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Do I have to explain morality, is the notion unfamiliar to you? Some classes of human activities are 'moral', they concern a loose affiliation of beha...
October 29, 2022 at 08:21
Here's how this little subsection of the conversation started. So if your answer is, yes, anyone with the right piece of paper should be consulted, an...
October 29, 2022 at 07:55
Then you should be able to answer the question. It's not a complex one.
October 29, 2022 at 07:39
It was an attempt to show the stupidity of your response. We could identity Ukrainians by any means we like. The point was to justify that choice. Why...
October 29, 2022 at 07:22
One could use headwear too. Anyone with a green trilby is a 'Ukrainian'. Or we could use length of index finger, over 9cm and you're in.
October 29, 2022 at 07:07
I don't know of much condemnation of Israel that isn't about methods, not borders. But sure, it happens all the time. So does racism. Doesn't make eit...
October 29, 2022 at 07:06
That's exactly the claim I was addressing. The poll didn't rely only on self-identified Ukrainians it pre-stratified the sample. It didn't ask a rando...
October 28, 2022 at 18:29
They just beg the question because the polls already have decided who to ask and who not to ask. Why did they not ask the Russians who live on the bor...
October 28, 2022 at 17:41
Indeed. But less commonly the language of unrelated bystanders, which is what's different here. We might expect those living in Ukraine to be national...
October 28, 2022 at 17:27
'They' are not. Some people are, others aren't. It's you who are reifying such a situation into a 'they'. Otherwise, answer the question. By what crit...
October 28, 2022 at 16:50
And how would I tell 'them'. There's 40 million. Do you really imagine 'them' to be one homogeneous mass with a single opinion? It's patently absurd t...
October 28, 2022 at 16:32
One could question that Crimea was in Ukrainian borders. Are we really going to rehash the whole 19th jingoism? I suppose that would go well with our ...
October 28, 2022 at 16:10
Of course it would. Entitlement to the integrity of a country's borders is not predicated on the means by which they execute such entitlement. Which U...
October 28, 2022 at 16:05
So why would you need any more specific an answer in the case of Poland, the Baltic states, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, the Czech republic? Might the ...
October 28, 2022 at 15:25
You mean the war in which; 1) European and US envoys were dispatched to negotiate peace within just three days of fighting. 2) The President of France...
October 28, 2022 at 12:25
From whom?
October 28, 2022 at 11:11
Do you have the slightest idea why Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan joined the Collective Security Treaty Organization?
October 28, 2022 at 09:49
You're right, of course, but to back up @"Mikie" I did also have 'a bit of think about it' from my armchair and reached the same conclusion.
October 28, 2022 at 05:31
How's that going...? Greece: Pushbacks and violence against refugees and migrants are de facto border policy Croatia: Damning new report slams systema...
October 28, 2022 at 05:23
https://humanrightshouse.org/human-rights-houses/moscow/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2022/press-release/ I'm struggling to think of anythi...
October 27, 2022 at 20:16
Good to know the 10,000 dead didn't die for nothing. Take that Russia! Perhaps we throw some Lithuanians at them next, see if we can't put a dent in t...
October 27, 2022 at 19:09
https://jacobin.com/2022/10/ukraine-war-letter-diplomacy-progressive-congress-caucus-foreign-policy/ Latest step in our descent into absolute fucking ...
October 27, 2022 at 18:05
Aww, that's lovely. Shame not every refugee is equally as 'Ukrainian' as this pretty young Arian TV bait you've dredged up for the virtue-hungry masse...
October 27, 2022 at 18:04
Ah, back to the old "you agree with me really" argument. Your inability to imagine how other people might hold different views to you is your problem ...
October 19, 2022 at 13:22
Your argument requires a comparison, it cannot be supported by the provision of only one side. You argued that the effect was greater than... that req...
October 19, 2022 at 12:51
I don't think we can. Contrary to the strawmen I'm not arguing for any particular solution. I'm arguing that just such an uncertainty as you paint her...
October 19, 2022 at 08:42
Neuroscience is oddly divided, in my experience. If you did take such a survey, you wouldn't so much get a dozen different meta-theories as you'd get ...
October 19, 2022 at 07:32
Well there you have your answer. You, apparently, do not need to be governed, but I do because my behaviour is unreasonable. As you said... The utter ...
October 19, 2022 at 05:46
I agree with the anomalous monism, but I think where I might be slightly more sympathetic to @"Joshs"'s position is that, if I've understood it correc...
October 19, 2022 at 05:46
I'll take obscure 80s crime flicks over Freud. No, but they might progress to pac-man.
October 19, 2022 at 05:46
These sorts of experiments have already been done long ago. Neuronal networks don't seem to care if they're electrocuted, burnt, stamped on or otherwi...
October 18, 2022 at 12:52
Yes, but that's exactly what I thought you meant in the first place. I then listed several examples of "local warlords, oppressive police, environment...
October 18, 2022 at 09:43
An alternative take, if you're interested. Biden’s New National Security Strategy: A Lot of Trump, Very Little Obama
October 17, 2022 at 18:26
I didn't. I shall seek a cure immediately.
October 17, 2022 at 16:17
No, I thought it was the superior man's property, you thought it was the property of the one who tilled it. Thus we disagreed as to whose property it ...
October 17, 2022 at 16:14
That's not really clarified matters - something 'causing' Putin doesn't make sense. so I thought you meant that nothing else in that list is causing a...
October 17, 2022 at 16:13
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/08/ukraine-ukrainian-fighting-tactics-endanger-civilians/ Better...?
October 17, 2022 at 07:50
What, the whole planet? There's 7 billion of us. Through what mechanism ought we 'just ask'? One at a time? There's no theft and robbery until there's...
October 17, 2022 at 05:53
I missed this yesterday. Yes, I saw this in preprint some months ago (last year even, I think). I forgot all about it and here it is in full published...
October 17, 2022 at 05:48
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October 17, 2022 at 05:45
To be fair... ...doesn't make grammatical sense. I've had to do some charitable reading. Why don't you try again to formulate what you're saying. The ...
October 17, 2022 at 05:40
Hang on. A minute ago you had s right to your garden because you tilled it. Now you're saying we could come to some arrangement? What about the rainfo...
October 16, 2022 at 20:09
I don't. Now what?
October 16, 2022 at 19:50
Yes, but I'm about to nick @"NOS4A2"'s garden, so don't pull the plug just yet.
October 16, 2022 at 19:04
No. I'd turn your garden back to a state of nature. No appropriation of any fruit (figurative or otherwise), in fact a rejection of the fruits of your...
October 16, 2022 at 19:03
The question... The answer... Not sure in what way that counts a 'skirting around'. Yes. I've explained that land rightly belongs to the person who wi...
October 16, 2022 at 18:46
Ah! The old 'you agree with me really though' argument. I wondered how long it would take to get there. That you can't wrap your head around anyone th...
October 16, 2022 at 17:56
Alright. We have a big long discussion. We still disagree. Now what? Fisticuffs?
October 16, 2022 at 16:57
By what process?
October 16, 2022 at 16:29
How does you having created it and nurtured it such that it wouldn’t exist had you not done so justify your claim to it?
October 16, 2022 at 16:23