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I'm channeling aliens. When you get to be my age, you'll get your own alien. Until then you'll have to be satisfied with saying regular hateful human ...

@"Christoffer" Yes, yes, yes, yes. :up:

Exactly. You can't really feel responsible for not having a time machine.

Assuming this is true, what should we do about it?

I appreciate that. The issue I brought forward was the basis of some of the protest against her, and it wasn't a free speech issue because if taken se...

If we are to blame, what should we be doing differently?

Nietzsche said to approach life like it's a work of art, but the artist isn't a dictator. Living is only partly an active thing. Living is also passiv...

There's a guy sitting in a medium security prison right now, admitted as a sex offender. I've been reading about that. I don't think he deserves to di...

I know. I come to the issue having once been fiercely anti-censorship, and now I feel depressed about the information age, about the long-term functio...

That story wasn't an attempt to confer with you on basic principles. I think you and I actually do agree there. The story is just a bizarre event I'm ...

Let's start with determining whether we agree on basic principles. Something astonishing happened to me this weekend. A woman came to my door and aske...

I wasn't paraphrasing anything. I was discussing a principle. If a man or woman is raped and delays in coming forward, whether it's to a university, a...

Nothing was said about a lack of hard evidence. That said, I don't think you and I agree on basic principles. Therefore, there's no point in discussin...

Imagine Person X. Person X states that if a man or woman brings allegations of rape six months or a year after the alleged event, that person should b...

Likewise, I'd never heard of Scruton before seeing this thread. The British government didn't eliminate his audience, it only removed itself from his ...

Did you watch the youtube interview?

I want to de-platform people who say the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax perpetrated by gun control proponents. You disagree?

The myths are probably based on memories combined with storytelling for pure entertainment infused with norms and justifications for later social stru...

Folklore.

Or bi. Achilles is a Mycenean character, though. That culture was gone when what we think of as Greeks came into existence. Interestingly the Trojan w...

@"VagabondSpectre" You're really not hearing me. Lol. It's always cool to talk with you, though.

Earlier you accepted RationalWiki's assessment that he used to be sexist and homophobic. Have you changed your mind about that? Just give that a big j...

https://www.greekmythology.com/images/mythology/achilles_218.jpg

He was old enough to kill a bunch of Trojans.

He did, especially when something bad happened to Patroclus.

Achilles was gay.

It was thoughtless, inappropriate cant, but not low post quality? Paglia stated that if a woman comes forward with accusations of rape six months or a...

You're in a position to censor it. Why don't you?

" A student cited those remarks in an email explaining why she supports the anti-Paglia protests: “As a survivor of sexual assault, I would never feel...

You said a mouthful, Cuz.

All of what you've said so well is true. And yes, it's a problem. I just want to point out that while making this point, you have turned a blind eye t...

American member?

I understand what you're saying. It just makes people feel good about themselves to shit on somebody else. Combine that with a sense of self righteous...

You know me, I'm all about scorched earth. It occurs to me that we're locked in a vicious cycle. I'm concerned about a Trump-era relaxation of sanctio...

Probably not, but I wasn't looking to crucify anyone. We know Scruton is conservative and we know he's made comments about what women should and shoul...

True. But it doesn't make sense to respond to the quote-mining with 'That's a legitimate political stance, not sexism.' That's what I understood to be...

Absolutely. But we shouldn't be apathetic about their words and the effect of their words.

RationalWiki says he has a history of sexism and homophobia, buy he's reformed. Maybe the quote that was presented was old. What remains odd is jamalr...

Per New Testament scholar Dale Martin, the traditional preference for missionary style sex and the condemnation of homosexuality is directly related t...

You're probably right. If I go digging for justification for my ontology, it may be that this is tied to a conflict over who is in charge of our over ...

:up:

Always the poet. :cool:

You mean like a matter of taste?

When do we need these interim truths? When we ponder death? That sort of thing?

I think you may have nailed that sucker. But what's up with a fish who asks what water feels like? Why is it doing that? Why does the drive to work it...

Sure. Not all speech implies metaphysics, though. For instance, when a parrot talks, there's no theory about the world in play. Much of human speech i...

So you're saying that thought itself implies some metaphysics? Probably so, but not in the form of a full-blown justified theory. Just a working scena...

We seem to assume that past and future versions of things don't exist. Therefore, if time is continuous, then it's hard to specify a duration for the ...

I think that's true. So even those who deny the need for metaphysics have still been driven by that same curiosity. And it's only as a result of the q...

If you like. Although my interest was really in the question I mentioned to Janus above. Why do we think we need a theory about the world and some jus...