August 31, 2019 at 18:36
Don't forget, "Aliens Vs. Free Willy", "Free Willy: With A Vengeance", and, "Free Willy and The Prisoner of Azkaban".
August 31, 2019 at 18:27
Differ.
August 31, 2019 at 18:19
That.
August 31, 2019 at 18:16