What's Russia's conduct in war got to do with estimates about their relative management of peacetime conditions? How do Ukraine's armed forces conduct...
So because western countries have better human rights records than Russia, it's morally legitimate to support Ukraine's fight over territory? If Ukrai...
John is taller than jack because John is 6 foot. See any problem with that argument. Christ! You didn't even put Ukraine on the fucking chart (which i...
This step does not support your argument. To do so it would have to be possible for all countries to be like western countries, but if the human right...
So Britain wasn't imperialist? But Russia hasn't declared Finland to be an 'artificial creation'. You're losing the thread of the argument again. The ...
Then your entire wall of text was a waste of time. If I want 'description' I'll consult an expert, not some bloke off the internet. If your ego is ser...
Are Canada worried? Is Mexico? America is the single most interventionist country in the world, by a long, long way. no-one talks about fear that it's...
Wishful thinking. No. The point was that your definition becomes pointless by being too inclusive. If Russia is 'imperialist' in your sense, then it's...
Yes, and the first complaint raised is that the deterrents have disadvantages. So their advantages need be weighed against those. Effectiveness theref...
Really? So this sort of legal action is new? Has some law changed in the US that I've not noticed? Because otherwise, history pretty much undermines y...
What? You said that Fox is "being sued" and that "the damage has been done". So the system you're describing established falsity after the allegations...
Then what fucking country isn't imperialist? What "international system" do you take this to refer to? International Law (that the US has refused to r...
Neither does censorship. Censors don't have mind-reading devices. They can't divine intent. What censors censor is stuff they believe is wrong. Other ...
I don't want to overstate the disagreements, I basically agree with what you've written bar a couple of points. The first is the reason I'm opposed to...
Ah. Then we probably disagree far less than it would at first seem. I include all that under the heading 'censorship'. What's dangerous here is that t...
A more pleasant discourse environment for most people, especially those vulnerable to abuse. Agreed, but censorship is not limited to data. It extends...
Again, what you'd 'rather' is not an argument from either stupidity or injustice. It is not stupid of institutions not to provide you with the service...
You've not even begun to make a case from either justice or stupidity. All you've told us so far is that you'd prefer not. If an institution censors o...
So what? That's the question you keep dodging. Why do you expect anyone to give a fuck about whether you miss out on a few non-pc jokes you might not ...
As is clear from most of what is censored, the answer to this question is 'virtually anyone'. Censorship is mostly about removing obvious crap and any...
So you think that was the first suggestion that Russia ought to withdraw? 434 pages in and no one had mentioned it? Virtue signalling. As has been pro...
No she doesn't. She goes on to provide the specific route the wealth redistribution took. It's like describing how transport networks work and having ...
"Somehow"? It just so happened to turn out that the policies of the most compromised governments we've ever had, enriched the exact industries which s...
There's no moral requirement for any specific government to govern any specific peoples or land. No it doesn't. Clearly some other government could br...
Firstly, we seem to very much have these works using our current system. You can't cite them in support of the fact that the system is losing some ama...
How? By which I mean, it doesn't seem at all likely that the sum total of censored material would add up to anything very much of import. Mostly just ...
Why would governments need to use power to comply with their commitments? If government A and government B both have similar commitments it's not mora...
It isn't made so just by you saying it. Why does a nation gathering more resources become moral when a person doing so would not? That's the same thin...
It's the only point of disagreement, so unless we're all just going nod and congratulate each other on how virtuous we are then it's the only thing to...
Absolutely. But...and you can see where I'm going with this... None of those ideas we new. Some have been around since I was a young man, others since...
That doesn't seem at all intuitive. Why would you think maintaining control over resources a moral imperative? Is it, for example, a moral imperative ...
Stop complaining about the actions of other governments. This is supposed to be a thread about Ukraine! It's Russia who are to blame for Ukraine's sit...
All moves that would help. So now the more interesting question of what you think is in the way of getting (or, in some cases, keeping) all that? Much...
As a starting point? That suggests that the most important moral issue here is where everybody is and who's in charge of what. Surely the most importa...
Why? Obviously not. I don't see what that's got do with the issue. The question is whether we should be providing military aid in the way we are, and/...
The trouble is that your arguments are based on lies. See how easy it is to dismiss all dissent by just claiming they're lies without offering a shred...
Yeah, you can't wash your hands of it so easily. It's your governments making the decisions, it's your job to hold them to account. It's just morally ...
Yes, that's right. The 'feeling of pain' is not a reified object. It's a folk notion. It exists in that sense (like the category 'horses' exists), but...
I'll try and clarify... All we have is that the word (sound) came out of my mouth (or was formed in my Broca's area, if not actually verbalised). Noth...
Ah! My apologies. I missed the last bit. I was answering affirmatively to... ...the last bit ("that there is never any feeling of pain involved") does...
Of course it does, because the thing it makes no sense to doubt is that I'm in pain. The word. I couldn't possibly know I'm in pain unless someone had...
I didn't have any disagreement with that. Ah, I understand. Then it seems we don't really have a point of disagreement after all. Workers are not curr...
I don't think here is a sensible place to rehash Wittgenstein's arguments. Suffice to say a bland assertion that words do refer doesn't suffice as a c...
That's not true. Some analysts thought Russia would invade. Others didn't. Western governments chose which analysts to base their policy on. Likewise ...
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