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There is more in this post than most commenters are going to give it. But I can already see from the one response, people are not going to be even par...

Weak. Not even an argument.

I don't see this. I think Banno can be a total dick, so I get the conclusiory notes here, but I cannot see this happening. Sorry mate.

Leaving the prior notes aside, as they were vague so we're just going to be going in circles, the above is true. It is also true of severe bi-polar, s...

It doesn't require a moral judgment. I am at pains to understand how this question arose. Feel free. I don't consider that judgment. If i'm marking a ...

I just don't see things this way and find it quite hard to put myself in a position to see it that way. The 'culture wars' are certainly not a 'tool' ...

It is a correlation. You can read the study, though, surely.

I haven't read the the rest of this, because I want you to not make this same mistake over, and over, leading me to ignore: This is the not the same a...

Fwiw, this was my only thought throughout your entire post, so i'm glad this was the conclusion lol. I actually take Singer's point, and as a pro-choi...

Its in the specific section i've quoted. The conclusion that 'design' is involved is a non sequitur. Banno also noticed this.

I didn't, but reading back I can see exactly hot it comes across that way. Just had more to say about it, because a rejection would intimate i accepte...

Yes, for sure. I think that's the problem - they claim liberalism (which I take as a practical movement. The ideology itself was abandoned decades ago...

I don't think you're quite framing it fairly. These aren't necessarily considerations of what I can and can't do - I can speak about whatever the fuck...

This is not what it does in practice. It allows a certain range of opinion. And that, increasingly small.

If you're now (it seems you are) making a physics argument, I have to just say you're wrong. This is a physics concept that is widely understood as ex...

Hmm. While I think I'm following your intent, these aren't different claims for our purposes. The latter requires the addition of "because I disapprov...

Ah. Perhaps I was a little too charitable then..

I have a pretty serious issue with this (and this might relate to your later comment on ordinary language). I cannot understand "choice-worthy" as any...

Total non sequitur. I think the point he's driving for is that for a philosopher, the term is ridiculous. It's a totally reasonable and real physics t...

Ah yeah I see what you're getting at. Weirdly, I get about 50/50 left/right content. Commentary seems very much skewed - But again, I don't know every...

I'm unsure I can accept the leap from "choice-worthy" (based on??) to "ought to be chosen" which amounts to "ought to be done". Can you perhaps make c...

Can't quite grasp your views, but I found this further reading fun https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2295&context=law_faculty...

I maybe either too dumb or too tired to know what you're saying here? Yes. There wasn't much from the moderates about hte abysmal Biden era, though. I...

Extremely, risibly misleading. This is not the result of 'poverty' and this barely gets a decent connection between the policies in question and the r...

GEnerally agreed they don't follow. But you can't get to the idea of an arbiter of good and bad from the fact that some actions are "choice-worthy" be...

Very welcome! I think this is the right way to think of a 'moral' judgement in this context. This probably happens, but in terms of habit, no, this is...

Up front, Stanley has proved himself one of the least-respectable thinkers of hte last 20 years with his constant tirades against reality over the las...

Sex is factually binary and gender doesn't need to be, but clearly does not vary independently. That seems to be what actually happens, and the 'theor...

In the UK? heh.

This strikes me as a defense similar to those Randians who defend NAP where it makes absolutely no sense to do so, and they end up in knots. THe quest...

Brilliant and vulnerable OP. Good stuff. I'll have a think and say something deeper, but this struck me: " Well. fucking. done. If more could see this...

This attitude is why it's failing. Leontiskos (and, in my view, the OP) makes the point very well. Pretending that you're "right" and it must be somet...

You did. But putting that to one side, nothing in that comment gives me any reason to take "random" seriously in it. You not knowing why something occ...

So, totally not at all what you said I did. This is getting bizarre my guy. That is not rational. That is you making assumptions and putting words in ...

It's never been explained that way in any ethics (or morality) courses i've taken or seen. It is always described as "right" and "wrong" action. "Good...

If that's the case, I've definitely missed it being more than a small, almost fringe, group. Though it may just be that these people are not commentat...

Its hard to know how this works. I am fairly constantly pushing back, and it seems fairly successful when it's done in an academic fashion. The course...

Sure. Something I think is misguided. But I understand that this doesn't sit perfectly. You've done nothing to support this. It is necessary (as we bo...

Really cool thread. I don't think there's a good answer other than "I have limited time" for non-theists. Most theists have a weak argument, anyway. I...

It was an unreasonable claim in teh discussion. That is simply not how food is characterized. It is necessary to survive. Colloquially referring to th...

It's not even a pseudo science. It's not at all a science, of any kind. Its whirling and whistling. Nothing in your second post does anything but eluc...

They aren't strawmen, because they are actual behaviours of leftists. Again, that you are not aware isn't an excuse. I even gave you the benefit of th...

No, because I didn't claim this. I sense some bristling in this response, so forgive me for being pretty lack luster in mine. I don't care for bristle...

You just named their cause.

I've never seen anything uncaused. I have no reason to think that would fail prior to the big bang. Maybe a better thing would be to say "I want to kn...

Hard to use the word abusive, but in modern parlance, yeah, sure, i'll take that. But I don't think calling a natural proclivity "abusive" helps the d...

Fair enough, on your explication here, as to how we could be at an impasse. That said, I think I did point this out (perhaps implicitly) earlier in th...

Not a problem, I appreciate that. That's fair, and yes, It's clearly an issue. Management in universities is increasingly (old news) of that kind. My ...

Very good to keep in mind. Probably something for Wayfarer, but he's also explained himself in a way that makes me far, far less bristly at it (I have...

Do you/we though? This isn't meant to be inflammatory - sure you still don't care?