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:scream: That's not thinking pragmatically. Think of the consequences! I know that what they did is self-harm, but you guys can't afford lost votes, a...

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You're a really bad listener. After 60+ pages of discussion where I explained my position over and over again, you still waste time making a fool of y...

No, it doesn't. I wouldn't call that moral objectivity, anyway, because that would just be confusing. Yes, that's right. It is by our experience that ...

Oh, duck off. :grin:

Yeah, there has been a similar situation this side of the pond, where the Parliamentary Labour Party actively sought to undermine their leader, Jeremy...

Bernie Sanders wins the next election. Problem solved. There's little else, realistically, that can be done, except to wait it out.

Hey. Comments like that are my thing. This town ain't big enough for the both of us. You still wouldn't pass it.

Sure you did. Anyway, now you know. I never leave the house without 42 on me.

That explanation would be biological and evolutionary, I would think. That's more a question of science than philosophy.

:lol: Yes, I would take it further than that. Not only is it immoral not to do illegal drugs, the law should be changed such that it is illegal not to...

They simply stem from our conscience, which is our sense of right and wrong driven by certain emotions like guilt, indignation, vindication, sympathy,...

With Bush, I got more of an impression that he was dumb, but kind of naive. With Trump, I get more of an impression that he's dumb, but in a much wors...

Yeah, that's pretty hard to forget about.

I didn't say that the reasons were never good reasons, nor did I say that they didn't serve a purpose. That's a different statement that I didn't make...

Is your book going to be full of distinctions that no one is unclear about, and which don't need to be made? You do this often. Apples are not oranges...

Or cruel. Or not so powerful. Or a combination. Potentially dumb, cruel and not so powerful. But none of this matters, because there's no good reason ...

You're often very dismissive of proper critique. You seem more interested in recognition and in promoting your muddled and highly repetitive thinking....

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That's just it, though: I suspect we'd disagree over what's respectful, or what's more respectful, and what counts as an example and what doesn't. I s...

Well, that's the question: is someone just being an asshole, or are they just being honest or funny in a way which might cause some people to react by...

This is kind of where I'm coming from with my bluntness: I value truth, and I value speaking it. I try not to let the nomos of a society get in the wa...

I think that that discussion probably really only meant to be a criticism of weaponising psychology. We all do that both here and elswhere to some ext...

See, this seems very productive and insightful to me. And yet we see some people fighting against this sort of discussion, against taking a psychologi...

It's all of that and more. It irks me that people advocate what seems to me to be so wrong, and I am driven to correct it, even if I am destined never...

Your conclusion doesn't follow. I accept your first and second paragraph, yet that doesn't make any difference, and the answer to your question is sim...

Well, you are, in part. The readership. I'm not speaking to myself, and I'm not being solipsistic. If they won't argue on those terms then the argumen...

There's no way out of that. We'd just have to agree to disagree. Although we wouldn't be on par, because realism is more plausible whether they accept...

Convincing to whom? And what are the consequences in the bigger picture? I say they can have their internal consistency, but who has the greater plaus...

Seek treatment. You can't see because you're willfully blind.

Fails. And this has been demonstrated. You want a repetition because you can't accept that fact. That's pretty insane when you think about it: just re...

If you can't reasonably rule out an infinite regress, then your argument will never work. You can't reasonably rule out an infinite regress. Therefore...

Well yes, if you simply lack the capability of understanding what's wrong with your arguments or you're wilfully ignorant, then you definitely should ...

No, you are confused. I know how causality works. You definitely don't need to explain it to me in the way that you're doing. The problem is that you ...

Just idealism. The general understanding of that position. I'm not speaking French, am I? Meaningless how? In what sense? :brow:

Arguing against it would be the motivation in that case, obviously.

You were talking about an infinite regress. That means backwards, not forwards. You can't work from the other direction. That makes no sense. If you p...

You seem like a charitable interlocutor. We should converse more often.

What would happen if we didn't? Will we have solved half of the problem?

:chin: There wasn't a troll.

Purchase a firearm. You're in America, so it should be easy.

On the spot poetry, sent by text to my friend whilst in the taxi, or "spacecraft", as I like to call them: Race your spacecraft, pickle me nice. Race ...

We need to talk about Kevin.

Yeah, that's not far off.

Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... There was a troll.

Okie dokie! Bye byes. I'll miss you, whoever you are.

@"Banno", do you grant Streetlight's "problem"? How would you respond? Do you think I'm not properly dealing with a serious problem that he is raising...

You're just looking for peculiarly particular answer that I don't have. I answered it in my own way. If that's not satisfactory to you, then so be it....

How does pointing out that the distinction is useful in certain contexts, and explaining what it means, and explaining what it says about the world, a...

I know, right. And he called me unclear.