Yeah, that's right. Insofar as there's something immutable and sacred there. I mean, you made a really good showing, but you'd have to admit that your...
Then what do you do with it? How has it affected your theory, what did you change about your belief in the light of it, and why? Yes. So you said. I'm...
Do I? That seems to be begging the question. If there's such a thing as an 'identity' and it's as important as you claim, then yes, I'd obviously have...
Yeah, that's it. It's like two different relationships with strength (above average) that define both how it was acquired and how it is used. If our s...
You mean like... ... where you dismiss the entire, well-respected, Human Freedom Index because it doesn't show the descent of Russia that you think it...
A generic rhetorical device, nothing more. As in "what do we have here?" You talk like you don't know what bombs do. Ukraine is 'using up' Russian art...
So true. I'm glad you said it first. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Not to get all Evolutionary Psychology (let's not go there), but men are differe...
That makes sense, yes. Yeah. I can see that. I'm wary though of putting too much stock in 'that sounds plausible'. I've had too many theories that sou...
There's nothing to 'engage' with. Yes. There are other metrics which show things in a different light. What exactly is it you want me to do about that...
The claim was not specific, and in context that should have been obvious. You read it that way simply to have something to bite. It's the equivalent o...
Here's the official statement of reasons - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statement-of-reasons-related-to-the-use-of-section-35-of-the-sco...
That's an interesting take. There were aspects of Wilkinson's argument I quite liked (but not all). I think the issue with moderation (and also modera...
thoughtful adjective uk /????t.f?l/ us /????t.f?l/ Add to word list B2 carefully considering things: He has a thoughtful approach to his work. long ad...
Absolutely. But that works both ways. Why do you think... ...? Because movement in a pro-freedom direction makes his grip weaker. Sure, Ukraine's 2015...
Yes, but you quibbled over the meaning of 'oligarchy' and 'democracy' so I went for just the actual index scores to create what I thought would be a m...
This, then, is actually a really good example of the some of the issues. I thought about that use. My thought process went "I ought to say 'he' as the...
No, but spending four posts trying to imply I've made some kind of mistake or act of deception is not just 'admitting it's there', is it? I didn't hav...
What sickening about this is that if you were clutching at straws to support some noble ideology, I could kind of accept that, but you're desperately ...
That's not the link I provided for the data in question, and it's completely dishonest to present it as such. ... so just speculate instead, eh? Then ...
Do they? Not something I've ever mentioned. Again, not a claim I've ever contested. The claims I've made are in the posts I've written. Not your head....
It's quite simple (though you seem to be having trouble with (4)) 1. Open the CSV linked. 2. Go to line 316 - '2015 Ukraine'. 3. Read off column G 'hf...
You know those bits in blue? They're links so you can check the actual data I'm using. You know, rather than pick your own data... As if the differenc...
So explain to me why you previously wanted to completely ignore the consequences of continued war on Yemen, or future generations, or those at risk fr...
Gods! It's like talking to five year olds. I'll try and go through this one more time, really slowly. I'm showing how a country can rise up from where...
Experiencing is "mapping, modelling, denoting, depicting, describing, representing, referring", it is not subject of it. Experiencing the world is to ...
And what is it in your story-telling so far that you think has given any measure of relative plausibility? We all seem to agree that our drive to have...
Fair. I wasn't terribly confident in the analogy as I was writing it, but thought 'fuck it, it's going in anyway'. I don't think there is an analogy f...
Of course it is, if your only other choice has zero chance of success, then you take the one that has slightly above zero. Your plan has zero chance o...
Depends on the framing. As I said above... ...if you want to put it in terms of likelihood. Sure, if your sole concern is the ability of Ukrainians to...
Easy. The 'desired effects' are freedom for Ukrainians with fewer than a hundred thousand dead. Your proposal has zero chance of achieving that, so mi...
Well, only that something of what counts as being a woman has to account for this, otherwise it is nowhere considered. We have to be able to ask "are ...
I was referring to your potted history of the USSR. The number of 'instances' you divide this into was not the relvan6part of that paragraph. The rele...
I'll save cluttering the thread with arguments written elsewhere. The arguments against historicism are discussed here https://thephilosophyforum.com/...
Yeah, a difficult decision, for sure, but as is pointed out, a trans woman who is discriminated against because of her womanhood will still be as to c...
No. Neither have I. Which is why I... I have no reason to invoke the mods. The only person I've accused of anything except error is your completely hy...
Is it ad hominem to take a medical professor's opinion about vaccine safety more seriously in discussion than the 16 year-old Proud Boy? Of course not...
Yes. Or racist xenophobes. I expect they have a different view as to how best to resolve the conflict too, but I've no interest in arguing with those....
Perhaps, an attempt to make this more clear. The conflict between the idealist and the realist is not an equal one, it's asymmetric in terms of eviden...
No. The sort of thing I hate about woke cancel culture is the assumption that everyone on the less popular side of a political position must be acting...
Do you mean trans women? With trans individual you're in danger of falling into the very caricature @"Tzeentch" was painting where 'patriarchy' is sim...
How convenient. The one thing that can end these otherwise impossible to shift tyrannies just so happens to be the one thing that is the solution you ...
Really? Because a minute ago, when it better suited your narrative... Funny how the solidity of Putin's grip on power seems to change depending on the...
Here https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/letter-to-mfwe-definition-of-sex-in-ea-210-3-april-2023_0.pdf In particular... It is also...
Right. So the problem arises when we want to take affirmative action, or protective action against the misogyny (or the effects of past misogyny - pat...
That's what I thought. Yes. I think that's the tension that many traditional feminists feel with the newer gender identity prescriptions. If there is ...
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