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Here's a curiosity. Because it's an all male committee, you get a female, an expert in prosecuting sex crimes to interview the victim. Just the person...

Again you want to tell me about me, instead of telling me about you.

Why so negative? This is an excessively long post, and the vast majority of it is a denigration of others rather than an explanation of your own posit...

Dude you have five discussions started in 7 days. Curb your enthusiasm a bit, and spend more time thinking and reading. Everyone argues for their view...

So the almost tears of Kavanaugh as he recounted his totally un-traumatic youth seemed rather less convincing than his anger at 'the conspiracy'. Comp...

One thing that makes her a most convincing witness to me is the way she is most upset, not with the awkward questions, but with the expressions of sup...

That's bollocks too. An accusation levelled at a person of wealth power and influence is much more believable than one levelled at a nobody, because t...

Yeah, but actually that's bollocks. Whistleblowers of all sorts nearly always pay a huge price, and the higher up the hierarchy their complaint is dir...

So what it seems to come to is that one cannot evade personal responsibility for one's acts. One can use law, scripture, or the analects of Jerry the ...

One learns how to talk. Necessarily, one comes to know one's first language without a language. Or at the very least, one's first few words.

Three separate accounts, two notorious fraternity memberships maybe doesn't add up to a conviction, but neither does it subtract down to an unsupporte...

One might even be inclined to consider judgement based on the company one keeps... https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2018/09/20/a-flag-of-underwear-photo...

Unfortunately, it might well be. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/24/rape-sexual-assault-ban-frats?CMP=fb_gu

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~grid/multimedia/berger.html

I'm afraid I've lost track of what you want to say at this point. You seem to be referring me to the aphorisms of the great and the good at this point...

Think of @"StreetlightX" as the Devil, tasked to afflict you with boils, and so on. It's all part of the character-building plan.

Stick to Lebanese and Thai sticks for a lighter brighter high.

That would be me. Have I missed something?

If it were seen and accepted, then something other than casual entertainment would have been accomplished. Thus your effort is doomed to failure, even...

Philosophy is God.

I think this might answer your question, if it is a genuine question rather than a rhetorical expression of wilful incredulity. https://www.theguardia...

This story doesn't answer. It is like The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Father comes home after a tiresome day as Concentration Camp Commandant and is t...

Well, until Ikea start selling lampshades made from human skin...

Yes, that is the problem, but it is not a matter of justice. You are justly condemned. Yet it seems to me that one can repent with or without belief. ...

Yes indeed. They are abrogating their moral duty to the letter of the law. Which makes them less human, allegedly. "The law says I must order this exe...

My understanding is that poker is a zero sum game, with an element of chance. In that case, the only way to profit (luck aside) is to play with others...

Does this apply to judges who refer to statute, convention, constitution, case law, etc?

That doesn't sound right to me. The way I heard it your salvation depends on not sinning. Justice is served when the guilty are damned, and that's eve...

That's a bit serious, isn't it? Not entirely beyond the bounds of credibility though, social facilitation, drugs, and hormones in a combination that i...

Well, everything and nothing. Generally, reading is one of the safest forms of medication. But generally every psychology is in the business of messin...

Here is a cautionary tale for budding therapists in particular, and desperate clients in general. A quick skim will tell you why I don't generally rec...

Yes. Whenever I make a decision, it is necessarily on the basis that what I decide is undecided until I decide. At the same time, It is necessarily on...

I think he just did. I'd have put all this in the banning thread if it had been open already, worth moving ...?

It didn't come as a total shock to me, and my sadness at the loss is bearable.

Ho hum. It might be interesting to discuss Fanon sometime, but that was a very odd combination: Fanon the liberation psychoanalyst and Heidegger the N...

Is dementia a disease, or part of the ageing process? And Can I have some nano mayo with my chip?

Which is ridiculous. Has the man never heard of chutney?

Indeed they do. Perhaps I want to spare my partner the sad and humiliating truth that I have come to find her unexciting, if not repulsive. Perhaps sh...

This. I identify with innocence. That is rationalisation.

Yes I dare say you would. Now what would you appreciate if you were cheating?

I reason, you rationalise, they are very naughty. If you wind back a way, you will see that I advocate action and honesty, on the basis that you actua...

Yes, and that is morally suspect, because it relies on a judgement of the morality of the parties. Who knows, perhaps the cheater is trying to escape ...

Truth for truth's sake? But no, because you want to be anonymous, and hide your own part. In my book, I call that hypocrisy.

No, I'm in the inform camp. But I'm only there to the extent that you care about their relationship, and in that case your duty is to both parties, an...

I would imagine, that if you have an obligation to inform the cheated, you have at least the same obligation to inform the cheater of your intentions,...

That's called 'Sociology'. Marx, Durkheim, Weber for a start; perhaps Gregory Bateson, David Smail, Levi-Strauss, It depends what exactly you're looki...

A complaint is justified morally, on grounds of justice, or duty, or some such. But perhaps one should consider too its felicity. A justified complain...

It's not straightforward at all! It's a deep challenge, and I'm not expecting a quick answer here, or in general. How could someone tell me about a fe...

Is it not a possible world, that one where we do not talk about possible worlds?

The question I tend to ask someone who is depressed is, 'what are you depressing?' As if it is an activity, something one does to press down some othe...