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It has, in this very discussion. It doesn't exactly require a team of scientists and a lab. It's not the kind of claim which requires a thorough exami...

Everyone calls it that, and no one agrees with Tim's semantics. What's the point of a semantics of one?

By pointing out your failings. Clearly that angers you.

That's nice, but it's a poorly formed question nevertheless.

Yet another poorly formed question.

I'm not thinking about this in terms of practical advantages. It's a matter of principle. I am opposed, in principle, to self-censorship. Why do it? T...

Yes, but that's stretching the term beyond meaning, so that the distinction is lost. It's just not practical or useful to do that.

Okay. Oddly inconsistent, but okay. If you don't feel comfortable enough, then you don't feel comfortable enough. What else is there to say? I would u...

Ugh! That is so narrow-minded. You mentioned that you were mixed race earlier. So bloody what? As I mentioned, my mixed race friend and I were of like...

Certainly not.

Exactly. I think that it's a mark of intelligence and maturity if one is able to distance oneself from all of the hooha, and just have an honest, open...

That nuance being that some people find the mention of the word offensive, even though the context is acceptable. There is a proclivity in this situat...

It's not confusing to me. I just don't agree that those people should be reacting that way in some cases. As usual, context is everything. I think tha...

Agreed.

And this has been critically assessed and justifiably rejected as insufficient. You don't like that, apparently. But you'd have to actually make the c...

Yes, if you miss out one really important word. Did you do that deliberately? Because it's hard to miss.

Yes, lol. But bear in mind that you're speaking to a philosophy forum addict.

The word "inhibit" has a negative connotation. It rightly restrains thinking of a lower intellectual standard. That's a good thing, not a bad thing. T...

Meh.

Har he har. Another sarcastic exaggeration. If it's not a problem that warrants screaming "I'm a victim of oppression!" from the rooftops, then it's n...

Lol. It's really not a threat. But keep up the rhetoric. Maybe someone will fall for it. :up:

Traded in my cat for a pig-chimp. Now I'm raking it in. I spend all of my profits on drugs.

I invented a new fragrance which smells just divine. I bottle it and sell it as perfume. I made it from the semen of a pig-chimp.

The issue is the people who think that their taking offence at something that's been said means that they're in the right and can force others into su...

I haven't actually proposed a course of action. I'm simply acknowledging a problem and talking about ideals. You keep grossly misinterpreting my point...

How have you reached that conclusion from what I said? I said in the last sentence from the portion of text that you quoted that I will use "the N-wor...

Exactly.

Oh, stop with the ridiculous exaggeration. I'm not on a crusade, and it's not the moral issue of the day. There are far more important moral issues. B...

Is that sarcasm? It doesn't explain everything, but it is an example which highlights the importance of context and the naivety of the belief in "bad ...

What you call "being a grown up" is actually just counterproductive conformity over taking a stand. Like I said, your solution isn't a real solution, ...

There's no such thing as a bad word, only bad usage. The belief in bad words is what's childish. My close friend and I call each other cunts all the t...

That's not a solution to the problem in the bigger picture, which is that it shouldn't even be an issue to begin with. The power shouldn't be in the h...

Yes, of course. It's not a voluntary matter. I can't believe what I find unconvincing, and I find weakly supported claims unconvincing. I can't just f...

I'm strongly against the use of "the N-word" in place of the actual word for ethical reasons. The word is "nigger", and context matters, and sensitivi...

It is for someone who thinks like a child.

Read the next sentence, genius.

You're wasting your breath.

And pigs might fly.

I think that he is either incapable of conceiving, or, what I find more plausible, maintaining a wilful ignorance, with regard to potential counterexa...

So then you think that the laws he broke were justified, and his actions were condemnable. Because that's what it means to say that his breaking of th...

Herpaderp! :smile: :up:

Yes, that's a big problem: the counterexamples. It's a problem that can't just be swept under the rug or rambled away. Yes, that sums up his position ...

Therefore, what Schindler did was immoral. But what Schindler did wasn't immoral. Therefore, we should reject Tim's argument. Refuted by a reduction t...

Logical consequence: what Nelson Mandela did, for example, was immoral. Your conclusion: breaking the law is immoral. Fact: Nelson Mandela broke the l...

It always is on a topic like this. No one acquires these sort of beliefs disinterestedly.

You keep using the word "challenging". This is part of your rhetoric. But let me make it clear that there's nothing challenging about a position so we...

But isn't that why, or at least part of the reason why, he's been discredited? Because he deviates from the high standards of the scientific method? I...

I think it's safe to say that these shameless claims about "memories" of "past lives" have been debunked. What we have here is a discredited false aut...

It should indeed be a red flag, but if you're willfully blind, then you just won't see the red flag, or you'll see it momentarily, but then explain it...

Sounds to me like you're cheering on the underdog, because he's the underdog, even though the underdog's "arguments" suck.