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According to what, or who? Either way, that's a recipe for disaster. A healthy democracy requires checks and balances, not a dictator who can do what ...

Poor creativesoul. He's always inviting people to a formal debate, but no one ever wants to debate him. :snicker:

Reminds me of Nixon's, "But when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal". Scary.

I know, you were talking about plaid shirts... in a discussion that's supposed to be about hate speech.

So "free will" is a misnomer, then. How do know you that there's a lack of necessity? Is it anything more than a feeling that you have freedom of choo...

Which part are you claiming wasn't determined, and how do you know this? And besides, it wouldn't then be free will, but partly-free-and-partly-determ...

It was an out of place and inappropriate example, given the topic of hate speech. I'm glad that your ability to read between the lines is on top form ...

More like I point out something obvious, like that people often get basic and widely known things right, like the shape of the earth, or what the word...

Fortunately absolute monarchy has all but disappeared, and these kind of views are far too unpopular to gain the required support in democracies.

I'm glad that someone else here sees how someone wearing a plaid shirt is just like someone publicly calling for the extermination of Jews.

Regardless of whether that's true or not, I did so, and that was determined. So whence the supposed freedom? Isn't that just an assumption, and an ass...

Sorry, but that makes no sense. Let's say that I turn the light on because it's dark. That it's dark is an influence which determines my act of turnin...

The British political establishment is not the Tory party. The rest of it, with the exception of the DUP, is up in arms. And of course, there are some...

How would it be free, then?

This being the same Donald Trump who called for Hillary Clinton to be locked up over the email controversy.

But the boss does believe in free speech, and yet he would still fire her. That is because he doesn't believe in absolute free speech, which is not th...

Well, I'm a free musical instrument playing absolutist, so I don't believe that there should be any laws restricting the freedom to play drums really ...

Yes, I suppose morality, as in people's judgements about right and wrong and that sort of thing, can to some extent be understood, measured, formalize...

Stop doing that.

But China's a different kettle of fish.

It definitely does have something to do with your brain. And I'm not sure you should be saying "we", if you mean to include yourself in that. I'm fine...

Owned. :lol:

You don't know how you know that the world isn't flat?

People are often right, at least on a basic level. Most people aren't whacky enough to believe that the world is flat or that there'd be no cost if we...

Yes, and it was worded like a conclusion, given that it begin with "So".

That doesn't follow from what I said.

Who is "we"? Those of us with working brains can know that I have the right answer through reason. Those of us who don't can't.

That's why you're often wrong.

My brain leads me to the right answer. Yours does not. Therefore you have a faulty brain.

Then there's something wrong with your brain.

You use your brain. Do you have one?

Of course it is.

It's my view that it's irrelevant because it's irrelevant.

It would solve a lot of problems, yes. Philosophy forums seem to attract people who lack common sense.

Yes, like I said, it's irrelevant. Like if I said that I'm in favour of maintaining the ban on hate speech because ham sandwiches don't play chess.

Yes, you should have. The legal definition and examples are available to you through the internet.

Okay, then it's just irrelevant.

You have access to the internet. Look it up.

Yes there is. Your opinion doesn't matter in the bigger picture. No, you've already been told that that's a straw man.

Baden said to give it a rest with the insults, so pack it in, you moron.

This coming from the guy who said the following: ...among other gems. Every time you say this: ...you're basically saying, "I'm a massive moron".

Entirely. :up:

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Yes, I'm self-aware that my job involves manipulation. Whereas you're in denial about your own rhetoric. By the way, have you considered renovating yo...

Sorcery then.

That's a lie.

"Confidently inoculated". You're a walking contradiction. You just admitted in a separate discussion to hyperbole and sarcasm. You yourself are full o...

You'd know all about that.

You definitely just missed it! :lol: And that's not an irony, because nothing that we've said counts as hate speech. Not even close. My goodness! Ther...

"My leg detached from my body in the accident".