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Clearly not the same thing. In English, "I found a body in the canal" cannot be accurately translated as "I found a biology in the canal".

:lol:

Funny how "body" became "biology", by the way. You do like to move the goalposts, don't you?

What's there to forgive? I thought words were powerless? You believe in sorcery?

Nixon 2.0.

Maybe you should look up the difference between a lie and something said with tongue in cheek. Your idol has a proclivity for both.

That thing he said about covfefe. The rest of it was lies. Yes. Hitler was a warlock, and Churchill was a wizard. Churchill was famed for his black Ho...

And yet we just agreed that slick talkers have made significant achievements, which apparently had nothing to do with their "powerless words". I thoug...

And yet, "words have no power", right? Maybe you should focus on polices instead of words, as you've pressed others to do.

So we agree that slick talkers have made significant achievements.

Helped the Allies win the Second World War? (Winston Churchill).

I don't know. @"Hanover", what do you think? :smirk:

Off with his head, I say. Britain Trump has said that suggestions the suspension was motivated by a desire to force through a no deal were "completely...

He doesn't really have any answers, and what he has revealed about his vision of how society should be is ludicrously impractical, chaotic, and dystop...

So he gave an example of antisemitic language and the detrimental effects that it can have. There's no shortage of examples of that. Look up Nazi Germ...

You have no logical reason to be asking about that specific phrase, rather than antisemitic phrases generally. But if you want to be illogical in a fu...

I'm not making it up, and whether or not you believe that is irrelevant. I weighed up the costs and benefits before reaching my conclusion. You can do...

I said "that sort of thing". I was charitably assuming that your example wasn't specific to the point of absurdity.

I've never denied any such correlation, and you never asked me about one. You did ask me a question which was poorly framed, like if I were to ask you...

The philosophy of software engineering? Oh boy, that sounds exciting. Where do I sign up?

Well, on the scale of stupidity, from Kanye to Einstein, I would give it a stupidity rating of... oh, wait, that was a rhetorical question. I see what...

He's not properly engaging your list of lies because he either can't be bothered or because he senses that you have a point, or a combination of the t...

Like many others, I spotted the logical consequences from the very start, which is why in my very first comment in this discussion I said that hate sp...

Were you under illusion that that's some sort of clever, knockdown argument? Because an obvious alternative answer which you haven't accounted for wou...

No one talks like that. You are not your immune system, for example. Doctors do not inform patients with an autoimmune disease, such as rheumatoid art...

There are books on that sort of thing, you know. I own one. Part 1 of 3 is about the rise of antisemitism in Germany as a background to events leading...

He's got nothing.

So your personality is not a part of you, then? You're just a body with no personality? Lol.

We were talking about the regulation of video games and films. They're regulated in the U.S., as they are in the U.K., and as they are in Australia an...

I will answer once you've answered the question of what October tastes like.

Answered earlier on. A cost-benefit analysis.

Oh sure, sure. It's the status quo that's ridiculous, and not your fringe view.

That makes no sense. It's like asking, if October is not your foot, and is not itself a foot, then what does it taste like? Do you have a question whi...

In the world outside of autism and pedantry, it is standard to try to understand one and other, rather than to talk over the top of people. They are, ...

Says the guy who never seems to get that not everyone uses "proof" in the most strict of senses. I wouldn't put it past you. Anyway, whatever. I don't...

Obviously I reject the false premise of yours that I am my body, so any conclusions you draw from it are completely irrelevant as far as I'm concerned...

Sigh. Something like: hate speech can be a causal factor leading to acts of violence.

That's not proof at all. That's open to interpretation. I certainly do not mean that I am my body when I point to myself. I can point at myself. In co...

I'm not, but the qualified version is more of a mouthful.

No, the topic is pertinent, but the question was stupid. It could be put more intelligently.

I don't agree with that at all. That sounds absurd to me. You're not your body, you're yourself. You have a body.

Yes.

I wouldn't make a blanket statement like that.

Yeah, you are more skeptical than me on this one. If you remove the cause and effect relationship from the explanation, then it makes less sense, and ...

Your withdrawal reflex is just a response of your body. It's entirely out of your control.

It's not a matter of "letting". Either I'm swayed or I'm not. That's out of my hands. It's not like I can decide what I do or don't find convincing.

Why do you care so much about "showing"? It's the most plausible explanation.

Well, the funny thing is that I was more on the fence when I entered this discussion, but now I find the notion of free will much less convincing than...

But free will doesn't exist. I haven't seen a single good reason from you or anyone else in this discussion to believe in such a thing as free will. E...

Well, originally it was about whether or not hate speech should be allowed, and it kind of still is, but that lead to a discussion about cause and eff...