But that's off topic. It doesn't matter whether or not he thinks that that's his responsibility. It matters whether or not it is his free will or whet...
Ah, so you don't have me on ignore then? :lol: You had me lulled into believing that I could say whatever I liked to you, because you wouldn't see it ...
So you don't think that it's bloody obvious that Trump wouldn't spin himself as racist? You think that there's a serious possibility that he would try...
That might just be the most stupid thing that you've said so far, and you even repeated yourself, just like Trump does. Not stupid because it is so wr...
That is nonsense. Why would you needlessly insert "choice" into that scenario, when it isn't necessary, and when it actually makes the explanation wor...
False. That's a loaded question, the unwarranted assumption being that freedom is required. That's a non sequitur, and makes no sense whether you make...
Look, you can come up with some lengthy and elaborate explanation for why you said what you did, but none of it matters. If you end up concluding that...
Why don't you just say something along the lines that you value collectives and cooperation, that you think they're a good thing, and that you think t...
It just sounds to me like you're trying to do in different words what Darwin already did, and did better. Survival of the fittest. What's that got to ...
You thought of the word "red". That was involuntary. And it was influenced by those words I typed up and submitted. Why don't you just be honest and a...
I don't need to do what you ask of me. I've just given you an example of your thoughts being involuntarily influenced, and if you're intellectually ho...
But there are plenty of examples in nature of life that is far from flourishing. Animals can live for significant periods without flourishing or excel...
You've been given plenty of examples already. Roses are ____ . There you go. That's an example. If you deny that the word of a particular colour didn'...
It doesn't follow from the fact that you don't have full control over your mind that someone or something else is controlling your mind. It is known s...
Then why define morality in accordance with altruism, as you did in your opening post? That is to argue in favour of altruism. You're not making any s...
You said that the sole definition of life is to flourish competitively. That's not true, and that's not to be found in any dictionary definition. That...
I know what you think, but if you worded yourself better to begin with, then you could likely avoid these kind of objections, and then you wouldn't ha...
You asked a question, I answered it. And the first part of my sentence you quoted is clearly about his reasoning, so why ask what that has to do with ...
It would lead to all kinds of wrong, including permissible discrimination, a rise in hate crime, permissible fraud, and things like this: Your ignoran...
The moral of the story would be to reject both extreme censorship and free speech fanaticism, and to support instead a reasonable balance between the ...
Okay. You asked: And the answer is that you could apply the same reasoning, but in the case of hate speech there's a sensible basis for banning it, or...
Do you do this on purpose? Just curious. Okay, just swap "being angry" with "being spurned romantically". It's not like that makes it any less impract...
That's another really good example. The typical person you'd stop on the street would readily accept that. This isn't a genuine debate here, because t...
It would be practically impossible to ban anger, so that's not even worth bringing up as an attempt at producing a counterexample. Also, there's a sim...
I think that he is one of those people who uses technical-sounding terms in a jumbled and sporadic manner in the hope of sounding like more of an inte...
You do realise that "contribute" is not a variation in verb form of the noun "consequence", right? You should have stuck to talking about consequences...
No, you still need to explain yourself properly. This is going to be a needlessly lengthy discussion if you keep responding like that. Why don't you s...
Yes. They're two different words, with two different meanings. The word "contribute" has more of a positive connotation (as in e.g. "What did you cont...
I am from Europe, specifically the United Kingdom, and more specifically England. We have a multiparty system here, and more so than the United States...
Haha, yes, I know you said "contributing". And that's a variation of "contribution", but you weren't originally talking about contribution. You switch...
You've switched from "consequence" to "contribution". Moving the goalposts again, I see. One consequence which your speech tends to have on me is that...
The Democratic Party is the main left-wing party in the United States. They're a centre-left party, and that still counts as left-wing, regardless of ...
Just out of curiosity, if an Islamist acolyte of a preacher of hate and violence against infidels murdered those whom you most care about, you'd still...
The clue was in my reply. Because there are no objective moral values, I basically take the track of "letting people do what they want to do" as much ...
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