Making shit up? Really? What exactly did the Vietnamese student say. Just out of curiosity do you know if these students were studying social sciences...
Willfully missing a non-point maybe. I don’t feel my culture is being ‘appropriated’ when people spell ‘colour’ as ‘color’. It irks me a little, that ...
They upset about not getting what they paid for. If I ordered a traditional Vietnamese banh mi and got that I’d demand a refund. You’re maybe confusin...
It doesn’t make much sense to me to apply ‘plagiarism’ to demographic groups. The individuals, in teams or otherwise, produce items. The indigenous fo...
If that is how you define the term great. It seems reasonable enough. How on earth this can be proven is a more confusing matter. Also, “using” meanin...
I guess this is nothing more than a conflation of intellectual property. Perhaps if we outlined what that means it would shed light on how and where t...
I still don’t see anything noteworthy. I do notice a common thread of far left types pushing this narrative though. It doesn’t shock me that people ar...
Why could that “damaging”? That is what I don’t understand. And why actors? What if I chose to? I see people with all kinds of tattoos from all manner...
Would it make a difference if I told you I hate Picasso? I certainly wouldn’t have a different opinion about the pics you posted - I may have been mor...
So you both think this is about money? That is not what I understand as ‘cultural appropriation’. I thought, and at a glance the definitions I’ve foun...
In the manner you’re framing the question you may as well ask if English people own the English language. If you meant something else I don’t see it. ...
If you took anyway the meaning of symbols - guns, flag, oil fields, canteen and helmet ... what does it tell you? A woman is crying a out a sick, poss...
There are several different ways of inducing altered states of consciousness (they don’t require intoxication). Substances like DMT offer quite blatan...
Maybe I took your OP too literally. If you’re more concerned with politics and society at large then I’d say “freedom” means the “freedom to make mist...
Clearly ... or not apparently. See above. As in to ‘see all’ is to know nothing. I was speaking metaphorically ... if you didn’t realise my bad :( I m...
I think you see what I’m getting at. You can argue the semantics with yourself if you wish. Ignorance can only expand once the illusion of ‘knowing’ i...
Humour is a ground where disconcerting ideas can be addressed more openly than they could in a serious debate. Not all comedians are good at their job...
Most of what we see is politicised nonsense. Much like the basic idea of eugenics took on a whole other meaning so that today the term is looked upon ...
Nope! The greater the information the greater the ignorance. It is only through presuming to know an answer to a question that ignorance expands - go ...
Funnily enough my aim in life is to become more ignorant. I fear ‘knowing’ far more than ignorance. The more I explore the more my ignorance is reveal...
It’s banal. I am justified due to experiential knowledge of what the person looks like and the difference between the person and a picture of the pers...
I don’t quite know what you’re getting at tbh. At a guess it sounds something like the difference between looking at a mirror and looking into a mirro...
Well physics is hard, chemistry is squishy, biology is a quagmire of mushy lumps, and social ‘science’ is barely a science at all which emanates, roug...
For the sake of the discussion I am not going to argue this point - it’s more about semantics. If you’re really interested though refer to ‘Shamanism:...
That makes no sense. Correct me if I’m wrong but did you just say that Laissez-faire social Darwinism is a good argument against social Darwinism? Err...
It will likely take you a serious amount of time to decide which of those components (and how many) are needed to make some ‘religion’. Straight off w...
That’s a poor answer. I could defend that position better than that! Come on! Put some effort into your answer. Point out the flaws and why/how they a...
Depends how you define ‘religion’. ALL institutes rely on authority. I’ve always had a hard time delineating between religious institutes and religiou...
Dennett! The singular representative of all known positions on ToM! D-d-DEeeeeeeer! The culture of ignorance is better viewed as human culture. We are...
Does rewarding the “strong” necessarily make others “stronger”? I’m more concerned with what happens when the “strong” allow the “weak” to feed off of...
Comedy preys in the villain. Tragedy preys on the inner desire to be villainous - a simpering disgust of disgust. All art preys on the inept and enliv...
Delete my joke? If you have enough of a sense of humour to tolerate people suggesting a bat is an extension of life tolerate my mockery ... maybe? Hav...
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