angslan

In political theory 'democracy' is defined differently by different academics - there are some very interesting ways to conceive of democracy, and eac...

I think that my biggest issue is that it is a little simplistic to imagine that a NOTA vote is a vote against all legislation. As it stands currently,...

Your response didn't really answer my question. NOTA functions for single-member seats, but I am curious if it could function for multi-member seats. ...

Personally, I am against single-member electorates, where constituents choose only one member to fro the electorate to represent them in parliament (o...

If Heaven is a paradise free from suffering and humans have free will in Heaven, then free will on Earth and the possibility of causing suffering and ...

Interestingly, you ignored the majority of things that I said you were already ignoring, so it is not a surprise that your last posts got us nowhere.

What an intractable issue! If only there were some field like intersectional feminism that didn't treat all women as identical, and then this type of ...

Oh my god. When they address the speaker. Why do you think that people need to give things up in order to sort things out? Anyway, if people disagree ...

I don't agree that it is implied that the sets are mutually exclusive from the trans claim. In fact, the claim requires that they are not, as I pointe...

I am trying to grasp the grammar of your first sentence as clearly as possible, and I am having a little difficulty. I think this is unfortunate, beca...

I'm not 100% sure about this, but it might be determined by how you define sets. One alternative is the idea of a family resemblance, in which This re...

The problematic definition you have been arguing - or, at least, the continued problematic claim that you have been drawing from this - is that there ...

Except, as has been pointed out, your argument is incompatible with trans claims. So it doesn't seem to be based on trans claims at all. Yet you persi...

I mean, you're really not representing trans claims accurately at all. No matter what I've said to you, you've gone back to the same set of misinforma...

As though we haven't been able to have some sort of discussion regarding what people feel like or who they are? This is another treat people like obje...

Ah - this is the bit I was missing. Carry on.

Why does the physiology have primacy? Or are you restricting the latter part of this claim - the "counting" - to certain medical issues?

So I just want to try and clarify and cover what I believe to be your argument without this quoting back and forth, which sometimes gets me confused a...

I know that you feel that I am just saying "no, you're wrong" to you, but this is, I think, the core of your argument, and I believe it to be wrong. I...

This is true of all types of people - this is in no way exclusive to trans people. The principle of respecting other people's interiority is that we r...

I didn't say it was the only property you ascribed, but I thought you made it sound like a necessary property, as you have repeated: I don't think it ...

This might have to do with a backlash against globalism/neoliberalism in response to the financial crisis.

This all seems a little too abstract to me. What split are you talking about? What are the examples?

That's a strange, narrow way to think about insults - usually insults are used when they are going to be taken negatively by the recipient, not just b...

I just want to try and unpick some of the context of the argument here. If Mary prefers to be called Molly, you assert that there are potentially peop...

Sure, and it might be part of someone's worldview that black people are lesser than white people, should fulfil an appropriate role in society as slav...

Perhaps Mary would have an issue if John preferred to call her Molly. Or Mark. I think in these circumstances that it is definitely the case that Mary...

I can't say that I am convinced by what I understand of this argument. Time implies change from state to state - for the sake of this discussion, let ...

Yes, I have heard of entropy. But there is a difference in pointing out a law of thermodynamics, which is an observation of how the universe is, and l...

I'm confused by all of this. There are people with particular physiologies. There are people who are comfortable with their physiologies, and people w...

I really don't know where premises like these come from.

I haven't changed my tune. I asked how we get to these types of questions and I enquired about the backstory of each of the concepts, which I suggeste...

I have to admit that given our recent conversation I am surprised by this. When talking about God and timelessness and eternity, your interest was eno...

Well, this isn't quite what I was saying. Democracy is a framework about how to have a debate. Sometimes people suggest this framework must contain ce...

I feel like we got closer - but not quite there. I don't think that someone finding something interesting makes it meaningful in a philosophical sense...

Well, I haven't figured out how to delete a duplicated comment.

Personally, I don't think so. Politics discusses moral issues, and how to discuss and resolve those issues - a type of meta-ethics, maybe - is where c...

This whole time I've been trying to understand why it is meaningful. Is it interesting to you simply because it is interesting to you? Or is there som...

If you go back a few posts, you'll see me break down my questioning of the significance - I gave quite a few specific questions, which never got answe...

I am not turned off by some backstory - I am asking what the backstory is. So far, I've had no answer. You're all about interpreting! It is not that I...

Yeah, the Electoral College is peculiar - but this is one of the reasons that I don't put the US up as an exemplary democracy. I think if we look to t...

You've made this question a Rorschach test - this is great if you want to learn about yourself. If that is what you want out a question of this sort, ...

The backstory is what makes it meaningful - that's what I've been saying and I agree on that. But not every question has a backstory, and my complaint...

These undermining elements are really interesting! Thanks for the list. I'm uncertain how to respond to this one - various concepts of deliberative de...

I don't feel like you've answered it, for a variety of reasons. First, what it is the makes the relationship between time and existence something wort...

This is a type of equivocation, surely? What constitutes the "universe" if there is something that is creating it? Would we be better served asking ho...

Honestly, I hate this type of response. This language in this response suggests (a) the question is meaningful, (b) I know it, (c) I publicly state th...

I have definitely heard this as an absurdist joke rather than as a Zen koan. I guess my point is - the question in the joke is nonsense, and the answe...

I think that this is one of those "the question is wrong" type of questions. There are just so many premises and conceptualisations of power, potentia...

You say But I was curious as to what definition or concept of democracy you were using, and you still haven't said. I have no way of knowing what you ...