In what way is this too US-centric, rather than, say, just exactly US-centric enough? And what do you think is the cause of this 'studious avoidance'?...
Yes. I expect Mearsheimer has too. Since he hasn't reneged on his position I assume there remains room for expert, informed disagreement. Have I misse...
It's unsurprising that some experts support the US's position. It would be positively alarming if every expert on the planet opposed their actions. So...
I've not read any arguments to the effect that gender alteration ought be made illegal. Only varying degrees of concern about it's promotion. Yes. Unl...
No one is arguing gender-surgery ought be forbidden, so the distinction is irrelevant. I've already outlined the potential harms, as have others. If y...
The point wasn't that it couldn't happen. The point was that you've given no credible reason to apply the notion to one 'side' and not the other. The ...
So out goes drinking ages, drug laws, ages of consent, euthanasia? We discourage people from doing what they like with their own bodies all the time. ...
If your position is simply 'everything we're told is true' then you're not responding to the arguments you're simply not engaging. Medicine is politic...
A timely example... https://jacobin.com/2022/12/canadian-military-train-ukrainian-fascists-azov-centuria/ Don't like the data? No problem. Just call i...
I don't have any such difficulty. The choice I'm going to make is the one I think best and the values by which I'll judge that are already in place pr...
Sufficiently? I don't think even this is the case. On a nice day it will taste better than on a bad day. But surely how a thing does something is the ...
I agree. Talk of 'true and 'false' can very often be imported into discourse in which they don't belong. I've argued elsewhere at length against the u...
Triggers one of a number of neural networks associated with reports of 'smelling coffee'. I'm baffled as to why this is causing such confusion. Severa...
Speak for yourself. I've had colleagues who've experienced several situations like the ones I described. Besides which, I don't much care if you or I ...
Why do think that? Have the same drinks not given you different experiences at different times? Did wine taste the same to you at five as it does at 5...
That argument is circular. If you decide that some collection of neural activity is called 'smelling coffee' then obviously 'smelling coffee' is going...
Further to... ... It's testament to this that absolute brazen lies like... ...are allowed to stand for everyone to marvel at. Well done. Yes, of cours...
That's your claim. It's not what I've said. It's not missing. The difference is that one's a name and the other is a collection of neurons firing. You...
Yes, that is what we're doing here because this site is generally well moderated (censorship is limited to matters of civility). That is not what is h...
Yes, but that says there's a gap between my narrative and my my speech, not between my neural activity and my narrative. What? You claiming it doesn't...
I didn't, you did. I said there's no one-to-one correspondence. several patterns of neural activity could be given the same name, and the criteria for...
No. I merely mean views about what is the case (information), as opposed to views about what ought to be the case (instructions, ideology), or sentime...
Yes, but the key thing that some miss, I think, is that there's no one-to-one relationship between the two, such that a small and variable number of '...
This is what's changed, why your "'twas ever thus!" approach is wrongheaded. You (along with the general trend around censorship) want to try and tack...
I assume the 'we' in your second sentence is somehow rendered immune from the 'people' in your first? If it is the case that 'people' are prone to bei...
Yeah. Private companies can implement whatever policies they like to control speech by the very same freedom the absolutists want. But an absolutist (...
I see. How weird. It's a wonder America needs any other constitutional rights at all then. If political donations are a form of speech, then virtually...
In the last two or thee years who would you say has benefited financially from freedom of speech? Of the biggest industries in the world - pharmaceuti...
A minute ago what's said on Twitter could bring about the end of civilisation, now it doesn't have any effect? The only answer to corruption is to cal...
But you're arguing in favour of removing the means by which we could call it out. That seems contradictory. If the answer to corruption is to call it ...
So explain how this would work. I write "the judiciary are all corrupt and accept bribes" on Twatter and it gets flagged as 'lies', but it's alright b...
So... ...or are you just mouthing off? Any chance of actually defending your assertions? And you're the one claiming to be concerned with truth and he...
No. I'm saying you talking about truth is irrelevant because the issue - social media censorship - is not about truth. It's opinion that's being censo...
I agree, I just don't see what it's got to to with social media censorship. You opened with... ...and now with... ...so this is not a broad, generalis...
Yes, we are in agreement about that. What has that got to do with either truth or censorship? The truth cannot be established here (insufficient data)...
I didn't say we couldn't. I said that internet censorship has nothing to do with such a quest. Really? And this has bothered you for how long? https:/...
People are obviously not undiscriminating about speaking falsely, don't be naive. The things you think are false other people think are true. They dis...
You sound remarkably complacent. If the main platform for discussing global warming were run by fossil fuel companies would you equally shrug with "oh...
But isn't censorship the issue here? The OP is in response to Elon Musk's removal of censorship from Twitter. This removal is newsworthy because it ha...
But then what's your argument? It seemed to be that if we allowed a country to use the threat of nuclear weapons to get it's way then all hell would b...
You were arguing about Russia being able to use the mere threat of nuclear weapons to achieve it's ends, no? About a nation, simply by virtue of being...
It's not ignoring it. It's drawing out the assumptions. The border as national perimeter is irrelevant. You're pointing to the fact that some forms of...
If you're to claim "It seems to me that X, therefore X" then there's no investigation. The answer is already fully presented to you. That's the point ...
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