Yep. 8 million deaths a year and still no simple ban on sales. But not only tobacco. Obesity (4.7 million deaths) - fuck all, not even a sugar tax, le...
Well we hear now that the truckers are all American infiltrators, or Russian plants, or both possibly, so clearly Canada has no limits as to the juris...
Yeah, compared the efforts (though still woefully inadequate) to ensure disabled access to buildings, baulking at putting up a few MDF partitions seem...
Yeah, right. Good to see the Canadian government really pull out all the stops to sort out these terrorists. The sooner these extant threats to civili...
Bathroom stalls are easy (cubicles for all), sports are easy (who gives a fuck). Of far more importance, I think, is addressing the concerns of women ...
What! Governments exaggerating a threat so that powerful industries can benefit. Sounds like some kind of crazy conspiracy theory to me. Best just tru...
Seeing as you're having trouble with this. You've made three claims. 1. That a 'significant' proportion of the 20-30% of people still not vaccinated h...
Here's what the 'experts' are saying... Every single paper, pre-print, opinion piece, consultancy report, podcast and blog written by someone holding ...
'Safe and effective' is a statement of fact, a property of the vaccine(s). You're advocating policy. The fact that the vaccine is safe and effective i...
Engage as the context determines. If I can't see a way in which someone's belief could harm my community, then I've no business interfering. If I can,...
Yeah, this is the point I thought you were making. If I agreed with it, I wouldn't bf making the point I'm making would I? But there's no challenge. Y...
What consensus? You've not provided a shred of evidence for this supposed consensus you're following. When asked you provided me with a mainstream med...
I'm quite in agreement with you about the way social media creates narratives which are outside of anyone's control, so we needn't disagree on that po...
No. The first question is about the meaning of texts, the second about the observed consequences. If I wrote, at the top of my 'Rules of My Gang' - "E...
Lets review this claim... The opioid crisis has killed more than half a million people. It's responsible for the first decline in life expectancy in t...
From where are you getting that? I think science is the ultimate method for discovering what is the case about our world. I don't think scientific ins...
Who says? That's not the point. The point is that if the law is ambiguous, ie one person thinks it prohibits stealing another that it doesn't, what ma...
Counter: In the ordinary sense (of folk language games, of the type we would play when we say "the table is solid"), "R murdered W" can need not only ...
See above. 'True' means different things in different contexts. 'Know' means different things in different contexts. 'Actually' means different things...
OK, that'll do now. It's no use flogging a dead horse. If you can't even bring yourself to acknowledge (even for that sake of argument) that the same ...
Science is an activity, not an institution. What political reasons? What have the Republicans got to gain from vaccine hesitancy? The vast majority of...
I see I've created some confusion, I've probably veered too far from the topic and it's making it hard to see the relevance of what I'm saying. Behavi...
Nonsense. The legal interpretation can land me in jail or set me free. It has just about one of the largest meaningful consequences it's possible to h...
Argh! The meaning of words is different in different contexts. I just don't know what more I can do to get this seemingly simple notion across to you ...
Notwithstanding the evidence of transfer, the point I was making was simply that it's absurd to suggest the corporations have 'created a monster'. The...
Well it appears to have been done already (thanks @"StreetlightX"). Also there's https://ips-dc.org/us-billionaire-wealth-584-billion-20-percent-pande...
As above, this just kicks the can, doesn't answer the question of what 'sufficient' means here. I don't know what a community belief could be if not t...
Yes, well, you have me there. As I said - look hard enough and you'll find that mistake you're searching for. I've been arguing that they are of no di...
Yep. Napolean Phenomena. You start a thread on religion, a lot of people will think "I know some talking points about religion". Religion-bashing has ...
I'm not. I've talked exclusively about narratives, not law, not history... stories. Maybe, but that's because there's a fact of the matter about how l...
Yep, all good possibilities too. Sadly true. One of the issues I'm trying to raise here is that there's a lot in the bible (and in Christian tradition...
The Pharisees who made up the cruel laws? Or the Pharisees who misinterpreted the law so poorly written and ambiguous that it only got properly unders...
We'll see. Yes, I completely agree, though I suspect you and I have very different ideas about how that economy functions. I'm sorry, I mean... I susp...
No, neither do I. Good to see you joining lustily in with the new tradition of calling disagreement 'misinformation'. You do have to move with the tim...
Yes, that's right (with my little addition). Knowledge doesn't require a whiskey cup and a teacup, it just requires a good enough cup. Well then the f...
I did. It's the quote I pointed to. Just under the words 'the quote...' It's in the quote. If I don't engage with the text in the way they want, I'm o...
Which is problem and which solution? If the antagonists presents a problem and the hero solves it, we have ourselves a classic myth showing how to sol...
Only for shorthand. There's lots of atrocities in the bible. http://www.realbiblestories.com/10-biblical-atrocities-that-go-overlooked-part-two-2/ htt...
Yet... So here's a conundrum for you. https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-physician-relationships/physicians-in-these-14-specialties-more-l...
Outside my wheelhouse I'm afraid. I believe there was some overlap, but it'd be the blind leading the blind if we tried to see how it might impact bel...
Different thing ? Different kind of thing. My Whiskey cup and my Teacup are different things, but the same kind of thing. Yes. The trouble is that the...
That doesn't constitute an argument that the numbers are 'significant'. For that you need a negative effect and evidence of causation. You've given ne...
I don't think this is the appropriate place for this discussion (which is purely about economics). I've given a very brief case, as have you both. The...
Yes, I agree with that, even with my 'epistemic peer' definition of truth. If a person isn't aware of that justification (despite the fact that it exi...
Not quite. It takes something else to be false - a contradiction, a surprising result which can't be accommodated. I don't actually think false is alw...
Not a bad idea. Yes, I think that's where @"fdrake" and I were going in asking "why 'interpret' this, but take that literally?" My answer would be tha...
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