This venerates voting beyond anything justified by the system. I can tell in a hundred other ways how many of my fellow citizens are lazy compared to ...
You realise that what you're saying here is that it's impossible for people to be wrong about their strategies. If plan to be more sporty, an advertis...
Oh, not a problem. I just felt for a minute I was wasting my time trying to keep the thread focused on what I understood to be your question about the...
The morality of who owns what and the legality of who owns what are two different matters which you keep confusing. Property is about the legality. Yo...
No. You're absolutely right. I should try and join in with the spirit a little more. The thing you have to understand about conscription is that the w...
Nonsense. Even abortion can be rendered down to an agreed moral principle (don't kill innocent people), or expanded out to a disagreement (don't termi...
Read twice, couldn't find an argument. It seems the OP has lost interest anyway, so there's little point in my replying. If you and @"Olivier5" just w...
You said... So you're either suggesting that it is impossible to persuade people to buy stuff they don't want, or you are being no less an arbiter by ...
I'd agree, but I'm not sure this is sufficient to supports opposition to... It's not my understanding of phenomenalism that it posits no external worl...
Well then why did you ask? I'm no historian. I made my position quite clear. Property is determined by law. So if you say it wasn't a law then it was ...
It wasn't in 1938, no. It is now. Nothing about property law says anything about the morality of it. If you want to make an argument about what people...
Then how the fuck have you determined your pre-tax wages to be your property? Lucky guess? Largely, yes. Rightful property is only meaningful in terms...
Theft is the taking of property not legally belonging to you. Taxes legally belong to the government. You'd just prefer they didn't. I could claim I p...
Nor could you without government monopoly. The strongest would simply take whatever they wanted, or the most numerous would, or whatever group could c...
We've been through this before. The monopoly on violence is not necessary. The government could merely enter your house when you're out and take what ...
Right. But what evidence do you have for that assertion? Why would a machine, or an alien consider the change of atoms at the boundary of the apple an...
Of course they can. We just agreed that one can define a cell as containing the foreign proteins or as not containing them. Neither definition is righ...
Indeed. But you additionally claimed that those experiences constituted both internal and external features. The counter was that what experiences con...
So because some Ukrainians have decided to fight, you think subjecting all Ukrainians to prolonged war and decades of financial destitution is a good ...
I don't deny it, but your argument requires that elections actually require my vote for their success. They may be an act of will but that doesn't pro...
I don't think anything 'makes' it external. We assume it is. Yes, that's the way I see it. I can't make sense of this. I'm not seeing why. I mean, the...
I don't see how you could reach such an odd conclusion. If that were the purpose of an election then why is it not in survey format? What are the repr...
Yes, I think so. Not so sure here. I don't really see other senses of boundary being at risk of being lost (like they were some endangered species), I...
Right. That's the point @"Janus" and I have been trying to communicate. What 'experience' picks out depends on how one uses the word. Could be interna...
I see, thanks for the tip. Easy though it was, the clandestine game of "why don't you find out what I think by some trial of research", seemed ridicul...
Rather than asking @"boethius" to trawl through 300 pages of posts to find an exact quote to cover the very obvious support you show for continued war...
We have regular elections in our country. I've not voted in any of them. They don't seem to have needed my vote. They seem to be carrying on undiminis...
You've still failed to lay out any way at all by which voting contributes to the cooperative effort of democracy. In situation 1, I vote. In situation...
Possibly, but X here simply stands for something and the spaces between them stand for some boundary. I don't doubt you could make an argument that bo...
It's painfully simple. 1. You kept claiming that if we value something we take part in it. I gave you counterexamples, it's evident we can value somet...
Good. Now what about the phagocytised or excreted proteins in the cell vacuole. Were they part of what makes up these 14th C cells or not? If you gave...
Yes, I gathered that much. I was hoping to find out why, but if you'd rather just restate your original opinion, then you crack on. Not sure you need ...
This just seems tautologous. You appear to be saying that because there's an expectation we take part, we have s responsibility to take part. The ques...
That's actually what I meant. Clumsy writing on my part which I can only put down to an attempt to use 'philosophy' terms! Maybe not the totality thou...
Nope. The point is simply that you value your local fire service but you do not take part in it. You're glad it's there, but you don't feel the need t...
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