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The majority did not, but to the extend that they did it's because the saw themselves constantly attacked for having reasonable opinions and he spoke ...
November 05, 2025 at 19:12
Sexuality is not identity. We're just going to disagree. You have no actual basis to make your claim, and realistically neither do I - but it stands t...
November 05, 2025 at 19:09
Well, that's a good position. Makes it hard to understand why you're vying to keep him in that position then throughout hte exchange
November 04, 2025 at 19:34
The fact that the first two posts were ridicule sucks. There's no defense for that on a forum like this. I like the brain-as-receiver model. I can't f...
November 04, 2025 at 19:28
No. No it can't. Most Germans were just trying to stay alive and were so fatigued by the war so far they just didn't care. The idea that 'most germans...
November 04, 2025 at 19:25
Does not exist. So something's super-wrong in your thinking.
November 04, 2025 at 19:22
Correct. @"praxis" Outlander is right. You are wrong. There is no version of this where you can present non-chopped-up, manipulated excerpts to suppor...
November 04, 2025 at 19:15
Well yes, that is the argument. I reject it. Respectfully. I think that's okay, too. You can read the quote you quoted. But you are literally incapabl...
November 04, 2025 at 19:13
Because they are wrong (on my view, obviously but its a pretty widely-held one). It is hard to understand how you could ask this question. It requires...
November 04, 2025 at 19:02
They don't tell anything even remotely close to the story you're telling. Reality sits squarely with the fact that there are not billions of people wh...
November 04, 2025 at 04:04
I do not respond well to children with fingers in their ears saying "I know you are, but what am i?". So I'll just not.
November 02, 2025 at 19:12
This is just utterly ridiculous. There are not this many people who care to have an opinion on the matter. I contend that this ridiculous type of assu...
November 02, 2025 at 19:10
I believe they exist, but in the context I gave. There is no basis otherwise. The fact that some large group agrees (and, patently, we often dont) doe...
October 29, 2025 at 01:08
Hmm. While I do not think Kirk ever did this - yes, that's right. So does Kamala, Seder, Maddow, Tiedrich, Reich etc.. etc.. If you want to take that ...
October 29, 2025 at 01:07
Really? This seems to me one of hte most potent and obvious oddities of humanity. There are plenty of people whos lifestyles I think are damaging (to ...
October 29, 2025 at 01:03
I would go further - that claim is bare nonsense. There is an extremely small, unhinged group that exist on Earth and probably number below 10m who wa...
October 29, 2025 at 00:53
Given your final line, do you expect a good-faith response? Or would it be more reasonable to simply not be a dickhead, and then expect to not have a ...
October 28, 2025 at 19:19
No, I don't wonder why. People are really stupid and (as it seems you are quite disposed to do) actually look for things to get upset about because it...
October 28, 2025 at 19:10
Yessir.
October 28, 2025 at 18:59
This looks to me like four (including myself) people roughly agreeing that all people, unless they give us reason otherwise, deserve respect and acqui...
October 28, 2025 at 18:57
I think that's right. There are local expectations which are essentially one of the organizing traits of a society. I don't personally see a problem w...
October 23, 2025 at 19:36
People discussing Marx as adults is always funny to me. It's never making much sense. This strikes me as 'nu-uh'. Always funny.
October 21, 2025 at 18:44
That is hte exact opposite of reality and I cannot respect such a delusional take on something that is there for all to see with their eyes. You are h...
October 21, 2025 at 18:40
I have differing views here.. but I see the issue you're raising. I don't think you've understood what I've said here: It is that this isn't hte case ...
October 21, 2025 at 18:39
The mind can only be what it actually is. What is 'appears like' isn't anything. It does things. Whether there's a dualist element or not, that's the ...
October 20, 2025 at 19:25
But the Bible is an inarguable moral guide. The latter (or, 'other') is amorphous and often disagreed with (hell, often killing is justified by the Bi...
October 20, 2025 at 19:24
This is not contrary to my position. It really does look like you cannot read a biological paper. That is no problem, but continually making it clear ...
October 20, 2025 at 19:18
It is explicitly not running them together. It is explicitly saying that biological tendencies are required for a 'socially constructed' gender to obt...
October 20, 2025 at 19:08
See, this seems patently unrealistic to me. The entire point of the American project is to promote diversity, you're right, and the intention is that ...
October 15, 2025 at 19:19
Huh. The preceding comments tells me we agree, so let me try to work through how I came to that.. I think, more discreetly, what I didn't take in hand...
October 14, 2025 at 19:27
This ignores that I said "carve off". That tells you I don't take your logical conclusion in hand. The use of 'gender' has its place and obviously des...
October 13, 2025 at 04:14
It's really hard to respond to this. You have asked questions that you've answered yourself on the entire way through, and added in plenty of nonsensi...
October 12, 2025 at 19:32
If this is a serious assertion, i take it you are commenting on life in 2010?
October 12, 2025 at 19:25
Yes, very clear insight there.
October 12, 2025 at 19:22
This should be fun... My take is that 'transgender' needs to be read prima facie. transgender. In this way, we simply carve sex off from gender. They ...
October 12, 2025 at 19:20
On page five of her paper What Is Sexual Orientation there is evidence to the opposite. "Sex is appropriately characterised in terms of a cluster of e...
October 10, 2025 at 04:03
LOL well he's more famous. I am only famous locally, but it is directly for improving mental health initiatives in my country. I'm happy with that :) ...
October 10, 2025 at 03:46
I don't think you're adequately understanding what is being said. You want me to make a logical argument. It is unavailable and not what is being posi...
October 10, 2025 at 03:43
This is contradictory. Masturbation can't be done with another's body. Sex is 'objectively' not masturbation in any sense. More evidence Zizek is divo...
October 10, 2025 at 03:30
It seems, perhaps you are not a serious person. This type of response tells me your mind is closed, and the surrounding thread makes it quite clear. M...
October 09, 2025 at 19:30
This is not really at all how it came across. It's hard to explain why, because your position is totally reasonable. But the way it read to me (i.e I ...
October 09, 2025 at 18:51
This is an odd thing to say. He wants a secure border, to deal with crime, reform spending and then yes, reduce war and war casualties. He also believ...
October 07, 2025 at 19:22
I don't think much of that is right. He is clearly a pretty egoic person, but i also imagine your wife thinks that what was squarely left wing thinkin...
October 07, 2025 at 19:20
No. I'll quote myself: I note you also quoted this, and then charged me with saying something very much different. Again. wiping my brow. They aren't ...
October 07, 2025 at 19:16
I'll in reverse. Yeah, this is a good point. I think most in the field tend to seek something indicating that there is somethign further. Although ess...
October 07, 2025 at 19:09
This ignores the new Testament. But I'm not particularly drawn to defending Kirk on religious grounds - that was where we parted ways. Unfortunately, ...
October 07, 2025 at 19:04
I find this to be (almost purposely) racist. It is not impossible. They have the same minds everyone else has. Heath systems are designed within a cul...
October 07, 2025 at 19:02
I do honestly hope that one day you gain the ability to understand threads of exchange properly. As it stands, you've simply resiled. That's fine. I d...
October 07, 2025 at 18:52
Hmm I'm not disagreeing with you, but my comments stand. It may be that people don't 'agree' with this, but like noting the sky is blue - there are ar...
October 07, 2025 at 18:50
It does seem to be, though. I mean, there are millions further into the 'Huh, i dont know what you're talking about" that I am (or, semi-pretending to...
October 05, 2025 at 19:25