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required? That's .... not a good position. This seems patently untrue... Struck me as fully bizarre and almost made-up. Otherwise, I agree with that c...

This thread is no longer interesting. Edit: Ah, just saw that substativisms thread was merged here. I'll take another look.

Yes, nice. So far, so good. In this case, it seems one of my later comments will come in handy.. Let's see... b-b-b-b-bingo. Nice. Always good to find...

You are uncharacteristically missing the point in a way that feels like it must be on purpose: Religious fervour is the chief cause of global harm. Hu...

From what I can glean here, I would say that those reasons can't be instantiated in law. They are social conditions. The entire point of policy is to ...

The majority do. And in any case, they are the ones we are worried about - and so condemn. That some people can wield a knife while in a schizophrenic...

I think when the restriction is "the ones unopen to update" its not a tough one. But in any case, its a formal claim, not an empirical one. Beliefs, m...

Your thread/questions are about policy. Zero, if deaths or grievous harm are involved (or, more properly 1 - instance, per-cent, whatever you like. 1 ...

It was. Your response tells us all we need. All good.

I'm not entirely sure what the question is - what decrease are you talking about? In any case, 'roles' are not what policy aims to talk about. The 'ro...

I took that to be a bit of hyperbole, but in many cases, yes. The point of hte murder is to pay homage to the prophet as he commanded spread of the wo...

No stranger? That is clearly untrue: https://www.barnabasaid.org/nz/news/at-least-89-christians-killed-by-islamists-in-north-eastern-d-r-congo/ https:...

Yes, barely. Not in a way that I am even sure she would recognise me now. Though, I have interacted with her plenty over the internet (well, prior to ...

Yes, I know Helen (personally, in a very vague way). Yeah, i get the point too but I'm unsure what else you could say besides "trans-identified male" ...

It is. And explicitly so.

This seems muddled and not asking anything in particular?? Politics didn't need to address this issue until the last five years or so. And it has been...

I think, more than most cases, I'm OK to ask what your motivation for asking is? Three reasons: 1. super loaded; 2. I've not said I don't/wouldn't; 3....

To the fictional quotation. In that context that is the right way to think about a moral judgement. I am unsure that you could say i've agreed to the ...

Just so. :)

I think those were at different times? I think he was also under the impression some other commenters gave evidence - but I had put paid to. I'm unsur...

Are you suggesting there's something untoward about adjusting one's view in light of discussion or evidence? It seems that way, so if something else i...

No we haven't. Your quoted exchange (assuming I agreed) doesn't show this. It shows that a "moral dismissal" results from a "moral judgement". That mo...

No they fucking don't. There has never been a single sex other than male and female suggested. Even by activists. It seems you cannot read. I'm out.

omfg, I just responded to every point and it looks like the post has entirely disappeared. I apologise for that.

No. This is an incredibly straw man. I would add, though, that it is not as small-a-portion of the population as you seem to want it to be. That isn't...

You can look at the discussion given. And it does - you may want to actually look at the statistics. Compare them with control groups (the general pop...

Aside from the incorrect ambiguity in the opening, yes, 100%. But that doesn't say anything about policy. What 'society thinks' amounts to convention....

No one dodged it. You are ignoring all the evidence, including neurological evidence, that was put in front of you. Don't be surprised if you're ignor...

Outlander makes a reasonable retort, but it wouldn't have been mine. As for the challenge, it is case by case, as several references on that page atte...

No. Most laws are vague and require several years (sometimes decades) of case law to figure out what's really going on. Sometimes judges admonish the ...

A misleading term which refers to something that isn't real. There are zero humans who are not male or female. Your quotes discuss aberrant phenotype ...

My argument here is: They are delineated. There seems to be inherent differences in abilities between these two groups, in those areas. I don't think ...

It is, though. This is a really well-known phenomenon, to the point that males are routinely excluded from crisis shelters (even children of the victi...

Perhaps you should focus on yourself. It seems a lack of this has resulted in talking past me, constantly, for a year now. This may tell you something...

@"Fire Ologist" :ok:

And thus presents a risk. I still get the impression you are dismissing women and instead choosing to value to feelings of a mentally aberrant male (w...

That's certainly the rub. I can't think of any way other than an appeal to collective preferences. What, in the West, we consider a criminal gang is n...

They are descriptions, not adjectives, when we are defining sex, as opposed to differentiating. It is not a "quality" of a male to be male eg (tautolo...

I have explicitly pointed out why this is not the case. The speak about two different things, so could not, in theory, tell us hte same thing. In prac...

I ... umm... did. There is no paradox about speech and I gave the argument. I am sorry that this isn't landing. It certainly is. We can do all sorts o...

I'm unsure why you'd ask. Coherent preference. That's all we have. Groups do it, and so we have morality. Swings and roundabouts.

Ah, I don't think that's right. The former is about the possible failure and the latter is about the possible success of the proposition (orthogonalit...

To the point that it is helpful, or violates other norms to avoid harm. Probably yes, but that will be read as either "too far" or "Strawman". I don't...

But they say different things... Certain contexts will give us the same information from each, but they mean different things as explicitly set out ab...

I think you're taking it a bit far. I do not think laws should discourage assimilation. They should discourage the importing of harmful people. If the...

I think you've got your Ps and Qs a little wrong(that is jest). As I understand: "?P" = P might be true. "?¬P" = P might be false. Which of course, of...

Just jumping in because some of these are issues I've particularly considered - actually, some lead me to getting into philosophy proper rather than p...

Very interested in this, as I have seen compelling versions of an ambulance at the bottom of the hill argument. I noted it earlier in the thread, I th...

Additionally, people like Jim Morrison found literally pursuing death life affirming. I can understand that, and so I can't quite understand the premi...

A handful - though, majority are fluid about what they will 'accept' so to speak. I have an odd relation with a 'sister' of mine. She was my actual si...