Two problems with that. Firstly it doesn't have the imperative but speaks of a situation which is already in place. In other words it is not a command...
Yes. Several times on the basis that the whole nonsense is a massive category error. I described it as a load of dingo's kidneys at one point. I under...
The first man to make an appointment invented timekeeping. All the ancient civilisations had some kind of timekeeping. As those civilisations became m...
There is no Biblical verse that says this so it really doesn't merit analysis. The closest Biblical verse would be ... .. in which there is clearly no...
So now you've moved from justifying your understanding of being from a German text to a Latin one? I remain similarly unimpressed. You also set up a f...
It would be a rather grave error to take lessons on the use of English words from texts in German, would it not? Whether you choose to accept it or no...
Except that it hasn't done any such thing. 99.9% of the species that have existed on Earth are now extinct and that ratio will at best remain constant...
Well, no. I almost never use 'beings' to refer to humans in practice. I am far more likely to use 'beings' of notional, or less clearly defined groups...
That is such a silly distinction. Is Robert Burns not a poet then? Much of his work that we now read as poetry was originally song writing (far more i...
I'm not sure how you think saying the same thing a different way gives it more justification. If Kant is making an imperative out of an opinion as yuo...
What? If that's the case why is the word 'human' necessary (I have this weird feeling I've had this argument before) as a qualifier when we talk of 'h...
So there are no a priori disagreements? This example would appear to demonstrate that there are. Kant says we don't really believe that aesthetic judg...
In two short paragraphs you completely undermine your own case. You simply cannot have your cake and eat it. Either animals are different to humans in...
I think you're a jump ahead of me here. I wasn't necessarily arguing for or against suicide per se. I was challenging the view that it was not an ethi...
I guess that makes you literally the exception that proves the rule then! Your position would appear to suggest that you don't disapprove of psychiatr...
There is very strong evidence to the effect that disgust is entirely a learned behaviour. We are disgusted by what we are taught to be disgusted by. H...
I find that very strange position which is really only tenable if the act of suicide literally affects nobody which I would venture to suggest is neve...
As the spoken section of Eclipse specifically includes "There is no dark side of the moon really." this assertion would appear to erroneous! In any ca...
But you don't do that at all. Did you eat breakfast this morning (or some other meal if you're not a breakfast person)? If so then that is an act of w...
There's nothing new in this. Social media and other technical wizardry has merely changed how the need is expressed but status has always been a major...
But if the prior fact is that existence is absurd surely morality becomes necessary to maintain some vestige of order in the chaos and limit the damag...
Unless there have been dramatic developments that haven't reached these sures, I'm pretty certain its only Trump of all these sinners that's running f...
Well what are you actually asking? Defining a distinction doesn't require an ability to experience both or indeed either, surely? X is not-Y requires ...
So why are you posting this if there's nobody out here to read and reply to it? And why would you even address the issue of communicability? Who would...
Oh but it is so obviously comic. You don't seriously think that Jesus was advising people to actually cut their hands off? It's a perfect joke, with t...
It has been the orthodox belief that the Earth is flat neither for thousands of years or thousands of seconds! The Flat Earth Society would have been ...
Strangely it has emerged that many groups actually prefer to use some of the non-PC terms themselves. One of the UK's leading charities for people wit...
Important to remember that the word 'Hell' is an artifact of translation. Hell is actually a pagan concept from the goddess Hel who rules the Norse 'u...
I don't think your definition is really adequate. Surely it must take account of the fact that the conviction in the superiority of the bigot's views ...
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