About the exact number that constitutes 'too often'? I'll ask around, but I don't recall any papers on the subject. Why so clandestine? If you already...
To what end? You still have not provided anything other than subjective judgements about what constitutes "almost", and "a lot". What if I agree with ...
Well that's just replaced one set of completely subjective judgements with another. I asked how much 'more guilty' constitutes too much more and you g...
Ah, as I suspected. So how much more guilty constitutes a lack of 'good will'? 10% more? 15%? How have you measured 'more guilty'? Do you have those f...
As to your claims. The issues, with regard to my discussion with@"neomac" are these... All of these are interpretations. Necessary ones to support a t...
That would make sense as a preemptive defense if we were arguing about whether such behaviour was 'OK'. But since everyone with a level of analysis ab...
Uh huh. So if we look back at all your posts we'll find only exact quotes, yes? No rephrasings? Or is it OK when you do it, but risky for others? Like...
I don't see how it necessarily follows. If I have a method of cleaning windows, I can conceive of a better method that might one day become apparent. ...
Most of the intelligent posters here have linked sources, provided arguments and offered definitions. It doesn't seem to have been sufficient. OK, so ...
So you're saying the default position is to continue war unless there's proof one ought to stop. I can't see how that makes any moral sense. I'd say o...
So you aggregate the methods how? Randomly? Fascinating. So how do you do that? How? Really? So with your opinion here you find all alternative opinio...
As there were by Ukrainian forces in Donbas before the invasion. So shall we let neither side have it? Good. So list the atrocities in occupied Crimea...
I shall counter them in kind... Points 1 and 2 are not debatable; the EU will most probably not be extremely generous with Ukraine, and the Russians c...
Bollocks. You said... That's just bald assertion with neither evidence nor argument provided. And... Again, absolutely devoid of either argument or ev...
One important point to keep in mind here, as I've mentioned to @"ssu" also, is that avoiding war is a good in its own right. Resisting the drive of ar...
As expected. Raise any actual points and you just dismiss them all with bald assertion and vague handwaving... Shall we just go back to insulting each...
On what basis. I've provided the latest official measurements of political freedom, corruption, well-being... Ukraine doesn't come out significantly h...
I've put forward an argument. I'm just not going to pretend I came up with it out of the blue. I read it. The argument is that ceding territory to Rus...
That's the war we're trying to stop (or ought to be). The treatment of Ukrainian resistance during the Russian invasion has been monstrous. That's why...
No, you're not 'making the argument' at all, you're just asserting it. You've given no evidence, or reason to believe that "The only way to stop these...
Right. So you are making the argument that the Russian government (even in peacetime) is morally worse than the Ukrainian government? On what grounds?...
OK. I'll try to take you seriously. How do any of the 'methods' you list apply to the debate here? How do they lead to a decision on one theory over a...
Right. So as usual you're answering a question that wasn't even asked. @"unenlightened"'s original question, which intrigued me, was about the moral d...
Yep. And then your sole support for that assertion was the people you've met in some African nations prefer democracy. Which completely ignores the qu...
And the largest trader in black market weapons in Europe too. It's a fucking powder keg. ...but hey, we have to reign in that relentless Russian imper...
Weird. What scientific studies have you read about Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Or weirder still mathematical ones? Did someone derive a new solution...
Told you... 'Epistemically fallacious'? What could that possibly mean in the context of persuasion? Persuasion either works or it doesn't, there's mor...
Sometimes, yeah. Violence was a useful part of the civil rights movement in America, for example. Sometimes threat of violence is sufficiently persuas...
Depends. The reasons we're persuaded of a theory are numerous. Sometimes it might fit better with other beliefs so I might persuade you by pointing ou...
So? You don't seem to have finished your argument. Does it matter that they think us weak for using appeasement? If so, what ought we do about that? M...
Let me see if I can explain this at your level. We are not experts in military strategy, refugees, foreign relations... Even were one of us to be, we ...
How the hell should I know? I'm sure there are people out there with far more expertise on the progress and impacts of mass migration than any of us h...
This is a discussion forum, not a newspaper. Unless there's some interesting issue or disagreement about any of that list, I can't for the life of me ...
This is a return of a well-worn classic, the old "It's just a coincidence that everything is going exactly as America wants it to" "America did interf...
Ah, yes. That'll be why Amnesty International wrote in 2017 ...and why Human Rights Watch warned about... ...and the Atlantic Council warned in 2018.....
Cool. Is anyone else playing cliché bingo, @"Streetlight"? I've just got a full line with "the silent majority agree with me...". I'm waiting for "Thi...
Yep. A minute ago considering the US's role in this was overly complicating a simple issue, now doing so is excessively simplistic and parochial. What...
Brilliant. You don't disappoint. So now your argument that "Russia is evil, Ukraine are good, and America are just benevolent bystanders" is the world...
Well, at least your rhetorical tactics have risen above the level of a high school debating class. This one I like. Set up your objection as categoric...
No one's position is that we should only discuss the goings-on in our home countries. The position being espoused is that we should primarily concern ...
As @"Streetlight" has already mentioned, this is simply not true. We obviously have a fuzzy definition of sorts - technically one 'chooses' to follow ...
So, we just give them the benefit of the doubt, every time? What is it about their behaviour that makes you think they deserve the benefit of the doub...
In what naive world do you imagine that the enormous political might of America and Europe simply stood back and said to Ukraine "it's your choice, we...
I'm sure @"unenlightened" will follow whatever line of argument he sees fit, but by way of not losing an important point I think was raised... unenlig...
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