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Twelve dead, 29 injured (updates continue) on Bondi Beach in Australia Very much sending Love and support to all our Aussie friends. I will save comme...

I've never met a happy one, unfortunately. I think that stands to reason though - females are literally psychologically hardwired (on avg) to have chi...

Unfortunately (and this has nothing to do with you, or me particularly) I went through several pages of discussing hte power of words toward incitemen...

That's true, but I'm unsure to what degree - which hinges on my having brought up antinatalism in some large way. If we take it back, you shouldn't ha...

No, that was literally you inventing something I didn't say (or intimate). If that's your interpretation, you're entitled. But wrong. And that's okay.

Fwiw, I don't. The rest of this is pretty much just you throwing things at a wall while not listening. That's fine, bt not something I'm keen to lean ...

No it isn't. That's something you require to support your position, but is in fact, not the case. I like oranges, but the colour is odd.

It was literally someone else. This is clearly unhinged political emotionalism. Given the other clearly bad-faith responses in another thread, I shall...

The rest of my comment matters. Like.. really matters. It seems you're quite good at losing nuance in service of clearly (and reasonably) emotional ta...

(I can't quite see what the context of that was - long post) I would call this muddled, semi-untrue media talking points. I don't defend most of the u...

Again, Charlottesville is a potent example of hte type of misleading stuff I refer to. The other examples - while uncharitable in some ways (plenty of...

Feel like as the resident psychonaut I have to come and agree with this. One of hte biggest turn offs of that set is that people tend to make wild cla...

Sure, we could call humans 'special' but that's somewhat arbitrary. Tuataras are the only beaked reptile in the world. And also a near-dinosaur. We co...

This is tricky to give a yes or no to. The answer properly is 'yes'. But what i've said there is about how I behave, Not what I try to have others do ...

Hmm, okay i grok. I guess I'm not finding it hard to grasp the problem. If someone told me "illusions are real" i would simply say "no they aren't" be...

Possibly, but "classical liberal" values are considered either cowardly centrist or right wing values in a lot of quarters these days. The current "po...

Not only unfounded, entirely unreasonable. They are left-wing individuals killing, or attempting to kill 'right wing' individuals on policy grounds. T...

Ok. But I gave chatGPT your exact prompt, copy/pasted from above: It’s not possible to give a reliable percentage—and claiming one would almost certai...

Which is totally reasonable. For about 100 years liberal (meaning politically liberal rather than conceptually "classic liberal") policies have been n...

I am asking for a reason for the deeming of value. I can't understand it, without recourse to a fiction. If that's the case, that's fine. I am interes...

Which is odd, because all signs point to it being left wing in-fighting. You can buy whatever you want about it - what I buy seems reasonable to me. T...

Hmm interesting thoughts. I think I stick by my initial take there, but I do see the truck in what Banno is getting at. I take it as tongue-in-cheek e...

Yeah, i mean "accepting" homeless people will always seem more virtuous than "accepting" a view about say, protecting the public from them. I just don...

It absolutely is not. And I think its ridiculous for most of it's actual pertinent thought trains. MAGA has massive overlap with the values of most mi...

It seems there's a wilfull confusion between disability, and lack of participation. You are not disabled by stairs. Your inability to climb the stairs...

Yes, but only semantically. In practice, they don't come to different places in the context of the thread. In the context, I think tolerance relies on...

I'm not quite sure how this works, even having read the OP. If I have it right, the current word has 11 letters? Myxomatosis is my guess lol.

I dont recognize anything you've said. Give me a reason to think babies are 'special' beyond that they are God's little gifts?

at some point, I assume lol. No. All you need do is read their texts to note the 'person' is not, at any point, the driving force behind policies. Its...

You're allowed to think that, I guess. But they are objectively not special in any sense other than a theological one. Which can be rejected on almost...

Almost everything you've said here tells me the points have gone way above your head, to the point of it being an absolute quagmire to respond to thes...

"what twaddle". Hehe. Ok Banno. You are simply not engaging with anything put to you, as is your right. I'll resile.

I really, really like this. It doesn't fit with most takes on the topic we see about these parts, but I like it.

They are the largest surplus resource we have. They are not special.

I don't see a lack of compassion on either side. This speaks to the problem I often bring up in threads that tend to go off the rails: State your goal...

You absolutely have not. What you have done is put forward a theory which does not work about gender identity. You explain something contingent, and c...

It is literally a self image. There is no such thing as a 'male' or 'female' brain any more than there is 'man' and 'woman' as clear-cut categories. T...

You may think so. That seems counter to the exchange. A feeling he seems to be getting to. Perhaps pause a second a rethink in light of this - its ext...

Philosophim has given you his reasoning for preferring his meaning - which is not a personal preference beyond it being better for all, in his view, t...

You are doing the same thing again. I'll go through your charge and make it quite clear you are simply not coming into contact with what I'm saying - ...

This isn't an attack in any way, but it hasn't. It's probably just not in your orbit. Which may also have been what you meant - but given the nature o...

Just discovered Stephen Wilson Jr. Amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daUGaBj0WFc

I can't understand how you're not actually understanding what I'm saying. I do not, ever, try to convince people to do things because i want them to. ...

You've strawmanned the entire crux of your OP. That's not a great move. I'll try clear this up a little, from my perspective: I would say anyone with ...

For sure - there's also the different interpretations of when that level of disorder kicks in.

I tried the same game. This doesn't tell us anything about the question we're asking unfortunately - I had to just dig. It's simply telling us small n...

No. It's not capable of answer. It was unwarranted. We have no reason to ask questions we cannot answer.

This could be a problem of words, again: I have never heard of a single 'trans gender' person who doesn't experience dysphoria. In fact, that is the b...

Then we have nothing to talk about. I have explicitly, reasonably laid out why reasoning someone to a behaviour on practical terms is not moral reason...

Schizophrenic people are also mentally ill. There is no prejudice in admitting to this. I cannot even begin to understand why you run to this instead ...