Oh please, save me the nonsense about how you've seen pain I can't understand. Of course if you'd have had a gun when you were accosted, the outcome w...
I read those studies and the Wiki article as well. That data (defensive gun use) is far from clear based upon varying methodologies, so I didn't cite ...
I agree that stats cannot account for every variable, but the data doesn't generally support the proposition that gun ownership offers greater safety ...
Common sense also tells you that you're not going to have someone coming at you with a gun, and that if you do that you will have the gun handy when t...
But this is consistent with what I've said. Mine isn't an ideological position. It's a practical one, The data shows a gun currently provides 4 times ...
The likelihood that I be able to produce a gun and use it effectively is lower than that gun being used otherwise to cause me harm. That's my point. Y...
Just because you can't accept anything but applause at attacks on gun ownership doesn't make the analysis dull or or dense. It just makes the point th...
Looking at this data, 5 out of 100,000 people are murdered by a gun in the US each year. I found some other data that showed that you are 4.23 times m...
No, what I'm saying is that as long as the order came from God, you are justified in carrying out the order because it is God's will. This is obvious....
Your argument if I understood it is that the NT description of God is the true God and to the extent the OT God is incongruent with the NT God, it doe...
@"Bob Ross" This made rethink this whole OP. My first response was going to be to point out that you're assuming a particular hermeneutic that might b...
The hypothetical just seems to demand the conclusion. If all things considered, the right thing is to do X, we must do X. So, you then posit a god who...
When I was a kid we'd watch the bats flap furiously dipping and diving above the street lights that attracted the bugs they made their meal. Maybe tha...
Few things are as amazing as hearing a masterpiece that has somehow gone previously undiscovered. I wish I hadn't heard it before so I could first hea...
Yeah, but you entirely misunderstand my post. If you posit that God, the knower of all, in fact said that X is the best course, then that is by defini...
Your hypothetical assumes God assessed the evil of the people within the building and determined that their death would save the world from greater ha...
There are legally justified killings. Self defense is an example. If you know with 100% certainty that your failure to protect others will result in d...
It's not a speculative preemptive strike, but one where we know what will happen if we relent because the warning was from God, not just some UN inspe...
Nice. So when you ask someone how to compound a fresh batch of chocolate chip insulin and they answer, no questions asked, they're either a bot or a r...
Thank you for this. Right when I thought you were a bot, you say something so human. Anyway. Chatgpt failed the Turimg Test with this comment I made t...
That's not correct because you've decontextualized a fantastic tale and are trying to plug in a few facts to 2025 western civilization. Per the story,...
Which part of the midrash or Talmudic passage cited do you contend doesn't support the interpretation? My comment just points out you didn't explore t...
I'm with you on this. I think we all talked about langauge with a sense there was something special that occurred in the conscious that would make it ...
I don't think that works because Davidson speaks often of concatenation, which is the placement of a finite number of words into an infinite number of...
I can't imagine a language that lacks some degree of conventionalism and I'm not sure anyone holds that. There must be rules to a langauge even if you...
In responding to @"banno" and your comments here, is that intent is a necessary component in Davidson's triangulation theory. This does not mean that ...
That was a spellcheck error where it somehow put "not" instead of "more." You charitably read me as rational and deciphered my intent correctly. Very ...
If a 16 year old is considered within the custody of his parents, would the parents be required to permit him to vote if that right were afforded him?...
We must charitably assume the speaker is rational and presents his statement accurately to intent. This makes no demand upon deciphering internal thou...
I'm obviously a huge advocate for education for education's sake, this being a philosophy forum and all, but unfortunately education is not what creat...
I agree with that. The interpreter applies the principle of charity to assume the speaker's rationality and logic, which assumes consistency of usage,...
I'm not sure what you mean here. The sentences created by ChatGPT are truly compositional it would seem. That is, they are not just the random slammin...
Is this correct though? I took the truthfulness of the statement to be the 3rd prong, not the 2nd. As in the "cat is on the mat" has meaning if (1) I ...
I asked ChatGPT to paint a drawing of a painting. This creates a few interesting questions. Is a painting of a drawing of a painting a painting or a d...
The second prong of Davidson's triangulation requires ascribing intent to the speaker charitably assuming rationality and logic to the speaker. Does C...
The PM's comments don't suggest that working, paying taxing, or serving in the armed forces are conditions that must first be met to vote, but just st...
I am not Rabbi Hanover, so I'll cite to ChatGPT, which is generally forbidden here, but I offer it to provide you a glimpse perhaps into what I'm talk...
It is similar to the nicety "with all due respect," where you're permitted to say whatever you want thereafter because it was with all due respect. Wh...
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