But how can it be when in Spain the age of consent is 13, in the UK its 16 (but 14 in some circumstances), in France the law is different (they don't ...
Yes, I'm making the argument here because it makes me happy to clarify things and arguing with intelligent people is one way to do that. I could const...
I hear this kind of argument so often and yet have always failed to understand it properly. I have little hope that an Internet forum is going to brea...
Yes the scenarios are fundamentally different, because Lions live in prides with a dominant male who has mating privileges with the harem of females a...
Because if someone shows me an optical illusion I don't try to maintain the belief that my eyes were right and come up with some increasingly convolut...
I didn't say religion had nothing to say in philosophy. I said that those propositions of religious belief which are taken on faith cannot be used to ...
This is a philosophy forum, not a religion forum. If you have a philosophical point to make, make it, but just saying determinist philosophies don't c...
I don't understand what you mean by "so what?". One could reply "so what?" to every proposition. Is there some reason you've singled out my propositio...
Its a logical argument disputing the idea that we've 'always' struggled against the cruelty of nature and 'always' will, there is no "so". The state i...
There's a very simple empirical argument against this kind of apologism. P1. Stress, great displeasure and depression are evolved responses. P2. Stres...
De-platforming, as far as I'm aware, was coined by the National Union of Students in the UK, and refers to attempts by that union to prevent certain p...
On this rare occasion I actually have some faith in the population (I'm generally fairly despairing of modern humanity), I think it would be political...
I think these two quotes really summarise a large part of our disagreement, and as both are essentially judgement calls, I'm not sure that I can persu...
It sounds a lot like Kant's views on property. Kant considered that because there was a connection between property and agency (humans being a tool-us...
I'm glad that you're focussing on the 'argument about arguments' as you put it. That's exactly what I'm talking about too. Where I differ is that I do...
No, the goal of de-platforming is to prevent rhetoric that can incite people to take up ideas that are harmful to society. Absolutely nothing prevents...
I entirely agree that it is difficult to define, but that doesn't mean we get to throw our hands up and say "let's not bother then". That something is...
OK, that's an improvement, but now we run into GE Moore's open question. How can you define Universal Perfection without using the term 'good', or 'pe...
I never claimed purity, the claim was that I hardly buy any items which contribute to the Chinese economy. You're making exactly the sort of whining, ...
I'm with you up to point 3. To get here you have to make a fundamental choice in metaphysics that you have not outlined your reason for. To say we 'sh...
Do you actually read my threads before posting you're pointless jibes? My entire computer is second hand (bar the hard drive which was made in Japan),...
You've raised a few separate issues; 1. De-platforming racists would be marginalising them in the same way as they wish to marginalise and so we shoul...
Of course we trust government with the censorship of free-speech. Who is it do you think prevents hate-speech, incitement to violence, defamation, bad...
Did you even read the article you cite? Here's a few quotes. "... casts doubt on the supposed connection." "... the correlation between implicit bias ...
Are politicians a different species then? We leave all these decisions in the hands of ordinary individuals and they somehow miraculously work out fin...
I would have thought the same rational 'we' responsible for absolutely every single other restriction on autonomy or balancing of competing interests ...
Then I would go to another university, the one you've chosen is clearly rubbish. I can't think of a single professor within the entire humanities or p...
Let's make this simple. In police fatal shootings, civilians from “other” minority groups were significantly more likely than Whites to have not been ...
I don't think you are, I share your concerns. The issue I'm raising here is that we do not respond to those concerns with a blanket support for free s...
I hardly buy anything made in China, it's simple, buy everything you can second hand and then check the small number of items remaining. I presume you...
Actually, Mill specifically said that whilst talking about the greed of the Corn dealers should be allowed, talking about the greed of the Corn Trader...
Why because it's de-platformed must people talk less about it? I think there's been quite a bit of discussion about the university protests. What is p...
This is a completely irrational reason to vote for someone, or to agree with their views, as is voting for or agreeing with, someone simply because th...
I don't understand. How could an idea become rationally more attractive simply because it has been de-platformed. What rational step means that an ide...
Don't buy Chinese goods. I don't wish to cast aspersions on you personally, this is a general comment, but I find the constant resort to "it's someone...
You've made quite a leap there from what a single, rather fringe, computer scientist thinks to two very firm statements about what is the case. It's t...
Absolutely, and there's a considerable amount of good psychological evidence to support this view (as no doubt you already know). But does it not then...
You both seem to be making the same point, that people are neither entirely rational nor entirely socially led. This is where I think the importance o...
Do you think that comes first, or do you think we actually need to decide what method we're going to use before applying it. By that I mean, if we wer...
It's interesting that you think this. I tend to agree about the ability of such images to be used by the alt-right, but I'm not quite so convinced tha...
As is evident from my post, I agree entirely. I think it is a right for any community to express what kind of views and language they are willing to t...
Presuming a fragile metaphysical construction that is less risky. That's basically the argument I'm making. I'm asking if anyone sees any real dangers...
Yes, that's certainly what I'd say about it, but that's not the question I asked. The question is, do you think it is important to maintain a belief i...
OK, so why do you think this, what's line of thinking has lead you to this conclusion? Again, I'd be intrigued to hear you reasoning, but more pertine...
Yeah I get that, I'm trying to find out what it is you don't like about them. Not that it's particularly related to the thread topic, but your reactio...
You said "I don't like these OPs where the questions are leading me somewhere." Then I asked "How does the question lead you somewhere?" Then you repl...
I haven't the faintest idea what you're going on about. Am I not allowed to have an opinion about this in order to open a discussion? Yes I think free...
What? Because I indicated I thought it unwise you decided to go for it. I'm touched that my opinion is so influential in your decision making, even if...
But that's exactly the question. With AI something of an unknown, do you believe humans (alone) have free will strongly enough to just let the compute...
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