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I don't believe you know whereof you speak. I don't believe this. I think you care. You are wrong. And you know you are wrong because you take the tro...

I applaud your honesty, and trust your expression of distrust. But alas, you probably do not trust my expressions of approval. So where can we go from...

Your point about bias is a good one, and the judicial tradition is well versed in maximising the potential for trust. Indeed when it comes to matters ...

No.

Yes, just like the milk seller depends on trust. Government, business, everyone in a society depends on trust for every interaction. And if we do not ...

Nonsense. I have already outlined the obvious, that trust is destroyed by untruth and deliberate betrayal such as terrorism. Do not buy into the myth ...

In the machismo world of great leaders leading their troops to battle the US wins. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

My first defence that you put words into my mouth was fairly successful though. That was more an attack than a defence, just a rather gentle one. But ...

Ah dude, will you extend you naive faith in justice to another jurisdiction, or is only American justice unfailing in its righteousness? Did I? I thin...

When I want to talk about China, I'll let you know by saying "China". I'm fairly conventional about things like that. Let me show you. China is not a ...

Physics currently has two theories. The theory of the very small is Quantum Mechanics, and the theory of the very large is General Relativity. A putat...

Have you heard of Guantanamo? Google gave me this list when I asked, but I haven't checked them all and of course there may be more...

My deepest sympathy.

Yeah. I am a leftist, and I just gave you my reason. So don't blame me because you greedy Yanks are addicted to American crap made for you by China. I...

According to your religion mate, but not mine. You asked a question, and as it happens I am qualified to answer. You don't like my answer, but the wor...

OH just fuck off with the bullshit already. I mean good with my sarcasm too. It's simple; The S.African government had an overt, declared racist polic...

Just saying I'm not so sure who the good guys are right now. You think you get unclouded information from The US? Go get that disinfectant fix then. y...

So does Israel. So does the US.

I would have thought it more likely to be the chronic irritation of the lungs that might dampen the severity of the Cytosine storm than a benefit of n...

I remember the SA boycott, and had a veg shop that joined in. But these days I find it hard to find a government or regime that is substantially worse...

Yes. That's why we invent labour saving devices - because employment stinks. I bet you thought it was so we could do more work. :roll:

Yes, that happens. The twins case was a very sad case, and of course some horrific cases came from the German concentration camps.Scientists are human...

It doesn't have any axes - so it doesn't have any scale, so it doesn't even count as a mental map. Is philosophy of science like religion or politics,...

My interest was more taken by the news that political advisers are sitting on the scientific advisory group. So when the government claims to be follo...

Panic not. The economic thing is largely nonsense. Some stuff is important, growing food and distributing it, mending the roof, you know the sort of t...

I am reasonably considerate and polite most of the time, but there's no way I'll get up for a bag of chips. but you have fallen, as people often do, i...

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-hospital-cuts-covid-19-death-rates-with-black-boxes-for-sleep-disorder-11977789?fbclid=IwAR07WZ7g5AIUHwBsnVGW58...

That actually makes no sense. I don't eat to attain the goal of satiation. 'Often' I can accept, but not 'always'. I am not always future oriented, wh...

We eat, we shit. Our food grows in the shit. What's the point, what's the goal? Why do you think there ought to be a goal? We have established what yo...

Yes. Or perhaps mere survival. Or perhaps non-survival. An antinatalist society works towards it own demise, no? A worthy goal surely?

This is the significant bit from an antinatalist view. Why I picked them. It's often controversial how a society is delineated, and this has the conve...

The complacency of youth! Do you not remember the days when leprosy was an incurable worldwide scourge, and the poor sufferers were shunned from socie...

1. Sometimes, perhaps always if one has the all-seeing eye of God. 2. Bah. Empathy, conformity, coercion, human nature, and mainly, education. 3. Yes,...

Not really, because as you have made clear that you are concerned with matters of text and matters of fact, I have nothing to say about these aspects....

Well folks seem to get angry, and we talk about anger. So we represent it. But I rather agree with you if you are saying that the startling insights o...

But I think we already knew that, didn't we? A report is not an expression. Don't believe me when I say I am angry, believe the smack in the gob. What...

'Logos' is the Greek, the word, or thought, or idea or reason. Thus logic is the laws of thought - how it works; or of words. As if there is a clear d...

I can't speak for most, or indeed any Christians as such, but this much seems unbiblical already. The way I heard it, the devil thought it worth havin...

Ok. Then I have no idea what you are talking about. Just ignore me, I was thinking Roman army divisions - not exhausted even by decimation.

There is no certainty that immunity will ever reach that modest figure. I wonder if anyone is modelling a scenario where herd immunity doesn't happen,...

Anarchism is the 'other' side of the political world where left and right meet up again. It always has the major difficulty of trying to prevent anyon...

Science speaks with many maybes and possiblys and perhapses. There is a good deal of "no evidence" like this bunch of nincompoops for example. https:/...

Marcuse, Russel himself. It turns out that dirty old men don't make he greatest moral philosophers. Wittgenstein survives maybe because he was gay.

Well I understand you moderns have delicate sensibilities about slavery and this strange 'eat it or fuck it but not both' thing going, but it's hardly...

It's so annoying when that happens isn't it? But I suspect there is a category error hiding there. Slaves have no human rights because they are proper...

I think you have to blame the people in a democracy. If the people get conned, as the people clearly have been conned, it is hard for them to admit it...

Everyone with symptoms should keep away from the healthy and ring a warning bell and shout "unclean, unclean." whenever anyone gets close. On pain of ...

Someone might be interested in this, not really on topic but as you seem to have finished -ish... http://www.truthandpower.com/blog/blog/the-darkness-...

But for sheer petty-minded vindictive nastiness, no one can beat the current administration. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/us-blocks-sale-...

Get Covid done. As Machiavelli said, get the nasty stuff done quickly at the beginning of your reign, and then you can be the kind generous leader aft...