VagabondSpectre

Trains might have to become a pretty big part of the new infrastructure, but I'm worried about the machines which actually dig that coal up in the fir...

We don't use diesel by and large for energy production in electrical grids, but it is the best form and source for energy for large machines (portabil...

I think the two biggest problems that the decline of oil presents are energy production (and storage) and transportation. Right now oil and it's produ...

Please feel free to post that here. Censorship is central to the issue of this thread, and while the point I wished to make was slightly different, it...

Just to get this out of the way, I will try to be straight forward: You presented an example of sexual harassment in the workplace to establish that w...

You were appealing to the notion that since people have subconscious biases towards names that sound foreign to them we need to somehow ban or enforce...

Very true. We are not entitled to hijack any platform except the top of a soap box. Specifically my concern is that by force third parties are trying ...

I wouldn't say "people are born gay". But I also wouldn't say "people choose to be gay". Nobody really chooses everything when we get right down to it...

So the American Constitution is just a redundant guide then because we once convicted Nazis of war crimes?... Let's see where this goes folks... I rea...

By your own description the 1st amendment flexes to additional stipulations wherever we choose to add them. Anti-harassment laws are a good example wh...

This would actually increase the need for free speech protection. The right to be wrong can be important too, ironically most so in world where a mini...

Indeed. It's bitter sweet for me that I am forced to give Gavin ample points here (probably because I've laughed at him too many times by now), but wh...

What if a man says to a woman "you're pretty" and she makes a complaint that she felt intimidated but the man only meant it as an honest compliment? E...

1 theological horse is defined as maximally dead 2 theological horse would be more dead if not just fiction Therefore, theological horse cannot be non...

1. define Ariel as a maximally grrreat mermaid 2. Ariel would be grrreater if not just fictional Premise 2 contradicts the definition of Ariel. If Ari...

I'm somewhat familliar with Gavin, and many other Youtubers as well; it's an interesting cross-section of popular culture. Gavin is one of the more ou...

Giving non-profits the ability to act as a tax free campaign finance dump is a great way to make a mockery of the free speech we do currently have whi...

Being Canadian, what I define as hate-speech mostly has to do with knowingly inciting hatred or violence against a particular religious or ethnic grou...

In a way the "Pewdiepie fiasco" is part-in-parcel with the new culture of manufactured outrage which thrives on a kind of PC-virtue economy. If we ign...

I was tempted to cite this in my OP as an example of the term Fascism being ironically mis/over-used in contemporary culture, but I thought quoting a ...

You know it's entirely possible that without Milo, Trump would never have won the election? (let's strike that from the record though :D) It was prett...

I think it does take some humility and understanding to accept that you live in a world where you don't know everything and don't always know best, an...

If i recall correctly, Stalin and the Bolshevics hated the fascists at one point or another, the context being that the Fascists advocated for typical...

There's an interesting phenomenon that happens when you shovel black and white AcLib rhetoric semester after semester onto young impressionable minds;...

Hear hear! Let's stop labeling absolutely everything fascist, or at least somehow make it distinguishable from anything "anti-progressive" in appearan...

Indeed in every society there is a shifting set of norms but as I would define it beyond the common meaning, "fascism" itself can originate from the d...

(Some context about where this came from...) I've been air-boating over this odious ideological cesspool for over a year now in an effort to understan...

The appeal of simulation theory is that it paints a picture of the universe as an interconnected machine which follows specific laws/programming. It i...

To each their own, but he certainly has a mighty high reputation in many circles. I like a lot o what he has to say.

I know I'll catch hate for this, but it's Noam Chomsky. Don't get me wrong, I find myself almost always agreeing with Noam, but he is just too highly ...

http://i.imgur.com/Kdw4LFf.png http://i.imgur.com/nKylBFQ.png Tbh the questions of these tests were kinda shitty... Agreeing or disagreeing with a sta...

Inductive reasoning is still reasoning. We use it all the time. Instead of making its conclusion guaranteed and therefore sound as in deductive reason...

When positions and arguments are framed properly, we call them sound and valid; not fallacious. A fallacy is by definition an argument whose conclusio...

What's your standard of "guilt"? Also, should we hold him "responsible" and incarcerate him?

Solipsism isn't the most problematic of possibilities; even given it's truth, pragmatically speaking, nothing changes from our perspective. We would s...

Zoos aren't just for the public display of animals, and so if we're talking about the study and conservation function of zoos then a "greater good" de...

You're equivocating between different definitions of the term "self". Under metaphysical solipsism ("the world and other minds do not have objective "...

It doesn't have to be avoided because this is not a description of solipsism, it's description of something else entirely. Under solipsism "self" is m...

I guess I only have two quick points to make: You're equivocating between two different definitions of "self". The first is the conscious experience w...

Let's trim the fat if we may. The issue is what I perceive your statement "we should not indulge transgender people" to mean. The way I have previousl...

Harry Hindu asked "Why do we find it okay to tell the religious that they believe in a delusion, but not okay to tell this to a transgender?". You res...

Full circle eh? So for example, not permitting someone to dress as the opposite gender, right? To do so would be indulging them in their mental disord...

How do we treat someone as if they have a mental disorder? What perscriptions do you offer? If you catch a man dressing up as a woman, do you have the...

You're comparing death by starvation to "behaving as the opposite gender". Obviously nutritional health is more cut and dried than psychological healt...

Indeed I did read it, well parts of it anyway... This is the bit that led me to question it's methodological robustness: I'm no statistician myself, b...

To give a bit of clarification on that 41% number, while the methodology of the study I'm guessing you've cited (linked by EmptyHeady?) was not so rob...

You're conflating belief with desire. All transsexuals desire to become the opposite gender (in whichever capacity that is possible), but they don't a...

The problem I see is you have only described delusions that might apply to some but not all transgender people. You wield your position as if it appli...

Got any proof whatsoever of that? I won't hold my breath.

As far as I can tell they desire to have a body of the opposite gender. That they might say they were born in the "wrong body" has more to do with the...