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Absolutely. Hence insulting their intelligence, amongst other things, might be best avoided. Right? If the intolerance disappears, it'll be really eas...

So you think that the social contract does not increase freedoms also? And that having time to do things other than scrape by means only those activit...

You gotta read more dystopias. I think anger and emotions in general are being slowly banned. It'll take a while though, psychotropics are only so eff...

Yes, I remember public schooling also and the other parents also. The truths we were taught. What was considered normal. The great deadening of the he...

No, it even reinforced the power of Islam in some ways/places.Me too. I am trying on an interventionist hat, here,now. I am tired of what kids are put...

I gotta keep saying it: it's not an expression of their faith. It's not in the Koran and people who are not Muslim will wear them. Better cultural dia...

One thing it would do is say to the child that we, as a society, have a problem with what your parents wanted to do. And we have other laws that are l...

I took it seriously. I mean, we both had outlet solutions.

I was just about to suggest we brainstorm other ways to minimize violence. I'd allow people to express their feelings. It's interesting that free spee...

Sure. It's damn hard to draw anything like a scientific conclusion, I would say. Me, I go often by intuition, toss in some rational analysis, if I can...

I think it's even harder than that, though I think the correlation can be much higher. But that's the problem. How do you eliminate which came first i...

The actual experiment - not an easy one to either set up or perform using surveys and interviews - would be better if it compared groups of people who...

how did you search?

But it isn't. Again, the Koran actually only says appropriate clothing. It is a regional choice or cultural choice. And schools tend to have rules abo...

It seems to turn, in your mind, people into violent automatons, and this is something you enjoy. I think your ancestors would not have respected you.

Sure, yes, I get your position on that, I believe. I meant more in general. You want fewer laws. I think it is tricky for you, given your position on ...

Damn, and here I thought I was so clever. In any case, I assume you get what I am circling around. In your outlook cause is restricted compared to oth...

I wouldn't pass a law banning head scarves. I might banning them in schools for children. I might not. But I don't care much about it being there. The...

Oh, good. I'm glad you wouldn't. So, you are tolerant of people with supernatural beliefs as long as they treat other people well? Like some might arg...

So, we could say you reach your political position (of legal parsimony) as a deontologist not as a consquentialist. (?)

No worries and my don't make me chase you down is not cranky. I am trying to put my cards on the table all the time because I think this is interestin...

Don't make me chase you down. Is there are argument somewhere in there that says that more laws cause bad things and could you run through the causal ...

Thank goodness one does not have to choose between the idiocy of the West or the idiocy of Islam. But you seem to have little to worry about since it ...

Right, but it's a political level discussion. In most cases when people argue for a political level option in policy, they will argue that Policy A is...

Better for people in general? and/or 'is having less laws better in the sense that more laws cause a net gain in worse effects?'

Sure. So far you are wonderfully consistent. most people like to be able to say their way is better, not as a preference. I almost ended by previous p...

But it would be very hard to argue, for you I mean, that there is a problem with more laws. That these cause problems. It would be such a hard scienti...

FAir enough.

I've had this argument a number of times on the internet and I think there are some problematic assumptions in your position. That transition will not...

Yes, I recently saw a short doc on a solution to a dangerous part of town for pedestrians was to eliminate all signs and lights. Drivers got nervous a...

They thought they were managing to make a choice outside the approved ones. Or at least, I think that was a big factor. I don't like the guy and I thi...

I've thought for a bit of bringing up the issue somewhere implicit in this that you must have a parsimony position on laws. IOW if we can't decide if ...

That's not my experience. You do get to go up to five over on the highway, but above that, you can be driving just peachy and get pulled over. And I'v...

I don't think I live in a democracy. I think the demos, as you call them, get to choose between approved candidates the oligarchy puts in front of the...

I have trouble coming up with a rule or set of rules. I am probing Terrapin because fortunately, I think, for this discussion, he is an absolutist (at...

If one allows for all speech and this includes in situations where there is a power differential or an authority relation, then yes, that first part i...

so are you in favor of eliminated speed limits?, perhaps leaving them as recommendations. Does this extend to age restrictions? things like the age on...

Here's where I have a door open to hate speech laws: I don't like probablistic treatment of individuals. So, if I seem to be doing something that migh...

Though I haven't heard much positive with cigarrettes, for example. Would you think that telling people that regular cigarette smoking increases your ...

I keep thinking of public health issues. Do you see smoking as causal in lung cancer, even though it is often not sufficient?

So, flashers flashing where they like and pedophiles getting off near schools? I realize those are extreme examples, but then, that's one way to test....

Every country does this already. The difference between allowing the visibility of men's and women's nipples makes it easy to see this has cultural id...

There is certainly a great deal of criticism of Israel, but I don't see this carried over, in general, to Jewish people. And oddly, these are not the ...

How does one address the root causes of Islamic or north african ideas about women and their clothes and not be what you are calling totalititarian? W...

I wouldn't know how to estimate the levels of power involved. How does one look at the participation at high levels of Jewish people and Jewish organi...

There is antisemitism that is anticommunist/socialist. There is race hatred that comes out of religion. There is antisemitism that is happily couples ...

So if someone believes in supernatural things, you assume that they will treat others immorally?

I wasn't expecting a precise, unfailing and perfect definition. I read this... And it led me to ask how you (and from there how one) would distinguish...

I'm not sure what you mean. I do know what postmodernism means, at least, a range of meanings. If one is saying hate speech is problematic but one thi...

So what are your rules for acceptable expressions of hate and not? If when telling one person you hate them you justifiy it and others can see this, c...