It seems a very odd position to take, and you still provide no argument for your claim that I can understand. My sister can transition to a man, but c...
No. Absolutely not! I'm not actually making an argument at all. I'm trying to find out what your argument is. Are ok with my hairdresser saying "You w...
Yes it would. If the counterfactual were the factual I would be a woman, and the woman would be me, just as the blue shirt would be red if it had been...
What is the particularity of personhood you are pointing too? Any counterfactual is a false narrative in one sense. I am wearing a blue shirt, so it i...
Some of the nicest people you can find are those with Downs Syndrome. They are usually super affectionate, trusting, generous, and it is because they ...
Do your revolutionary history. It's not just a theory of mine; you the revolutionary is just the sort of person that gets banished from the political ...
Let's call it "The Final Solution". Do you not notice how you have become your enemy? Is not an authoritarian one who has a clear idea of how things o...
But not slaves, so it remains a system of privilege. Oh the irony of your pedantic and irrelevant historical diversion. Never mind understanding what'...
Prive - private or personal. Lege - law. So if it is the case, for example, that having black skin is in practice reasonable grounds for suspicion, wh...
@"boethius" has already shot your fox a number of times, but let us tear the corpse to pieces none the less. Determinism requires, as you say above, t...
I'm open to persuasion on that, though I take 'love' broadly in my universal pontification. Reasons that are not about other people you may have, but ...
Yes, it is certainly possible to use coercive control or the mental health system for such selfish ends. It is possible too to have selfish motives fo...
Thanks for your honesty. Oh yes, that's really insightful. I say selfish not as a moral condemnation, because it comes very often from trauma, childho...
Dude, you can be right and I can be right too. I say 'Stop lights are red' and you say 'How come tomatoes aren't stop lights? Tomatoes are the reddest...
Except it doesn't happen. Forcing someone to stay alive is difficult even when they are incarcerated. I keep asking you what is your experience of thi...
So your response to my pointing out that the line of thinking that sometimes leads to suicide is self-centred is, speaking of non-sequiturs, to point ...
Well it seems to me that it doesn't happen much at all. Institutions obviously can't be seen to allow suicide, prisons, mental health institutions, et...
I wonder how many suicides people have known. I have known two with some intimacy, my ex, and my current wife's niece. Consider a hand tool - a hammer...
Only drivers know about roads, civil engineers are full of shit. And I can prove it because a bridge fell down once. Drivers never crash, and entrepre...
That something, or nothing should be seems to imply at least a time when it is or isn't as the case may or may not be. Being and non-being happen to t...
You have a curious way of discussing. Are you dismissing what I say without argument? Are you unable to understand another point of view at all? Is yo...
I'm quite interested in what you say, apo, but you are clearly not interested in what I say. For you there is your way and silly ways. I think that ma...
Nietzsche is about the only philosopher I can think of who was avowedly and openly obscure, and he would disagree with you about what philosophy is me...
Whatever can be sensed can be ostensively defined. Abstraction is non-sense, but has import. Thus one arrives at "five" by pointing to the beans and s...
What is serious? Is it a property of words or things? I'd say it is more an attitude one takes to them - a relationship one enters into. And relations...
An example. One might want to discuss "What is a force?" End of discussion? So looking in the dictionary there seem to be varied uses, and a question ...
That is exactly what eco-philosophy critiques as entirely backwards. It is the Judeo-Christian tradition of man the crown of creation and steward of t...
The tradition is called Esotericism in philosophy, but a similar deliberate obscurity is a commonplace way of avoiding persecution by convention and a...
What a sad little thread. The idea of 'flourishing' comes from eco-philosophy and Arne Naess in particular. It's been around for a while and the prima...
Like you, we are curious; but unlike you, we are not greedy. We came, we saw, we left quietly, picking up our litter as we went. We travel but leave n...
You may like subjectivism, but I think it's crap. Unfortunately, subjectivism can accommodate my disagreement along with any argument I might make. So...
Ethical egoism is like the race of giant dwarves. It is part of the mythology that capitalists, (not capital) do all the hard work and deserve all the...
What is the difference between enlightenment and depression? Between carefree and careless? Curious how thought aspires to the mechanical, to computat...
It is alas the Christian tradition to rush to judgement, notwithstanding the man saying quite clearly 'Judge not, that ye be not judged.' (Matthew 7.1...
That there is no evidence that demonstrates the operation of Sod's law, is just an example of the operation of Sod's law. Discuss, making sure to lay ...
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