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Yeah, well that's hard to do when you piss me off with that first line. Anyway, it's not a major problem that I'm appealing to something which he does...

No, because I asked you which part of what I said you think isn't true, or isn't accurate, and your first five words were, "It's because you are stubb...

:lol: :point:

Facepalm.

This is almost like trying to get blood out of a stone. Which part of what I said do you think isn't true, or isn't accurate?

Well, you either adapt or succumb.

There are times when it's much harder - or even impossible - to believe that you don't get something, than to believe that there's some other explanat...

But that's still just an aside which doesn't clearly tell me anything at all about what you think is wrong with my diagnosis. You don't seem to be und...

Easily, through relativism. Relativism doesn't have to be exclusively relative to the views of a single subject. Surely you get that. So just because ...

Oh god, not this again. That stuff can still be subjective, even of it's independent of one particular subject. And that's the only kind of independen...

Wow. So you won't even acknowledge that if the shoe was on the other foot, and you didn't get why free speech was so important, that that would be a p...

Maybe I think too highly of you.

Well then why don't you actually tell me what you think is wrong with my diagnosis? Maybe that would actually help.

That's a blatant red herring. Please answer what you quoted.

I think I've succinctly diagnosed the problem here. He just doesn't care, and doesn't see a problem, with things that he should care about, and things...

So, the real you, now, with your free speech absolutism: you see no problem if free speech didn't in fact matter to you, and other people were trying ...

Imagine if free speech mattered to other people, but not to you. Now do you see a problem?

That's one of your worst qualities: consistency over good sense. Cue the line: "What's good sense is a matter of individual opinion". :roll:

You are extremely predictable. And a dead end, apparently.

That's the whole problem, here and in many other discussions. Yes, because this is ethics, and you have the wrong ethics, meaning that some things, li...

I'm talking about the consequences which matter, generally (yes, to people, obviously), but which don't matter to you. Do you see any problem at all w...

Let's cut right to the chase. Are you a human being or a brick wall? Because I'm talking to you as though you are the former, when perhaps you are in ...

You're the one playing games, and this one seems to be your favourite: the game of playing dumb. So you followed my link, read what I said, including ...

So you can't read?

Please try not to lose track of our discussion and make me repeat myself. See here.

:yawn:

Giving up is itself contrary to the principles of Stoicism, as I understand it. If you're a quitter, then Stoicism isn't going to be for you. You actu...

Some people just like being difficult, I think. I don't believe that he doesn't have any moral principles or foundations. And I don't believe that he ...

The answers to your questions in your first and second paragraphs were apparent from my previous reply: no, minimally, an argument is of the form "X b...

Sure. Firstly, it can't even be your policy if you don't think that it should be implemented in any context whatsoever, even if that context is your i...

No, I'm only calling arguments "arguments". No.

I've already acknowledged that you don't accept that your argument is an argument. That doesn't make it not an argument. And you've acknowledged that ...

You've been asking the wrong questions. You should have just asked me why I think that it's an argument instead of pretending that you have no idea wh...

Then stop pretending that you don't know what I'm referring to. You were pretending that you didn't know what I was referring to instead of just sayin...

You would have to explain why you supposedly don't understand what I'm referring to when I've made it incredibly obvious through multiple explicit ref...

Given that the evidence is stacked against you, you have a burden to justify your suggestion that you have no idea what I'm referring to.

I understand your position. I just think that it's immoral to feign ignorance and make unnecessary requests of me. You knew exactly what I was referri...

Why are you pretending to be incapable? Don't you think that that's immoral? You know exactly what I'm referring to.

I understand you. You stated an argument that you refuse to admit is an argument, and likewise with regard to a position in this discussion. And you a...

I think that that's you deliberately causing problems. That's like me saying that I wouldn't call those two appendages on the lower half of my body wh...

So you're telling me that you're incapable of remembering or looking up your own argument from earlier on in the discussion about throwing rocks off o...

Well you've seen and presumably read my replies. You're just deciding not to recognise the content. I understand that that's your stated position. It'...

Back in 2017, Labour pledged to raise the Minimum Wage to the level of the Living Wage (expected to be at least £10 per hour by 2020) – for all worker...

I know, right. I find that funny, too. It's like when says, "You're interested in debating. I'm interested in having conversations". You aren't foolin...

Yes, and my example shows that. What I said is both true in general and in this specific context. Presumably you have no valid objection, or you would...

No. In anticipation of your objection, I tried to word it in such a way as to allow for both interpretations: that it's the right answer, as I would s...

The interpretation that he was saying something as trivial as that people can have "visions" - feelings or dreams or an imagination or brain damage or...

I don't need to be a master of chess to appreciate how good it is or to continue to play relatively well. Likewise with stoicism. And I don't know abo...

No, that's not the problem, although that's still actually a problem, because there's still the problem of why God over magic or brain damage or drugs...

Look, I've given you an example of what you asked for, and I've explained why it counts as an example. If I am capable of either recalling your earlie...