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Would it be helpful if I formulated objections for you? I think I understand what you would want to say. Objection 1. “It is unjust to oppose a person...

That's right, and that's why you are mistaking a predication for a definition. A claim like, "Schizophrenia is a mental illness," is a predication, no...

Right. Yes, I agree. Yes, good. I assume you don't have access to the Penner chapter? If that is so, I will restrict myself to what has already been q...

- Take care. :roll:

There are a lot of LGBT individuals who disagree with the sexual ethics of Western Europe, though they are denied a voice:

Okay, but I included the proposition, "If X is better according to some criterion, then X is preferable according to that criterion." Perhaps you woul...

Yep. :up: And part of my point is that a desire for esteem is not bad. Vanity is something like an excessive desire for esteem. As you say, moderation...

Check out the link I gave in that post, where I answer this sort of question. Philosophy operates through persuasion; dogma operates through force; th...

But that's the question, isn't it? Can excluding certain debates ever be done in a philosophical manner? Especially when the position being excluded i...

Yes, and it also happens to be unjust. :up: clarified the TPF policy. One is not allowed to call gay people immoral or degenerate (and presumably this...

I think that's key. To try to separate oneself from all others is perhaps the most fundamental and insidious form of self-deception. (This is why the ...

- I think your thesis is generally correct. I don't know Breaking Bad, but another example commonly given is the way that the Batman nemesis Joker has...

Consider X and Y. If they are equal, then neither one is preferable. If X is better than Y, then X is preferable. If X is better according to some cri...

Yes, or the Wood Brothers' song "Keep me around": Inquiries into falsity can shed light on truth, but they always fall short because falsity is someth...

In the epistemological context she is concerned with, self-deception represents the mirror opposite of the act of knowledge, in much the same way that...

Okay, this is a good point. I don't follow politics too closely. I was surprised to see conservatives defending Tucker's platforming of Fuentes and I ...

Okay. My sense is that Penner thinks Kierkegaard was correct as seeing them as within the Christian community, and therefore he does not see Kierkegaa...

I am not posturing. Stop insulting me. A TPF search for "blah blah" yields 608 results. I never read the guy's posts, but his quality seems to have be...

"That kind of crap" needs to be defined. What did he do? What are we not allowed to do? After @"Lionino"'s banning and the sudden closing of the "Bann...

Ah, I was misinformed. It was his chief of staff who ended up resigning, Ryan Neuhaus. Roberts has apologized but says he wants to stay at Heritage. N...

I mean, Trump and Tucker hate each other; Vance and Fuentes hate each other; Fuentes hates Trump; and Trump probably does not even remember who Fuente...

I think that's right. The label "bigot" is being used as a means to the end of a particular form of censorship, without any regard for whether the lab...

And yet the president of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, just resigned over his support for Tucker's interview of Fuentes. This bodes ill for ...

I've already answered this <here>, namely the definitional/tautological notion. So your claim is that, "Schizophrenia is an organic brain disorder," i...

I think there are two problems with this. First, as MacIntyre's views matured he began to from his strong incommensurability thesis. Indeed, precisely...

Does it follow that your OP and all of the posts you have written within this thread are irrational?

Yep. :up: Trust in a leader is not inaccessible to evil societies, sure. But what does such a point prove?

But why not? I tend to think the is-ought divide is taken too seriously. I'm not sure why it is taken so seriously. Doesn't everyone who holds to subs...

The standard conflation on the part of the democrat is between monarchy or aristocracy and tyranny (to take Aristotle's terms). The presumption is tha...

I may write a thread about how Hume held to "oughts" derived from "is's," that he did not object to such a move when it involved what he called "senti...

This is the standard non-answer that you've offered for years.

You said: So why is it a truth that one ought not kick puppies? Apparently because of something Banno wants in the light of some need that the puppy h...

You're welcome. I think it provides the sort of argumentation and rationale that @"Bob Ross" was after in the OP.

So you are now advancing the claim that, "Schizophrenia is a mental illness" is not a substantive claim, but, "Schizophrenia is not a mental illness" ...

This points up the incoherence of @"Banno"'s ethics quite well (and it hints at 's). :up: Banno is a moral realist only via fiat truths (i.e. he is a ...

Following up on this, two resources are the Girgis/George/Anderson document, “What is Marriage,” as well as Peter Simpson’s article, “Legalizing Same ...

I want to leverage this analogy as well. I want to say that @"Jamal" and others within this thread are a bit like the European who lands on the shores...

- It seems to me that there was indeed a desire to have the thread shut down. But it has stayed open, and I appreciate that. Hopefully it can continue...

- Understood. :up:

@"Jamal", let me offer a simple and recent example of how the LGBT lobby can lead to harm for LGBT individuals, especially when all contrary views are...

Thanks for the clarification. Anyone who read this post of yours may have genuinely thought otherwise:

What is "the project"? Because my point would be that "the project" has shifted from philosophy to a form of activism which opposes an ideology. It wo...

This makes sense to me, and I appreciate this idea that one must engage. Part of the reason I want to introduce and delineate the notion of ad hominem...

This is the sort of hyperbolic, elevated, aggressive, intentionally insulting language that intentionally makes these issues impossible to discuss rat...

Well you've moved from "no difference in the world" to 's "no relevant difference," and I'm guessing that, at least on your pen, this idea of "no rele...

No, this isn't true at all, and I think it shows up your own biases. You are again much too quick to jump to incriminations due to the emotional volat...

- Nowhere. I am happy to ignore someone who takes your position. I think its sheer lack of rationality will sort itself out, and I think the presence ...

You are claiming that there is no difference between a womb that cannot conceive and an anus that cannot conceive. That there "is not any difference i...

Okay, but I would encourage people to actually look at an argument from a philosopher who has written on this topic either formally or informally. I j...

- I can see that you will just continue to offer the challenge, "If you can't show that it is tout court inferior...," each time refusing to say what ...