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Imagine that you first found out that foreigners hate Australia when you were about 12. Since then that's always been in the wings as you encounter no...

Kind of in the same way China can't be trusted. I was talking to a Kenyan about the weird things China does. They come in claiming they're going to em...

responsibilities? :chin:

It's not that complicated. Don't accept intolerance.

And you feel the same way about racist speech?

So Jamal is suppressing misogynistic speech to consolidate his power?

But what is the point of saying it? "I'm not disagreeing with the people in power, I'm just saying they have all the power"

It means that if we want an environment without racial, religious, or sexual intolerance, we have to be somewhat intolerant of it.

tyranny of tolerance

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But antisemitic hate speech is illegal in Germany, right? I guess we could talk about Hiroshima and Nagasaki elsewhere if you want. Talking about the ...

But what if someone produced an antisemitic rant? Would you be ok with just ignoring it?

probably a fly in the bottle

Thank you!!

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People shouldn't just wink at misogyny the way we're doing with Gregory. What if someone said they hope all black people die? Gregory should be banned...

When the US was formed they asked Thomas Jefferson to rewrite the laws of Virginia for the new country. Virginia was a big state and it was known that...

No, it's like a Pandora story where the woman opens the box and evil enters the world, but in this story she eats some fruit she wasn't supposed to, b...

It was the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.". There wasn't any evil at first. When Eve ate from the tree (after being forbidden to), she gaine...

You've got quite a few loose screws.

abandon all hope ye who enter here

No it's totally free, man.

Take out pen and paper and write down what you're going to do.

That's only if the state in question is beholden to the international community. If it is, that's probably a result of a treaty of some sort, or they ...

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That and a bunch of neo-Nazis.

I think we're in agreement:

Poignant. Jesus would go to the Pharisees and bitch at them for making a show of their rituals while not caring at all about to the poor. He ignored J...

A group of humans sits around a primordial campfire chewing on bison. One of them says, "Hey! Why don't we do some morals?" The rest of the group star...

As a group, Mennonites aren't opposed to vaccines. Apparently these people were. Apocalypticists like Camping have been around for thousands of years....

dammit

If you're permanently a Democrat, what does that mean for progressives? Will it break the Democratic party in two?

@"Hanover" Do you think the Republican party will revert back to its old self, or are the recent changes permanent?

Do you hit people with birch branches? I've heard that's fun.

I don't think morality can be derived from any logical arguments. In fact, logic is as likely to be the ally of evil as much as good. Good comes seein...

It's a call to think about the way you see people. Do you judge by appearances? Do you assume that if someone is sick and poor, that they must have do...

We just have two different views of the nature of morality. I'm with Augustine, 'Love and do what you will.'. It's not about propositions, it's about ...

If you're alone on an island it's the same thing. The social aspect of morality is better explained by potent emotion rather than dead propositions.

Yea. I said "first and foremost" to try to ward off the impression that there is no more to it than emotion. Emotion is the wind in that particular sa...

Allen murdered Shelley's son. Murder is wrong because of the way the community reacts to it, and that reaction is emotional. One act of abuse is like ...

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Give us an argument for why morality isn't emotion first and foremost. So far you've just offered hand waving.

Morality is about what we think and feel about what we do.

So dismiss thinking and feeling and focus on what we do. This is a recipe for understanding morality?

Was pharmacy originally pronounced "p-harm-a-cy"?

Including infectious disease control. It's like a blueprint for a civilization in a little package.

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A computer bootstraps from ROM. You're not a blank slate. Some things are innate, and brought out by experience.

But how do you know which direction to grow in? An external set of rules? Or things you were born knowing (as in Meno's Paradox).

What was his view?