You're playing the wrong game. It is wrong for Russia to do what it's doing, on the view of the majority of the geopolitical sphere. No one will suppo...
I thikn this is a really interesting point. I enjoy all genres of music i've come across. However, there are only a few where I like the genre. Genera...
I think the concept of depression, as pathologized, is utterly demeaning and ridiculous. People get sad. Big fucking whoop. Habit forming behaviour fo...
Perhaps you don't understand what a non sequitur is. That is a shame, because it is literally the crux of most of your responses. I actually did expla...
Thanks for your reply. Interesting way to spin it (i do not mean that as in 'deceptive'. Just that we al see things 'a way'). I don't think Trump is a...
While I appreciate you chiming in, this doesn't give me anything that i was after. I asked a specific question only answerable by those who hold the v...
If you can, carefully, and as if i am five, explain why you asked this double-sided question, I might be able to answer you. Currently, this doesn't m...
As I say, this was not a critique. I just add to your comments. I shall further add that these other elements are also coercive, of the enforcement ap...
No trouble!! I sometimes go a couple of weeks without replying here. It takes some effort and time that I don't always have. No harm/no foul my man :)...
He (and you, though this more an addition than critique) are also missing that government speech by way of legislation is clear, highly-effective coer...
Genuine question (i.e mods, just don't be dicks) for those on the "Trump=faciscm", "Climate change=literal doomsday" type of takes: What are you going...
I cannot see how this would be 'moral' in any sense other than taking 'moral' to mean 'other-regarding' and simply widening it out without any actual ...
That is what most decent philosophers do, in my estimation. Some of the best I know have undergrad degree in Phil, post-grad in something else and phi...
I don't think time is something which has properties. It is a situation of 'everything else', individually, in relation to all of those other 'else's ...
This seems true, and the basis of most moral debates. I think this is going to ruffle feathers. Plenty here who are very sharp, well-read thinkers wil...
I suppose that's roughly what I'm driving for. The former is an imaginative, 'what would i feel?' and the latter is being capable of actually feeling ...
Havent read the thread, but as far as I can tell they are used interchangeably most of the time, but each is distinct in semantic terms. Sympathy = hy...
Yeah, nothing much to add here. I'll just make explicit what I think is the case as between us again: I may be misusing the word 'fact' here, but it i...
No. No you didn't. As explained above, and dismissed by yourself. Again, this comes across so intensely removed from what's happening in this conversa...
No, no i didn't. I explained to you the concept of coercion and gave you the leading example. It is a legal and social norm that you seemed to be unaw...
As I see it, this is both not a difficulty, and in fact, the crux of our disagreement (such as it is.. It's increasingly clear (to/for me, anyway) we ...
The force would be whatever is causing the dilemma. The classic example is that someone has a gun to your head, and either you commit some heinous cri...
Those that committed the crime. In all cases I'm aware of. Incitement doesn't reduce culpability for the act (other than for minors, i suppose). Other...
Rivers aren't moral beings. I do not think anything non-conscious has 'rights'. Conscious beings have obligations (on that model. Not sure where I fal...
No, not at all. Incitement is a one-level relationship. Incitement to incitement isn't a real thing, as best I can tell. It does not create that kind ...
I no longer care if you do or not. It became clear the only thing I can do with those exchanges is point out how utterly delusional they are with fact...
Yeah. I'm unsure what to do about that. It seems (even on this description) that my take was accurate. So be it! Not really, no. What you set up was a...
I think you've picked up tihngs I didn't not intend from my post. In the first instance, I was not suggesting that we can get anywhere on the facts we...
Your first comment: Yes, not only strong, semi-nonsensical. But this second one clarifies, so... I would be hard pressed, but i can certainly see my w...
I disagree. There is nothing beyond "I should now do x" contributing to the game, in my view. Moving blocks is not something we do with words (other t...
I find it really hard to get through any arguments for/about morality that are not amorphous evolutionary claims (given it's an intangible, basically)...
This is misleading. The example showed a third party falsifying the subjects belief on the basis of the facts by persuading the subject of their truth...
Bang on. toe-dipping philosophy is invariably embarrassing, but so too is the tendency to dismiss on that basis, rather than the fact that some partic...
Ok, fair enough. Yeah, i think we are 'agreeing'. I just find that ... let's say... semantic schema, a bit wanting. To me, the belief is false in that...
This is quite a can of worms. You'll have one camp laughing at the question because "use your eyes". Another camp (the one i'm in) wants to say "No, o...
But they sort of do, was my point. The leap is so large, it amounts to receiving a fully-formed building tech from nowhere. Gobekli tepe and Karahan T...
Yes, I believe this is dealt with by my noting hte problem of using something like 'was' about literally no-things. That is a language problem, but I ...
This seems true even without Wittgenstein's insights. We play games with our interlocutors. Some explicit uses would be sarcasm or hyperbole. Yes, i a...
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