Because an agreement is what we currently have. The result of our agreement, about who owns what, (for which we used the democratic system) is that th...
Yes, that's right. Yes, I'd prefer there was some agreement over who owned what, but you seem vehemently opposed to the idea of us coming to such an a...
More than once I think. True. My 'Three Point Plan' is no improvement because it only contains intentions, and actions are the best proof we have of i...
So you're not opposed to taxation by PAYE-type systems, only invoiced ones? The solution seems simple, have the government take the tax portion of the...
First things first... Understood. Ah, yes. Facts underdetermine, theories are overdedetermined. I'm wondering now how many times I've written them the...
Ha! Indeed. Laying on the clichés quite thick in that one. Are they though? I don't mean the short-termism in general (that's lamentably common!), but...
I don't disagree that a system of free healthcare to all, regardless of the extent to which preventative measures have been adopted, is unsustainable....
For proof see...well almost every paper on the neuroscience of perception since the late nineties. The table is joint social object. You seeing the 'r...
Yes, that's right Even further off-topic, but there's a whole slew of theories around language which tie in to this, all to do with the idea that we d...
Yes, I think that's what I was saying (at least that was the intention). Physics has nothing to say about 'tables', the boundary between an atom of 't...
I think you've misunderstood how discussion works. Either the matter of it's wrongness can be established (or at least furthered) dialectically, in wh...
Oh, and just in case I'm included in those 'others' who apparently refuse to answer your simple question, the answer is whomever arrived first. Any ot...
Neither is being unvaccinated. Now you're changing the question. With obesity it was - of the set {all fat people} do a high enough proportion require...
Yes, it seems odd. There was a question a few years back (decades possibly?) about doing a similar thing with smokers and lung cancer - I don't know i...
Ha! I appreciate the editing, I have to do the same sometimes. More about what data they'll forward. The aim is always to save energy, and surprise ta...
Despite your cherry-picked press clippings, the group you describe are not one homogeneous legion. Attempts to lump everyone who disagrees with the pa...
But saying the opposite "there is a table" is what's mistaking phenomenology for physics, surely? Physics doesn't have anything answering to 'table' i...
You're not really in an ideal position to be complaining about the 'other side' not answering critiques. You are 'refusing to answer' the fairly simpl...
The point is that these are all assumptions we make, we don't (usually) actually check them out. Our models (in this case the visual cortex) will give...
Yet somehow do get it sufficiently to warrant an insult. Well then we can resolve our issue right away. We're facing a new form of virus which we're f...
Yes, I have a lot of respect for Kahneman's work, but it's not always easy to translate my own models through his. I think in terms of predictive mode...
Yes, that's exactly it. And the intricacies that go along with it. Not all gut instincts can be said out loud, some social situations demand only the ...
No it isn't and wasn't. https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html Yes there is. I've already done it. Remain at a healthy bmi, eat well, exercise re...
I'll ask you the same question I put to Benkei then. Why vaccination? It's not even that high on the list of choices which proximally increase your ri...
Normally, yes. One's method of reducing the burden on one's healthcare services seems a matter for public admonition though. Ah, I misunderstood, sorr...
Neither is avoiding vaccination. Not having a vaccine is not the cause of covid. It's caused by contact with the SARS-cov-2 virus at sufficient load t...
Riding a motorcycle is a conscious choice. So are all the other factors I mentioned. And their link to increased risk is no less demonstrable. To be c...
You know just adding the word 'obviously' to a proposition doesn't act as a substitute for a justification, obviously. Should doctors treat car passen...
Do you feel the same about all known risk factors for hospitalisation? Can we categorise risk factors into those we find acceptable and those we don't...
Thanks, that certainly lends a bit more weight to it. I was interested in the detail because cost-benefit analyses generally contain a ton of really i...
Presumably, it's much harder to gain natural immunity if vaccinated (but experiencing a breakthrough infection), because there will already be binding...
Yes, I think that's it. But it's only true of the Delta variant, though probably extends to other new variants. Importanly, it also doesn't include bo...
... Doesn't sound of much use here then? Is it just your word against his, or do you have some sources? Interesting bit of ethics, related to cost ben...
Many years ago I was peripherally involved in assessing the impact of some risk assessment. I won't say what it was in because it was quite specific, ...
Ought to add, this is why I've never got into phenomenology, despite the obvious overlap in views. It doesn't seem to me to be a very fruitful area fo...
Definitely. I think the general case that vaccines reduce disease severity is still very strong, even in spite of the few studies showing that natural...
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