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I agree.
June 07, 2019 at 16:02
No. I can see it, you can see it, even @"NKBJ" can see it. So if someone feels something such that anybody can well understand how they would feel it,...
June 07, 2019 at 15:19
No I didn't. I noted that it related to the feelings and motivation of the actor, and not the feelings of the recipient of their action. I even commen...
June 07, 2019 at 13:48
Think I would say unconsciousness and infancy are more primary. The analogy is appropriate to the feelings of the person the receiving end, rather tha...
June 07, 2019 at 07:42
Well I hope at least you can see that these are two different issues. Generally, the right to refuse treatment is fairly fundamental, such that treatm...
June 06, 2019 at 21:38
But now you are not talking about euthanasia at all, but about forcible treatment against one's will on the grounds presumably of mental incompetence....
June 06, 2019 at 20:44
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/05/noa-pothoven-netherlands-girl-not-legally-euthanised-died-at-home?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source...
June 05, 2019 at 16:15
People who bought this book also bought a handy keyring bottle-opener. According to Amazon. :smile: Here's something a bit peripheral ... https://huma...
June 05, 2019 at 10:47
Sorry. To reassure you, it was a joke, intended to suggest that this is a silly trollish topic. I used to take my daughter swimming, and there is a de...
June 05, 2019 at 08:34
If bathrooms have sex, then surely there must be baby bathrooms somewhere?
June 04, 2019 at 20:30
Sure, and we only know that we have been deceived when we are undeceived. Nevertheless, we must trust each other or live alone. And we understand that...
June 04, 2019 at 14:21
No, not at all. Well I am talking about something, that I am calling trust. Here's the thing; I know that I am not competent, and do not anyway have t...
June 04, 2019 at 14:13
If anyone is still following, here is some more stuff. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/02/stephen-porges-interview-survivors-are-blamed-p...
June 03, 2019 at 19:04
Well I don't know how it is for you, but if I am a bit lost, I will ask a total stranger the way to the station, or whatever and totally trust that th...
June 03, 2019 at 13:41
I don't understand. Do you think institutions are the kind of thing that is capable of trusting or distrusting? I say it is the reverse, that people t...
June 02, 2019 at 19:56
No, the opposite; no one is entitled to anyone's trust. Yes, in so far as one trusts, which may be as far as one can throw or some other extent, there...
June 02, 2019 at 16:19
Well I simply recount anecdotally that the zeitgeist round here has changed in that direction. But there have always been and still are politicians th...
June 02, 2019 at 12:11
No ,it is possible to be unsocial, like pandas are, but if there are social relations, they depend on trust, in the same way that language depends on ...
June 01, 2019 at 20:13
The astute reader will have noticed that this is by way of a critique of Machiavelli. The king, the corporate director, the hedge fund manager, the po...
June 01, 2019 at 18:50
Well in a way, if we can persuade ourselves that this is important to our lives, that we can trust politicians and officials the way we have to (even ...
June 01, 2019 at 18:40
Similarly, t.here is a rule that you cannot print your own money. And that establishes legal tender as something that ought to be trustworthy, and obl...
June 01, 2019 at 14:02
No. Trust cannot be earned. You may have turned down 40 pieces of silver to betray me, but what about 60? One has never quite earned it. But to enforc...
June 01, 2019 at 13:31
Well first you try voting for the ones that agree with you, and if that doesn't work, you start a revolution.
May 31, 2019 at 14:03
Strawpolitician, you have there. Anyone is entitled nay obligated to change their plans as circumstances change. Think matters of fact. As per my prev...
May 31, 2019 at 13:56
I'd like to try, anyway. I gave a link in the op to the Open Learning site. It is a source I trust, both academically and politically. I trust them, n...
May 30, 2019 at 21:02
Please take your fascinating discussion to the Trump thread.
May 30, 2019 at 17:59
Please don't talk about Trump, and please don't talk about communism and capitalism in this thread. Please talk about TRUST, and the importance of tel...
May 30, 2019 at 15:48
https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/summer-2019/when-schools-cause-trauma?fbclid=IwAR37PLdKqCJJhibcdln9OpSI1tGpoZ2X8OvdZGOk7Pphmnk1AdPv1woWUVE Just wan...
May 30, 2019 at 10:19
More broadly, a state that runs on lies and falsehood becomes unstable.
May 29, 2019 at 19:15
You might look at fuzzy logic.
May 29, 2019 at 16:08
There is a bit of a problem. If there is evidence that reality is an illusion, then the evidence is equally illusory. In which case there is no eviden...
May 28, 2019 at 13:36
I'm still laughing. You can't expect much sympathy for having to have things your own way.
May 24, 2019 at 17:17
How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, but the lightbulb has to want to change.
May 24, 2019 at 17:11
Dunno what you're saying, dude. I'm saying that one can change one's mind, and I'm saying that what happened at one time doesn't have to happen every ...
May 24, 2019 at 14:19
Indeed. That is the first principle; that response to trauma are necessary defences and aids to survival. To take an obvious example, a soldier in a t...
May 24, 2019 at 13:24
I will happily defer to you on this as we are in perfect agreement.
May 23, 2019 at 16:31
Excessive? I suppose that means 'more than I want to defer'. And that depends, personally speaking, on how and who the other is. I call this being res...
May 23, 2019 at 16:00
May I enquire what's wrong with pleasing people? I think I'd like it if people spent more time pleasing each other and less time making each other mis...
May 23, 2019 at 14:39
I think the point is now pointing the opposite way to the way it was pointing before, so I'll leave it there.
May 23, 2019 at 07:34
Yes. one can describe the process, and I have done so in this thread. A cry of alarm comes to be understood by others as indicating danger, and then t...
May 22, 2019 at 13:05
Not entirely, but for most of us, mostly. A surgeon, or a bricklayer, or a philosopher has hopefully a real skill that makes a real identity, but even...
May 22, 2019 at 07:50
First sentence is fine. but how can the suggestion be made until we have agreed that 'name' and 'suggestion' mean what we agree they do? And when I sa...
May 22, 2019 at 07:34
That will have been me at least; and Alice Miller. Drama in the sense of the narrative of the dramatis personae; in this sense, identity is drama - th...
May 21, 2019 at 19:33
There is tacit agreement. And there must be in relation to language, because the agreement has to be there before anything like a thesis could be stat...
May 21, 2019 at 14:57
It's also fine for academic institutions, serious newspapers, government advice panels and so on. Even public libraries need to have some quality cont...
May 21, 2019 at 09:15
This is a deplatforming site. People get banned. Shit gets deleted. It doesn't prevent engagement, it enables it.
May 20, 2019 at 15:53
Who needs philosophers when you got scientists... http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans-annotated.html?gtm=bo...
May 19, 2019 at 18:56
No, it is that there's a rule against it. Either there's a rule against it, or there's no rule against it. that's the rule.
May 15, 2019 at 20:58
In: Brexit  — view comment
Surprisingly little. Because the Uk government still has to make a decision, unless the EU finally runs out of patience. Somehow I don't see a few Bre...
May 15, 2019 at 18:37
'We don't allow it ' means there is a rule against it. The rule of rules. Here we are - the rule of non-contradiction. Everyone agrees because disagre...
May 15, 2019 at 16:20