Actually, your quote is generally attributed to The Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr, David Mermin, notes that when reviewing the three volumes of...
People seem to be arguing across each other because of a failure to distinguish between morality (maxims, or duties), ethics (how we work out what max...
I find it absolutely bizarre that people are advocating drawing a distinction between some realms of science (like vaccinations) and some metaphysical...
Racist bullshit. INVOICE for 1763 June Levy, Trent and Company: Account against the Crown, Aug. 13, 1763 "To Sundries got to Replace in kind those whi...
Come on, a cursory glance over my argument will show that's not the case, you're just being disingenuous for effect. If it's come to that I've really ...
Sorry, I'm from England, we would never do anything as impolite as making somebody else's cheese! And now I hear () that engineers aren't that smart a...
No, go to the Global Terrorist database and search over a specific time frame, for a specific type of terrorist attack and you will find more attacks ...
The per capita consumption of mozzarella cheese over the last decade matches almost exactly the rise in the number of civil engineering doctorates awa...
Let's try another one. The tests being referred to here are done in late teenage years. Again, no one on the left is saying that men and women have ho...
No, all the capitalist societies that we currently have are more favourable places to currently live than any of the communist societies we have ever ...
I don't think we're going to make any progress here. We agree that human language is worlds away from other animals, you think that distance is so sig...
I don't think I referred to either as 'scientific' theories. Although I'm not sure that would matter. I have quite a broad definition of what constitu...
'Suggest' is listed in my thesaurus as a synonym for 'posit', so I'm not sure what the distinction is you're making here, perhaps you could clarify wh...
How different do you consider the Met Office's Cray XC40 supercomputer (capable of over 14,000 trillion arithmetic operations per second, containing a...
I'm not trying to impose a law, I simply said that I didn't think it was "horrific", whether is it either practical or necessary is another question. ...
I can find the papers for you when I am back in the office tomorrow morning, but if you studied the matter, you must at least be familiar with predato...
I would say 12. There is limited research in the area, but what little there is tends to show that children from the age of 11ish are by-and-large cap...
As is the case with the vast majority of 16 year olds. Who are nonetheless disenfranchised. And being a certain age is? I'm not arguing here in favour...
I don't understand your argument here. You're saying that age is not entirely arbitrary, but no-one is suggesting that IQ tests are entirely arbitrary...
I expect a five year old could register and choose. I think you're missing the point here. Some kind of test of intellect is being applied in deciding...
Right, so did the Native Americans generously hand over the land and then voluntarily wipe out three quarters of their own population? If you've actua...
No, the whole of America was stolen from the Native Americans, so every single non-native (and many natives) is trading in stolen property. The entire...
No it doesn't. Land, water, air, natural resources are all either "common" assets or taken by force. Unless you are advocating taking possession of th...
Good, that was the intention I think. If you're going to spout some racist bullshit dressed up as some socio-political theory, then you'd best be prep...
Because without it being incontrovertible, it is you who are attempting to shut down debate. If it's not incontrovertible, then it is just informed op...
Try; Mitchell, Robert W.; Thompson, Nicholas S. (1986). Deception, Perspectives on Human and Nonhuman Deceit. Byrne, R.; Whiten. A. (1991). Computatio...
Absolutely, I personally know a couple with a twenty one year age gap, a ex-student and a teacher at college. They are happily married and have been f...
Right, so your argument is that the age of consent should stay where it is because you "as a parent" want it there. Well I "as a parent" don't. That's...
It is supported by strong arguments. 20 years of scientific research into animal communication. Thousands of recordings analysed and matched to very s...
Absolutely, that;s why I am always (well...usually) careful to make the claim that "There are evidence-based theories which suggest that free-will and...
Here he's providing his opinion on what makes an observation meaningful, he's not making anything like the claim you're making, that concious observat...
Of course it does. We've agreed that there are circumstances under which the morality of killing of an innocent person needs to be justified. The very...
Right, so it is either untrue to say that all killing of another person is automatically murder, or untrue to say that all murder is automatically mor...
No, I absolutely agree with objective morality, but you have not demonstrated objectively that once a thing has been identified as a human being it is...
"Of course the introduction of the observer must not be misunderstood to imply that some kind of subjective features are to be brought into the descri...
Well I'd agree, but the only contender might be biological, which is also evidenced by study of ancient remains. How were you imagining we might appro...
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