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Sure, sure. Or, you're feigning ignorance because it throws a spanner into the works.

If you recall, I referred to transsexuals and other more open-minded people.

You don't have to be a linguist, either. Just as I don't need to be a scientist to know why we don't simply float off into space.

That's a false analogy because "red" hasn't evolved to gain such a meaning amongst a large community.

And they have a right to call you ignorant and behind with the times, and such. Well, obviously, a word gets coined, or used in a new context, and thi...

Actually they can. Who's going to stop them? The language police? :D How do you think language evolves and gains new or additional meaning?

Transsexuals and other more open-minded people don't use the word exclusively in that narrow and simplistic way in which you obviously approve.

Well, you only have yourself to blame. It's no good blaming me for responding in kind. 1. What arguments? You feel that they deserve it, and you've gi...

This. Although I do more or less agree with your conclusion. Morality can be reduced to the subjective and does not transcend it.

Yes, I'm "for real". You're merely using one assertion to support another. I dismiss your assertion that it's what they deserve. You're wrong. I don't...

In some ways he was better than Cruz, just like in some ways Mussolini was better than Hitler.

UK Government vs. EU on Google's tax avoidance UK Government European Union

No, your alternative is to use torture, which you further assert constitutes justice. But as usual, it seems necessary to remind you that merely asser...

Well, that just goes to show that if you measure something with a skewed tool, then you'll get skewed results - which may well turn out to be unsatisf...

The way that the title question is worded doesn't make sense to me, but I doubt whether anything needs to be done to bathrooms or the law regarding th...

Actually, it does help a large number of victims, both psychologically and practically. So, you're wrong to ignorantly dismiss it or attempt to unders...

Speaking of big strawmen... No sympathy for the victim's family?! False. Society abandons them?! False. Life imprisonment for the criminal and support...

No. Displaying a lack of remorse should be a contributory factor towards a harsher sentence, which it is. But the use of torture as punishment is barb...

I added a poll. I don't know why I didn't think to do so at the time I created this discussion, but there's one there now.

Yes, not necessarily. But that's one risk I don't want to take. Although I approve of those EU laws which protect important rights, I don't like the l...

Because the further away the power from the people, the less likely the interests of the people will be represented. I say, to some extent, cut out th...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36271589 Poll results vary. Seems like a close call.

I'm loving the 'LGBT toilets' discussion. Need me some popcorn.

Ok. But then, I've never read an SWP manifesto. Have you? They must have been doing something with all this time. Maybe there's a good plan out there ...

Ok, but that's also pretty obvious. Anyway, best get to work then.

Well, I wouldn't put it that way. Rather, no alternative has yet to definitively overturn capitalism. And that's hardly surprising.

I don't think that psychology is your strong suit, because your simple assessment is way off. It has little to do with pride. The position has an inte...

Not really. I briefly addressed what you said, and then I addressed what I thought you meant, which basically matches your subsequent explanation. Hav...

Ha. No. No we shouldn't. It just wouldn't work, because of the differences between the nations, and it could go badly wrong in various ways. And I dis...

I agree with many of the pro-democracy points against the EU. Both Labour and Conservatives have that in common, although Labour, unlike the Tories, i...

Perhaps not the best solution. But we could make better use of the empty properties here in the UK - an estimated 22,000 in London alone - by giving t...

:D Hmm... "Against Moral Objectivism". Will have to check that out at some point, and maybe even get involved. Although I want to focus more on anothe...

That's not an alien. That's just a human baby with hydrocephalus.

Urgh... Monsanto. If you type "Monsanto" into the Google search bar, at the top of the list of related searches is "Monsanto evil".

Marx's 'Das Kapital' For Beginners by Michael Wayne.

Ah, thanks. That settles it then. Q.E.D.

In other words, what makes someone a better person: good personal qualities. But which personal qualities are good, and what actions constitute confor...

Maybe I should give myself a slap on the wrist each time I find myself reaching for my controller or mobile to argue with someone online.

No, nothing like that. That which we rightly call "virtue" is nothing other than those personal qualities of which we approve. God is just the name fo...

Importance is relative. What's important to me matters more to me than what's important to you. What's important to you, you'll no doubt declare to be...

Some things are more important than virtue. There. I've underlined it for you. That was what you wanted, wasn't it?

Because it renders a truth incoherent.

Then the system's flawed.

Is it not? Because I thought that peace of mind is the only good. Yep, murder and rape are fine, so long as it results in peace of mind. There are mor...

Whaddaya mean "Where did I say this?"? I was merely responding in kind. Where did I say that hyper-sexualisation and irresponsible progressivism is th...

The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of The British World-System, 1830 - 1970 by John Darwin.

In other news, my feeling for a while now has tipped over to the end of the scale which finds engaging in argument more bothersome and annoying than r...

Yes, best cover up your ankles, ladies, lest ye offend that bastion of virtue, Saint Agustino The Responsible.

Politics came up again at work today. Several colleagues expressed simpleton ring-wing views. Bloody right-wing populism... spreading like a disease.....

There'd be a downside to being a Canadian called "Justin". Guilt by association.