What you need here is a dose of Hume. Reason, logic, measurement, the whole of rationality is the servant of passion. Rationality can tell you what to...
Nonsense. My right not to be murdered overrides your freedom to murder me. You don't have that right. More nonsense. Much is allowed by mods, and some...
Not if it's an absolute. How's about something along the lines of "you can say whatever you like, but there will be consequences", which may include e...
I'd like to restrict them form teaching my kids their nonsense. I'd like them not to be treated by reputable media and educational bodies as if their ...
I think one has the right not to be murdered, and the fact that there are murderers means that this right is sometimes violated, not that it does not ...
On the one hand it has been set up that way by people who want it that way, on the other hand most of the people who attended were probably not involv...
No and no. Those grown-up men would not have behaved like that if there had been a good sprinkling of wives and significant others present, (oh and po...
Yeah but, no but... the structure of society both represents and produces 'who we are'. The way the event was structured educated the participants as ...
I broadly agree, and I think this is what the 'me too' movement, at its best, is doing - educating. And that is why I think Germaine Greer, for instan...
The FT is not in the forefront of radical leftist feminist political correctness, so its seeming disquiet about this latest exposure of what I hope I ...
Indeed, and maybe my genitals have been photoshopped too, and I am not entitled to 'Mr'. Well no, actually, my position is that my genitals are none o...
Well I don't want to distinguish them really except as two sides of the coin. rights are duties seen from the other side, and vice versa. I see it a a...
There is a duty, on this very site, not to gratuitously offend. So there is a corresponding right not to be gratuitously offended. In other places, th...
No, not at all. It is in the head in the sense that it is a response to memory, but the memory is real. Snakes are real, fear of snakes is an instinct...
Sure. But isn't interested so much in those situations, but finds himself in the situation where his anxiety feels constricting, unreasonable, and unn...
I'm not sure what you mean by primal? The way I carve it, primal emotion is the immediate response to the environment. So I'm walking, and come across...
It seems to make sense (not tomato sense, idiot spellcheck) but one can always imagine that with which one cannot cope, however exaggerated one's self...
As it goes, I'm pretty comfortable, thanks. But if I was on the streets, without health cover, without a regular income, I'd be bloody anxious. I'd sa...
A man can look like a woman. How can that be? Only because the 'definitive attributes' are made invisible. So what you don't see is highly relevant by...
Somewhere around here, the rubber hits the road. If you look at the picture, you may want to call this person a lady or a gentleman, and you may have ...
I find it odd that folks want not to be anxious, not to be vulnerable, not to be influenced, not to be sensitive. It's what Freud called the 'death wi...
When a surgeon cuts, we do not call it violence, because the intention is to heal and not to harm, and importantly, the intention is considered, and b...
You are telling me that our insistence obliges the world to be of some geometry and not another? I think not. No, our insistence constrains what we ca...
To put it another way, logic does not constrain the world in any way, nor does it constrain God. It constrains what can be sensibly said. It declares,...
It's almost as if the act of asking the question makes, or at least exposes, the selfishness of the act. That is, the concern to be unselfish is itsel...
Them as liked Le Carre might also like Line of Duty. Not quite as claustrophobic as Tinker, Tailor, not quite as well written and acted, but not far s...
Is there any evidence that there is an exact meaning for us to be ignorant of? Vagueness seems to annoy philosophers, which explains why they are so g...
I agree with your conclusion, but dispute your premise. Vengeance reprisals are not the consequence of resistance, that is to accept the warped logic ...
I imagine it as being a separate dimension of time entirely, orthogonal to Earth time, and giving rise to literal levels of consciousness, such that i...
But that's not what happens when I lose consciousness. I experience a blow to the head, immediately followed by waking up in hospital; there is no gap...
But they're not; not simply, anyway. Simply, if you chuck a brick at someone's window, you know what to expect; an broken window and an angry resident...
There is an argument to had, and it is had: some say it is wrong to beat your child because it hurts them, and others say that to spare the rod will s...
See also moral luck. Indeed, one would have to be dealing with foreseeable consequences, but not necessarily probable ones. Thus drunk driving is an o...
Unfortunately, I think there is only one solution to the paradox of identity, which may be too mystical for some tastes. So I might as well repeat mys...
There is an aspect of truth to this, and there is an aspect of utter nonsense equivalent to the argument that because we have eyes, that are sensitive...
Hi there, welcome to tpf. I'm having difficulty understanding your language, partly because I need to educate myself re Wilderson, which I'll do a bit...
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