What's that got to do with the OP? I don't think anyone is wondering whether governments resort to conscription, nor what circumstances they might do ...
Then conscription is unnecessary. People will voluntarily join the army if they understand the need. So why did Ukraine instigate conscription. It can...
The point I was making was one of selection, or filtering. We select from among a range of options which phenomena, to use (possibly abuse) your termi...
Just putting the word 'hence' at the beginning of a proposition doesn't magically turn it into a valid conclusion. You've listed reasons why a conscri...
1. Where did I make the claim that a government cannot do worse things than conscripting people? 2. How is being bombed worse then being shot/tortured...
Look. Below are five Xs... X X X X X I'm going to say those middle three Xs are ' a jabberwocky', that's just what a jabberwocky is. Now, did those th...
No. Something existed prior to our naming practices. Our naming practices determined which of the possible boundaries we are going to make significant...
Are you suggesting that the government is taking property not legally belong to it? So bombing is justified? That sounds a little sociopathic to me. I...
Of course it can. The contents of my house depend on how I define 'house' (does it include the porch, the outhouse, the shed...?). It seems quite norm...
Fortunate then that the account of active inference does not seek to deicide "everything" up into one or other camp, but merely some things. Otherwise...
Thanks, though I suspect the far greater parody is being played on us by @"Bartricks" himself, who'll reveal, on his 6,000th post, that his contributi...
So your argument is that because some things require involvement, democracy does? Please, please never consider the raising of your children and the i...
No. I double checked the label (the one which, of course, is attached to all our thoughts) and it said 'intuition', not 'convention'. Not quite fully ...
So? What's that got to do with conscription? If you just want to keep a record of random things you think, I suggest a diary might be a better format ...
Taxation is not an impositions at all, it's the government collecting its legal property. Besides which, unless you're arguing that VAT payment risks ...
If you don't want to pay taxes, don't earn above the tax threshold. Now what am I supposed to do if I don't want to be conscripted. Change age? Not to...
Then conscription is unnecessary. So why instigate it. As would the threat of war. You're just completely ignoring the issue. War is bad, being taken ...
You gave examples of how bad it was to surrender. We already agree that's bad. So is war. Hence the weighing exercise. The question is why, in this sp...
I value the national health service, but I don't think unqualified people ought to participate in it. To get closer to the OP, I might value education...
It doesn't 'show' that at all. You thought it would remain divisible, I thought it wouldn't. Nothing's been 'shown' other than what we each reckon wou...
How is any of that related to the discussion. Are you claiming that more people want to be shot than want to be ruled by Russia? Because unless you're...
Because more people disagree with war than disagree that death is bad. It's quite simple. Take a population like Ukraine. How many would be happy to b...
Every single other decision. There is no precedent at all for forcing people to risk their lives for a gain they might not even agree with. None. Ther...
No, the physics is entirely imagined. I haven't a clue about physics. I'm appealing entirely to reason. My reason says that you can't just keep dividi...
Just ignoring the counterargument and restating your position is not discussion. This is a discussion forum. I've already addressed this with examples...
I don't need to explain why I can't. It's a self-evident fact of reason. You have to explain why I can. The burden of proof is on you. Shall I remind ...
Some law of physics prevents it. We can't get that tiny and still be functional objects capable of dividing other objects. Shrinking things doesn't ev...
This is the matter we're discussing, so just asserting it is begging the question. National defense is good. Fighting in a war is bad. So if national ...
Nope. I imagine at some point that just becomes impossible. I imagine that at some point the fabric of space becomes quantised such that it ceases to ...
Easy. It seems to me that extended things are sometimes indivisible. It's what reason tells me. And, as you're so fond of reminding us, we have no oth...
Your comment had nothing to do with complexity. It was just a very basic error. That some people choose to be involved has no bearing on the question ...
Well yes, I suppose. I was leaving open the possibility that you'd supply the names of anyone who has actually studied space... But let's look at what...
The question was not about the nature of the change (that was a proposed explanation) the question was about the need, and justification, for the impo...
Those both seem to reference the post I responded to. Your argument seems to be that abstaining makes it more likely the dominant party gets in becaus...
This is no less true of voting for any party other than the second strongest. So is your argument that we should all vote for either the strongest or ...
Well then I'm left with no idea who these 'direct realists' even are, let alone what they claim. I asked @"Michael" for some examples of the direct re...
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