Leontiskos

- You may have missed my edit to an earlier post: Thinking about nuclear weapons is helpful because it takes some of the emotion out of the word "tyra...

Not-being-killed is part of civil liberty, but when that part is absolutized while other competing civil liberties are ignored then it becomes clear t...

Sure. The military is not the only possible monopoly of coercion, is it? Has there ever been a tyranny which does not possess a monopoly of coercion?

Civil liberty, or the minimization of gun-related homicides? You are equivocating given that the two are not at all the same thing. If a government wa...

First, I am curious where you live? Second, I am not seeing the plausibility of your argument for the conclusion, "An armed populace is not an impedim...

- Yes. Controlling who has access to weapons is one of the oldest tricks in the book.

So you can't see it. That doesn't surprise me.

This is what I see @"Bob Ross" doing in the OP and in the thread: 1. I believe in God, and therefore I have a conception of God 2. I understand that C...

And do you see that your claim of mootness fails once it is recognized that a system can be more or less monopolistic?

I think "useless" is too vague a word for this debate, even though on linguistic grounds I think it is wrong to say that art is meant to be used. What...

Which seems to say that art is an end in itself rather than a means to an end: But the nub is that things which are sought as ends in themselves are s...

That wasn't my argument at all. Why don't you try to state the argument I gave so that I understand what you are attempting to argue against. Let's su...

That looks exactly like one of those false dilemmas that you go around accusing everyone else of. :roll:

How so? Present your argument. --- Everything I said also applies to nuclear weapons. I even mentioned nuclear weapons in my post.

Those who want "gun control" are simply saying that guns should be restricted to a certain set of people. That is, they favor a monopoly of coercion. ...

"God says do it, therefore you must do it," simply begs the question against the argument you are up against, namely, "The true God would never tell y...

I would say that there are two communities here, namely the one which rejected it and also the one which accepted it. You seem to have identified the ...

So if the knowledge of the future (i.e. foreknowledge) is certain then preemptive action is not unjust? The only problem with Minority Report was that...

Agreed. :up: I may not get a chance to revisit the rest of your post. Time will tell. :grimace:

Okay. But doesn't everyone and every group distinguish some things as art and some things as not art? In that sense is everyone a "gatekeeper" of art?...

- Not sure where you're coming from or where you're going with any of that. Nothing you quoted had anything to do with Biblical exegesis. I imagine I ...

That, if Bob Ross' argument proves persuasive, then one will be pushed away from the OT whether or not they are Christian. So if one is a Christian an...

Hmm. Are you assuming that the modern state has always existed? That there was always a single "government" attached to "nations" in a single "hierarc...

This is the same issue, for when you say that they "have different truth conditions," you are implying that they are both assertions. A locution inten...

No, I said we should talk about phrases like, "I assert the cat is on the mat," rather than, "I think the cat is on the mat." It doesn't mean either o...

- I agree, and yet Jesus has become one of the most plastic figures in history. People make him in their own image, texts be damned. * Note that when ...

Is it the way that the creator interacts with the object, or the way that the aesthete/viewer interacts with the object? You might therefore say that ...

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I think the question is whether any of the regimes you speak about are properly called democracies, or ever were. The shift from the Articles of Confe...

Okay, those are reasonable attempts to capture my arguments and good responses in turn. :up: First, let me try to elaborate on the second consideratio...

Well the notion of in extremis is a central part of ethics, and I don't see why one couldn't be ethically prepared to accept conscription while at the...

:up: It's great to see someone address this topic with clarity, answer questions directly, philosophize forthrightly, etc. Thanks for that. In differe...

The OP is not about you. You asked about the rationale of the OP and then immediately objected because of something you're not claiming. Do you think ...

To just assume that we are talking about assertions seems to beg the question of the whole thread. For instance: You basically want to stipulate that ...

I guess conscription is different if we think it is okay to conscript children, but I don't think that. It seems as though conscription also entails a...

Again, that's not the claim. Where does our anti-teleological approach come from, if not from the broad anti-teleological prejudice of the modern peri...

First, I would say that this whole question turns on whether they are an adult. "They can do X, Y, and Z; therefore they are an adult; therefore they ...

There are a few arguments, but one of them is something like this: 1. Modern science long rejected teleology, even among plants and animals 2. This tu...

- I was about to ask the same thing asked. What do you think about this?

Where does it teach that? Here is the comment which both motivated and suffices to answer your OP:

But we are asking why, "I assert the cat is on the mat," cannot mean that one is asserting that the cat is on the mat. You are thinking of the claim, ...

So when someone says, "The cat is on the mat," they are not asserting that the cat is on the mat?

I agree, especially in a world where maturity seems to be decreasing rather than increasing. To take one simple example, what is the average age that ...

Yes, and when one despairs of progress are they being reasonable? What is their time frame and criteria for progress? Is it really true that we have n...

Yep. :up: Now how do you say philosophy is different? @"J" is convinced that science can give an account that works from as many perspectives as possi...

Okay, that's fair. I just wanted to try to impress the idea that the Amalekite culture and the Amalekite religion/cult go hand in hand, and if we want...

Thanks for confirming.

- How many philosophy forum rules do you break each time you refuse to do philosophy? Almost 28,000 posts. :roll:

Why don't you try making an argument for once? Do you realize this is a philosophy forum?

More simple questions that you refuse to answer. They just keep piling up: