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Me too.

Shame. :eyes:

Then maybe a better title would be, "What Does Responsibility Entail?". And the answer would be something like, "Responsibility entails a duty to act ...

I use whatever feels right. I wouldn't use "one", as that would be silly. But I wouldn't deliberately refer to a transgender female as a he, for examp...

Why would it be a problem that such people are rare, or that things are the way that they are? Things are the way that they are because it's convenien...

You're a strange one. I say that there are plenty of exceptions to the fallacy - which there are. There are way more exceptions to fallacy than instan...

You seem very confused. Do you know the meaning of the word "exception"?

Yes, if that happens, then it will cease to be an issue for me. But I don't expect that that'll happen any time soon, and if you believe otherwise, th...

Saying such a thing makes me think that you're delusional or possibly a lawyer. What you demand is obviously not normal, generally speaking. It's a pe...

I'm a fan of irony, so I'll just point out that your above statement is self-defeating, as it is itself an exception to the fallacy of appealing to th...

Wait, are you serious? Because it sounds almost trollish, but then I remind myself that some people out there genuinely would say such things. That's ...

It does if that's the criterion for correctness. And of course there are exceptions. There are plenty of exceptions. You have persistent trouble in id...

No thanks. I find that ridiculous. I'll just talk normally.

Har har. I'm really not a fan of that style of writing. Regrettably I have actually read past the title, but I didn't find much I consider to be of su...

That's not what the fallacy is. That's more like a rough and overly simplistic explanation of the sort you'd give off the top of your head to someone ...

I don't care either. I don't just adopt silly linguistic inventions on demand.

This is a regularly occurring misunderstanding on your part. He did not commit the fallacy of appealing to the masses.

Yes, we can assign truth-values to moral statements. Why not? The emotivist argument is simply a bad argument. No, I don't simply mean, "Boo!" or "Yay...

And there's nothing wrong with it.

An incident... which occurred whilst he was designing a bird costume for camouflage? :brow: I'm pretty sure he was just trying to be funny. (Emphasis ...

It's more than counterintuitive: it's false and absurd, and obviously so. It's contrary to common sense. I am in no way responsible for something out ...

I saw what he did there.

You must be new around here.

Exactly. That's a glaring fault in the opening post. I would have made clarification on that point my top priority. And this isn't much help either. I...

You seem to have misquoted me.

That point has been made plenty of times before, and what you say is true. Of course a tyrannical government turning on it's people would be a much bi...

It makes sense to me that it would make sense to you.

Yes, you clearly did, and now you're contradicting yourself. You should reread what you wrote. You said that I was suggesting something I wasn't. Your...

You beat me to the punch there. I just read that in the news a moment ago. It shows that their number one priority is not in fact stopping a No Deal B...

No, that's not what I'm suggesting at all. There are extremely prevalent religious beliefs, the content of which is in conflict with science, and also...

But as I've said many times now, religion does, in at least some cases, have an input on worldly matters open to science, so you're breaking down the ...

No, it's why you misunderstood the target of my criticism.

If they lead to contradiction with mathematics, then in that respect, yes. But it's hard to see how fashion trends could lead one to believe, say, tha...

He's not the brightest bulb in the pack, so part of his mistake might be a failure to realise that arguments and ridicule are not mutually exclusive. ...

And you apparently have no response to my criticism of that argument, which I'm guessing you'll have convinced yourself is dismissible for some superf...

It does amuse me when people make that accusation against me, on a public forum, in the middle of a debate we've been having. Janus did it too. And ye...

It's a daft argument: the equivalent in text form of shouting in anger at a lamppost for not playing fetch.

I understand your criticism, and it is no more a valid criticism of science than criticising mathematics for not having any input on the latest fashio...

Well yeah, of course it does to a large extent. Are you serious? There's no better recourse. It would be helpful if you refrained from making up claim...

No, don't go. Please stay. (You'll just have to imagine my poker face and deadpan delivery, as it's difficult to convey in the text).

No. Just no.

And you know what you can do with that suggestion.

Well "should" is the wrong word. They wouldn't be burdened with that to begin with. The burden would be on the person who assumed that there's an obje...

Of course it is. Science results in no such conclusion. Going by science, I have no such belief. Going by blind faith, I have such a belief. I cannot ...

If it's not contradictory to science, then answer my question. Explain the scientific process which results in the conclusion that there exists a God.

I suspect you're talking about compatibility in a different sense. In order to argue against the sense of incompatibility that I am speaking of, you w...

I'll give that a pass. But if you have a point to make, then make it.

Ok.

Scientism seems to be more of an invented position than a position actually held, and those who do hold it seem to comprise only a small minority. It ...

Ah, okay. So you're done discussing the topic with me, and you demonstrate that by continuing to discuss the topic with me. Why would I say that the t...