It certainly appeared to be. My unwillingness to acquiesce to what I saw as genuinely horrible in-group policies (one particularly pernicious example ...
While I appreciate your very long reply, it is much more of the same platitudinous stuff that doesn't move me. I think you are wrong, and you've not p...
Hmm. Do you? How? What's the premise for this which is... You will need something a little better than "i know..XXX" for this to be applicable. And al...
Cool, so we're getting somewhere. Natural rights theory states that these rights are derived, directly, with impugnity, from human nature - Universal,...
I'm not sure you're grasping the immense problem for your account i've laid out: If, as you note, rights only come from men (i.e the species Man) then...
That it is another universe, is one of hte ridiculous premises required for its probability to be an effective argument. This is what I'm getting - on...
Ok, so we're just thinking about subjective stuff, okay... with you so far... This is, entirely, a non sequitur. Making up things people should and sh...
I've been meaning to find somewhere to mention - that five-hour Kastrup thing you laid out for me months ago was great. I've done more reading, and wh...
I agree, generally. The paper, on it's face, is fairly convincing but it requires such a ridiculous set of premises (similar to the Fermi Paradox) tha...
Extreme clarity here, Tom. Nice :up: This speaks to some of what I have been getting at in other threads where we've fallen short of coming to terms. ...
Sort of. It's an opinion to which i give my assent. Rational thinking, and compassion are necessarily different things. Point taken, nevertheless. My ...
I have directly answered it three times now and quoted. So, yeah. Far be it from me... Does this help: Seeing a particular colour is a sensation, righ...
This may be true... You've given no reason to take 'natural rights' seriously, so teh rest of the syllogism isn't apt (in my view.. just outlining cle...
Then you are not in touch with the concepts at hand. Ironic. I responded to a specific occasion of OP claiming this is their stance... It's also very ...
In some scenarios, this is definitely true. But it touches not what you've intimated, and what I have in turn speculatively responded to. This is prev...
I have to assume you're not reading? That is exactly what the quote shows I have said - and that I directly addressed, in that quote. I requote - agai...
Interesting. I disagree but find this really interesting. What is your response to a trans man who is telling you 'well, this is my identity. I am a m...
Any group larger than about five. No. It is an understanding and rational apprehension of the problem, and in turn, a viable solution. There are preci...
Question: Begged. There are no natural rights. That's the only possible source for 'natural rights'. Hence, it's incoherent to pretend we have some ki...
It's neither. I am speaking from my perspective - someone elses is functionally, and obviously trivial in that respect - But i was at pains to point o...
It's sanguine platitudes, out of touch with reality. There seems to be some underlying belief in a 'perfect world' which has absolutely no basis for i...
This seems to be around about the mentality of the perpetually paralyzed. I was in this mentality for some time - I eventually realised that compassio...
This explains so much. Anyone who writes that much is going to come across pompous, lacking imagination and any semblance of contact with the real wor...
Saturday, 23 March. I have it set for 10am NZD which is 5pm Friday EST 2pm Friday WST 9pm GMT I hope this allows for others to join. If not, I am more...
This seems to beg it's question. The 'evil' seems to consist in the violation of a right. If so, without hte right, there is no evil. We can just look...
Hmm. That's the thing - I don't think everyone does. I didn't, despite, objectively, being rather different and bullied for it. I didn't feel at all l...
Underlined: Patently false: Bolded: that explains a fair bit. If you aren't interested in the clarity needed for this issue, that you appear to not re...
Very interesting. Appreciate both parts of the wider response here. Yes. I think swapping out a few terms, this is generalizable (it looks like perhap...
I think we live in an attempted dictatorship of values. And one to which I'm not entirely averse. I am somewhat, though, as it's just the standard "ty...
I have, in fact, directly (hehe) responded twice. And the quote you used here was a clarifying statement. It is lost on me what you're not understandi...
While I take it you're probably joking for effect, I actually take this to be a real, evolutionary and highly effective tool in the human tool box. Ar...
That may be true. It's not exactly clear what the lines in this distinction are, though. It seems probably to me that gay men, are, on average, more n...
This is a really interesting question. Don't think there's any good answers currently. From what I know of the neuroscience, you can fairly compare th...
Pretty much correct, although, I am not entirely unconvinced of the former.. . This isn't what I'm speaking about in those passages. BUt that said, It...
I'm not even given to saying sexuality is mutable. One can be unaware of their sexuality, or an aspect of it, but it seems to me saying that its eithe...
Very much unluckily for you, I didn't do that and expressly addressed the fact that you're system is not scientific, or derived from science. It takes...
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