But how do we determine what those rights and freedom ought be? We don't escape the trap of having to have some means of judgement. Our rights and fre...
... The matter about which we disagree is the consequences and their likelihoods, so you can't invoke your judgement of the consequences and likelihoo...
Absolutely. Yet we navigate this don't we? We don't throw our hands in the air and say "anything goes then". I think you've given a perfect account of...
Yes, I would. You are continuing to ignore the asymmetry of a burden of proof. If I said "we need to jump off that cliff, I know it's a long way down ...
The first part I get, the second not so much. If what some people choose to consider well-being harms others, then I don't see why we wouldn't have qu...
Fair point. Plus I suppose that could be extended to any free use of money. To the extent that the US leaves any wriggle room at all in it's loan agre...
I agree, but where we perhaps get our different assessments from is in the extent to which the movements (and their accompanying agendas, and small 'p...
Perhaps one of the problems with the analogy, yes. Humans are, of course, not mere repositories of information which we pass on either faithfully or n...
Charap... ... But as I said, I don't think it's relevant at this stage. If you're at the point of assuming there is no such plan, then my providing ev...
Is that the conformity to regularity stuff? If so, it's crossed my path on social conformity issues - I'd like to claim this as proof that psychologis...
Well, that explains a lot. For my part, all the arguments I've made here have been ethical. I'm simply saying we have an ethical duty to support the o...
Third time lucky... Authoritarian rule is an indicator, not a factor affecting indicators. The HFI attempts to include in its measure degrees of autho...
Odd, that's the second time in the last few days someone has picked me up on that particular usage, perhaps an American vs English thing? Using 'we' t...
But none of this seems related to your signposts example. The utility of a signpost is not its honest intention to point you in the direction of it's ...
If @"Mikie" had the ear of {all voters} then there wouldn't even be a problem in the first place. He's talking to those who agree there's a problem - ...
I'm comparing Ukraine and Russia in similar global economic and political circumstances (both ten years ago and both now). You're comparing completely...
They're not any more. They may be a prime example of how it worked in the late 90s, but they're not an example of how it works now. They're also, more...
True, but this is a rationalisation isn't it? Why did 'Mom' try the 'starving kids' routine? Was she not expecting the response "well, that has nothin...
That's a fair assessment, but people (here) are still mistaking my intervention here for a prescriptive one where it is intended to be only an allowan...
Quite familiar, but I'm no historian. Perhaps rather than relying on vague attempts at condescending dismissal, you'd actually say what issue you thin...
I shouldn't think voting differently would be a good idea since I expect the people included in the 'we' already vote for the more progressive candida...
Well. This is a lot more extensive than the response I thought you'd left me earlier... In which it nowhere says anything about... ... No. I've just e...
Hey! I've only posted one thing since you were praising my contribution! Caprice! I agree (with the caveat I added). We could dissolve law that way. W...
In cognitive terms, the stories act as both high level meta-models of how lower level model cohere, but also as both filters and producers of confirma...
Sorry I must have missed your reply earlier, didn't mean to ignore it. Yeah, I agree. When I referred to a claim about the human psyche I only meant q...
Sure, go for it. I'm angry at the world's decent into tribalistic lunacy where the value of a person's contribution to discussion is based, not on the...
No. It wasn't. Please, if you're going to continue to try this "you argued that..." line of discussion (which frankly I'd rather you didn't), at least...
Fucksake, not this shite again. Must every challenge be 'dishonest' these days, every disagreement 'disinformation', every ideological difference 'big...
It seems there are three categories of speech act that @"unenlightened" might vent anger at on the grounds of not 'telling the truth' 1. People who sa...
I don't see how. If I say something to you like "the pub is at the end of the road", you'll be able to do anything with that exactly and only to the e...
I'm curious then how you square that with... ...? That's one hell of an impassioned plea for the sanctity of a term which can, it turns out, be comple...
Which is different, how, to "I believe that my key will open the front door"? What's '... it is true that... ' doing in that sentence? The sentence se...
Yeah, that's the idea. There's some endocrine response to the sight of the male body, or some such, that's the raw data that needs explaining. How it'...
Good. They are not external. They are in the HFI measurements. Degree of indebtedness is an external factor, as is predatory contracting by monopolies...
Excellently written. I think this sums up the issue perfectly. If Bob says "I know the pub is at the end of the road", I don't stand in what is now a ...
Thanks, and likewise. Always nice to have a little cheer from the balcony every now and then, TPF is a tough crowd for my material (I'm saving the Mao...
Not at all what I mean. Let me try again. I'm not saying that we ought select from publicly available narratives, I'm saying we do. I'm making an empi...
Again, I'm not the best person to learn this from, there are far better resources online, unless you seriously think there isn't even an argument in t...
Yes, we already agree that being less Russia-like yields an improvement on the HFI, I'm not sure why you're going down this path at all. No one is con...
Yeah, I think that's right. It's a good way to express it. I think they system is designed to produce actions that minimise surprise, so everything is...
True, but they weren't intended as targets, more measures. OK. But level of violence matters right? I mean I'm all in favour of the fact the governmen...
Yeah, I think that's it. That plus...narratives. We understand the story of being oppressed directly because we can relate (we think we can), we've al...
Why not? Why is lobbying your government to get a bigger cut of rich people's wealth always the only thing which is for some reason ruled out in the g...
Absolutely. Faith in a solution and realism about one are two different matters. In some respects I think that makes the West's response here even wor...
Yes. That's just saying the same thing I said. Communism isn't good for the HFI score. How does that relate to a comparison of modern Russia (not comm...
Something unites all those things that sets them apart from war; 1) they kill fewer people. 2) they make less profit. 3) the mainstream left have deci...
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