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I can guarantee you that there is no racial discrimination in the legislation, so your problem must be with how it's used in practice. So argue for re...

If a disproportionate number of those listed are Muslim, and that is a problem, then argue for reform. If even one of those people listed carries out ...

I haven't called you a fascist! It makes you anti-democratic to an extent, and unjustifiably so in my view.

I said that it effectively will be. Meaning that it will be treated as such by the government. Do you disagree? I thought you were a pragmatist, yet y...

It means accepting it as binding and authoritative, rather than a meaningless pretence which can easily be overturned. That's effectively what it's go...

I took too long to reply, and you beat me to the punch. :-|

No, it's not about what you should want, it's about what you ought to accept, regardless of what you want. You ought to accept the results, and not fa...

It's not as black-and-white and you're trying to make it appear, though. Being in favor of overturning the results of this referendum is not justifiab...

The problem with that analogy being the massive difference in degree. Leaving the EU isn't comparable to slavery, patriarchy, etc.

I thought that that's what you were referring to. I think that I must have misinterpreted Michael's comments initially. Now I understand where you're ...

Thanks. I just read some of the Guardian article. I find the views expressed there to be irritating. In my view, it's linking two very important issue...

But what are you basing this on? Are you taking something that Michael has said as an example? From my point of view, it just looks like hyperbole.

It can indeed be more complex, but it need not exclusively be about personal subjectivity, as indicated by the statement 'I disapprove of X'; it can a...

I'm obviously defending some of the benefits of remaining a member of the European Union. Grow some serious criticism! (Emotional nationalist cries, l...

Then we'd no longer be bound to those EU laws which are beneficial, and which the Tories (the current government) do not seem keen to replace. Hurrah.

Well, it's shocking for a number of reasons, and if it isn't, then it should be. Otherwise the status quo will be strengthened, since perceived normal...

My diagnoses for the two reasons you stated are, respectively, wrong priorities and corruption. Then there is the failure of cross-party cooperation. ...

No, actually it doesn't. I think that you've misunderstood the point that you addressed. I wasn't talking about any particular moral issues, or indica...

One day closer to death.

I turned twenty-eight years old last Saturday.

Thanks for all of the birthday wishes.

I share your views about thinking of morality and moral behaviour and psychology in abstract and rational terms. We typically and primarily relate to ...

I can't relate very much with your position, but I suppose it's much like the position of an atheist with regards to many philosophy of religion discu...

I was wondering why I didn't remember you, so I looked into it, and I discovered that you were known as BalanceofEquilibrium. I remember you.

It's funny that you chose to focus on terrorism: the one example which has exceptions, as I indicated. Although there are also many examples in which ...

@"Agustino" Told ya so.

No, again, that's the goverment, rather than the people. None of the examples that you've provided are typically directed against the people, with the...

So it would seem. A couple of my younger workmates recently told me that I came across as annoyed in a message that I sent because I used "those dots"...

Evidence?

Ah, those good old days of schadenfreude. Hanover, you do remind me of Gerald. Remember him? I was discussing this with my cat, but just when I though...

But that is no fact. The laws are enacted and formulated by the will of some people - not all people - and, in some cases, not even a majority, or eve...

Hi, and welcome.

I've just noticed that @"angslan" joined. Welcome, angslan. :)

Does it? It makes me think of Kant, but it seems quite far removed from Plato. Also, in what way do you think a priori "know-how" knowledge is involve...

Welcome. You need more than 60 posts per 24 hours?!

:D

It can do. One can state agreement that there is a cup, even if one doesn't believe that there is a cup, and even if there isn't a cup. There are many...

Exactly.

Yes, but my point was that some components of complex desires are incapable of being comprehended by other, less advanced species, so such desires can...

Yes, that sort of thing is largely speculation, but I reckon he's right about other species lacking the desire to change sex. But even if so, he's sti...

Again, this is laughably fallacious. They don't display a desire to become armchair philosophers either.

It's laughable because it's a blatant category error. You can't compare the occurence of such a phenomenon to species insufficiently advanced for it t...

Hilarious! You've got me there. I know from first hand experience, because, as part of a study, I've been observing the behaviour of sharks, and for y...

I've not looked into it, but I trust you conducted your research impartially with no hidden agenda.

Lol. What other being is capable of doing so?

Now there's a surprise. Well, maybe you should actually meet some of these people. I assure you, there are plenty of them who are indeed living a bett...

Well, you shouldn't be trying to do so in those cases where it'll prevent them from living a better life, because you'll be doing more harm than good....

Or, to be more precise, out of those people who don't outright reject it, a smaller, but still significant and relatively large number of people accep...

Ok, if you're going to be pendantic, then they accept it.

You might not think so, but they do. They don't outright reject the concept of gender identity being determined by means other than what you're born w...