No. Evolutionary psychology tends to treat minds and brains as black-boxes, where it seeks to explain the practical or evolutionary purpose of behavio...
Don't believe everything you read. She was denied her request for euthanasia. (translated form the article): "Six months ago, a 16-year-old girl from ...
But what would Hippocrates say? From what I've read about her situation, she had already been emotionally scarred by being forced into various institu...
I should probably also mention that this 17 year old dutch girl was not euthanized. She applied for euthanasia but was denied. In her own words (trans...
Lots of the early supporters of euthanasia have since recanted after seeing a cascade of questionable cases in and around the Netherlands It's a slipp...
Lasers don't work against mirrors. Make the rockets shiny, and it's game over for lasers... Regarding M.A.D, the rub is that whoever disarms first is ...
Because it will just evaporate and then get pissed back into the sea. We would only need to extract it on an as-needed basis, and that costs electrici...
I wouldn't underestimate catharsis, but could we in the nascent throes of something completely different? Since before Trump was elected I've been hop...
It's not so much economic inequality as it is fear of economic inequality. We're no longer in recession, but the market failures of the last decade (e...
This is definitely an apt description. To add to this, in some of the more populated rooms the chaos is extreme, where a team of party-loyal lieutenan...
But the fascists aren't yet in control. For all of Trump's harmful stupidity he is still being checked by a liberal system and the rule of law. I'm wo...
Posing as an alt-righter, no; but debating alt-righters on alt-right Discord servers, yes. It's a grotesque affair given the rabid nature of internet ...
Good rhetoric is more or less the rub in all of this. In the political climate of today, the gloves only protect the knuckles (e.g: anonymity as prote...
Yes, as I remarked earlier, some proponents of change embrace much more radical and violent methods than others, up to and including inciting terror. ...
Unfortunately, they've immunized themselves against particular sources of shame. Getting called a racist is a badge of honor for them because to them ...
They very much rely on aesthetic appeal. In fact, over the course of hundreds of debates against them on alt-right platforms, in dozens of cases they ...
People like Shapiro and Spencer have been able to build significant followings despite the lessons of history, and willingness to debate them hasn't c...
We were speaking in the context of Shapiro, so it was about Shapiro. Willow said that they want to live in a world where Shapiro's views aren't respec...
You're juxtaposing Shapiro's conservative beliefs with murder and pedophilia? Isn't that a bit of an overreaction? Is considering Shapiro's beliefs is...
But we're also talking about Shapiro. If we banned Shapiro from all platforms under the justification of anti-Fascism, the naive 17 year old won't und...
This still isn't a coherent ask, and it's strategically self-defeating (because rallying against Shapiro with emotion and force causes others to rally...
I've been reading James Defronzo's Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements lately, and I've been quite surprised by the numerous similarities between ...
There is definitely a time and a place for violence, and on the societal level there's also a time and a place for genuine revolution. But when we go ...
I don't know... Richard Spencer still seems to get a lot of attention on social media like Youtube, and he was never really that popular (but he's bec...
I'm not trying to generalize all conservatives as contributing to this. To be fair, Shapiro can be almost wholly excluded from what I mentioned above,...
I'm not condemning anything that isn't speech, I'm condemning violence and intimidation through force (at least in the context of a Shapiro event). Th...
Oh yes you can. Anything indexed by the google search engine counts as a platform, and as click-baity provocateurs, there are an unfathomably large nu...
I would hardly describe my objections as hysterical (certainly no more so than what I'm criticizing). And to thrice clarify, I'm not condemning anythi...
You're missing the point: it's not about who deserves to be heard, it's about who is influential, what they are saying, and responding to it directly....
As long as the bullhorns and barricades of the former don't crowd-out the benefits of the latter, then absolutely. And this is how we've always done i...
Because either: Shapiro's rhetoric is meaningless, persuades nobody, and need not be protested whatsoever, let alone censored. OR Shapiro's rhetoric d...
There are two errors in this formulation: The first is that Shapiro's views are already out in the wild, and regardless of our whack-a-wing-nut high-s...
It really doesn't matter who or what he is if he is able to win followers. We do need to challenge his rhetoric (or at the very least question it), or...
I mostly agree, but I think the left can actually gain from earnestly engaging with him (although not many let wing pundits are well prepared to do so...
You're grossly mischaracterizing my position, yet again. I condemned violence as a means to censorship, and apparently that makes me a howler worthy o...
The standard marketplace of ideas line is an oldie, and it's still in many ways a goodie, but my practical argument has yet to be addressed: censorshi...
Unfortunately, how we look does matter, but so does what we say and what we do, especially in the eyes and ears of young university students. That Sha...
The joke is that Shapiro is a meme of your own making, just like Trump. Who needs debates or voting booths when you have undying righteous indignation...
I don't see the asymmetry of means between political camps that you do. Corporations invest in both sides to subvert them as best they can, old and ne...
Because of the existing "social contract" between Berkeley and its students. What I mean by this is that it's an unwritten agreement which, when broke...
So you're arguing that because moneyed interests are supporting Shapiro, and because ideological merit has nothing to do with politics or democracy th...
You're right that what counts most is determined in the field (voting booths mostly), but we embrace the use of force at the expense of the use of sen...
Short of declaring Spencer an enemy of the state, how to we defeat fascism, and does protesting Shapiro contribute to that fight? I'm willing to accep...
I'm reluctant to go into specifics because I'm not looking to tit-for-tat justify violent actions from either side, I'm saying that embracing violence...
It's not "fair" because banning conservative views on campus would be gross political favoritism. Conservative students are paying customers, and as l...
Then my argument is that one political faction of Berkeley U's students should not be able to control the platforms of an opposing faction through for...
As far as I can gather, you're a socialist leaning anti-fascist. In any case, the views of the Berkeley students who use force to shut down conservati...
There's no such "right to block entry" in this context, except to one's own property. By barricading doors to interfere with others, we're approaching...
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