Isaac

How does you having built it, planted it, and tilled it justify you having it?

Not just someone else. You. I'll have a crack. I'm a better gardener than you, so I deserve it.

It's you.

Then I return to being completely at a loss as to your argument. It seems to be little more than "Putin is the biggest threat to civilisation because ...

Of course. I'm not preventing anyone from posting noncritical content. I'm not going to make up some placatory praise just to stroke your ego. If you'...

Some I'm sure, but not all. I don't believe that 'Ukrainians' are an homogeneous group all fighting for a single definable reason. But I was talking a...

Roughly, yes. Where by 'meddle' you mean 'supply arms to'.

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That's a question, not a proposition.

Where have I said any such thing?

That's just a repeat of the assertion, not an explanation of it. I can't improve on @"Bitter Crank"'s answer. It would be outrageous hubris.

Just a quick reminder... Oh and a bonus gem from the same post...

There is a distinction between redheads and blondes. It doesn't imply we have a different ethical responsibility to each. Simply pointing to a differe...

No, but we should, in our planning, take account of the effect of such propaganda. If Ukraine invading Russia is out ofvthr question, then Russia cons...

Why not. Why are we not morally responsible for other animals?

On what grounds do they become "in our protection". Why are the gazelles on the African savannah not in our protection, but the humans at risk from th...

Sometimes I don't quite know what to say yo some of your responses. If you're seriously convinced that the war in Ukraine is the single highest toll o...

So why do we protect other humans from natural (non-human) causes of harm, but not other animals?

Yes indeed. Russia's had enough real failures to account for before even thinking about the social media exaggerations of it's incompetence. They've r...

What I'm asking is if Russia think those areas are part of Russia and they defend them as they would any other part of Russia, then the belief that "U...

So what about the contested regions? Russia thinks they're part of Russia now and "not a whole lot of countries could occupy Russia". Does the unwilli...

Again, I'm not handholding you through fairly simple concepts, you need a minimum level of comprehension.

That's not even a counterargument.

The key word was 'serious'. Lots of global events cause that level of damage - from local warlords, oppressive police, environmental pollution, povert...

It's a fairly standard argument against historicism. I thought you'd already be familiar with it. We can always point to some subset of the hundreds o...

I see your understanding of historicism is about as strong as your understanding of underdetermination

Keeping up the reliance on expert opinion I see.

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More historicist crap. There is a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel, there again an example from history how these can end. History is useless ...

You said... I'm interrogating that claim. You were the one who brought it up, that it is ridiculous to think Ukraine could invade Russia and win. Who ...

I didn't ask about attacking, I asked about winning - defeating Russia in a land invasion. You seemed to be saying that Ukraine are not a threat to Ru...

I can't make sense of this expression. It sounds like you've already decided the argument is rational and defensible, but you want to find out why. Th...

There's nothing complicated to it. If Russia are useless at invading places they cannot at the same time be a serious threat to any great number of su...

So you admit that Ukraine could not possibly successfully invade Russia?

I think in addition to the points you've both mentioned, we shouldn't ignore the very thing we're doing here. Putin is an autocrat, which means his po...

If your position wasn't correct, would that not be an ideal candidate for a reason why it is not taken seriously? You don't do 'explaining' here becau...

Then I'm unsure why you would post it to a public discussion forum. I should think a leafleting campaign, or blog would be the more appropriate medium...

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A claim is not defended by pointing out that an alternative claim is wrong unless the two claims are mutually exclusive.

It's written by Michael D. Swaine, director of the East Asia program at the Quincy Institute. Not a journalist, a foreign policy expert. And if expert...

But you said... I don't see how that applies to hunting. You seem to have gone back to this being about foreshortening life. As a society we've agreed...

Then I'm unsure what ethical concern you're raising against welfare-concerned farming. The animals 'have' their own lives. So you've no objection to h...

Why? This is @"Graeme M"'s thread about veganism and you posted a claim on it. Why are we now discussing a caricature of a theory of mine that I haven...

Why? This thread isn't about my position. Its about veganism. If I wanted a critique of my position I'd have posted it in an OP. You posted... ...if y...

Partly, yes. Though my meta-ethics is not that simple. But I don't see what my personal meta-ethical stance has to do with your position. How does you...

An example of it in use...

Yes. Yes, it does. I'm deeply disturbed my masses of influential voices (the public at large) being so easily directed by the media. I'd be delighted ...

I think this gets to the nub of the problem. any suggestion that this is a proxy war is treated as if it were a suggestion that this is a mere proxy w...

So now you're talking about freedom, not death. If the animals were free prior to us killing them for food, then it would be ethical? I can see that a...

Yes, but in my list was 'seeking relationships'. That's also massively different from 'going for a walk'. You've singled out killing a sentient prey a...